Kitsune Noir Mixcast / No.018
December 11, 2009 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Kitsune Noir Mixcast
This week’s Mixcast is a collection of my favorite songs from 2009. You’ll have seen a lot of these songs on other Mixtapes and Mixcasts but I wanted to make a definitive list, the creme of the crop, list of songs. It was kind of hard to narrow them down but I feel like this is a pretty good spread of songs I loved.
The Mixcast is also over an hour long, I decided to mix together a huge chunk of songs in the middle, so you’ll get about 50 minutes of continuous music. I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you think I missed anything, though I’m telling you right now I didn’t, haha…
Here’s this week’s tracklist:
My Girls by Animal Collective
That’s That by MF Doom
Silver Trembling Hands by The Flaming Lips
Home by Edwarde Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
Wild Young Hearts by The Noisettes
Missing the Light of the Day by AIR
Cello Song by The Books & José González
Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.) by Monsters of Folk
Sister by Vetiver
Columns Steps Pillars by The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice
James by Camera Obscura
Singing Joy to the World by The Fruit Bats
While You Wait For The Others by Grizzly Bear
Little Shadow by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Epilogue by The Antlers
Shangri-La by M. Ward
Bobby
Comments
If you've got something to say, keep it positive.Can’t wait to listen to this!
Although I think you may have left out Lisztomania by Phoenix?
- Philip
Thx! Sounds promising, download in progress!
You should consider using SoundCloud maybe. :) http://soundcloud.com/
Thanks it rocks
Bobby, I think you missed to include “At Last” by The Do. Beautiful song. But the list is excelent! Very thanks!
great picks! I was especially happy re: Epilogue by The Antlers. why doesn’t people notice it more? it is a gem. xo
This mixcast is fantastic. Great choices!
I dig it a lot. And the ordering is spot on. I would have only added one song: Sleepyhead by Passion Pit.
hi, good music indeed, BUT, the second song, by MF DOOM (according to you) is actually by DOOM, he changed his name this year. i know its a small error but i guess you need to nkow about it.
good night good fight
Oh, and maybe something by The XX. “Stars”, I would think.
Shangri-La takes me to sleep on a regular basis. Solid mix.
You should totally check out The Royal Bangs and Cymbals Eat Guitars .. Two of my favorites from this year.
Genius compilation, sans Little Shadow! Well done!
@Fieldwork – Yeah, I should have put some Phoenix, but I would have gone with Girlfriend.
@A Generous Designer – I’d have to pay for SoundCloud and that would be pretty expensive. My Mediafire account has already served 5.44 terabytes of music, all for free, so I’m definitely sticking with them.
@Mutante – Wasn’t a mistake, I’ll always call him MF Doom.
@ Harold & Zooey – You don’t like that strings version of Little Shadow? Man I think it’s so pretty.
Brilliant mix Bobby. Thanks for all your mixes over the year as well always look forward to Fridays.
Other random personal favourites this year – Dark Mean (Happy Banjo), Sea of Bees (Willis), Radical Face (Wrapped in Piano Strings), Freelance Whales (Generator first floor), Local Natives (Airplanes).
Home the best though.
I just cant seem to wrap my mind around liking the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs.
Also, I wouldn’t change your list a bit. But if I was making my list, it’d have to include:
Girls: Hellohole Ratrace or Big Bad Mean Motherfucker or Lust for Life
Grizzly Bear: Two Weeks
Animal Collective: What Would I Want? Sky
Real Estate: Beach Comber
Why There Are Mountains: Indiana
Cass McCombs: Dreams Come True Girl
Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue
Yacht: Psychic City
Wavves: No Hope Kids
… haha, I think I just made my list.
I don’t know if I like how you mixed it all into one file…anyways, good music.
Just submitted this to Digg.
It’s up on Digg! http://digg.com/d31CZRJ
@Kyle – That’s how all of my mixes are and always will be. They’re supposed to be enjoyed like a mixtape.
Sorry – better link http://digg.com/music/KN_Kitsune_Noir_Kitsune_Noir_Mixcast_No_018
It’s great, but you could’ve included more up and coming bands rather than things everyone’s burned out on (Animal Collective).
@Jessica – Why? They didn’t make my favorite songs. I didn’t choose these bands because they were “cool,” I chose them because I really like them. You’ll hopefully prefer my favorite albums of 2009 more, coming out Monday.
Love it — some of my favourites, as well.
P.S. I love the mixtape format — it feels a bit nostalgic. Reminds me of when I was a kid and recorded my favourite songs onto a cassette from the radio… except it’s much more convenient (thanks intarwebz).
I feel old now.
Are people really telling you what your favorite songs are? Wow.
Anyway, great list. It was fun to listen to.
James <3
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Great collection, love seeing “My Girls” at the top. Also need to mention “Lion in a Coma” and “Daily Routine”! Thanks
Bobby, where’d you find the strings version of Little Shadow? I love it!
That’s funny because “Girlfriend” by Phoenix is on my top songs list of the year. Great compilation regardless. Your taste is always on point.
This is revolutionary. Provides all the elements a little dance, a little emotion, and pure sensory fun!
This blog is on my Mozilla Firefox favorites tab and I check this website at least a couple times a day looking for new mixes. They keep my car rides entertaining, and it helps me to never tread water when listening to music. Thanks for everything!
I don’t see any of the Dirty Projectors’ songs on this mix =( aside from that, great mix!
where was the Final Fantasy track u mentioned?:D
@Annie – The strings version comes on the extended edition, look it up on Amazon or Wikipedia.
@Cotton – In my opinion they are the most over-hyped band and I find their songs pretty obnoxious. The only one that was semi-decent is ‘Two Doves’, but it definitely wasn’t near my favorites of the year.
@Jae – Oh, um yeah… it turns out the Final Fantasy track was from 2008 and not 2009, so I had to take it off. Whoops!
I forgot to add, Living Things by Peter, Bjorn, and John was a really good album that released this year!
Good selections there. I have been meaning to listen to more Monsters of Folk.
This made motivated me to go out and buy three new c.d.’s today! Love it!
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I love year-end best-ofs for the conversations they spark but this isn’t a best-of, and it’s all the more enjoyable for it. I’d rather not see my favorite songs on a mix like this. I already know what my tastes are — it’s more engaging getting a sense of yours.
I am all about the list, of course there were a few in the middle that just lulled me off. But it was a great set to hit play as the plane darted down the run way and off to Brasil. What about adding track times on your “back cover” art. Sometimes I want to jump to a particular song and have to slide around to reach it.
I agree with abstractconformity, track times would be greatt. Wonderful mix as usual
(mf) doom sampled a galt macdermot song for “that’s that”; the sample is from “princess gika” on the “woman is sweeter” ost. macdermot is really great, doom sampled him a few time.