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Below, you can find the top 50 movie soundtracks, released in 2009, sorted by view count. Click through to each movie to listen to the complete soundtrack and playlist. Years. 2023. 2022. 2021. 2020. 2019. 2018.
- Where the Wild Things Are. Karen O. continues the great tradition of artist-curated soundtracks, taking a break from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to create a more Arcade Fire-ish score for this fantastical adaptation.
- Adventureland. (Rssmbld Sndtrck Playlist) Maybe I just have a soft spot for movies that look back fondly at the year 1987, but the music used and the general feeling in this coming-of-age movie transcends simple nostalgia.
- Fantastic Mr. Fox. Wes Anderson's films have always had an "out-of-time" quality to them, and while the time and place appears to be an English countryside around 1970 (the year Roald Dahl published the children's book the film is based upon), the real setting is nostalgia.
- Inglourious Basterds. (Rssmbld Sndtrck Playlist) Tarantino originally had Ennio Morricone tentatively signed on to do the score, but the legendary composer's prior commitments prevented him from contributing.
- Akron/Family – “River”
- Wooden Shjips – “Down by The Sea”
- The Mountain Goats – “Genesis 30:3”
- Superchunk – “Crossed Wires”
- Richard Swift – “Lady Luck”
- Mastodon – “Oblivion”
- Jupiter One – “Volcano”
- David Byrne & Dirty Projectors – “Knotty Pine”
- Jamie Foxx Ft. T-Pain – “Blame It”
- Buddy and Julie Miller – “Gasoline and Matches”
It starts with a simple guitar stutter and a series of shakers, and it ends with whistled melody lines, a slew of woodwinds dancing next to horn sections, and a full-blooded group singalong that makes you think “you and I and the flame make three” is a rallying cry of some sort. You’re just not sure as to what. Akron/Family have always been a magic...
“Down by the Sea” is a trademark ten-minute jam from the San Francisco psychsters, Wooden Shjips. The band echoes the trance rock of the Velvet Underground and as the reverb drenched organ warbles, the rhythm section sticks to it doggedly, stretching out the grooves in an almost programmatic format of repetition that hasn’t been so danceable since ...
“Genesis 30:3” is John Darnielle at both his most direct and most evocative. The titular Bible verse tells of Rachel asking her husband Jacob to have children by one of their servants. In the space of three minutes and 24 seconds, Darnielle builds the song into a triumph of precision, with its stark piano chords buoyed by its soft, revolving rhythm...
In Merge Records’ 20th year, there might not be a better document of the label’s lasting sound than “Crossed Wires”. Superchunk, led by Merge owners Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance, channel their late ’80s punk energy and filter it through the melody they mastered on their later records and strike a perfect balance. Nevermind that Mac kicks off th...
That throbbing bassline. Those plunking, watery piano chords. That disarming falsetto. “Lady Luck” makes its introduction modestly enough (if you can call a one-man-band and a dead-on Prince impersonation “modest”), but when crate-digger Richard Swift injects his vocal track with several layers of ghostly, ethereal overdubs, they manage to string t...
One of 2009’s most epic singles and lead tracks, “Oblivion” courageously drills to the depths of human emotion, burrowing through sorrow, guilt and heartache and is inspired by the drummer Brann Dailor’s struggle with the suicide of his sister Skye. And what a powerful cathartic tribute it is as the Atlanta-based metal rockers mix melodies that are...
“Volcano” is a great big joyful pop song that instantly gets stuck in your head and has you singing along. The lyrics are a silly narrative that includes super powers, an erupting volcano, and a person warning the heedless town that they’re in danger. The song even has an angry father who tells his daughter’s boyfriend he’s not good enough for her....
The various pieces of “Knotty Pine” covered a great deal of space and time in coming together. David Byrne wrote the lyrics in the ’70s. Dave Longstreth put them to music about 30 years later, and Byrne topped it off with a guitar solo of his own. Fitting it is, then, that the song sounds divorced from time and place. The Projectors’ spritely voice...
Before “Blame It”, it would have been pretty hard to make a case for the existence of Jamie Foxx’s music career unless you really have a thing for Ray Charles impressions. But “Blame It” unexpectedly ended up being the first great smash single of 2009, capitalizing on post-New Years buzz by being the best song that no one got to party to. Produced ...
Easily Written in Chalk‘s most charged song, “Gasoline and Matches” hurtles forward on an overcharged riff that’s pure Tom Waits-style stompin’ blues (with a Marc Ribot-like guitar solo sending things totally over the edge) and lyrics that are pure charged attraction. If you like the sound of twangy chemistry in full flight, this is the song for yo...
Dec 21, 2009 · Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks. 3. Lily Allen – The Fear. 4. Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind. 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock. Six to twenty-five after la jump.
- “Boom Boom Pow” by The Black Eyed Peas. The Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow (Official Music Video) You can never go wrong with this party anthem from The Black Eyed Peas.
- “21 Guns” by Green Day. Green Day – 21 Guns [Official Music Video] Green Day is a classic rock band that knows how to write a good anthem. “21 Guns” is a song about the struggles of life and how to keep going when things get tough.
- “Right Round” by Flo Rida. Flo Rida – Right Round (feat. Ke$ha) [US Version] (Official Video) Another track that will leave you feeling nostalgic, “Right Round” was one of the biggest songs of 2009.
- “Zero” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero (Closed-Captioned) (Official Music Video) With over 17 million views on Youtube, “Zero” is one of the most popular songs from 2009.
Dec 13, 2009 · December 13, 2009. Our 2009 coverage concludes this week with the best tracks and albums of the year. Here's what we have coming up: Wednesday: Albums, Honorable Mention - 25 excellent records ...
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