The numbers are in…from pool leagues to happy hours, the top 10 Jukebox songs of 2009 with Country Music on top! Toby tops the list that also includes Zac Brown Band.

Here they are: AMI Entertainment Network’s top 10 played songs on jukeboxes in 2009.
1. “I Love This Bar,” Toby Keith
2. “Rockstar,” Nickelback
3. “Chicken Fried,” Zac Brown Band
4. “All Summer Long,” Kid Rock
5. “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey
6. “Me and Bobby McGee,” Janis Joplin
7. “Poker Face,” Lady Gaga
8. “Something in Your Mouth,” Nickelback
9. “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns ‘N Roses
10. “You Shook Me All Night Long,” AC/DC

The numbers are in…from pool leagues to happy hours, the top 10 Jukebox songs of 2009 with Country Music on top!  Toby tops the list that also includes Zac Brown Band. 

Here they are:  AMI Entertainment Network’s top 10 played songs on jukeboxes in 2009.
1. “I Love This Bar,” Toby Keith
2. “Rockstar,” Nickelback
3. “Chicken Fried,” Zac Brown Band
4. “All Summer Long,” Kid Rock
5. “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey
6. “Me and Bobby McGee,” Janis Joplin
7. “Poker Face,” Lady Gaga
8. “Something in Your Mouth,” Nickelback
9. “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns ‘N Roses
10. “You Shook Me All Night Long,” AC/DC

I have come to realize that a straight out spoon feeding of easy-to-find Mars Volta facts/info wouldnt be that cool to write about. I want to make this a blog about music that I enjoy and that I really believe people should lend an ear to.

I am going to be posting at least every other day on a random song that should be in EVERYONE’S collection.

(And hopefully I start getting better at using wordpress)

So, upon looking at my Itunes playlist, here are my 24 top played songs of 2009 ! .

24. Jordin Sparks – Was I the only One

23. Parachute – One Small Step

22. Glee – Somebody to Love

21. Norwegian Recycling – How Six Songs Collide

20. Glee – Taking Chances

19. Glee – Defying Gravity

18. Plain White T’s – Big Bad World

17. Glee – True Colors

16. The Fray – Syndicate

15. Keane – Sunshine

14. The Fray – Say When

13. Hannah Montana (featuring David Archuleta) – I wanna know you

12. The Fray – You Found Me

11. Kris Allen – Live like we’re dying

10. Daughtry – No surprise

9. Glee – Don’t Stop Believin’

8. The Fray – Happiness

7. Kristina Debarge – Future Love

6. Boys Like Girls – Go

5. Glee – Take a Bow

4. The Fray – Enough for Now

3. Miley Cyrus – Party in the USA

2. Owl City – Fireflies

1. Boys Like Girls (featuring Taylor Swift) – Two is Better than One!

I’m not going to do a list of my favourite songs of 2009 because that would be boring and unoriginal, and chances are you’ve probably read about the exact same songs in a million other places. Instead, here’s my playlist containing fifteen album tracks, none of which were released as singles, which I notched up on my bedpost as having loved dearly over the course of the year. When you’ve read through it all, you can also feel their brilliance as nature intended, by hopping over to the superconnected playlist I’ve made over on Spotify (though the Tortoise track will be absent because their oeuvre is not yet available).

The tracks are not listed in order of preference, since they’re all fairly unique and enjoyable; instead, I’ve sequenced them for maximum aural pleasure.

