My 2009 in Music
According to iTunes I didn’t really love very many albums released in 2009. The ones I did love though I really loved.
1. Blood Bank (EP) – Bon Iver
Oh child, I love me some Bon Iver. I need him to release another new album with the quickness. I’ve listened to his full length debut For Emma, Forever Ago and the Blood Bank EP more than is probably healthy over the past 12 months.
2. Far – Regina Spektor
This physical disc has been in my car since August because when I’m too lazy to plug in my iPhone I know this album will always sound good.
3. I And Love And You – The Avett Brothers
I haven’t had nearly as much time with this record as the other two but it’s a definite keeper. Even if it does have a scary album cover.
Now, something that’s more interesting and insightful into my relationship with music is the music that I listened to most in 2009 regardless of when it was released. Thanks to Last.fm’s awesome charts I know that the songs I listened to the most in 2009 were:
1. Bon Iver – Blood Bank full track
2. Bon Iver – Skinny Love
3. Bon Iver – Beach Baby
4. Bon Iver – Woods
5. Bon Iver – Babys
6. Adele – Melt My Heart to Stone
7. Blitzen Trapper – Furr
8. Bon Iver – Flume
9. Regina Spektor – Two Birds
10. The Avett Brothers – Salina
11. The Avett Brothers – Black, Blue
12. Regina Spektor – Human of the Year
13. Kanye West – RoboCop
14. Adele – Tired
15. Nina Simone – Feeling Good
16. Kanye West – Love Lockdown
17. Adele – Best for Last
18. Regina Spektor – Samson
19. The Avett Brothers – Tear Down the House
20. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
21. Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You
22. Death Cab for Cutie – Cath
23. Adele – Chasing Pavements
24. Kanye West – Say You Will
25. Adele – Make You Feel My Love
26. Nina Simone -I Put A Spell On You
27. The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City
28. Bon Iver – Lump Sum
29. Death Cab for Cutie – Marching Band of Manhattan
30. The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
I told you I love me some Bon Iver.
The albums most represented in my listening habits in 2009:
1. Adele – 19
2. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Bon Iver – Blood Bank
4. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
5. Regina Spektor – Far
6. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
7. Paul Simon – Graceland
8. The Rolling Stones – Forty Licks (disc 1)
9. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
10. The Avett Brothers – The Second Gleam
11. The Avett Brothers – Emotionalism
12. Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
13. Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall
14. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
15. Philip Glass – The Hours
16. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
17. The Postal Service – Give Up
18. Michael Bacon – The Jewish Americans
19. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (I find this one suspect since I really didn’t like this album)
20. Nina Simone – Bittersweet The Very Best of Nina Simone
21. Matisyahu – Youth
22. Michael Nyman – Gattaca
23. Indigo Girls – All That We Let In
24. John Mayer – Continuum
25. Jimmy Buffett – A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
26. Fleetwood Mac – The Dance
27. Otis Redding – The Very Best of Otis Redding
28. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
29. Shawn Colvin – These Four Walls
30. Nirvana – MTV Unplugged In New York
It’s interesting how important music is in my life. Looking at these tracks I think “yep, X was going on right then and I listened to that track over and over” or “That album was the only thing I could listen to and man it helped get me through.”
Music is a conduit to the past. Or maybe just Music is a conduit. Full Stop (just like Love. Is).
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