2009 in Review

Here are some of favourites for the year 2009.

100 Best Songs of 2009
1. "Eid Ma Clack Shaw" - Bill Callahan
2. "The Fixer" - Pearl Jam
3. "Little Lion Man" - Mumford & Sons
4. "A Community Service Announcement" - Jonathon Boulet
5. "Ramona Was a Waitress" - Paul Dempsey
6. "Where Did All the Love Go?" - Kasabian
7. "Running to Stand Still" - Elbow
8. "Down to the Cemetery" - Kid Sam
9. "That Look You Give That Guy" - Eels
10. "Kingdom of Rust" - Doves
11. "Airstream Driver" - Gomez
12. "Cheap and Cheerful" The Kills
13. "Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups
14. "Silk Suits" - Kram
15. "Blood" - The Middle East
16. "Two Weeks" - Grizzly Bear
17. "Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. "Tightrope" - Yeasayer
19. "Lay it Down" - Peter, Bjorn & John
20. "Number With No Name" - Ben Harper & Relentless7
21. "Satellite Skin" - Modest Mouse
22. "Long Way to Go" - Liam Finn & Eliza Jane
23. "Black Wind Blowing" - Mason Jennings
24. "Say Please" - Monsters of Folk
25. "New Fang" - Them Crooked Vultures
26. "The Rakes Song" - The Decemberists
27. "Mexican Mavis" - Boy and Bear
28. "Don't Wait" - The Beautiful Girls
29. "In These Arms" - The Swell Season
30. "I Want Some More" - Dan Auerbach
31. "Bell" - The Mess Hall
32. "White Rose Parade" - Lady of the Sunshine
33. "Just Breathe" - Pearl Jam
34. "You and I" - Wilco (feat Feist)
35. "Percussion Gun" - White Rabbits
36. "I Woke Up Today" - Port O'Brien
37. "Ulysees" - Franz Ferdinand
38. "Thump" - Bertie Blackman
39. "Out the Airlock" - Paul Dempsey
40. "Since We've Been Wrong" - The Mars Volta
41. "No Turning Back" - Sarah Blasko
42. "Pale Horses" - Moby
43. "Crying Lightening" - Arctic Monkeys
44. "Goodtown" - Wagons
45. "Lisztomania" - Phoenix
46. "Set it Right" - Hungry Kids of Hungary
47. "Someone So Much" - Bob Evans
48. "Bloodlines" - Leader Cheetah
49. "Python for a Pillow" - The Fumes
50. "ATX" - Alberta Cross
51. "Fun That We Have" - Julian Plenti
52. "The Price" - Dappled Cities
53. "Foreign Land" - Eskimo Joe
54. "Static Information" - Love of Diagrams
55. "Fugitive" - David Gray
56. "Keep Me in the Dark" - The Fiery Furnaces
57. "I've Got Friends" - Manchester Orchestra"
58. "Lose You" - Peaches
59. "Treat Me Like Your Mother" - The Dead Weather
60. "Convinced Of The Hex" - The Flaming Lips
61. "Chaka Demus" - Jamie T
62. "Sucker" - Jez Mead
63. "One Way Road" - John Butler Trio
64. "For What it's Worth" - Placebo
65. "Sigh No More" - Mumford & Sons
66. "Laughing With" - Regina Spektor
67. "The Uprising" - Muse
68. "Fell Into Me" - Jordie Lane
69. "Brother" - Little Birdy (feat. Paul Kelly)
70. "Get You Back" - Oh Mercy
71. "Dirty Robot" - Lemonheads (feat Kate Moss)
72. "All of the Dreamers" - Powderfinger
73. "While We Wait for the Others" - Grizzly Bear
74. "Keep it Together" - Ben Harper & Relentless7
75. "Sort Of" - Silversun Pickups
76. "Fresh Blood" - Eels
77. "Natural Reaction" - Gomez
78. "Remember Me" - Tame Impala
79. "Compulsion" - Doves
80. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" - Weezer
81. "My Girls" - Animal Collective
82. "With This Ship" - The Basics
83. "Heart Skipped a Beat" - The xx
84. "Lua" - Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch
85. "Underdog" - Kasabian
86. "Wilco (The Song)" - Wilco
87. "Low Rising" - The Swell Season
88. "Heads Will Roll" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
89. "We're Mostly Made of Water" - Kid Sam
90. "Ain't No Friend of Mine" - Mason Jennings
91. "Fast Friends" - Paul Dempsey
92. "Bracket WI" - Bon Iver
93. "Amongst the Waves" - Pearl Jam
94. "Little Girl" - Sparklehorse (feat Julian Casablancas)
95. "Man Named Truth" - Monsters of Folk
96. "Diamond and a Tether" - Death Cab for Cutie
97. "Lenin" - Arcade Fire
98. "Mountain Song" - Leeroy Lee
99. "No Kind Words" - The Maccabees
100. "Wheels" - Foo Fighters

Favourite Gigs of 2009 (International)
1. Pearl Jam/Ben Harper - Etihad Stadium
2. Gomez - Palais Theatre
3. Neil Young - Big Day Out
4. Elbow - V Festival
5. The Black Keys - Palais Theatre
6. My Morning Jacket - Big Day Out
7. Dr. Dog - Palais Theatre
8. The Kills - V Festival
9. G. Love & Special Sauce - Hi Fi Bar
10. Jack Johnson - Sound Relief
11. TV on the Radio - Big Day Out
12. Gomez (Bring it On 10th Anniversary Show) - The Espy
13. Kaiser Chiefs - V Festival
14. Ben Kweller - Chill City
15. Arctic Monkeys - Big Day Out