1. The Horrors – Mirror’s Image. What a belter of an introduction to The Horrors’ grown-up new sound! Emerging from an Eno-like fog of ambient resonances and detuned synth washes, this album opener eventually lumbers into being with an instantly memorable bassline and the kind of baggy drumbeat not seen for twenty years. Faris Badwan’s vocals, meanwhile, are all doomed romantic, which goes hand-in-hand with the slurring, bleeding guitar-work that pepper the song.
2. The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands. From an album of extended krautrock grooves, this is surely the most beautiful of the bunch. Listen in wonder as it morphs from a twisted, haunted freakout into the kind of blissed-out, starstruck pseudo-chorus that The Flaming Lips specialise in.
3. Wilco – Bull Black Nova. Undoubtedly the most ambitious song on Wilco (The Album), this moving and chilling tale of a man on the run, having killed his girlfriend, is brought to life by a combination of fluid bass, lilting piano, seriously cool drums, and the dazzling fretboard flourishes of Nels Cline, about whom I have eulogised before.
4. Future Of The Left – You Need Satan More Than He Needs You. And then for something totally different. A blast of scuzzy, brutally aggressive hardcore that channels the vitriol of Shellac through the tightly woven punk of Fugazi, via the badlands of Wales. I’m never sure whether to laugh or cry at Falco’s lyrics, which reference orgies, cults, and the titular devil.
5. Arctic Monkeys – Potion Approaching. The much-heralded stoner rock sound isn’t omnipresent on Humbug, but when they do reach for the peyote and take a drive through the desert, the results are surprisingly genuine. Here, they alternate between the ESG-pumped funk favoured on Favourite Worst Nightmare, and the kind of gloomy waltz perfected by Nick Cave and Josh Homme. All the while, Jamie Cook’s wailing guitar floats through the mix, harmonising beautifully with the carnival chants in the background.
6. Tortoise – Gigantes. I’m not sure words can really do justice to the beauty of this Beacons of Ancestorship highlight, which surprises and pulls a wobbly every few bars. From its humble origins as a Spanish guitar melody, through its numerous transformations via breakbeats, vibes and wooden percussion, via a briefly noisy guitar solo, and into a polyphonic groove with squelchy synths, this song defines the ‘journey’. It’s one of those classic examples of wordless music succeeding in conveying ten times more emotion than the vast majority of vocally-accompanied music.
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runaway. The crop of torch-waving ballads that pepper It’s Blitz! are monolithic in terms of ambition and grandeur and, more importantly, spirit. This one’s the pick of the bunch, gradually rising out of a lonely piano figure to throw a light on some seriously epic orchestral arrangements and the kind of earth-shattering drums that usually prop up Wembley Stadium. Karen O’s vocals, meanwhile, approach the raw, unbridled emotion of “Maps”, underpinned by burbling synths and those circling strings. As the song is enveloped by a fog of noise, you can’t help but be overwhelmed.
8. Phoenix – Love Like A Sunset Part I. From an album that missed out on my top fifteen list because it’s not really as original or exciting as some critics would have you believe, comes this undoubted centrepiece/masterpiece – exactly the kind of left-field turn that I wish more of the album had been like. By turns noodly (it begins with a close cousin of the piano melody from “Runaway”) and then charged with static electricity, the song is utterly stupendous. You can feel a stadium-sized monster itching to break free at several points but, to the band’s credit, they always hold back, just, ramping up the tension and intrigue before unwrapping another surprising switch in mood or instrumentation.
9. Atlas Sound – Quick Canal (w. Laetitia Sadier). I realise this list is starting to look very krautrock-dependent, but I couldn’t help but include this almost-nine minute wonder, which does a better job of sounding like a Stereolab song than even Stereolab have managed for most of their career. Boasting cooing, overawed vocals from Laetitia Sadier herself, the song pulses along on a chilled-out beat while drooping curtains of noise and feedback and Bradford Cox’s backing vocals invade any blank space. Halfway through, Cox drops the best little birthday present on us, suddenly cutting out the bass and chords and rapidly warping the pitch of the background noise. Then both he and Sadier kick right back in with a beautifully orchestrated further four minutes of majesty.
