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The critics seem to have lined up to drool over Lady GaGa's new song and clip, Bad Romance... And I get it, it's catchy as fuck (there's no arguing with that senseless hook), but that's really all there is to it. I feel like doing a bit of over-analysing to act as a counterweight to all the swooning that's going on.

The music

Can someone explain to me what is so new, original and daring about this? Honestly, I can't hear anything in it but generic synth-pop. It is very well executed within the conventions of the genre and – as I said – it's catchy. But if you think she's reinventing music, well, you just don't know music. She hasn't reinvented music with her first album, and she hasn't reinvented her own musical stylings with this song, hence she's reinvented diddly-squat. Well, maybe she does reinvent music in the seven other new songs, which I haven't heard, in which case I'm talking out of my ass and I need to retract my statements. Uh... Yeah.

If you are interested in female artists who do bring something new to music, I can highly recommend three albums that came out this year*: Fever Ray's self-titled début, Bat for Lashes' Two Suns, and Evangelista's Prince of Truth. These will send shivers down your spine. But I digress...

A review of Lady GaGa's music could easily be summarised as follows: “phat beatz, great hooks” (and the portion of her music that can't be thusly summarised, can be described as “meh”). Anything beyond that is just proof that critics are paid by the amount of words they put on paper, or that they (as I) just really like their own writing.

The lyrics

Does anyone really listen to these? Huh... Apparently they do. According to About.com the song is “an intense litany of nearly pathological romantic entanglements”. I bet there's emo poetry floating around the tubes that would fit that description better. ZOMG, French! If that doesn't add a whole new layer to a song, I don't know what will! Yeah, yeah, referencing three Hitchcock films is kinda somewhere in the vicinity of “clever”, I'll give you that one.

The video

I will admit that she knows how to use theatrics to support her music and I'm definitely not one to talk about style and fashion, but the amount of unwarranted superlatives that have been used to describe this video is just mind-boggling. I mean, comparing it to Thriller? Yes, some of the dance moves are clearly borrowed from it, but please keep in mind that you are talking about the video that revolutionised music videos. And what the fuck, Rolling Stone: Kubrick? Really? Someone should slap you. It kinda tries to imitate some of the aspects that make up a Kubrick film, but the makers are nowhere near as talented. I won't go as far as to say that this video sucks, but it just tries too damn hard to be Art. Just because it's got some weirdness going on, doesn't make it art.

A story about a woman getting sold into sex slavery in some artsy setting... That's “deep” now? I can't help but see it as an excuse for showing as much skin and as much suggestive poses as possible. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had just about enough of all the straddling and crawling over the floor and being “seductive” women have to do to get their music to sell. Don't get me wrong, I do find her pretty. But I figured this shouldn't be the selling point. Silly me.

And don't give me that crap about it being ironic, or tongue-in-cheek, or subversive. Because it's not. No matter how much you insist that it's supposed to mock the way women are viewed, it's putting her up for viewing just the same. The only thing ironic about this is that GaGa seems to be unaware of the fact that the critique of exploitation in the video (I think I can safely assume that sex slavery is exploitation and that she's against that), can just as easily be applied to the video.

So there. It's not genius. It's not new. It's just the same old thing in a slightly more interesting package. But just for the record: I do not hate her. I've seen way too many comments about her “being a slut”, “being a bitch”, “being ugly” and whatnot. If you think that that kind of denigration constitutes valid criticism - or any kind of valid statement, really - then you are an idiot douchebag.

Otherwise, comment away.

Special thanks to Aronofsky for reading this drivel before I posted it.

(*) Edit: I know these aren't for everyone, and I know there's not much to compare here, but I couldn't resist throwing this in here.

1 Mika
2 Florence + The Machine
3 Yelle
4 The Kooks
5 Britney Spears
6 The Killers
7 Lady GaGa
8 t.A.T.u.
9 Bat for Lashes
10 Cansei de Ser Sexy
11 Kate Nash
12 Kylie Minogue
13 Aloha From Hell
14 Lily Allen
15 Uffie
16 Katy Perry
17 Nancy Ajram
18 Marjorie Estiano
19 3OH!3
20 Arctic Monkeys
21 ABBA
22 MGMT
23 Pixie Lott
24 50 Cent
25 Franz Ferdinand
26 Ke$ha
27 Corinne Bailey Rae
28 Panic at the Disco
29 Sonohra
30 Emilie Simon

What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Kids

How many albums by 17 do you own?
On my computer, just one.

