The Runners-Up!
But wait, there’s more! Of course there were runners-up — twenty, as a matter of fact — that, depending on the time of day or the way the sun streams through a window, could have made this top 15 (+1). And now to put my obsessive-compulsiveness to rest.
My Favorite Songs of 2009:
1. Mos Def, “Quiet Dog” (2009)
2. The Sea and Cake, “On a Letter” (2008)
3. Pinback, “Loro” (2008)
4. Quantic and His Combo Bárbaro, “Linda Morena” (2009)
5. Passion Pit, “Folds in Your Hands” (2009)
6. Ximena Sariñana, “Vidas Paralelas” (2008)
7. Thomas Tantrum, “Work It” (2008)
8. The Zombies, “I Want Her She Wants Me” (1968)
9. Ben Kweller, “Old Hat” (2009)
10. Ida Maria, “Oh My God” (2007)
11. Anna Fermin’s Trigger Gospel, “How Do You Judge Me” (2003)
12. The Phenomenal Handclap Band, “15 to 20″ (2009)
13. Speech Debelle, “The Key” (2009)
14. ComaR, “I Want You D.A.N.C.E.” (2008)
15. Michael Jackson, “Happy” (1973)
16. Wonder Girls, “Nobody” (2008)
The Runners-Up, in alphabetical order:
Atlas Sound, “Walkabout”
Buraka Som Sistema, “Kalemba”
チャットモンチー [chatmonchy], “風吹けば恋”
Dirty Projectors, “Knotty Pine”
Dominik Eulberg, “Autopfoten”
Flying Lotus, “1983″
Fool’s Gold, “Surprise Hotel”
Girls, “Laura”
Charles Hamilton, “Brooklyn Girls”
The Hot 8 Brass Band, “Sexual Healing”
Junior Kilat, “Granadub”
Alicia Keys, “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”
The Kinks, “Tired of Waiting for You”
Mr. Lif, “What About Us?”
Georgia Anne Muldrow, “Run Away”
Los Parientes de Playa Vicente, “La Lloroncita”
Simian Mobile Disco, “10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong”
Kanye West, “Street Lights”
The Yayhoos, “Baby I Love You”
Thom Yorke, “All for the Best”
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