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200 things we loved about 2009: part two
(...plus the odd turkey)
The MusicRadar Team, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 10:05 am GMT
Have you read part one of our epic list of 200 things we loved about 2009? Well here's part two!
101.The Drums. A two-piece from Brooklyn that you'll be hearing a lot about in 2010. Fun, danceable pop that works on every level.
102. (500) Days Of Summer. As a movie, it was so-so. But the soundtrack is so, so good.
103. Gonzales, who played a 27-hour concert in Paris to break the world record for the longest public solo performance.
104. Kanye West, railing against an imposter on Twitter and giving us the quote "MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!"
105. Tesla coils making music.
106. OTTO, the circular hardware beat slicer.
107. Turkey: Expensive Guitar Hero controllers that are designed to look like real guitars. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
108. Snyderphonics' Manta, a super-slim, super-sensitive controller.
109. Seeing Ryan Tedder attempting to fend-off accusations that he plagiarised himself.
"Turkey: Expensive Guitar Hero controllers that are designed to look like real guitars. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig"
110. Imogen Heap and her followers managing to get a pre-release copy of her album removed from eBay. Who said you can't put the genie back in the bottle?
111. Turkey: Roger Linn's LinnDrum II being delayed again. Almost two years after it was announced, we're still no closer to knowing what it'll look like, how it'll work or when it'll be released.
112. Skream's dubstep remix of La Roux's In For The Kill. It was everywhere in the summer, and deservedly so.
113. The Mackie monitors that survived being coated in horse dung.
114. The 88, for managing to record a complete song on an iPhone.
