Playing Favorites: The Ruckus 2009 Top Tracks

Over the past week, we’ve brought to you our lists of favorite Albums and EPs for 2009. Now, to wrap up an epic year in music, we bring to you our favorite tracks released in 2009 (as always, completely at random and totally biased – you’ll even catch a few favorites duplicated a few times). We hope you’ll find a few of your favorites on our lists, and we thank you once again for making this year so fucking phenomenal. Roll on, 2010!

Cheryl

1. The Swell Season “Feeling the Pull”

2. The Swell Season “Low Rising”

3. We Were Promised Jetpacks “It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning”

4. Dan Craig “Soldier Don’t Look Down”

5. Death Cab for Cutie “Little Bribes”

Sheena

1. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool “Dance The Way I Feel”

2. Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man”

3. MPHO “Box and Locks”

4. Laura Marling “Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)”

5. Dizzee Rascal “Bonkers”

Dave

1. The Swell Season “High Horses”

2. St. Vincent “Marrow”

3. The Dead Weather “I Cut Like A Buffalo”

4. PJ Harvey and John Parish “Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen”

Lizzie

1. Jamie T “Sticks ‘N’ Stones”

2. Bat for Lashes “Siren Song”

3. Ryan O’Reilly Band “November”

4. Wakey! Wakey! “War Sweater”

5. Mumford and Sons “Winter Winds”

Tiffiny

1. The Avett Brothers “Kick Drum Heart”

2. Bon Iver “Blood Bank”

3. Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band “Nikorette”

4. Frank Turner “Poetry of the Deed”

5. Heartless Bastards “The Mountain”

6. Mumford and Sons “Sigh No More”

7. The Swell Season “Low Rising”

8. Tegan & Sara “Hell”

9. U2 “No Line On the Horizon”

10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Zero”

Melanie

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll”

2. Metric “Help I’m Alive”

3. The Avett Brothers “A Slight Figure of Speech”

4. Bloc Party “Ares (Villains Remix)”

5. Chester French “She Loves Everybody”

6. We Were Promised Jetpacks “It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning”

7. Mumford & Sons “Awake My Soul”

8. Noah and the Whale “Blue Skies”

9. Weezer “Can’t Stop Partying”

10. Thom Yorke “Hearing Damage”