Sure, sure it’s March, but it’s time to announce my Top 25 most listened to songs of 2009. I got my first iPod in March, so March – March is my musical year. My friend Vodo thinks you can tell a lot about a person by taking a gander at their Top 25. I will leave the prognosticating to you.

• Kick Drum Heart, The Avett Brothers
• Doctor My Eyes, Jackson Browne
• Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson (I take no blame for this, it’s all The Tibbles. Michael Jackson’s been dead since June and they’re still obsessed with the music)
• My Favourite Chords, The Weakerthans
• People Got A Lotta Nerve, Neko Case
• I’d Really Love To See You Tonight, England Dan & John Ford Coley (In my defense, I think this is played in one of my favorite shows, Time-Life Power Ballads Infomercial, or it might be Time-Life Songs of Love Infomercial)
• Poetry Of The Deed, Frank Turner
• Somebody’s Baby, Jackson Browne
• Laid, James
• Ill With Want, The Avett Brothers
• Furr Blitzen, Trapper
• Dreamtime, Darryl Hall
• All the Young Dudes, Mott The Hoople
• Fa La Freezing, My First Earthquake (I think at least 8 of these listens happened on Musical Night 09)
• Song for Myla Goldberg, The Decemberists (I cannot listen to this song just once. It has to be at least two times in a row)
• Live Fast Die Old, Frank Turner
• Dan’s Song, Frank Turner
• A New England, Jonah Matranga & Frank Turner
• Polyester Bride, Liz Phair
• Graceland, Paul Simon
• Whatever Makes You Happy, Paul Westerberg
• Against All Odds, The Postal Service
• Home, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
• Try This At Home, Frank Turner
• Isabel, Frank Turner