GIMME TINNITUS

So this post contains (pretty much) all of my favorite mp3s from 2009. I have not put them in any sort of preferential order. These are sorted by artist in alphabetical order.

Take your time, scroll slowly, there are some real gems here. You may notice some big names missing here. Well, you know you can find those mp3s elsewhere (right?).

I will be putting up best of 2009 posts all week, so make sure you check back here soon. Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out largehearted boy’s 2009 Year-End Online Music Lists. Good stuff.

Without any further ado, I present the Top 109 Downloadables of 2009.

The Downloadables:

Glow Wreath (mp3) by Aa (BIG A little a)

Don’t Lie (mp3) by Abe Vigoda

So Bored (Wavves Cover) (mp3) by Anamanaguchi

Two (mp3) by The Antlers

Perfect Fit (mp3) by Apostle Of Hustle

Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox) (mp3) by Atlas Sound

Time (mp3) by Beach Fossils

Make You Mine (mp3) by Best Coast

Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Tin Birds (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer? (mp3) by Blockhead

Name Tossers (mp3) by BOAT

Absolutely Anything (mp3) by Brilliant Colors

Rustic Arcadia (mp3) by Campfires

What’s This Magical (mp3) by Celebration

Love Is A Wave (mp3) by Crystal Stilts

Pink Sabbath (mp3) by Dananananaykroyd

We’re Not Going (mp3) by Darlings

Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper. RMX) (mp3) by Das Racist

Cassette Tape (mp3) by Day Of The Woman

Digital Haircut (mp3) by dd/mm/yyyy

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors

Knotty Pine (mp3) by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

The Lie/The Truth (mp3) by Double Dagger

Moon Fallout (mp3) by Dragon Turtle

I Remember (mp3) by Endless Endless Endless

Self Awakening (Take Remix) (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Housewolf (mp3) by Eula

Robots (mp3) by Exercise

Thee Only One (mp3) by Frankie Rose

Greg The Nerd (mp3) by Frat Dad

Surf Solar (Edit) (mp3) by Fuck Buttons

Arming Eritrea (mp3) by Future Of The Left

When They Fight They Fight (mp3) by Generationals

Prize Fighter (mp3) by Golden Triangle

Two Weeks (mp3) by Grizzly Bear

Dreamsucker (mp3) by Grooms

In The Dark (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

Die Slow (mp3) by HEALTH

Before Tigers (CFCF RMX) (mp3) by HEALTH

Fangela (mp3) by Here We Go Magic

Stats And Demographics (mp3) by Huak

Rising 5 (mp3) by Hudson Mohawke

Young Hearts Spark Fire (mp3) by Japandroids

Bone Jam (mp3) by Jeff The Brotherhood

West Coast (mp3) by Junk Culture

Dimensional Bleedthrough (mp3) by Krallice

Overnite Religion (mp3) by Kurt Vile

Beach Town (mp3) by Le Loup

Roses In The Park (mp3) by Liechtenstein

Tambourine (mp3) by Little Girls

Mysterium (mp3) by Liturgy

Red Oak Way (mp3) by Lotus Plaza

Forever (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams

100 Flowers (mp3) by Lovvers

Junked! (mp3) by The Mayfair Set

Asleep At A Party (mp3) by Memory Cassette

Lips (mp3) by Micachu & The Shapes

Blues Not Speed (mp3) by Mika Miko

1,2,3 Partyy! (mp3) by Mission Of Burma

You’re A Target (mp3) by No Age

Invisible Cities (mp3) by NOMO

Pine On (mp3) by Obits

Two-Headed Coin (mp3) by Obits

When Your Mask Is Your Revealing Feature (mp3) by The Oranges Band

Young Adult Friction (mp3) by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Fences (The Soft Pack Remix) (mp3) by Phoenix

Goth Star (mp3) by Pictureplane

Sinister Skies (mp3) by Pollination

Preparation’s Kids Choir (mp3) by Prefuse 73

First Daze (mp3) by Pterodactyl

Gigantic (Pixies Cover) (mp3) by Puttin’ On The Ritz

Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) (mp3) by railcars

Fake Blues (mp3) by Real Estate

Set-Up (mp3) by RENMINBI

FROST (mp3) by Salem

Bell (mp3) by Screaming Females

Fear! (mp3) by Shark?

