The Good from 2009

Best Songs of 2009

Dear readers if you expect to find "Poker Face" on this list, you have the wrong blog list, no I don't like Lady Gaga, or Shakira so forget about "She Wolf" or anything like that.
My post is about the songs I think are the best of this 2009, I hope some of you agree with me, and I you don't well... ASK ME IF I CARE (hahaha) one way or another if you enjoy my list let me know.

• 20-Stellastarr*-Prom Zombie (Civilized)
  19-The Xx-Infinity (The Xx)
  18- Kings of Convenience-Me in you (Declaration of Dependance)
  17- Franz Ferdinand-Katherine Kiss me (Tonight)
  16- Julian Casablancas-11 th Dimension (Phrazes for the Young)
  15- The Temper Tramp-Sweet Disposition (500 Days of Summer OST)
  14- Franz Ferdinand-No You Girls Never Know (Tonight)
  13- Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Runaway (It's a Blitz!)
  12- Arctic Monkeys-Cornerstone (Humbug)
  11- Kings Of Convenience-Boat behind ( Declaration of Dependace)


• 10- The Raveonettes-Suicide (In and Out of Control)
  9- The Xx-Crystalised (The Xx)
  8-Phoenix-Liztomania (Wolfang Amadeus Phoenix)
  7- Empire of The Sun-Walking on a Dream (Walking on a Dream)
  6- The Raveonettes-D.R.U.G.S (In and Out of Control)
  5- Julian Casablancas, Danger mouse & Sparkle Horse-Little Girl (Dark Night of the Soul)
  4- Chester French-She loves Everybody (Love the Future)
  3-Empire of the Sun-We are the People (Walking on a Dream
  2- Razorlight-Hostage of Love (Slipways and Fires)


• 1-Arctic Monkeys-Crying Lightining (Humbug)
  

What makes them so great is the perfect mix between catchy intense tunes and the lyrics and in my opinion this are the best parts of the lyrics of the first 4 spots of the list I leave with the pieces of this songs that moved me in 2009.

1- And I hate that little game you had called
Crying lightning
And how you like to aggravate the icky man on rainy afternoons

2- You make yourself a prisoner of me
You blind yourself so you don't have to see

3- I can't do well when I think you’re gonna leave but I know I try
Are you gonna leave me now

4- Well she craves affection, so I use protection
And I know she loves me, she loves everybody

Thank you for reading, Happy New year

H&K

Ginger

MTV DECADENCE

Movie Awards 2009 are a recent event (May 31st), that's what brought me to write this post. MTV channel started transmissions the August 21st of 1981, at that time it was something totally new, since then music became an industry much more concerned about physical image over the quality of the artists, also the main reason why nowadays we have pretty, empty Barbies and Kens performing on stage.


My main question is, when did MTV turn into this weapon of insanity, maybe that was the idea from the start to alienate and command the 90's and 2000's generation, but why we let a channel full of fake acts tell us what's cool or not?
As I was watching the MTV movie awards, I couldn't stop thinking; who the hell makes the scipts? Are they retarded? Who in the world thinks "Twilight" is a good movie for God's sake.
Really if you are not a 15 year-old teen full of hormones, wanting to watch flesh in a music video and you're still into MTV Please please press the ESC button in your keyboard.
I have to say with shame that when I was 13 years old I liked to watch MTV, yeah that innocent time when Semisonic's "secret smile" was on their charts, then I lost interest and gained brain cells, so I started using internet to inform myself about music.


As I was making my research for this post I took a look to the Hit-lists of MTV UK, MTVLa (Latin/Hispanic), MTV Euro Top 20 and MTV. This is what I found out the so called "Music Television" that supposedly encourages diversity has in their 4 lists:



The horrible Eminem song and video "We made you"
The Freaking unoriginal Lady Ga Ga (Ziggy Stardust wannabe)
Flo-Rida and their 80's songs remakes (How creative)
Miley Cyrus The I'm famous for being a sexually exploited underage girl (It's not like we haven't heard this before)
Ciara who cares!
Pussycat Dolls the we don't look like men with plastic surgery "women"
Black eyed peas some hip-hop band with her I have to much Botox lead singer

Also there were some unpleasant surprises; in MTVLa list Empire of the Sun (a band that I follow) is in number 2! the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (#1), Franz Ferdinand (#11) and in the Euro Top 20 Razorlight with "Wire to wire"

I hate this Details cause let's face it, when a band hits MTV's playlists it is the beginning of the END.
MTV's birth was the end of the world as we knew it and I don't feel fine. If someone else shares this thought, I'll be glad to know about you

Till next time

H&K

         Ginger