10. Yo La Tengo – Here To Fall. The other recurring theme on this playlist is album openers, and this one’s a peach. Ira Kaplan is often overlooked for his skill on the keys; here, we’re treated to a squall of distorted Rhodes that grows into something very special, with the regularity of James McNew’s bass countered by spirals of strings seemingly lifted from an Isaac Hayes number. It sounds a bit like The Verve, yes, but it’s The Verve at their most tempestuous, channeled through a greatest-hits soul compilation, fronted by Kaplan’s world-weary, avuncular vocals that speak of “dreams that don’t come true”.
11. Franz Ferdinand – Lucid Dreams. We first heard this song, in a very different format, about a year-and-a-half ago. Now, in a substantially altered state, it’s a lumbering eight-minute colossus that starts off all slowed-down glam, but eventually morphs, via a super-retro lead synth solo, into a four-minute dub-inflected arpeggiator/sequencer workout. It’s totally unexpected, and a surprisingly natural fit for the band that once dealt with exclusively angular guitars and tales of hedonism. All this knob-twiddling and drum-machine battering works a treat.
12. Doves – Jetstream. Another album curtain-raiser, and another song influenced by the motorik beat of krautrock. You’d think I’d be bored of this kind of thing by now, but remember that this was one of the first new songs I heard this year, and its sixteenth-beat hi-hats still never fail to stir something in me. Doves suggested the song was written as an imaginary end credits song for Blade Runner, and it succeeds in capturing the marvel and trauma of technology that Vangelis aimed for before them. There’s a lazy, hazy feel to the guitars that responds perfectly to the swirling trills of synth and the earth-shaking bass pulses.
13. The Decemberists – The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid. The centrepiece of The Hazards of Love, this song alternates between proggy, harpsichord-led folk, a kind of post-Arcade Fire anthem, and the stodgy brand of stoner-metal we love to hate the Decemberists for. What prevents it from spiralling into parody? The answer must surely be Shara Worden’s powerful voice, which suits her role as the Queen of the forest to a point. Worden is possessed with an astonishing set of pipes, which she puts to good use to keep the drama and lyrical intrigue of the song at the forefront of our minds.
14. The Cribs – City Of Bugs. It was on The Cribs’ last album that a member of Sonic Youth made a guest appearance, but it is here, on the Johnny Marr-enhanced Ignore The Ignorant, that the Wakefield trio (?) (quartet?) really unearth a vaguely noise-rock vibe. City of Bugs sounds like Sonic Youth circa-Murray Street, with a ringing pack of arty guitars doing battle over a backdrop of post-punk drums and a barrel full of bass. It’s long and meandering and some would accuse of it going nowhere, but hidden in the chord progression is an anthem dying to be heard, but partially silenced by the band’s eagerness to experiment and test the listener’s attention span. Gary Jarman’s voice, meanwhile, has rarely sounded so sincere and mature, inflected with the deep resonance of Nick Cave or Thurston Moore.
15. Wild Beasts – Through The Iron Gate. We close with a typically obtuse choice – a digital-only bonus track tacked on at the end of my album of the year, Two Dancers. But what an afterthought this is! Through The Iron Gate is a tricksy, stuttering waltz built on some seriously 80s-sounding orchestral keyboard stabs. Over this sinister backing, guitarist Ben Little weaves an intricate web of arpeggios, while a multi-tracked Hayden Thorpe goes predictably melodramatic with the vocals, wailing “He cried noooooo!!!” in a tone that suggests a degree of violation may be occurring in real time. It’s a pleasingly traumatic listen, replete with off-kilter syncopation in the rhythm section (including the farewell wave of those ever-present bongos) and dreamy, reverb-heavy overdubs. Before I bought the album, I was led to believe that this was in fact the actual album closer (Spotify does bad things to you!), and I would still maintain it’s a better fit than “Empty Nest”. Regardless of the band’s uninformed decision, it’s a breathtaking finale to a wonderful year of music.

