2009 in music

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On last year’s music post, Scott wrote "if i posted about music i’d have left out so many other things that are so important to me."
Music is so much more than a list. It’s a mood, it’s nostalgia, it’s being transported to somewhere other than where you are.
In the scramble to get out the door in the morning, I sometimes weigh the merits of what I’ve left upstairs against how late I am. I won’t turn back for a mislaid hat or my lunch or a book I’m just about to finish. But I cannot get through a single day without music.
People complain that we’re a city of zombies, tuning out the world with our earbuds and shuffling from metro to office and back again. But when the music is good, it makes me want to smile at strangers, to spread the soundtrack of my day.
Top 5 musical happenings of 2009
Avett Brothers, "I And Love And You"
Oh. My. God. It’s just…I’m in awe.
Alejandro Escovedo, everything.
When I got into Chicago late one night last fall, I went for a short walk in Grant Park, intending to get straight back to the hotel and crash. The city instead offered up a free Escovedo show, and I watched a girl in a bridesmaid’s dress dance in her own private world.
Soundtrack, "(500) Days of Summer."
It almost collapses under the weight of twee hipsterdom, but then it doesn’t.
Elvis Costello, "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane."
Yep. When I saw him at Wolftrap this summer, a banjo sat to the side of the stage for the entire show. No one touched it. It just taunted us. Also the man is just charming.
Film, "It Might Get Loud."
See what I did there? I called this musical happenings so i could get away with this. It’s just one 90-minute musical experience anyway. But good god is it wonderful. The storytelling, the journeys home, bizarro mini-Jack White, the inability of White and the Edge to smother the childlike glee when Jimmy Page picks up a guitar in front of them … (go on, look at ‘em smile). This is a movie made for music-lovers.
Video Michelle Norton & Steve Coles – Don’t Stop Believeing (Glee Soundtrack)
Macmillan Cancer Support Gig
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Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show 
The Glee cast is back with the first CD from the second season of FOX’s hit show. Paying homage to Richard O’Brien s cult musical …

Special edition features 3 bonus songs: “I Wanna Sex You Up”, “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “Leaving On A Jet Plane”!
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4 responses to 2009 in music Photos
Hey, your drawing is getting better. Although, are those pencil marks I see under the ink?
Your drawings are great! I’ve never been in the habit of listening to music while on the move and would rather be more tuned in to my surroundings, but I usually need it once I’m at work or home and doing something. I just wish MTV and VH1 still played videos…
I decided they added charm, Kevin
Angela, I can’t listen during the reading/editing bits of my day, but the design/fixing things part luckily doesn’t require that part of my brain.
Music helps tune out noise so I can concentrate. It’s an ADHD thing (I also draw during meetings so I can pay attention).
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