The Amazing 2009 Compilation CD!
Posted by Stephen Fairbanks on December 16, 2009
The Amazing 2009 Compilation CD
It’s that time of year again, folks, where the nights are about 4x as long as the days, you’ve spent all your money on presents and/or scarves and you’ve really got nothing better to do…
than to sit and make a audio CD (if you can remember them) that contains all your most wonderlicious musicial moments from the 12 months past.
The idea of the compilation CD is thus: with 16000GB capacity MP3 players giving more music at fingertips than you’ll live long enough to listen to, it’s important to keep it frugal and force yourself to choose only the tastiest selection that will fit on ONE solitary audio CD (80mins or less). MP3 CDs are cheating.
The idea is to create your own CD and post the track listings here, swap CDs with pals and discover new music, or maybe just display disbelief that others have left off a particular song for that band you happen to like.
Make sure all your music selections ARE actually from 2009 (just sort your WinAmp / Media Player / iTunes into ‘year’ order).
Also, only one entry per artist please, but I suppose if someone is part of two groups, then that’s fine.
My 2009 Compilation CD (under 80 mins)
- Mew – Introducing Palace Players » listen here
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Role » listen here
- Fever Ray – Triangle Walks » listen here
- The xx – Islands » listen here
- Beirut – My Wife, Lost in the Wild » listen here
- Golden Silvers – True No.9 Blues (True Romance) » listen here
- St. Vincent – The Party » listen here
- Why? – Against Me » listen here
- Blue Roses – I Am Leaving » listen here
- Memory Tapes – Bicycle » listen here
- Passion Pit – The Reeling » listen here
- The Pains of Being Pure of Heart – A Teenager in Love » listen here
- Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust on the Ground » listen here
- Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others » listen here
- White Denim – I Start to Run » listen here
- Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career » listen here
- Bat For Lashes – Daniel » listen here
- Sufjan Stevens – You Are The Blood » listen here
What music have you been listening to this yeear? What’s your favourite song? Favourite album? Top 5 songs? What’s on your 2009 CD? Let me know below…
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A nice list there, sir.
I’d never heard of Blue Roses, sounds quite pretty.
Big fan on Bird Brains by Tune-Yards – randomly loved that album, definitely in my top three of the year!
I’ve never heard of Tune-Yards… although they’re on 4AD, so they music be pretty ace. I’ll check them out, ta Martin.
Just listening to Tune Yards on their MySpace page. I likes it!
Ace, glad you do Ste! I found out about her on a random new music blog – midway through the album it gets a little too dirty hip hoppy for my likin’, but Sunrise, Synonynonym, Fiya and Hitari and fantastic tracks. She’s playing Ruby Lounge at around Feb time I think….
Beirut = sublime.
Indeed, the guy is amazing.
Get You Back – Oh Mercy
Swans – Camera Obscura
Yesterdays Girl – Helene
The Psychiatrist is in – God Help the Girl
All or Nothing – Au Revoir Simone
Dressed in Dresden – The Hundred in the Hands
We almost had a baby – Emmy the Great
Little Lion Man – Mumford & Sons
Romeo – Dawn Landes
ooh… haven’t heard of some of those.
I really like ‘Little Lion Man’, but didn’t really like the Mumford’s album… seemed a bit, overwrought, or something…
I do like Au Revoir Simone and God Help the Girl.
I really wanted to put Liz Fraiser’s Moses on my list… but I didn’t. I was hoping she’d put it on an album.
School of Seven Bells- Half Asleep
Maccabees – Bag of Bones
Chew Lips – Solo
Bat for Lashes- Daniel
The Invisibles – London Girl
The xx – Fantasy
Florence and The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Delphic- Counterpoint
The Big Pink – Velvet
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
Phoenix – 1901
Woods – Rain On
The Dead Weather – I Cut Like A Buffalo
Tune-Yards – Sunlight
Fink – Sort of Revolution
White Rabbits – Percussion Gun :)
I like that White Rabbits… it have to go on your 2010 CD though! I’m already trying to decide which Beach House song I’ll decide to choose…