The Top 30 Songs Of 2009 List Put Forth By The Listeners Of “All Songs Considered” Surely Did Not Consider All The Songs Released This Year

noah | July 29, 2009 1:00 pm

While I am fully aware that the NPR music-centric program All Songs Considered has its name because of the public-radio network’s news block All Things Considered, it still pained me to see the results of their reader poll for The Best Music Of 2009 So Far (Because The Music-News Well Is Dry And We Need Some Pageviews, Now, Don’t We). If Camera Obscura’s brilliant “French Navy” showing up way too low on the best-songs list was the only issue I had with it, I probably wouldn’t be posting. But two Decemberists songs in the top 10? A Lily Allen track that isn’t the unnerving “Everyone’s At It”? No Micachu/Ida Maria/Dinosaur Jr.? Not even a token No. 30 mention for Kelly Clarkson? Sigh. So, perhaps we can spend a chunk of this hazy, news-free afternoon coming up with our own rebuttal list of their rundown of best songs? And then we can all have a little blog contretemps, or at least a mix-CD exchange. The NPR list after the jump. 1. “My Girls” Animal Collective 2. “Two Weeks” Grizzly Bear 3. “Blood Bank” Bon Iver 4. “The Rake’s Song” The Decemberists 5. “Lisztomania” Phoenix 6. “Zero” Yeah Yeah Yeahs 7. “This Tornado Loves You” Neko Case 8. “Sleepyhead” Passion Pit 9. “Laughing With” Regina Spektor 10. “The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid” The Decemberists 11. “Train Song” Feist and Ben Gibbard 12. “Knotty Pine” David Byrne & Dirty Projectors 13. “Daniel” Bat For Lashes 14. “Summertime Clothes” Animal Collective 15. “One Wing” Wilco 16. “The Fear” Lily Allen 17. “Heads Will Roll” Yeah Yeah Yeahs 18. “Wilco (The Song)” Wilco 19. “Stillness Is The Move” Dirty Projectors 20. “Help, I’m Alive” Metric 21. “Anonanimal” Andrew Bird 22. “On No” Andrew Bird 23. “No You Girls” Franz Ferdinand 24. “I And Love And You” The Avett Brothers 25. “French Navy” Camera Obscura 26. “Magpie To The Morning” Neko Case 27. “Woods” Bon Iver 28. “Black Hearted Love” PJ Harvey and John Parish 29. “While You Wait For The Others” Grizzly Bear 30. “Panic Switch” Silversun Pickups The songs on this list that I might consider putting on mine: Nos. 6, 13, 16, 23, 25. And, uh, maybe No. 30, which I heard at the gym the other day and which works very well in the working-out context. The Best Music Of 2009 (So Far) [All Songs Considered]