Artist – Mika

Album – The Boy Who Knew Too Much

We are Golden - gold enough to hear Mika sing !!

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some

Running around again
(Running around again)
Running for money

Waking up in the midday sun
What’s to live for?
You could see what I’ve done
Staring at emotion
In the light of day
I was running from the things that you’d say

We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
(We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden)

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some

Running around again
(Running around again)
Running from running
(repeat)

I was a boy at an open door
Why you staring
Do you still think that you know?
Looking for treasure
In the things that you threw
Like a magpie
I live for glitter, not you

We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden
(We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden)

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some

Now I’m sitting alone
I’m finally looking around
Left here on my own
I’m gonna hurt myself
Maybe losing my mind
I’m still wondering why
Had to let the world let it bleed me dry

We are not what you think we are
We are not what you think we are
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some

Running around again
(Running around again)
Running from running
(repeat)

We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden

Song Rating – 4.0/5

Distinction – This song found a place in the Top 100 Pop Songs of 2009 instantly after it was released.

If you want to request for any lyrics, please write to vigneshgauthampics@gmail.com and if there is any correction in the lyrics, please write in mail to the same id. Please feel free to comment about this great song by Mika.

This post is dedicated to one of our readers who mentioned in a comment that they’re bored with the old Christmas Music…

So here are some new Christmas songs I chose for you to listen to. Hope you like them. Click on the name of the song to reach a u tube video.

A very beautiful song… Its all about Christmastime memories

Christmas like a child- Third Day

A peppy new song…..

Jennifer knapp- Sing Mary Sing

A familiar song, but done the Kutless way!!

Kutless-Mary did you know

A contemporary Christmas song..

Christmas Angels, Michael W. Smith

Another song that will make you wanna dance

Steven Curtis Chapman- This Baby

Tim

#150 – Filter – “Take a Picture” – (1999)

“Take a Picture” was the big hit from the creatively named (or not) Title of Record. I’m super-bummed I couldn’t find the music video for this song on YouTube, because I distinctly remember it and was happy that I’d finally get to see it again after 10 years. Whenever I did see it, it was always back-to-back with “Learn to Fly” by the Foo Fighters and these two songs are always linked in my brain. Filter was originally an industrial rock group, so it’s kind of astonishing that they could release a single that was so successful on the mainstream charts.

#151 – Limp Bizkit – “Nookie” – (1999)

Remember how cool Limp Bizkit was? Remember how cool Fred Durst used to be? Black contact lenses, nu metal, rapcore… yeah. “Nookie” kind of started it all for Limp Bizkit. More singles from Significant Other followed: “Break Stuff” – a song that can go a long way toward improving a bad day. Then there was the much more hip-hop intense “N 2 Gether Now” (my favorite and it features Method Man) and finally the not-much-of-a-song “Re-Arranged.” Yes, Pauly Shore appears in two of these music videos.

#152 – Toni Braxton – “Un-Break My Heart” – (1996)

Braxton’s somewhat husky voice was definitely a departure from most of the pop of the 90s. Judging from the video she fancied herself a Whitney Houston – she wasn’t, but the song was close (as far as success goes). Secrets spawned two other number one hits including “You’re Makin’ Me High” (“Un-Break My Heart” stayed at #1 for 11 weeks). “Let It Flow” was the other – it was also included on the 1995 soundtrack for the film Waiting to Exhale.

#153 – Marc Anthony – “I Need to Know” – (1999)

Is Marc Anthony more famous for A) this song (or any song) or B) marrying Jennifer Lopez? I wouldn’t want to have to answer that in his presence. Anthony’s success was partially a result of the Latin music wave of 1999 but also because his two big singles weren’t really that bad. The other was “You Sang to Me.”

#154 – Quad City DJ’s – “C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)” – (1996)

Although being somewhat similar in overall nature, but because they were both released at about the same time, this song was massively overshadowed by the “Macarena.” After viewing just a sample of the video I’ve linked to above, I feel that this song will not be looked too kindly upon by future generations. Oh, and I would be remiss for not recommending their other hit from the same year: “Space Jam.” I’m really not sure what the ‘Quad City’ is, but it sounds like a big-time small-town ATV dealership. The DJ’s also appeared on the 69 Boyz’s 1994 Jock Jams hit “Tootsee Roll.”