What is your favourite song by 15?
Actually I don't like her song very much, i don't even know what she's doing in my library, but if i had to choose, Hot Chick would be the chosen one.

What is your favourite song by 5?
Oh my God, that's really difficult! But I guess it's her new single, 3.

Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Somebody Told Me.

What is your favourite song by 10?
Superafim, by the way, this is the only music in Portuguese of them that I really like.

What is a good memory you have involving 30?
She has a cover of French song with my favourite singer ever, Mika, called Comment Te Dire Adieu. So I started listening to her because of it.

Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Don't Trust Me.

How many times have you seen 24 live?
I have never seen 50 Cent live and I don't know if one day I'll want to.

What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Mama Do, but i didn't like it at first listen, now I love it.

What is your favorite album by 11?
The only one released so far: Made of Bricks.

Who is a favorite member of 1?
Mika, of course.

Have you ever seen 14 live?
No, but i'd love to.

What is a good memory involving 27?
Two or three years ago, I can't remember exactly when, there was a great soap opera on TV which I loved and one of her songs, Put Your Records On, was on the soundtrack.

What is your favorite song by 16?
I Kissed A Girl, but I'm not lesbian xD

What is your favorite album by 18?
Marjorie Estiano, the album is called just like the singer.

What is your favorite song by 25?
Take Me Out.

What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
TiK ToK.

What is your favorite album by 2?
She has released just one album, it's called Lungs and it's great.

What is you favorite song by 3?
Je Veux Te Voir<3

Take ten bands/artists that should play at your show and determine their set lists:

- The first one plays 5 songs.
- The second one plays 5 songs.
- The third one plays 5 songs.
- The fourth one plays 5 songs.
- The fifth one plays 6 songs.
- The sixth one plays 7 songs.
- The seventh one plays 7 songs.
- The eighth one plays 7 songs.
- The ninth one plays 11 songs.
- The tenth one plays 14 songs, with a 2 song encore.


This is my singer-songwriter version:


I. Marina & the Diamonds



1. Shampain
2. I Am Not a Robot
3. Seventeen
4. Simplify
5. Mowgli’s Road


II. Tina Dico



1. Count To Ten
2. The City
3. No Time to Sleep
4. Craftsmanship and poetry
5. Warm Sand


III. The Swell Season



1. Leave
2. Lies
3. When Your Mind’s Made Up
4. Falling Slowly
5. Fallen from the Sky


IV. Bat for Lashes



1. Tahiti
2. Glass
3. Wilderness
4. Pearl’s Dream
5. Prescilla


V. Marc Cohn



1. She’s Becoming Gold
2. Walk Through the World
3. Strangers in a Car
4. Silver Thunderbird
5. Walk on Water
6. Medicine Man


VI. Tori Amos



1. Virginia / Yes, Anastasia
2. Precious Things
3. Welcome To England
4. Fast Horse
5. Hotel
6. Spring Haze
7. Muhammad My Friend


VII. Loreena McKennitt



1. Caravanserai
2. The Highwayman
3. Standing Stones
4. Cé hé mise le ulaingt/The Two Trees
5. Santiago
6. Lullaby (w/ Douglas Campbell)
7. She Moved Through The Fair


VIII. Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly



1. Gaia
2. To France
3. Follow The Midnight Sun
4. Five Miles Out
5. Moonlight Shadow
6. Talk About Your Life
7. Cam Ye O'er frae France


IX. Kate Bush



1. The Big Sky
2. Moments of Pleasure
3. Night of the Swallow
4. The Painter’s Link / Sunset
5. Egypt
6. The Kick Inside
7. How to Be Invisible
8. Houdini
9. Jig of Life
10. A Coral Room
11. Nocturn


X. Charlotte Martin



1. Steel
2. On Your Shore
3. Cut the Cord
4. Mission To The Moon
5. Haunted
6. Obstacle 1
7. Lost and Found
8. Stromata
9. Greater Lights
10. Little Universe
11. Veins
12. Parade On
13. Four Walls
14. Galaxies

Encore #1 Every Time It Rains
Encore #2 Darkest Hour

I decided to make myself a playlist of some of my favourite singles/tracks that have come out this year... and this is what i've come up with.

