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Alright, so. I've decided I'm going to create this list of my top 100 songs of 2009. It's not according to my charts, not according to play count or anything like that, but according to how many times I've repeated certain songs in the car or had them trapped in my head or just feel like applauding before the year is over.

So before I babble my way into oblivion, here we goooooo!

100. Girls, Girls, Girls - Sailor
099. Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
098. Footsteps On The Roof - The Shangri-Las
097. This is The Renaissance - Sparks
096. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares
095. Tous les garcons et les filles -Françoise Hardy
094. Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club
093. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel
092. New York Groove - Hello
091. Drama Drama - Telex
090. I'm on a Boat (feat. T. Pain) - The Lonely Island
089. I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts) - The Turtles
088. Orgasm- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
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Works for every letter except X.

Apeman
Dark Red Birds
Cool For Cats
Walking the Dog
Effervescing Elephant
Funny Little Frog
Goat and Ram
Wild Horses
Night of the Iguana
Jaguar
Kanga-Roo
Lion's Jaws
Monkey Man
The Nightingale
Octopus's Garden
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin
Little Red Rooster
Union of the Snake
Turtle Blues
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn
Vixen
Werewolves of London
Yakety Yak
Mr. Zebra

Because school work can wait.

All I did was randomized my entire song library, and took the first 64 songs to come up. I will now pit one against the other and whittle them down, world cup style, and see who wins!!

ROUND 1

VAST - Song Without a Name
Eyeball Skeleton - The Bouncing Apes
WINNER: VAST

Dizzee Rascal - Learn
Uncle Tupelo - John Hardy
WINNER: Dizzee Rascal

The Black Keys - When The Lights Go Out
General Public - I'll Take You There
WINNER: Tough choice... gonna go with The Black Keys

Catherine Wheel - Gasoline
The Pillows - Ride on Shooting Star
WINNER: Let's give it to the pillows.

JC Chasez - Until Yesterday
Shonen Knife - Watchin' Girl
Winner: Shonen Knife

The Exploding Hearts - Thorns in Roses
Glen Phillips - Sir Duke
WINNER: The Exploding Hearts

Spoon - Back to the Life
Spymob - Half Steering
Winner: SpyMob

Ultravox - Vienna
Spank Rock - What It Look Like
WNNER: Spank Rock

Junior Boys - In the Morning
Billy Squier - The Stroke
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I just realised how similar Carl Barât of The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things sounds like Chris Difford from Squeeze's performance on Cool For Cats.

Chris Difford was always the "other guy" in Squeeze. I knew he was responsible for the lion's share of the lyrics, but the lead singer always gets the spotlight. Sure, Chris got to sing on a couple tracks, including Cool For Cats, but he usually was the guy in the background.

Several years ago, I picked up an issue of Q magazine prior to a trip to Florida to spend Christmas with my folks. Within that issue was a brief review of this album. I immediately went online and ordered a copy.

The day it arrived, I put it in the CD player and just could not believe my ears. The lyrics were arguably better than anything he'd done with Squeeze. His voice was freed from the very lower registers of his range that it seemed to be trapped in for all those Squeeze songs. And Parents just about made me cry. Still does.

I'd say I've listened to this CD more than any other CD I have bought in the intervening time. It's just that good.

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You know the drill....this seems to be a weekly thing, though I am sure I am gonna run out of songs to use at some point =/

1. Making someone happy is a question of give and take
Bang-A-Boomerang

2. Shout if you will, but that just won't do

3. Now I've watched you sitting there, seen the passers-by all stare
Apple Scruffs

4. Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean
I Saw Her Standing There

5. Knew you'd be here tonight, so I put my best dress on
Slow

6. What do you want from me, I stand before you, no attempt to leave

7. I knew a girl from a lonely street, cold as ice cream but still as sweet
Sunday Girl

8. Some punk with a shot gun killed young Danny Bailey
The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34)

9. I've come on a few years from my Hollywood highs
Cracked Actor

10. Happy little day Jimmy went away
Brighton Rock

11. I gave my last chance to you, don't hand it back to me (...)

12. Well the lush separation unfolds you
Slipstream

13. I told you about Strawberry Fields
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