Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #175-#151

#175 Wolfmother - "California Queen" from "Cosmic Egg"

#174 Spoon - "Well-Alright" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)"

#173 The Decemberists - "The Rake's Song" from "Hazards Of Love"

#172 Floating Action - "50 Lashes" from "Floating Action"

#171 Harlem Shakes - "Sunlight" from "Technicolor Health" - Would you believe that they finally hit the big time and then broke up almost immediately afterwards?

#170 Sea Of Bees - "Willis" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#169 Shirock - "I Have Been Redeemed" from "Everything Burns" - U2 wishes that they wrote this song. Either that or Shirock has a time machine and stole it from future Bono.

#168 Dinosaur Jr. - "I Don't Wanna Go There" from "Farm"

#167 The Flaming Lips - "Silver Trembling Hands" from "Embryonic"

#166 The Arctic Monkeys - "Cornerstone" from "Humbug"

#165 Franz Ferdinand - "No You Girls" from "Tonight"

#164 U2 - "No Line On The Horizon" from "No Line On The Horizon"

#163 DJ Quik And Kurupt - "9x's Outta 10" from "BlaQKout" - This rap song is the rare example of a beat dominating the course of the song's lyrics. It's an amazing base pulse that drives this song to greatness.

#162 The Boy Least Likely To - "Every Goliath Has Its David" from "The Law Of The Playground" - A goofy little song with a great hook, but seriously, it's hard to defend a lyric that includes the phrase "I've got puppy powers". We don't invoke the Dark One, Boy Least. We don't.

#161 Brother Ali - "The Preacher" from "Us"

#160 Jeff Bridges - "I Don't Know" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack"

#159 Serena Ryder And The Beauties - "The Funeral" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - I don't include very many cover songs in my top 500, but the ones that I do include are usually on the list because they add something original to the song. In this case, Serena Ryder's take on the Band Of Horses classic is downright haunting in it's sorrow and intensity.

#158 Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks" from "Veckatimest"

#157 Lily Allen - "The Fear" from "It's Not Me, It's You" - Lily Allen is one of the most gifted songwriters of her generation and this song about materialism and pop culture is a fine example of her skills.

#156 Metric - "Sick Muse" from "Fantasies"

#155 Tech N9ne - "Show Me A God" from "K.O.D."

#154 The XX - "Crystalised" from "XX"

#153 Grant Lee Phillips - "One Morning" from "Little Moon"

#152 Frank Turner - "Try This At Home" from "Poetry Of The Dead" - The most DIY song on the countdown, this song reminds me of all those underground punk concerts I used to attend back when Pierre had a punk scene.

#151 Wild Light - "California On My Mind" from "Adult Nights" - I heard this song before it was on the XM Alt Nation Year End Countdown, but hearing it repeatedly was what really made this sarcastic shot across the bow sink in.