Truth Is (mp3) by The Sky Drops

Crown On The Ground (mp3) by Sleigh Bells

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners

Got Nuffin (mp3) by Spoon

Billy Ocean (mp3) by Super Tennis

Kudos (mp3) by Surf City

Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

Ghost Colony (mp3) by Tape Deck Mountain

Where Was My Brain? (mp3) by Ted Leo + The Pharmacists

Portofino (mp3) by Teengirl Fantasy

So Fine (mp3) by Telepathe

Kilometer (mp3) by Tempo No Tempo

Ruby Go Home (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees

Move To California (mp3) by Times New Viking

Blessa (mp3) by Toro Y Moi

It #1 (mp3) by Ty Segall

Shark Suit (mp3) by UUVVWWZ

When I’m Gone (mp3) by Vivian Girls

Elephants (mp3) by Warpaint

Belong (mp3) by Washed Out

Mickey Mouse (Demo) (mp3) by Wavves

So Bored (mp3) by Wavves

Homeopathic Valtrex (mp3) by White Shit

Psychic City (mp3) by YACHT

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

Gumball Machine Weekend (mp3) by Yppah

Sooner Or Later (mp3) by ZAZA

UPDATE: I knew I forgot something…

Coat Of Arms (mp3) by Nosaj Thing

If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should think about installing the DownThemAll! Firefox extension.


More Best of 2009 Coverage:
Albums | Videos | MP3 Blogs | Photos | Mixtape | Free Albums | Off My Radar

Once again it’s time to look back into the past. This mix starts with two covers and it even has a remix of a Passion Pit song. Luckily, the remix is by Pollination. Just what was November 2008 like? It was a little like this…

Downloadables:

Banned From The Roxy (mp3) by Jeffrey Lewis

We Didn’t Start The Fire (mp3) by The Forms

Focus (mp3) by The Forms

Dickshakers Union (mp3) by Surf City

Parasites (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Phantom Of My Longest Day (mp3) by Valina

Manchasm (Live) (mp3) by Future Of The Left

Draped Up, Oxed Out (mp3) by Smart Growth

Run To The Facts (Brad Shi Shitty Emo Ending Mix) (mp3) by Yea Big + Kid Static

Old Year (mp3) by Jesu

How Heavy This Axe (mp3) by The Sword

Haze On The Mobius Strip (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Zodiac Girls (Pony Version) (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Sleepyhead (Pollination Remix) (mp3) by Passion Pit

Some Are Lakes (mp3) by Land Of Talk

Fog (mp3) by Mason Proper

Strand The Test Of Time (mp3) by Wilderness

Nothing’s The Same (mp3) by Koushik

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

If you want to download all the tracks in this mix, you should install DownThemAll!.

Nick Noeding Jr. is busy. Besides his Shoegaze/Down-tempo/Acousmatic/Tape music solo work as Pollination, he is also currently involved in the following projects Day Of The Woman (w/ Yppah and Stenographer), Collider (a Yppah collab), 10k Cities (a Zoomzip collab), and Slow (a Stenographer collab). And then there is also his wildlife analysis photography. Oh, and he also plays in Yppah’s live band.

So we were pretty excited to received a mixtape from Nick the other day. If you want the real “mixtape” experience with the 79MB file below maybe you should get one of THESE (and if you do let me know if it actually works). If you don’t want to dl the whole mix, I have also included a few individual mp3s for your downloading pleasure. Listen…

Downloadable: GIMME TINNITUS Mixtape (mp3)

Tracklist:
01 Thes One – Gate CIty Savings & Loan
02 Ape School – Deathstomp
03 Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program – Ghetto Sci-Fi
04 Go Spread Your Wings – Dear _____, You Are In Heaven
05 The Flaming Lips – If
06 Mike Slott – 23 Halfs (mp3)
07 Pollination – Quartz Controller
08 Clark – Farewell Mining Town
09 Ernest Gonzales – Etchasketch Trees (Yppah Remix)
10 Dorian Concept – When Planets Explode
11 Javelin – Tryouts (mp3)
12 The Russian Futurists – Why You Gotta Do That Thang
13 Samiyam – Return
14 J Dilla – Nothing Like This
15 Indian Jewelry – Pompeii
16 Diego Bernal – The Pause Tape Trainer (mp3)
17 Jackson & His Computer Band – Promo
18 Bibio – Odd Paws
19 10k Cities – Nametag
20 Black Moth Super Rainbow – Vietcaterpillar (mp3)
21 Casino vs. Japan – The Possible Light
22 King Biscuit Time – I Walk The Earth
23 Freescha – Speaker Eater
24 Hudson Mohawke – Allhot (feat. Dam-Funk)
25 Fennesz – Caecilia
26 Mux Mool – B’genius
27 Tycho – Sunrise Projector
28 Low In The Sky – Fax MN
29 The Boo Radleys – Run My Way Runway
30 Major Lazer – Keep It Going Louder (Collider Remix)
31 City Center – When We Were Stolen
32 Technicolor – Diagrams

Help support mixes like this by buying music from awesome labels like Stones Throw, Ninja Tune, Warp, and Exponential (among others).

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Exponential Records is here.
Bandcamp page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

As the first fan of GT on the Facebook, this mini-mix goes out to TSURURADIO. The theme is… bikes.