(by the way, this is in 'Playlist Order' and not order of preference)

Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Hafdis Huld - Kongulo
Air - Sing Sang Sung
Massive Attack - Psyche (Flash Treatment) (feat. Martina-Topley Bird)
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait (feat. Beck)
John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey - Black Hearted Love
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
Röyksopp - This Must Be It (feat. Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife/Fever Ray)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Róisín Murphy - Orally Fixated
Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
Sia - You've Changed
My Robot Friend - Waiting (feat. Alison Moyet)
Felix da Housecat - We All Wanna Be Prince
Space Cowboy - Falling Down
Peaches - I Feel Cream
Marsheaux - So Far
Client - Lullaby
Fischerspooner - We Are Electric
Annie - I Don't Like Your Band
Röyksopp - You Don't Have a Clue (feat. Anneli Drecker)
Depeche Mode - Wrong
The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
Auf der Maur - Out Of Our Minds
Babybird - Like Them
Michael Jackson - This Is It

1.How did you get into 29? (Air)
I guess it was when Sexy Boy & Kelly Watch the Stars got a lot of airplay on MTV in the late 90's.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by 22? (The Radio Dept.)
Not entirely sure, but I vaguely remember seeing them live on a festival in Sweden in 2004, which is probably when I heard their music for the first time. (Mind you, it was at a boozy music festival after all, so it's all a bit of a blur really...)

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (José González)
Maybe these ones from Broken Arrow:
"Summerlove left this town
It was too cold to bathe and the leaves turned brown
The sun went down
And with it the love we found
That's the way things are sometimes
Most of the time"

4. How did you get into 49? (Björk)
Well, seeing that I'm Scandinavian she was a pretty big deal there with her debut album (called Debut). The first track I heard was Human Behaviour, but I didn't start listening to her stuff properly until the late 90's.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (MF DOOM)
Two (Operation Doomsday & MM Food).

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (M83)
Graveyard Girl.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (RJD2)
Not that I can think of, or maybe One Day.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (El-P)
Tasmanian Pain Coaster is pure genius.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Sage Francis)
Sea Lion.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Alias)
Not really, I wouldn't exactly say Alias is famous for his feelgood-tracks. Maybe Dr.C by Alias & Tarsier.

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Coldplay)
Violet Hill no doubt. Can't stand it. I never understood how it could be released as a first album single.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Sia)
Breathe Me, followed by Death By Chocolate.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Sole)
I remember being on a road trip with my brother and he'd brought 'Selling Live Water' which had recently been released. I had never heard of Sole, but I loved what I heard.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (CunninLynguists)
It's a tie between Seasons (Remix) and Don't Leave (When Winter Comes). The beat for the remix of seasons is amazing and fits the lyrcs perfectly.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Murs)
The Night Before is nice. Bad Man! is a good party tune.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Feist)
Yep. Let It Die, The Park & How My Heart Behaves. To name a few.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Jean Grae)
Love Song.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Bat for Lashes)
From Good Love:
"In the night time we are found
Misty sorrow swoop unbound
Whisper you mean it, say you'll stay
Hold my heart till brighter days"

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Aesop Rock)
Ian Matthias Bavitz (aka Aesop Rock). Tricky one that.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (WHY?)
Gemini (Birthday Song) and A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under both put a smile on my face.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Burial)
I listened a lot to Burial when I initially moved to London, so maybe that.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Regina Spektor)
Samson was the first song I heard by her, and I absolutely loved it. Still find it amazing. But she's done so many incredible tracks, other favourites are Ode To Divorce and Somedays.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Radiohead)
Creep, back in the day. Not really feeling their recent stuff.

24. What is your favourite album by 18? (The Clash)
London Calling - one of the greatest albums ever made imo.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Madvillain)
Accordion.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Masta Ace)
Beautiful.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Death Cab for Cutie)
Plans. Even quality throughout, not one bad song on the entire album.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Sigur Rós)
Probably Með suð í eyrum or Saeglopur. A lot of good songs to choose from though.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Boards of Canada)
Music Is Math was featured in a Swedish movie, and that's what made me start listening to them.

