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Thanks for the truly insane number of comments on my first post. Hope you're having a Merry Christmas! It's now time to move on to the 2nd of 4 seasons of 2009. This installment will cover songs from the
spring that I liked for whatever reason but the albums from which they came are nowhere to be found on my top 40. The bargain bin continues...
"Eat You Up" really dominated the beginning of the spring for me. Not sure why I never checked out more BoA.
Neil Young doesn't have anything left to prove, and this fantastically blunt release from him, well, proves it.
Eminem's big return, right? MTV world premiered this video at 6:00 in the morning. That's where we are, folks.
The song that gave us "I'm so 3008, you're so 2000 and late." Fergie is a gem; the rest of BEP is dispensable.
Never got to see the tour because they cancelled the date in my city. Thanks a lot! Solid cover anyway.
The film
Observe and Report was responsible for giving us this wonderful cover of the legendary Pixies track.
I got really sick of this song after hearing it every 45 minutes on the radio, but before that, I really enjoyed it.
Green Day tried to out-
American Idiot themselves with
21st Century Breakdown. They tried too hard. Shame!
Want a track that sounds exactly like "So What," just not as good? This one's for you. Sorry, Ashley! You tried.
The guy behind
The Mixtape About Nothing plus Lady GaGa and a line referencing McLovin'. That's all you need.
I can't tell you why Marilyn Manson is still around, but this track is a fabulously apocalyptic glam rock jam.
Jem is wonderful. She recorded a cover of Coldplay's "Yellow" for some love songs compilation. It, too, is wonderful.
Look, I'm not even gonna try to defend it, I'm just gonna say I listened to "Goodbye" a lot in the late spring.
Miley Cyrus meets amber waves of grain. This is basically her own "No Boundaries." Total cheese-ball of a song.
Linkin Park are way past their prime, but you know, you can't really argue with this straightforward, listenable track.
Rancid are the best at making song after song about persevering through everything together as a band.
I never fully explored
The Blueprint 3, but this is the first of three single releases from Jay-Z that I enjoyed.
We're already half done, at least in terms of my leftover songs and singles. Have a fantastic rest of your Christmas, and I'll see you on the other side with the summer and fall singles, and of course the main event, my top 40 albums of 2009.