Downloadables:

Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle (mp3) by Be Your Own Pet

Bicycle (mp3) by Memory Tapes

Day On A Bike (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Fall Bicycle (The Album Leaf Remix) (mp3) by Lymbyc Systym

Bizarro Bike (mp3) by Lightning Bolt

Cross Country Atom And His Package Tour Via Bicycle (mp3) by Atom & His Package

BONUS: check out the bicycle themed Contrast Podcast… here.

The Bicycle Coloring Book is available from http://www.bicyclepaintings.com/

Streamable: Tooth Decay (pitchfork.tv) by Black Moth Super Rainbow


Downloadable: Tooth Decay (mp3)


Streamable: Turn Me Well (youtube) by Micachu & The Shapes


Downloadable: Turn Me Well (mp3)
Props to, umm… Bjork


Streamable: Pace Or The Patience (vimeo) by Love Of Diagrams


Downloadable: Pace Or The Patience (matador mp3)

Streamable: Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (youtube) by Black Moth Super Rainbow


Downloadable: Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (mp3)


Streamable: Stomp The Pedal (youtube) by Yea Big + Kid Static



Streamable: Strictly Game (youtube) by Harlem Shakes


Downloadable: Strictly Game (mp3)


Streamable: Totion (youtube) by Mika Miko


Props to Baby You Got a Stew Goin’!

Let’s continue our look back on this year and it’s awesomeness (musically anyway). This time I went through the trouble of adding “buy” links, so if you find yourself listening to something on this list over and over fork some of your hard earned cashmoney, ok?

And now the 2nd installment of the Best Downloadables Of 2009…

Buried In The Nude (mp3) by Screaming Females
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Arming Eritrea (mp3) by Future Of The Left
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners
(buy CD or LP // buy mp3 // dl the new EP for FREE)

Ruby Go Home (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

To Clean (mp3) by Woods
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Twin Of Myself (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow
(buy cd // buy mp3)

Sooner Or Later (mp3) by ZAZA
(vinyl and mp3 coming next month)

How To Defeat A More Powerful Enemy (mp3) by Apostle Of Hustle
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3)

What’s This Magical (mp3) by Celebration
(dl for FREE // make a donation on their blog)

Blues Not Speed (mp3) by Mika Miko
(buy cd // buy mp3)

Billy Ocean (mp3) by Super Tennis
(buy vinyl // buy mp3)

Tambourine (mp3) by Little Girls
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Two Weeks (mp3) by Grizzly Bear
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Apply (mp3) by Glasser
(buy vinyl // buy mp3)

You Lose (mp3) by Cause Co-Motion!
(buy vinyl // buy mp3)

Psychic City (Voodoo City) (mp3) by YACHT
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3 + free stuff // preorder See Mystery Lights)

Roses In The Park (mp3) by Liechtenstein
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Where Was My Brain? (mp3) by Ted Leo + Pharmacists
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Forever (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3 // buy new 7″ direct from the band)

Dreamers (mp3) by Browns
(buy cd or vinyl)

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3)

Heart Sweats (mp3) by Japandroids
(preorder cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Bio Hassle (mp3) by Boogie Boarder
(buy cd w/comic // buy mp3)

Got Nuffin (mp3) by Spoon
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

If you haven’t already, check out Best Downloadables Of 2009, Vol. 1… here.

And now another installment of Stuck In My Head, where I post some mp3s that are um, stuck in my head.

Downloadables:

Little Brother (Electric) (mp3) by Grizzly Bear
(Buy some Grizzly zeros and ones… here or here)

Twin Of Myself (Go! Team Remix) (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow
(Get more BMSR… here)

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors
(Pick up Bitte Orca… here or here)

Young Hearts Spark Fire (are you familiar mp3) by Japandroids
(Get Post Nothing digitally… here or preorder it physically… here.)

Black Moth Super Rainbow have a new superchill promomp3 making the rounds for the release of Eating Us… their superchill new album. It comes out tomorrow and was produced by Dave “Flaming Lips” Fridmann. Look for the extradeluxe hand-numbered cd version that comes in a hairy sleeve.

Downloadable: Twin Of Myself (shorefire mp3)

Graveface “hairy dexlue” preorder is here.
The standard Amazon preorder is here.

More Black Moth Super Rainbow mp3s… here.
Myspace page is here.
Graveface page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Eating Us BONUS: Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (graveface mp3)
Oldie BONUS: Boatfriend (graveface mp3)
Bonus Dripper BONUS: Bonus Drippers (The Older Unreleased & Hard-To-Find Songs) (sendspace)

Streamable: Quiet Little Voices (youtube) by We Were Promised Jetpacks


Downloadable: Quiet Little Voices (sxsw mp3)

Streamable: Land Of The Freak (youtube) by King Khan & The Shrines


Downloadable: Land Of The Freak (vice mp3 w/plug at the end)

Streamable: Black Tape (youtube) by Low Scores


Downloadable: Black Tape (mp3)

Also, be sure to check out Black Moth Super Rainbow’s interactive video entitled Dark Bubbles… here. This is a screenshot:

(source: s’gum