#155 – Smash Mouth – “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby” – (1999)

Astro Lounge was another “smash” (thank you) album from the 90s. This song is immense fun and proof that Smash Mouth, when not covering The Monkees, were an awesome band. It sucks that I chose to put at at no. 155, when it should have been about 100 higher. While watching the video, I realized, for the first time ever, that the 90s were actually kinda weird. Why did everyone like colorful wigs and colorful leather pants? This song was featured in the movie Can’t Hardly Wait, which I didn’t see, but would have, had I graduated from high school the year it came out. Another single from this album is the much less fun “Waste.”

#156 – Alanis Morissette – “Ironic” – (1995)

Jagged Little Pill was one of the best albums of the 90s. It spawned 6 massive singles and “Ironic” (the third single from the album) was probably the biggest, although “You Oughta Know” (the first single) may be the best remembered because the lyrics may or may not be about Uncle Joey from Full House (which could cause quite a disturbing image – you’ve been warned). Alanis’ lyrics are always fun and raged-filled. “Ironic” taught me never to fly on an airplane immediately after winning the lottery… wait a few days. The final single from Pill was “All I Really Want” and the lyrics (“slap me with the splintered ruler”) coupled with her crazy-unique voice really make it awesome. And yes, I can call Alanis awesome. Why? Because J.D. made it okay – here is proof.

#157 – Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” – (1996)

This song from Now In A Minute would have hit number one it the “Macarena” didn’t completely destroy the charts that year. There are two other songs that kind of fall under the mid-90s female-pop umbrella with this one. First, “I Know” by Dionne Farris’ Wild Seed – Wild Flower (1995) and secondly, “You Gotta Be” by Des’ree, from her 1994 album I Ain’t Movin’.

#158 – Next – “Too Close” – (1997)

Rated Next is the name of the album here… and I don’t think it qualifies as clever. Don’t ask me what the hell the first 30 seconds of the music video is: I have no idea (and one of the guys looks like Wayne Brady). This song was (and still is) incredibly slick. I don’t know why, but this song reminds me of “No Matter What” by the surprisingly Irish, Boyzone.

#159 – Tal Bachman – “She’s So High” – (1999)

Tal Bachman’s father, Randy, was an original member of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive (does that make him Canadian Royalty?). Tal only had this one hit, and I think it’s safe to say that I needn’t add ’so far’ to the end of that statement. But I don’t think it’s fair that Daughtry has had more hits than Tal had because Bachman is far more talented. But then, so am I.

#160 – Joan Osborne – “One of Us” – (1995)

A nice religious song about God… right?… from the girl with the nose ring? I love the somewhat terrifying Dr. Caligari-like sequence at the beginning of the music video.

#161 – Cher – “Believe” – (1998)

I could not be less of a Cher fan, but when this song came out, I didn’t know who Cher was and I was easily won over by the ridiculous electronic sound of this song. Plus, it was everywhere (and if you didn’t like it when it came out, it was probably because you thought too highly of yourself).

#162 – 98° – “The Hardest Thing” – (1998)

98 Degrees had to suffer as “the other boy band” during the boy band explosion of the late 90s – well, none of them were technically bands. “The Hardest Thing” was the better of their two singles from 98° and Rising. The other was “I Do (Cherish You)” and was the star of the first Making the Video (remember how big that show was?) It had Screech in it. Why? I’m guessing because that was a pop-culture reference that people who watched MTV 10 years ago still understood.

#163 – Bush – “Comedown” – (1994)

Sixteen Stone kind of blends in with all of the alternative rock of the 90s – it doesn’t really stand out. A few of the singles, however did. “Comedown” peaked at #30 on the Hot 100 and “Glycerine” reached #28.

#164 – Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn” – (1998)

This one was terribly overplayed, unfortunately – to almost Aerosmith proportions. There were other singles, but none nearly as popular as this one – however fortunately or unfortunately that may be.