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Vithor's Best Of 2009
Member Since: 7/18/2004
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21/30 - Yaaaaaay
I LOOOOOOOOVE So Fine and Welcome To The World
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ATRL Contributor
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24/30
so so many great songs!!
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ATRL Senior Member
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24/30
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Member Since: 3/16/2006
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Cassie - Let's Get Crazy
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21/30! Lily Allen, Kings of Leon, Jay-Z, and The Fray are pretty low
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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10/30
Poor "She Wolf"
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Member Since: 5/1/2007
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She Wolf should be top 10
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Member Since: 4/16/2007
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Lily allen ,mandy moore,kelly clarkson,<33
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Member Since: 7/23/2008
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Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You <33333333333
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Member Since: 10/13/2003
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awesome set there My Life Would Suck Without You,Use Somebody,Gives You Hell,You Found Me <333
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She Wolf and My Life Would Suck Without You is soooo low! Anyway, I'm sure your list will get better and better.
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Member Since: 1/13/2004
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Hello everyone. So here it is the start of my Best Of 2009. Now this is the official design that I made for it. The other 2 banners were temporary. Hope you all like it. So let's talk about music now. 2009 was a great year, a loot of good stuff came out this year and as of now i'm still pretty unsure of what's gonna be #1 here. LOL, so let's just start.
PS: I tried to be the clearest possible on my reviews. I hope they make sense. LOL
| OneRepublic
Waking Up
To begin with, I've never listened to their first album, so I have nothing to compare to. This album is pretty good actually. When I was listening to it a few minutes ago to pick my favorite tracks, I asked myself "Why did I put this album only at #30?" Ryan did something he's not doing for all the other ones he's working with, being creative. Of course there is one or another track that reminds you of something else, but they're exceptions. The strongest point of this album is definitely the arrangement, the harmony of every single beat. Some songs on this album have some seconds at the end without any voice; for some people it might be boring as hell, but that's where Waking Up got me.
Favorite Songs:
• Made For You
• Secrets
• Good Life
• Waking Up |
| Cascada
Evacuate The Dancefloor
To tell you the truth, Cascada has ALWAYS inspired me sympathy, but their albums ALWAYS, ALWAYS had the exact same beat from track one to last track, a beat that I'm not a big fan of. When I first listened to their lead single Evacuate The Dancefloor I was really surprised because I thought they had completely changed their sound and it actually got me a little curious about what the album would sound like. I was REALLY disappointed that the old same beat style still took all over their cd, but there are some songs with a "new sound" which are worthy to give a listen, like Evacuate The Dancefloor, Fever and Hold Your Hands Up which is a great mid-tempo/ballad that reminds me TOO MUCH of the ones released late 90's and early 00's, like Britney's "Sometimes".
Favorite Songs:
• Evacuate The Dancefloor
• Fever
• Hold Your Hands Up
• Why You Had To Leave |
| Mandy Moore
Amanda Leigh
I wasn't even considering putting this album here til like 2-3 days ago when I was talking to Sama, while he was picking up albums for his Best Of and he sent me his album list and I saw this one, so I decided to give it another chance. Still no luck then, and then in the next day I was listening to Wild Hope and this album came up after and it didn't sound as boring as it did one day before. This album is a GROWER, I enjoy it more and more each listen. This album is still a huge stepdown from the epicness that was Wild Hope, but musically this album is MUCH SUPERIOR. The songs are much more well produced and the arrengement was obviously given so much more attention, I guess that's what this album was all about for her since day 1.
Favorite Songs:
• Fern Dell
• I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week
• Pocket Philosopher
• Love To Love Me Back |
| LeToya
Lady Love
After I randomly decided to buy her first album, which I loved, I was anticipating this album. As much as this album isn't bad at all, it lacks so much. Don't they know that people WON'T get to listen a whole album filled with mid-tempos like that without getting bored/tired in the end? Lady Love IS a good album filled with very nice R&B jams, but it's definitely not better than her debut, because it lacks amazing bangers like Tear Da club Up or All Eyes On Me, but it's an album to check out for sure.
Favorite Songs:
• Lady Love
• Lazy
• Love Rollercoaster (Feat. Mims)
• Don't Need U |
| Keyshia Cole
A Different Me
This album was released last week of 2008 and it didn't have time to make my charts last year when it definitely deserved. If we compare this album to "Just Like You", we're most likely gonna think that this is a HUUUUGE stepdown, and we're probably right because that album was EPIC, but the purpose of A Different Me is to introduce us to a different Keyshia Cole, with a different sound. I did get disappointed when I heard it at first because I wanted powerful ballads like I Remember or enjoyable mid-tempos like Fallin' Out or Heaven Sent, but A Different Me is a solid effort with good songs. Bad single choice kinda ruined the chance the album had to go platinum. I mean they released three ballads in a row, even though singing beautiful ballads is Keyshia's thing and that's what people like her for, we need do go up-beat sometimes.
Favorite Songs:
• Please Don't Stop
• Erotic
• No Other (Feat. Amina)
• Trust (Feat. Monica) |
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Member Since: 1/27/2009
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2/5
i only listened Amanda Leigh and Waking Up, and i liked very much, especially the Waking Up
andd, where's Dangerous in your fav songs of Evacuate the Dancefloor??
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Member Since: 1/13/2004
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Forgot to say that from next update on, I'm gonna bring some highlights of this decade, what I stanned or loved to death back on the early 00's up til nowadays. So, don't miss it ;D
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 9/24/2009
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2/5
yey for Mandy
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/19/2008
Posts: 37,076
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4/4
OneRepublic <333 The album cover's great as well.
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Member Since: 1/20/2009
Posts: 17,143
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2/5
Cascada & One Republic
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 2/21/2005
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I have only heard LeToya from that set, and it was alright, nothing amazing. I wanted to listen to Waking Up, but never really got the time.
Can't wait to see more ^_^
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Member Since: 10/28/2008
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3/5 1REpublic and Mandy
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 12/7/2008
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3/5
OneRepublic, LeToya, and Cascada!!
Hold Your Hands Up!!
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