Thursday, December 31, 2009

Best of 2009.. in Music.. according to me!

This year came and went very quickly as it seems, so I've compiled a list of what I thought was the highlights (for me) for 2009 in music, the best concerts I went to, the best albums I've heard and the best songs! Feel free to add what you enjoyed music-wise for 2009 to the list!

Top 5 shows of 2009
1) Dan Mangan at the 2009 WCMAs in Brandon at the Double Decker (heh, and Mangan comes right onto Radio Two Drive right now!)
2) Trooper at the Wheat City Rodeo at the Keystone Centre in Brandon
3) Library Voices at the 2009 WCMAs in Brandon
4) Volcanoless in Canada at the Brandon Folk Fest in Brandon
5) Constantines opening up for the Weakerthans in Winnipeg at the Burton Cummings Theatre


Top 10 albums of 2009
1) Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler
2) We Are Wolves - Invisible Violence
3) AC Newman - Get Guilty
4) The Wheat Pool - Hauntario
5) Metric - Fantasies (This is a very overrated album but it's a VERY good album)
6) United Steelworkers of Montreal - Three on a Tree (This album brings back some amazing memories of Quebec, July 2008)
7) Les Trois Accords - Dans Mon Corps
8) Dan Mangan - Nice Nice Very Nice
9) Damien Robitaille - Homme autonome
10) Handsome Furs - Face Control

Top 15 songs of 2009
1) Ali Milner - Crystal Clear
2) Fred Fortin - La mervielle masquée
3) La patère rose - La marelle
4) Damien Robitaille - Homme autonome
5) Joel Plaskett - Through & Through & Through (This is a shocker for me but play count never lies)
6) Corb Lund - Long Gone to Saskatchewan
7) The Wheat Pool - Two Far Apart
8) We Are Wolves - Me As Enemy
9) We Are Wolves - Paloma
10) Jean Leloup - La plus belle fille de la prison
11) Les Trois Accords - Dans Mon Corps (dans mon corpssss, dans mon corps, y a une jeune fille!")
12) AC Newman - All of My Days and All of My Days Off
13) Jesse Matheson - The French Song
14) Zeus - Fever of the Time
15) Le Nombre - Vile et fantastique

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