Welcome to this WC3PO Channel 10A special presentation here at Gentleman Agitator. These are my top 25 musical discoveries of 2009. Some of these did not come out this year, but all have come out this decade and most within the last five years. It is really hard to pick one favorite from all of these. These are in alphabetical order, not in order of liking one better over the other. The songs with the asterisks are my favorites on the list.
1)
Acceptable
Losses, Lisa Miskovsky
2)
Brutality, Black Box Recorder
3)
Burn Bridges, The Grates *
This is my favorite video discovery of the year. Who can't love someone molding mashed potatoes in a music video?
4)
Collide,
Howie Day
5)
Everything,
Stereofuse
Another video that looks like it was shot in the blank, neutrality of the high desert north of Los Angeles. It drives me nuts that so many people in the media industry think this sort of scenery makes such a great back drop for their production. It shows a lack of originality in my opinion. Despite that, I do like this song.
6)
Faith
Hope Love, Starsailor *
I really like this song, but the video showing Grey's Anatomy scenes should not be construed that we here at WC3PO watch this show. Nope.
7)
Gunhild,
I'm From Barcelona feat. SoKo
8) I Do, Abra Moore *
Definitely one of my favorites I found this year. I love the tempo.
9)
Kaleidoscope,
Kate Havnevik *
Kate Havnevik is my artist find of the year. See also #9 and #23 and my WC3PO Channel 10A playlist, "21st Century in Song."
10) Light in the Window, April Verch *
This is another song I love for its shameless positivity. It's tone also reminds me of West Virginia where I visited and came to love this year.
11) Molten
Lava, Bora Yoon
12) My Guiding Star, Rosetta Life *
Click on the link to take to this song's video. It is beautiful. You will not be sorry. It reminds me of the love of my wife and myself.
13) My
Magic Glasses, Shonen Knife
This is such a kooky song. So, kooky in a kind of 80s way. It also reminds me of the new glasses I got this year, vintage 1950s black horn rimmed type.
14) Oceans of Light, Aradhana Silvermoon
15)Paper Planes, I'm From Barcelona
16) Portland, Far Beyond Frail *
This is one of those up beat songs where the refrain just gets me.
17) Slide,
The Grates
I try to get the best quality videos possible on WC3PO, but sadly, this one is not the best. I did want you hear this song though. So....Slide! Slide!
18) Some things get lost, Alice Peacock
19) Something
to Live For, Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright
The student made video is not the greatest, but I think it was shot in a place I am very familiar with, Antelope Valley, California. It is the song I like. The music begins 42 seconds in.
20) Song
With A Mission, the Sounds
21) Take A Chance, Quincy Coleman (Click on the link to take you to the page to listen to this song.) * I love this song's tempo and upbeat theme.
22) Tram
#7 to Heaven, Jens Lekman
23) Travel
in Time, Kate Havnevik
24) Vertebrae,
Christine Fellows
The video from YouTube is entitled, "What I did today," but the song is indeed Vertebrae by Christine Fellows
25) Why? Why not?, Marie Haddad
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