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Here’s the last of the mix tapes I put together for 2009. My buddy Perry down on the Edge of the Continent threw down the gauntlet with a challenge to select my “best of the decade” tunes and put them on one disc. Well, I’m not discerning enough to get my best of the year on to one disc (as I demonstrate yearly).

So to go along with my new music and reissues/covers/live mix tapes of 2009. Here’s my double gatefold mix tape of favorite tunes of the past decade. (Actually its technically not a list of my favorite tunes of the decade, rather it’s a list of favorite tracks from some of my most favorite albums of the past decade. Also, I followed the rule of one entry per artists, though I did give Robert Pollard two tracks, one under the GBV heading and one from Boston Spaceships.)

E. Waynes Faves of the Decade

(Track, Artists, Album, Release Year)

1. Mass Romantic, New Pornographers, Mass Romantic [2000]
2. Optimistic, Radiohead, Kid A [2000]
3. Your Lies, Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne, [2000]
4. The Galway Girl, Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues, [2000]
5. Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House, Yo La Tengo, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out [2000]
6. Heartattack And Vine, John Hammond, Jr., Wicked Grin [2001]
7. Telephone Road, Rodney Crowell, The Houston Kid [2001]
8. The Zephyr Song, Red Hot Chili Peppers, By The Way, [2002]
9. None Of Us Are Free, Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up On Me [2002]
10. Hey Julie, Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers [2003]
11. The Best Of Jill Hives, Guided By Voices, Earthquake Glue [2003]
12. Is There Life After Breakfast, Ray Davies, Other People’s Lives [2003]
13. Disorder In The House, Warren Zevon, The Wind [2003]
14. Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes, Elephant [2003]
15. Surf’s Up, Brian Wilson, Smile [2004]
16. Portland Oregon (With Jack White), Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose [2004]
17. Qué Onda Guero, Beck, Guero [2005]
18. Intentional Heartache, Dwight Yoakam, Blame The Vain [2005]
19. Sweethearts On Parade, M. Ward, Transistor Radio [2005]
20. Wordless Chorus, My Morning Jacket, Z [2005]
21. Poor Man’s Shangri-La, Ry Cooder, Chávez Ravine [2005]
22. Chicago, Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise [2005]
23. Workingman’s Blues #2, Bob Dylan, Modern Times [2006]
24. 2:19, Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [2006]
25. Keep The Car Running, The Arcade Fire, Neon Bible [2007]
26. Paper Planes, M.I.A., Kala [2007]
27. I’ll Never Give Up, Richard Thompson, Sweet Warrior [2007]
28. Hollywood Hills, Alejandro Escovedo, Real Animal [2008]
29. I Get So Weary, B.B. King, One Kind Favor [2008]
30. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! [2008]
31. Potholes, Randy Newman, Harps And Angels [2008]
32. Let Us Down Easy, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Cardinology [2008]
33. Let It Rest For A Little While, Boston Spaceships,  Zero To 99 [2009]

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I recently posted a listing of top ten favorite  cds (both new music and reissues/covers/live) released in 2009 and a mix tape playlist of my favorite new music.

Below is a playlist culled from reissued cds, box sets, covers, and live versions of previously released tunes released in 2009.

E. Wayne’s Faves of 2009 (Reissues, covers, live tracks)

(Track, Artist, Album)

1. Riot On Sunset Strip, The Standells, Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
2. Back Of A Car, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, Under The Covers Vol. 2 (Deluxe Edition)
3. Hey Ya, Booker T., Potato Hole
4. Cinnamon Girl, Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5. Things We Said Today, The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night [2009 Stereo Remaster]
6. September Gurls, Big Star, Keep An Eye On The Sky
7. When I Write The Book, Nick Lowe, Quiet Please… The New Best Of Nick Lowe
8. Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go, Buddy Miller, The Best of the HighTone Years
9. Girl from the North Country, Rosanne Cash, The List
10. Frank’s Tavern, Calexico, Chris Gaffney Tribute: The Man of Somebody’s Dreams
11. Delta Momma Blues, Steve Earle, Townes
12. Tear The Fascists Down, Woody Guthrie, My Dusty Road
13. All Things Must Pass, Yim Yames, Tribute To
14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Live At Madison Square Garden), George Harrison, Let It Roll – Songs of George Harrison (Remastered)
15. Hard On Me [Live], Richard Thompson, Walking On A Wire: 1968-2009
16. The Trooper [Live], Iron Maiden, Flight 666

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I recently posted some comments on my year in music with a listing of top ten favorites (both new music and reissues/covers/live) cds released in 2009.

For years I’ve been making mix tapes of favorite tunes from my favorite albums of the year, here is my playlist of new music favorites from 2009:

E. Wayne’s Faves of 2009 (New Music)

(Track, Artist, Album)

1. Trashed Aricraft Baby, Boston Spaceships, Zero To 99
2. Party Time, Iggy Pop, Préliminaires
3. Scumbag Blues, Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures
4. What We Know, Sonic Youth, The Eternal
5. You Never Know, Wilco, Wilco (The Album)
6. We Let Her Down, Chris Isaak, Mr. Lucky
7. Never Had Nobody Like You (Featuring Zooey Deschanel), M. Ward, Hold Time
8. Move Along Train, Levon Helm, Electric Dirt
9. Like A Train, Paul Burch, Still Your Man
10. Say Please, Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk
11. Avalon Or Someone Very Similar, Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
12. This Tornado Loves You, Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
13. All of My Days and All of My Days Off, A.C. Newman, Get Guilty
14. Looking Out, Brandi Carlile, Give Up the Ghost
15. Someone Told Me, Marshall Crenshaw, Jaggedland
16. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’, Bob Dylan, Together Through Life
17. Sounds Like the Devil, Shemekia Copeland, Never Going Back
18. Back Where I Started, Derek Trucks Band, Already Free
19. Dearest Foresaken, Iron & Wine, Around the Well
20. Where The Sun Don’t Shine, J. J. Cale, Roll On
21. Fork In The Road, Neil Young, Fork In The Road

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