Favourite Gigs of 2009 (Australian)
1. Paul Dempsey - Hepburn Springs Palais
2. Midnight Oil - Sound Relief
3. Hunters and Collectors - Sound Relief
4. Paul Kelly - Chill City
5. Mat McHugh - Rubys Lounge
6. John Butler Trio - Chill City
7. The Beautiful Girls - The Espy
8. The Drones - Big Day Out
9. Paul Kelly - Sound Relief
10. Split Enz - Sound Relief

Best Films of 2009
1. Avatar
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Zombieland!
4. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
5. Watchmen
6. The Hangover
7. Up
8. Star Trek
9. Gran Torino
10. (500) Days of Summer
11. Adventureland
12. District 9
13. The Boat that Rocked
14. Fanboys
15. The Brothers Bloom

Best TV Shows of 2009
1. Dexter
2. Weeds
3. Spicks and Specks
4. Entourage
5. Californication
6. 30 Rock
7. Curb Your Enthusiasm
8. South Park
9. Scrubs
10. The Simpsons
11. Nip/Tuck
12. Bored to Death
13. rage
14. My Name is Earl
15. United States of Tara

Favourite Books Read in 2009
1. A Nest of Occasionals - Tony Martin
2. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
3. Firestarter - Stephen King
4. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
5. High Noon in Nimbin - Robert G. Barrett
6. Christine - Stephen King
7. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
8. The Dead Zone - Stephen King
9. And Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
10. The Shining - Stephen King

The Best Albums of 2009

Best Albums of 2009
1. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Key Tracks: "The Fixer", "Just Breathe", "Amongst the Waves", "Gonna See My Friend"

2. Paul Dempsey - Everything is True
Key Tracks: "Out the Airlock", "Ramona Was a Waitress", "Fast Friends", "Bird in a Basement"

3. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Key Tracks: "Little Lion Man", "Sigh No More", "White Blank Page", "Awake My Soul"

4. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Key Tracks: "Compulsion", "Kingdom of Rust", "Jetstream", "Winter Hill", "Spellbound".

5. Gomez - A New Tide
Key Tracks: "Airstream Driver", "Natural Reaction", "Little Pieces", "Lost Track", "Other Plans"

6. Eels - Hombre Lobo
Key Tracks: "Fresh Blood", "Tremendous Dynamite", "That Look You Give That Guy", "Prizefighter", "In My Dreams"

7. Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic
Key Tracks: "Where Did All the Love Go", "Underdog", "Fast Fuse", "Vlad the Imapler", "Fire"

8. Monsters of Folk - Self Titled
Key Tracks: "Say Please", "Magic Marker", "Man Named Truth", "Goodway".

9. Mason Jennings - Blood of Man
Key Tracks: "Black Wind Blowing", "Ain't No Friend of Mine", "The Tourist", "The Field"

10. Kram - Mixtape
Key Tracks: "Silk Suits", "Ridin' High", "Satellite", "Burnin Sands"

11. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Key Tracks: "Panic Switch", "There's No Secrets This Year", "Sort Of", "Surrounded"

12. Them Crooked Vultures - Self-Titled
Key Tracks: "New Fang", "Mind Eraser, No Chaser", "Scumbag Blues", "No-one Loves Me & Neither Do I".

13. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Key Tracks: "The Rake's Song", "The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid", "Annan Water", The Hazards of Love 1"

14. Ben Harper and Relentless7 - White Lies for Dark Times
Key Tracks: "Number With No Name", "Keep it Together", "Boots Like These", "Shimmer and Shine

15. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
Key Tracks: "Low Rising", "In These Arms", "Fantasy Man", "The Rain"

16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Key Tracks: "Heads Will Roll", "Shame and Fortune", "Zero", "Soft Shock"

17. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Key Tracks: "Two Weeks", "Foreground", "While We Wait for the Others", "Southern Point"

18. Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
Key Tracks: "No Turning Back", "We Won't Run", "All I Want", "Bird on a Wire"

19. Wilco - Wilco (the Album)
Key Tracks: "Wilco (The Song)", "One Wing", "You and I (feat Feist)", "I'll Fight"

20. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Key Tracks: "Cotopaxi", "With Twilight As My Guide", "Teflon", "Halo Of Nembutals"

21. Bob Evans - Goodnight, Bull Creek!
Key Tracks: "Pasha Balker", "Someone So Much", Hand Me Downs", "Brother O Brother"

22. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
Key Tracks: "Chaka Demus", "Sticks N Stones", "Emily's Heart", "Spiders Web"

23. The Middle East - The Recordings of the Middle East
Key Tracks: "Blood", "The Darkest Side", "Lonely", "Fools Gold"

24. David Gray - Draw the Line
Key Tracks: "Fugitive", "Nemesis", "Draw the Line", "Full Steam"

25. Powderfinger - Golden Rule
Key Tracks: "Iberian Dream", "All of the Dreamers", "Burn Your Name", "Jewel"

26. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
Key Tracks: "ATX", "Taking Control", "City Walls", "Song Three Blues"

27. Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid
Key Tracks: "I Wan't Some More", Street Walkin'", "The Prowl", "Trouble Weighs a Ton

28. Lady of the Sunshine - Smoking Gun
Key Tracks: "White Rose Parade", "The Wolf", "Kings Black Magic", "Smoking Gun"

29. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight:
Key Tracks: "Ulysees", "Turn it On", "No You Girls", "Twilight Owens".

30. Peaches - I Feel Cream
Key Tracks: "Talk To Me", "Trick or Treat", "Serpentine", "I Feel Cream"