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		<title>The Runners-Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But wait, there&#8217;s more! Of course there were runners-up &#8212; twenty, as a matter of fact &#8212; 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, &#8220;Quiet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 1. Mos Def, “Quiet Dog” (2009).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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1. Mos Def, &#8220;Quiet Dog&#8221;
- From the 2009 album The Ecstatic (Lala link).
- Official website.


Mos Def’s latest album, The Ecstatic – with a cover featuring a cropped still from Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, one of the greatest American movies of the last four decades – has been described as his best since Black on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 2. The Sea and Cake, “On a Letter” (2008).</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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2. The Sea and Cake, &#8220;On a Letter&#8221;
- From the 2008 album Car Alarm (Amazon mp3 link).
- Official website.
I’ve loved the band The Sea and Cake for a long time now, but don&#8217;t ask me which of their albums I like the best. They’re a bit of a blur, quite frankly, and not because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 3. Pinback, “Loro” (1999).</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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3. Pinback, &#8220;Loro&#8221;
- Official website.
- From the 1999 album Pinback.

Hmmm. I suppose I can continue writing about why it&#8217;s so much easier to write about movies than it is to write about music: for the former, the lazy, fallback option is to simply answer the question “So, what is the movie about?” (And yet: writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 4. Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, “Linda Morena” (2009).</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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3. Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, &#8220;Linda Morena&#8221;
- From the 2009 album Tradition in Transition.
- Official website


The closer I get to the top songs, the more ineffable they become; it’s as if the sheer pleasure of the listening experience as such robs you of wordsmithing faculties. (I think it’s why I prefer writing about movies; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 5. Passion Pit, “Folds in Your Hands” (2009).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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5. Passion Pit, &#8220;Folds in Your Hands&#8221;
- From the 2009 album Manners.
- Official website.


My other favorite album of 2009, Passion Pit’s Manners, dropped like, I don’t know, some sugarcoated candy-flavored meteor from heaven. My friend Laurel claims (I paraphrase here) that it’s “typical Wily Filipino music”, which I take to mean that “it features electronica [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 6. Ximena Sariñana, &#8220;Vidas Paralelas&#8221; (2008).</title>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2009/12/29/my-15-1-favorite-songs-of-2009-6-ximena-sarinana-vidas-paralelas-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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6. Ximena Sariñana, &#8220;Vidas Paralelas&#8221;
- from the 2008 album Mediocre.
- Official website.


Sigh – two years of Spanish classes in college have sadly failed me for this song, but my lack of comprehension hasn’t stopped me from loving it anyway. (Parallel lives – I got that, at least, but I never did figure out the conditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 7. Thomas Tantrum, &#8220;Work It” (2008).</title>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2009/12/28/my-15-1-favorite-songs-of-2009-7-thomas-tantrum-work-it%e2%80%9d-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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7. Thomas Tantrum, &#8220;Work It&#8221; (2008)
- Official website.
- From the 2008 album Thomas Tantrum.


From the best album I heard in 2009 – though it’s actually a photo-finish with Song #5 – comes the sassy, saucy, quirky “Work It” – words that should never be used in a dating profile, but are eminently applicable to Thomas Tantrum’s irresistible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 8. The Zombies, &#8220;I Want Her She Wants Me&#8221; (1968).</title>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2009/12/27/my-15-1-favorite-songs-of-2009-8-the-zombies-i-want-her-she-wants-me-1968/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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8. The Zombies, &#8220;I Want Her She Wants Me&#8221;
- Official website.
- From the 1968 album Odessey and Oracle (Amazon mp3 link).

I fell in love with the Zombies only a few years ago – to think I’d lived so long without ever really hearing them, “She’s Not There” notwithstanding! &#8212; and it’s a relationship that continues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 15 (+1) Favorite Songs of 2009: 9. Ben Kweller, &#8220;Old Hat&#8221; (2009).</title>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2009/12/26/my-15-1-favorite-songs-of-2009-9-ben-kweller-old-hat-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benito Vergara</dc:creator>
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9. Ben Kweller, &#8220;Old Hat&#8221;
- Official website.
- From the 2009 album Changing Horses.


Surely Ben Kweller had been threatening to do this from the start. For almost every power-pop slacker anthem he writes, particularly on his first solo album after the Radish days, Sha Sha, there was an unabashed bid for piano-based singer-songwriter greatness, placing him [...]]]></description>
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