My Top 30 Songs of 2009 – Number 27
27) Tiesto - Kaleidoscope
I heavily blame YouTube for me liking this song. They continuously played a commercial for Tiesto before several of their videos this summer. Like some brainless consumer I was mesmerized and I sampled the music on iTunes. It turned out to be good.
The whole album in general is a strong outing. I do have an appreciation for techno music and while this song is a little long, the thing is fun to listen to. I love radio edits, but I don't mind cruising in my car while listening to "Kaleidoscope."
Truthfully, I'll admit that I'm still not sure which song Tiesto claimed was his single for 2009. I actually like several of the tracks, and I kinda just picked the title track of the album.
I'm sure I'm late on this bus for who this Tiesto fellow is. Tiesto only needed advertising. The exposure on YouTube should have done him well.
My Top 30 songs of 2009 – Number 30
30) Phoenix - "1901"
Sometimes you know a song, but you just don't know who sang it, or where you remember it from. Well, Phoenix performed a song that was on a specific car commercial for a very long period on television this year. I was happy to know that the rest of the song maintains the same beat and spirit as the snippet used for the commercial.
While I'm still not sure what the hell they are singing or what they are singing about, garbled yells and "oh yeahs" are always fun to say. I really like the buzzing noise as well. I also love the last five seconds of the song, and it always disappoints me when I reach the end because I'm expecting something else to happen.
Actually, thinking about it now, I have no clue what this song is trying to tell me. At first I thought it was some revolutionary history lesson, but then I thought maybe it was a parallel to one's dating life.
Either way, "1901" is a horribly catchy song. Did it influence me to try to listen to the rest of Phoenix? No, not really, but I don't change the channel while watching tv. I dance a little bit it my chair.
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