What 2009 was like if you are my ears.

In Which: Our Hero Pretends To Himself That Someone Out There Might Care About His Taste In Music Or Understand His Vague Ramblings About Maths...


Having returned to Norwich from a Christmas in Manchester, I was greeted by the news, from friends, that it was time again for yet another New Year. “Already?” said I. “Yes.”

Any way, having researched the matter through my usual route of Google and Newsagents, I found the fact reinforced by the torrent of ‘Bet albums of 2009’ lists in the NME and the like. “Well,” thought I, “I certainly listen to music, maybe I should join suit and produce my own celebration of 2009’s music. I have very little else to do with my time, and I’m always of the persuasion that if somebody else is doing something, I probably should be.”

So here we go:

2009

Apologies for it being so late, (traditionally I think one publishes this before the year is out, somewhat unfairly to those releasing music in December) however, considering we are at the end of a decade, I think more leeway is allowed, the business of diving into a new decade is nothing if not time consuming. An interesting concept, this new decade, since if we are counting in decades since the beginning of time, then the decade is not over until the end of this year. 2010 is no more the start of a new decade than, say, 2007 was, being exactly 10 years from 1997. Ten years! Hurrah! A fairly arbitrary group for celebration really, I suppose it derives from our fingerly base 10 number system. Interestingly A French mathematician called Lagrange once proposed a radix of base 11, since 11 is no more divisible by any n<11 than another. I.e. 11/2 makes as awkward a figure as 11/7.

So yeah, enjoy the music, hopefully it’s not too long. And hopefully you have Spotify.

Bye.