Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #300-#276

#300 Muse - "Guiding Light" from "The Resistance"

#299 The Silversun Pickups - "Substitution" from "Swoon"

#298 Franz Ferdinand - "Bite Hard" from "Tonight"

#297 Fool's Gold - "Surprise Hotel" from "Fool's Gold"

#296 Heartless Bastards - "The Mountain" from "The Mountain"

#295 Passion Pit - "The Reeling" from "Manners"

#294 Ugly Casanova - "Cat Faces" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - The reason this song sounds so much like Modest Mouse... is because it is Modest Mouse, performing under another name.

#293 BrakesBrakesBrakes - "Crush On You" from "Touchdown"

#292 The Dave Matthews Band - "Squirm" from "Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King" - A great song from DMB's best album in a long time.

#291 K'naan - "If Rap Gets Jealous" from "Troubador" - A particularly heavy song from one of rap's rookies of the year, bordering on rap metal.

#290 Japandroids - "Sovereignty" from "Post-Nothing"

#289 Metric - "Stadium Love" from "Fantasies"

#288 Jarvis Cocker - "Further Complications" from "Further Complications" - The former lead singer of Pulp continues to crank out angry and sarcastic singer-songwriter albums.

#287 Music Go Music - "Light Of Love" from "Expressions"

#286 Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard - "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone" from "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone"

#285 Wheels On Fire - "I'm Turning Into You" from "Get Famous!"

#284 Art Brut - "Demons Out!" from "Art Brut Vs. Satan" - Art Brut's angry rant about how stupid the public's taste in music is.

#283 Neko Case - "People Got A Lotta Nerve" from "Middle Cyclone"

#282 Owl City - "Fireflies" from "Ocean Eyes" - Cheesy, but a good hook and a few clever lyrics.

#281 The Eels - "Lilac Breeze" from "Hombre Lobo"

#280 Wilco - "You And I" from "Wilco (The Album)"

#279 U2 - "Magnificent" from "No Line On The Horizon" - Bono once again dips into the well of sarcastic jabs at his public profile.

#278 The Like - "You Belong To Me" from "War Child - Heroes Vol. 1" - The best cover song on the "War Child" album. Supposedly, it's an old Elvis Costello song, but I'm pretty sure it dates back further than that.

#277 Rhett Miller - "I Need To Know Where I Stand" from "Rhett Miller" - It will always remain a mystery why Rhett Miller and the Old 97's never enjoyed crossover success. It would be one thing if they wrote radio-unfriendly songs, but Miller's always been extremely skilled at hooks and choruses.

#276 The Raveonettes - "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)" from "In And Out Of Control"