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (The Album Leaf)
We Need Help.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Bon Iver)
None, but I'd love to. Hopefully within the next year.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Lykke Li)
Everybody But Me (Christoffer Remix). The lyrics are depressing as anything, but it's still that instant party anthem.

33. How did you get into 12? (Madlib)
Through Jaylib's Champion Sound.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Buck 65)
Kennedy Killed the Hat (which a lot of people seem to love)

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Groove Armada)
My friend, yet again on MTV back in High School. I still remember the video.

36. What was the first song you ever heard by 48? (Koushik)
Lying in the Sun.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (One Be Lo)
None.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (The Shins)
New Slang & Sea Legs.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Cat Power)
The Greatest

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (J Dilla)
Donuts! A classic.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (P.O.S.)
Goodbye. Great beat.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Zero 7)
Simple Things.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Azure Ray)
Rise. (In fact the song with the most plays in my entire library.)

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Dosh)
I listened a lot to Wolves and Wishes when I went to Tokyo last year, and listening to that album still reminds me of the good times I spent there.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (DJ Shadow)
Stem/Long Stem, hands down. Amazing track.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (The Streets)
I guess the easy answer here would be to mention any song off Everything Is Borrowed. But I'm not really a big fan of Mike Skinner going all happy-go-lucky, so I'd have to say Fit But You Know It and Don't Mug Yourself.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Atmosphere)
Lucy Ford, followed by God Loves Ugly.

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Bloc Party)
Don't have one.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Band of Horses)
The Funeral. Still reckon it's one of their best songs.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (The Roots)
You Got Me. High school memories right there.

Opening Credits
Mika- Lollipop (Oh my God, is it gonna be a porno movie? “Sucking too hard on lollipop” LOL)

Waking Up
Britney Spears – Lucky

First Day At School
Black Eyed Peas– Missing You (What does this music has to do with school? O-o)

Falling In Love
Katy Nash – Merry Happy

Losing Virginity
Lily Allen – Who’d Have Known (Cute!)

Fight Song
Patrick Wolf– London (A fight in London? GREAT)

Breaking Up
Pink – Cristal Ball

Prom
Alphabeat – Fascination (What a happy prom haha)

Life
Scissor Sisters– Ooh (What have I said before? My life’s also happy)

Mental Breakdown
The Kooks – Mr. Maker (HAHAHAHAHA My mental breakdown would be becoming indie LOL)

Driving
The Kooks – Eddie’s Gun (The Kooks again? Oh yeah, I forgot, I became indie.)

Depression
The Kooks– Stormy Weather (An indie depression, hm.)

Partying
Mika – Blame It On The Girls (Am I a lesbian indie now?)

Happy dance
Florence + The Machine – Drumming (Oh, I thought it was supposed to be a HAPPY dance)

Betrayal
Mika – I See You (Can somebody close the door? He’s seeing me!)

Regretting
The Killers – Joy Ride (I was almost forgetting that I’m indie)

Long night alone
Britney Spears – Over To You Know

Flashback
Cansei de Ser Sexy – Meeting Paris Hilton (WOOOOW, awesome memories! *--*)

Getting Back Together
Fergie - Clusmy

Wedding
Bat for Lashes – The Wizard (Aah, this movie isn't Harry Potter so I don't have to marry an wizard, ok?)

Birth of Child
Cansei de Ser Sexy– Believe Achieve

Final Battle
Britney Spears – Rock Boy

Death Scene
The Kooks – Tick Of Time (An indie death, cool)

Funeral Song
Mika – Toy Boy (what the f**k?)

End Credits
Arctic Monkey – Choo Choo (Here ends the indie-porno-happy-whatthehell movie!)


So here's how you do it:
- Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
- Put it on shuffle
- Press play
- For every question, type the song that's playing
- When you go to a new question, press the next button
- No cheating!

