Sean at Said the Gramophone's top 75 of '09

http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2009.php

Looking forward to rummaging through these Sean!

I think its safe to say that me and this dude have wildly different tastes

me too! that's why i'm curious to listen to it!

i mean, Sean and i intersect on some stuff but his taste in indie pop is pretty divergent from mine so this gives me a good opportunity to get caught up on a lotta stuff i'm less familiar with.

i read this blog, it's really good! blackout beach is great, creeps me out the same way david bowie used to creep me out as a kid.

The 2009 Magazine Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion.

think it deserves its own thread cuz it's downloadable for listenalongability

what a horribly formed "thread"

you make me wanna drown my sorrows

:)

i have just started listening to the songs on my ipod. to locate them i went into genre "said the gramophone's best 2009". sean's and my taste overlap but i have got the impression the overlap gets smaller from year to year. this could have to do with the tendency of the current music not to reach me anymore. will report later but the hopes to find some hidden jewels are unfortunately pretty low.

yeah, this is absolutely no reflection on sean's tastes, which, as far as i can tell are where they were in 2004, but i liked maybe 5 of those tracks, whereas in the early days i probably liked half. i love how much he loves music though, so i always check in once a year. thanks for the heads up forks.

^same, thx john

stuff i liked
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vic chesnutt - flirted with you all my life
bon iver - blood bank
i knew those two beforehand. some great tuneful songwriting by two outsiders.

bill callahan - the breeze/my baby cries
contrary to most of the contemporary singers he has a voice. and he can write and compose songs. it does not harm that they are slow.

another twenty or so to go. maybe for tomorrow.

thanks john.

i always figure the point of these things is to be staunchly representative of yr own tastes, instead of catering to one's audience (or to "canon"/fears-of-not-enough-black-people). so all i can say is that i love these songs a lot; i hope you find some more you like, too.

it was nice going through this. and hearing nneka - heartbeat for the first time definitely made it worth my while. in love with this song.

it's a great track and i much prefer the original to the remix.

other songs i enjoyed:

casiotone for the painfully alone - natural light
sharon van etten - much more than that
highlife - f kenya rip
rattail - go green
slaraffenland - away
patrick watson - wooden arms
the xx - islands

thanks sean for your labour of love.

I listened to all of them, and liked:

Highlife - F Kenya rip
The Horrors - Sea within a Sea
Kelis - Acapella
Matias Aguayo - rollerskate
Dirty Projectors - No intention
Tune Yards - Hatari

The highlife, Tune yards, and Dirty Projectors ones are really good, but I also kind of think I would totally hate dirty projectors if I ever heard any other song of theirs
I think being a super-low bitrate mp3 makes the Kelis song sound better!

i always figure the point of these things is to be staunchly representative of yr own tastes, instead of catering to one's audience

and it shows! and it's a good thing! the reality that all music sites and publications have the same top 20 shuffled about in a slightly different order is starting to really make me hate some of those artists. and some of them are really good!

i tend to be more willing to trust a blog like stg when it comes to artists that enter into that group of consensus top 10/20/whatever. in most of those cases it starts to feel like the music is almost irrelevant, and i'm a little hesitant to give it a chance unless it's recommended by someone who i generally kind of trust even if i don't always agree. that was the case with wild beasts and this list this year, anyways.

This mix is practically impossible for me to listen to.

There are 75 tracks on this mix? Oh, too generous; much too generous.

it's not a mix bro

Yeah it is, just because it isn't all segued together doesn't mean it isn't a mix, but I can call it a sampler if you'd prefer.

nice to see "hatin' on the club" get some love - i'm glad rated r is what it is, but this is like a signpost to what it could have been.

http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2010.php
Back again and v.v.v. interesting; I don't like everything but I like a lot and I'm already finding new stuff that tickles my fancy.

thanks john!

sean, i thought this was kind of amazing:
http://iomusic.net/Music-News/2010/12/best-songs-of-2010/

Tonetta - “My Bro”
Tonetta’s back-story crapper command his music: middle-aged Toronto weirdo, conception Lou Reed and conception Roy Orbison, making music for 25 eld before he is unconcealed on YouTube, parading in suits, masks, ladies’ dresses. But I exclusive heard the news later, when I had already been charmed by his exceptional songs - by the gentle fleecy pop + the ones which are darkly fucked up. That’s when I spilled, saucer-eyed, into the Tonetta fanclub underground. He makes so much music - he needs archivists. Anyhow, “My Bro” is menacing, catching, darkly sensational. I wrote the imagine of it here.

wow that's crazy, and basically cool

Congrats!!
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/11/scotiabank-giller-prize-2014-the-winner.html

Congratulations Sean; I love the picture of you all agog. Very exciting!

amazing - well done sean!