My music roundup for 2009

Alright... the music round-up is tougher, because there's so much more of it than the books. I bought or Zamzared or library'd or downloaded 2130 songs this year. This is just 109 of those songs, so I did pretty good, don't you think? It doesn't include albums/songs I had before that time but listened to a lot, like Alicia Keys' previous album. If I lurved 4+ songs from one album, then I put it under Albums instead of with the singles.

Not listed in any particular order.

TOP ARTISTS (that I remember most lurving)
K'naan
Alicia Keys
Wyclef Jean


Top Rock - or Acousticee Songs
Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid
Shining Light - Annie Lennox
Never Gonna Cry Again - Eurthymics
I'm On Fire (live) - Bruce Springsteen
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
Imitosis - Andrew Bird
Plenty is Never Enough - The Shins
Moon and Moon - Bat for Lashes
Folding Chair - Regina Spektor
It's a New Day - will.i.am
Peace Train (live) - Cat Stevens
My Madrigal - Patti Smith
If You Ever Did Believe - Stevie Nicks
Out of Our Heads - Sheryl Crow (except the terrible chorus)
Manos al Aire - Nelly Furtado
Your Daddy Don't Know - The New Pornographers
All I Really Want to Do - Holly Palmer
The Chain (live) - Ingrid Michaelson
Le Mot de passe - Patricia Kaas
Speak Your Heart - The Orchard
It's Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel
Pick Up the Phone - Dragonette
Falling Down - Tom Waits
Beast of Burden - Bette Midler

Top Dance (I was really into dancy hippy hoppy this year)
Numba 1 - Kardinal Offishall
Cruise Control - Mariah Carey
Get Your Number - Mariah Carey feat. Jermaine Dupri
Young Girl - Pharrell
Frontin' - Pharrell
Angel - Pharrell
Fast Car (Fugee remix) - Wyclef Jean
Mr. Autotune - Wyclef Jean feat. Nick Cannon
Suga - Flo Rider
Bulletproof - La Roux
Wrong - Depeche Mode
Row Row Fight the Powah - Iwasaki Tarou Remix
Clumsy - Fergie
Glamorous - Fergie
Knock You Down - Keri Hilson feat Kanye
Time - Timbaland
Sweet Revenge - Chris Cornell
Autotune the News #6
Tik Tok - KE$HA

Pop Ballad-ish
The Beautiful Ones - Mariah Carey feat. Dru Hill
I Want to Know What Love Is - Mariah Carey
H.A.T.E.U. - Mariah Carey
I Need a Love Song - Babyface
Not Anymore - LeToya
Never Ever - Ciara
Beautiful U R - Deborah Cox
Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
Papers - Usher
Camouflage - Brandy

Rap
Quiet Dog - Mos Def
Let Me See Your ID - Artists United Against Apartheid
Revolution - Arrested Development
Slumdog Millionaire - Wyclef feat. Cyndi Lauper
Suicide Love - Wyclef feat. Eve
No Flowers - The Grouch & Eligh feat. Paris Hayes
I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman - K-OS
The Warning - Eminem
He Got Game - Public Enemy

Funk-ee-soul
Walk On By - Melanie Fiona
You Stop My Heart - Melanie Fiona
The Way I See It - Anastacia
medley of songs by Prince on his guitar, live
Get It Up - The Time
The Stick - The Time
Walking on the Chinese Wall - Philip Bailey
Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Fire Escape - Diane Birch
Just My Imagination - The Temptations
Chasing Pirates - Norah Jones

Reggae
S-Craving - Tarrus Riley
Start a New - Tarrus Riley
King Without a Crown - Matisyahu
You're Beautiful - Jacksoul
Me Believer/Summer Holiday/Love Letter - Yellowman (just never get tired of it...)

Countryesque
Use Somebody - Brooke White
Rhiannon - Brooke White
Pass in Time - Beth Orton
Amen- Kid Rock
Travelin' Thru - Dolly Parton

Other
Mausam Achanak Ye Badalu Kyu - Alka Yagnik, Shaan, Harry Baweja, Anu Malik
Confession Part III - Weird Al Yankovich ("Gonna tell you everything I left out of parts 1 and 2...")
Billie Jean - The Lost Finger
K'naan performing some songs live with stripped down band
Both Sides Now - Measha Brueggergosman

Fave Covers:
Careless Whisper - Seether
Stand by Me - Playing for Change
Crimson and Clover - Prince
I Feel 4 U - Duke Special
Purple Rain - Martin Sexton
I Would Die 4 U - Richard Swift

Fave 80s:
Rap-O Clap-O - Joe Bataan
The Screams of Passion - The Family
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Blind - Talking Heads
If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up) - Vanity 6

Non-vocal
Alexa de Paris - Prince
Star Wars 3 love theme on the uke
Never Let Go of Your Hand - Waitswatcher
Bamboozled theme - Terrence Howard
Theme from Indecent Proposal - perf by City of Prague Orchestra

Holiday:
O Come O Come Emmanuel - Sugarland
Star of Wonder - Tori Amos
Soul Cake - Sting
Jingle Bells - Earl Scruggs
Gee Whiz It's Christmas - Diane Birch


ALBUMS
Mamer - Eagle
K'naan - Troubadour
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Eurythmics live
Prince - Prince (his first album)
Janelle Monae - Metropolis
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
Keith Urban - Greatest Hits
Beach Boys - Endless Summer
Billy Ocean - Greatest Hits
Leonard Cohen - variety of albums & songs, and all sorts of covers
The Police - variety of albums & songs
E.L.O. - All Over the World (best of)
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Rough Trade - Birds of a Feather (best of)
Lady Gaga - The Fame
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Sean Kingston - Tomorrow
Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life, and Romance 1600
Outkast - Big Boi & Dre Present...
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Sugarland - Live on the Inside
Rolling Stones - Forty Licks
Alicia Keys - The Element of Freedom