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion * (7.0 of 10.0)
Anthony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light (3.3 of 10.0)
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug(7.2 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns ** (8.6 of 10.0)
The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees (5.5 of 10.0)
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career – BLANK (I still haven’t listened)
Coldplay– Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (5.8 of 10.0)
Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones (I still haven’t listened)
The Decemberists – Hazards of Love (7.2 of 10)
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm(6.0 of 10.0)
Dragonette– Fixin To Thrill (5.5 of 10.0)
The Dodos – Time To Die (6.5 of 10.0)
Editors– In This Light And On This Evening* (7.7 of 10.0)
The Enemy –Music for the People * (7.6 of 10.0)
The Exploding Boy – Afterglow+ (7.4 of 10.0)
The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away * (7.6 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine– Lungs* (7.9 of 10.0)
Franz Ferdinand– Tonight* (7.6 of 10.0)
The Gossip– Music For Men * (7.8 of 10.0)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest+ (7.2 of 10.0)
Kaiser Chiefs –Off With Their Heads + (7.6 of 10.0)
La Roux – La Roux + (7.5 of 10.0)
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me,It’s You * (7.7 of 10.0)
Little Boots – Hands* (7.7 of 10.0)
Mando Diao – Give Me Fire * (7.8 of 10.0)
Marina & the Diamonds – Some EP’s (6.8 of 10.0)
The Mars Volta – Octahedron(I still haven’t listented)
Mew– No More Stories Are Told (6.8 of 10.0)
Muse– The Resistance (7.0 of 10)
Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor (I still haven’t listented)
Phoenix– Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (7.3 of 10.0)
Portugal.The Man – The Satanic Satanist (4.0 of 10.0)
Project:KOMAKINO - The Struggle For Utopia (7.0 of 10.0)
The Rakes – Klang! (6.0 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes – In An Out of Control (7.6 of 10.0) *
Regina Spektor– Far** (9.1 of 10.0)
St.Vincent– Actor+ (7.4 of 10.0)
White Lies – To Lose My Life ***(absolute favorite so far) (9.3 of 10.0)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! + (7.2 of 10.0)

*** - absolute favorite so far
** - definitely a highlight
* - over-the-top
+ - better than the average

Biggest surprises (much better than I thought it would be)

-Animal Collective
-Editors
-The Enemy
-The Exploding Boy
-Florence and the Machine
-Little Boots
-The Gossip
-Regina Spektor
-St.Vincent

Biggest disappointments (they weren’t exactly bad,but they were disappointing to me)
-Arctic Monkeys
-Coldplay
-Dragonette
-Kaiser Chiefs
-Mew
-Muse
-Portugal.The Man
-The Dodos

I was already expecting something good from:

-Bat for Lashes
-The Fiery Furnaces
-Franz Ferdinand
-Lily Allen
-Mando Diao
-White Lies
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Next year I want new stuff from:

-Arcade Fire
-Blonde Redhead
-Amy Winehouse
-Interpol
-Dengue Fever
-Santogold
- etc

My 2009’s top 10 would be:

1- White Lies – To Lose My Life (9.3)
2- Regina Spektor – Far (9.1)
3- Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (8.6)
4- Florence and the Machine – Lungs (7.9)
5- Mando Diao – Give Me Fire (7.8)
6- The Gossip – Music For Men (7.8)
7- Editors – In This Light and on This Evening (7.7)
8- Lily Allen – It’s Not Me,It’s You (7.7)
9- The Enemy – Music For The People (7.6)
10- Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads (7.6)

(+ The Raveonettes and The Fiery Furnaces)


my 2009's tracks:

