RR’s Best of ’09 Compilation
I don’t usually make year-end compilations, however a friend of mine requested a mix as a birthday present so how could I refuse? I had no idea what I was…
By Rachel Reynolds • • 2 min readI don’t usually make year-end compilations, however a friend of mine requested a mix as a birthday present so how could I refuse? I had no idea what I was getting into. After about 7 hours of selecting my favorites and editing down the list to a reasonable amount, I ended up with 3 CDs. That still left out some of my favorites because I couldn’t find the right place for them in the mix (Metric’s “Sick Muse,” Lissie”s “Little Lovin” and Junior Boys’ “Parallel Lines,” most notably), but here is what I ended up with:
Best of 09 Mix 1
1. Friends | Band Of Skulls |
2. Whole New Way | The Horrors |
3. Dominos | The Big Pink |
6. Islands | The XX |
7. You’ve Got the Love (The xx Remix) | Florence and The Machine |
8. Zero | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
9. Nothing To Worry About | Peter Bjorn & John |
10. Feel It All Around | Washed Out |
11. Slippin’ | Quadron |
12. Compacto | Curumin |
13. Can’t Help But Smiling | Devendra Banhart |
14. Always Like This | Bombay Bicycle Club |
15. The Reeling | Passion Pit |
16. 11th Dimension | Julian Casablancas |
17. Orange Shirt | Discovery |
18. Walking On A Dream | Empire Of The Sun |
19. Psychic City (Voodoo City) | YACHT |
20. Bulletproof | La Roux |
21. No Surprise | James Yuill |
Mix 2
1. Let’s Go Surfing | The Drums |
2. Say Yes | Langhorne Slim |
3. More Of This | Vetiver |
4. Relator | Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson |
5. Cousins | Vampire Weekend |
6. Too Fake | Hockey |
7. Knotty Pine | Dirty Projectors & David Byrne |
8. When They Fight They Fight | Generationals |
9. Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare | Matt & Kim |
10. All the Same to Me | Anya Marina |
11. Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked | Cage The Elephant |
12. My Last Mistake | Dan Auerbach |
13. Basket | The Blakes |
14. Straight To Hell | Lily Allen Feat. Mick Jones |
15. Lust For Life | Girls |
16. My Girls | Animal Collective |
17. Two Weeks | Grizzly Bear |
18. Song For No One | Miike Snow |
19. Girlfriend | Phoenix |
20. Terminally Chill | Neon Indian |
21. In The Music | The Trash Can Sinatras |
Mix 3
1. Inspiration Information | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
2. Breakin’ The Chains Of Love | Fitz & The Tantrums |
3. Maybe So, Maybe No | Mayer Hawthorne |
4. The Golden Age | The Asteroids Galaxy Tour |
5. California On My Mind | Wild Light |
6. The Sun | Portugal. The Man |
7. Say Please | Monsters Of Folk |
8. The Sweetest Thing | Camera Obscura |
9. Wavin’ Flag | K’naan |
10. The Summer | Coconut Records |
11. You Never Know | Wilco |
12. Home | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros |
13. World News | Local Natives |
14. This Tornado Loves You | Neko Case |
15. Rave On | M. Ward Feat. Zooey Deschanel |
16. Hold Your Head High | Heartless Bastards |
17. I Like You So Much Better When You Are Naked | Ida Maria |
18. Everything – Murs | Murs |
19. Tonight’s Today | Jack Peñate |
20. Swing | Zero 7 |
21. Sweet Disposition | The Temper Trap |
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