ze best of 2009

ahhh! so much good music, it almost surprised me! (hard to distill down to this, even)

Here is my mix of the stuff deserving attention and praise in 2009:

Get On Your Boots, 2009

1. "Fresh Air" Brother Ali, Us
2. "Hysteric" The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!
3. "Hang You from the Heavens" The Dead Weather" Horehound
4. "Cornerstone" The Arctic Monkeys, Humbug
5. "While You Wait For the Others" Grizzly Bear featuring Michael McDonald
   
6. "Get On Your Boots" U2 No Line on the Horizon
7. "The Wrestler" Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream
   
8. "Something Is Squeezing My Skull" Morrissey Years of Refusal
9. "Ulysses" Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
10. "Fire" Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
11. "Home" Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Up From Below
12. "Beyond Here Lies Nothing" Bob Dylan Together Through Life
13. "!Viva La Gloria!" Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
14. "Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise" Avett Brothers I and Love and You
15. *bonus track*: "Red Right Hand" Arctic Monkeys Crying Lightning single
    

why (I don't really need an answer)

HOW is that some music just sinks in immediately, and other stuff takes a whiiiile to marinate?

Is it better when it takes longer?

Is the quickly pleasing stuff that's easier to digest lacking in some way?

But what about the Beatles?

ha.