GirlsAloudFan
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Crap, I forgot another album for that second list: Pet Shop Boys - Yes.
And now ... my favorite songs! You can tell that my pop tastes mostly lie in a fabulous single. I cannot resist a really great pop hook. I'm a sucker for it. Woe.
U2 - Breathe and Unknown Caller
Little Boots - Remedy
Lady GaGa - Paparazzi and Bad Romance
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Metric - Help I'm Alive
La Roux - Bulletproof
Phoenix - 1901
Jace Everett - Bad Things (theme from True Blood)
Jordin Sparks - Battlefield (better go and get your armor, yo)
Lily Allen - The Fear
Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot (come back with another album, Robyn!)
Animal Collective - My Girls
Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy (I know, I know ... it's horrid and juvenile ... but completely awesome!)
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" didn't make this list because while it was shiny and catchy, it was trying too hard to recapture her "Since U Been Gone" glory after trying hard to do her own thing and commercially failing. Poor Kell-Bell. It's a solid pop album, though. Just not as good as Breakaway.
Some great choices. For me, "Zero" and "Hysteric" are the biggest standouts from It's Blitz!, but "Heads Will Roll" also kicks ass.
Jace Everett - Bad Things (theme from True Blood)
Good call. I miss that show.
I haven't heard the Dirty Projectors song that you listed but I will say, even though I just discovered it like a week ago, "Stillness Is The Move" is one of my top tracks of the year. That song is just awesome.
According to last.fm, my most listened to track of the year was "Crying Lightning" by the Arc Monkeys. I might come up with a more complete favorite song list later.