The moment you all have been waiting for! Zeus' favorite four songs of the year 2009. Hopefully next week, I will have my top ten albums of the year for you to digest. And if you are in the Christmas spirit, feel free to click a ad or two, then x it out immediately, NBD. Much love to Magic Mike for multiple clicks, making the Z Files reach new heights and achieve staggering stats.
I thought after "Sleepyhead" Passion Pit's best days were behind them. A blog band one hit wonder. A flash in the pan. But they thoroughly surprised me for the better with the album Manners. This is clearly the stand-out track of it. And within the past month, I have started to hear "Sleepyhead" in a commercial, similar to another song on this list......Again, little kids and helium voice.
The producers of "Toxic" by Britney Spears really outdid themselves with this track. A building beat with sounds coming from all directions and get stuck in your head vocals.
2. Major Lazer - Keep It Going Louder
Major Lazer - Keep it goin' louder feat. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze .mp3
I still cannot figure out for the life of me how this song is not on top 40 radio? It would fit in right next to Ke$ha or Lady Gaga perfectly, I dont think Diplo & Switch have figured out payola.
You could not escape this song or Phoenix this year. Even my mom probably knows this track because I would always turn the TV up loud when the Cadillac commercial would come on. All that being said, I have not once gotten sick of it. Every listen is a rush of blood to various body parts.
Ida Maria is a dirty Swedish girl, yet suprisingly not super hot. Nevertheless, she even puts in lip dip on stage, don't know how she sings while doing that. Also apparently she is a lush on stage and even quit in the middle of a show in Boston. Her biggest downfall this year was signing on to do Perez Hilton's tour, which had horrendous ticket sales. The whole Ida Maria album is good, but more on that next week with my top 10 albums of the year.
So many remixes of this track. The fact that every Yeah Yeah Yeah's album sounds differently yet you can easily distinguish it, if that makes any sense, makes me appreciate it more for the fact that people change tastes especially as artists and do not feel like putting out the same album 5 times in a row. (Hold Steady your the exception)
Such a different pop song, haven't really heard anything like it on pop radio before. I feel this song has some long lasting radio potential when other people jump on this new bandwagon.
12. Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year
Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year .mp3
Silversun Pickups previously album, Carnavas, is definitely on my top 10 albums of the last 5 years, so obviously I was excited for this new release. The album overall was a let down, but this lead-off track definitely gave me good first impressions.
11. Donnis - The Beginning
What hasn't been said about this guy. His style is so smooth and delivery so quick and efficient yet not obnoxious.
I spent a week up in Maine over this summer and this was the jam that I heard every day and fell in love with. It is confusing to me what radio stations decide to play what song because this is definitely a cross-over song and could hit the adult-contemporary radio stations, yet many are still scared to play it. (which I don't understand after the crossover appeal of Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.)