Animal Collective - Also Frightned (7.1 of 10.0)
Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals (7.2 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Daniel(10.0 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Glass(7.7 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream (7.0 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes- Travelling Woman (7.8 of 10.0)
Coldplay- Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love (10.0 of 10.0 - the 1st part)
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves (7.3 of 10.0)
Editors- Papillon(8.5 of 10.0)
The Enemy - Away From Here (7.2 of 10.0)
The Exploding Boy - London(8.2 of 10.0)
The Fiery Furnaces- Starring At The Steeple (7.4 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (8.7 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine - Girl With One Eye (8.4 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine- Drumming(7.5 of 10.0)
Franz Ferdinand- Ulysses(8.4 of 10.0)
The Gossip - Heavy Cross (8.6 of 10.0)
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (8.6 of 10.0)
La Roux - Tigerlilly (8.4 of 10.0)
Lily Allen - Not Fair (8.2 of 10.0)
Little Boots - Remedy(8.5 of 10.0)
Mando Diao- Maybe Just Sad (8.7 of 10.0)
Mando Diao - You Got Nothing On Me (7.8 of 10.0)
Marina & the Diamonds - The Shampain Sleeper (7.5 of 10.0)
Muse- The Resistance (7.5 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars! (9.0 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes- Boys Who Rape (7.3 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - The Calculation (8.6 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Blue Lips (8.4 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Two Birds (7.8 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Genius Next Doorr (8.5 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Man of a Thousand Faces (8.5 of 10.0)
St.Vincent -Actor Out Of Work (7.5 of 10.0)
White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground (10.0 of 10.0)
White Lies - To Lose My Life (10.0 of 10.0)
White Lies - Unfinished Business (10.0 of 10.0)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway(7.4 of 10.0)

my 2009's top 10 tracks:

1)Bat for Lashes - Daniel
2)White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground and To Lose My Life
3)Coldplay - Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love (the 1st part)
4)Regina Spektor - The Calculation,Man of a Thousand Faces and Genius Next Door
5)The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
6)Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
7)Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
8)Mando Diao - Maybe Just Sad
9)Editors - Papillon
10)The Gossip - Heavy Cross

(+)
Anthony and the Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground;
The Black Atlantic - Fragile Meadow;
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning;
Dragonette - Don't Be Funny;
The Dodos - Small Death;
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening;
The Enemy - Elephant Song,No Time For Tears,Sing When You're In Love;
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away,Even In The Rain;
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams;
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others;
La Roux - In It For The Kill,Quicksand,Bulletproof;
Lily Allen - The Fear,22,Chinese;
Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody;
Phoenix- Lisztomania;
The Rakes - You're In It;
The Raveonettes - Last Dance;
Regina Spektor - Folding Chair,One More Time With Feeling,Time Is All Around,The Sword & The Pen;
St.Vincent - The Strangers;
White Lies - Death,The Price of Love
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero.


(man,my lists sucks)

While the Fantasy Festival is fun 15 artists is too restricting so this is how it would really be.

Legends Stage

Lou Reed
Patti Smith
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin
Neil Young
The Rolling Stones
The Beach Boys
The Doors
Billie Holiday
Nina Simone

Future Legends Stage

Sonic Youth
Tori Amos
Cat Power
Björk
Tegan and Sara
Radiohead
Bright Eyes
Death Cab for Cutie
Rufus Wainwright
Bat for Lashes
Neko Case
Beck
Amy Winehouse
PJ Harvey
Erykah Badu

New Weird America Stage

Vashti Bunyan
Devendra Banhart
Six Organs of Admittance
Joanna Newsom
CocoRosie
Iron & Wine
Antony and the Johnsons
Spleen
Born Heller
Animal Collective
Lightspeed Champion
My Brightest Diamond
Scout Niblett

D.A.N.C.E Stage

Donna Summer
Róisín Murphy
Patrick Wolf
M.I.A.
Justice
Basement Jaxx
Simian Mobile Disco
School of Seven Bells
Santigold
Calvin Harris
Tiësto
LCD Soundsystem

Banding Together (Band Stage)

Bloc Party
Kasabian
Blonde Redhead
Bon Iver
Grizzly Bear
Metric
Love
Final Fantasy
Joy Division
The Cardigans
The Decemberists
Bombay Bicycle Club
Sigur Rós
Camera Obscura
The Arcade Fire
The Fiery Furnaces
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Placebo
The 5,6,7,8's
CSS
Fleet Foxes
Florence + The Machine

One Lonely Girl (Female Solo Stage)

St. Vincent
Alela Diane
Lykke Li
Maria Taylor
Jill Scott
Martha Wainwright
Nerina Pallot
Françoise Hardy
Vienna Teng
Fiona Apple
Chrisette Michele
Norah Jones
Feist
Peaches
Camille
A Fine Frenzy
Regina Spektor

Never Forgotten Stage

Elliott Smith
Jeff Buckley
Laura Nyro
Nico
Aaliyah
Marvin Gaye
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon