Let's check the rear-view for the other Top 5 Songs of 2009. Number 5: Mario, "Break Up," Number 4: Paramore, "Where The Lines Overlap," Number 3: The Clipse, "Popular Demand (Popeyes)," Number 2: Drake, "Best I Ever Had," and now...
+ Number 1: Phoenix, "Lizstomania"
An unassailably perfect pop song, taken from Phoenix's amazing Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix album. The opening tinkle of keys, the galloping beat, The Smiths-esque guitars that crash in before the chorus and those ponderous lyrics; are they about composer Franz Liszt's 19th Century rise to stardom? A regretful look at the end of a relationship? Both? Doesn't matter, once Thomas Mars coos, "So sentimental/Not sentimental, no" you'll fall under this brilliant song's spell.