KyXy 96.5 Staff Favorites of 2009!

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Name: Sam Bass
Position: Middays Host
Station: KYXY

Favorite Song(s) of 2009

1. 'You Belong With Me,' Taylor Swift

2. 'Use Somebody,' Kings of Leon      

3. 'If Today Was Your Last Day,' Nickelback       

4. 'My Life Would Suck Without You,' Kelly Clarkson

5. 'Love Game,' Lady GaGa      

 

1. Fearless- Taylor Swift

1. Battle Studies – John Mayer

3. Crazy Love-Michael Buble

4. The Fall-Norah Jones

5. The Fame-Lady Gaga

 

1. James Taylor @ Valley View Casino (09/12/09)

2. Temptations @ Valley View Casino (09/15/09)

3. Miley Cyrus @ Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas (09/26/09

 

1. Inglorious Basterds

2. Precious

3. Up

4. The Hangover

5. The Road (NOT a date flick)

 

1. Glee (makes up for being a mean jock in high school)

2. House (always great)

3. Mad Men( love the style)

 

1. The Last War  by Ana Menendez

2. Once the Shore by Paul Yoon

3. Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

 

1. Michael Jackson's passing.

2. US Airways Safe Landing On The Hudson River (for the pilot's courage)

3. A-Rod Doesn’t Choke in Post Season

4. Tiger’s Fall

5. Swine Flu Vaccines or Lack there of

 

All My Loved Ones are Well

 

Tiger Woods Fall

 

Baseball 

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1. Anything HGTV

2. Curb Your Enthusiasm

3. Modern Family

4. Glee

5. Entourage

 

1. Tiger Woods... WHAT?

 

Both daughters successfully in college

 

1. Rush Limbaugh still making news

2. Sarah Palin still making news

3. Tiger Woods

4. Still no contact with George Clooney

 

The ability to travel

 

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1. Thievery Corporation @ Street Scene (08/29/09)

 

1. Seven Pounds (DVD was released 09) – Will Smith

2. State of Play – Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck

3. He’s Just Not That Into You (I'm not kidding on this one – was a great date movie for V-Day :-)

 

1. HBO/Showtime in general

2. Lost

3. Always Sunny

4. Flash Forward

5. 90210 (Joking)

 

The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

 

1. US Airways Safe Landing On The Hudson River

2. Bill (who’s not even a political figure anymore) negotiating the release of North Korean hostages.

 

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1. The Letter by The Veils

2. Kingdom Of Rust by Doves

3. Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear

4. Born A Man by Clem Snide

5. I've Got Friends by Manchester Orchestra

 

1. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust

1. The Veils - Sun Gangs

3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist

4. Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom (Live)

5. Moby - Wait For Me

 

1. Grizzly Bear @ The Belly Up (10/21/09)

2. Tricky @ The Belly Up (03/23/09)

3. Blind Pilot @ The Casbah (04/10/09)

4. Holy **** @ Street Scene (08/28/09)

5. The Cave Singers @ The Casbah (10/02/09)

 

1. Sherlock Holmes (Okay it's not out yet but I'll take my chances - how can you argue with the director and cast?)

2. Taken

3. I Love You Man

4. Star Trek

5. Up

 

1. Dexter, Season 4

2. True Blood, Season 2

3. The Office, Season 6

 

1. Lowside Of The Road: A Life Of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns

2. The Gates by John Connelly

3. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

 

1. Michael Jackson's passing

2. US Airways Safe Landing On The Hudson River (for the pilot's courage)

3. Balloon Boy (for the pilot's absence)

4. Bill upstaging Hillary and negotiating the release of North Korean hostages

5. Barak Obama giving Queen Elisabeth II an iPod

 

Keeping my job.

 

The first decade of the 21st century didn't bring the flying cars the movies promised.

 

Flying cars.

 

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1. Odds by Mute Math

2. Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups

3. Three Wishes by The Pierces

4. Song for A Son by The Smashing Pumpkins

5. No Sound But the Wind by The Editors

 

1. Silversun Pickups- Swoon

1. New Moon Soundtrack

3. Placebo- Battle for the Sun

4. Mute Math- Armistice

5. Dirty Pond Songs- Bobby Long

 

1. No Doubt @ Cricket Ampitheatre (5/22/09)

2. Bobby Long @ The Loft (10/29/09)

3. Greg Laswell @ The Casbah (8/1/09)

 

1. Away We Go

2. Where the Wild Things Are

3. How to Be

4. The Hangover

5. New Moon

 

1. Park and Recreations

2. Modern Family

3. Glee

 

I didn’t read anything written this year.

 

Robert Pattinson.

 

Benjamin Button.

 

Eclipse!

 

1. Michael Buble & Ron Sexsmith - Whatever it Takes

2. Mook & Fair/DJ Webstar - Who's your Daddy (Hip-Hop sample of Zombies - Time of the Season)

3. Jaime Foxx - Blame it

4. K-Jon - On the Ocean

5. Jerimih - Imma Star (Everywhere We Are)

 

1. Michael Buble - Crazy Love

1. Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night

3. Raheem DeVaughn - The Art of Noise

4. Jaime Foxx - Intuition

5. Trey Songz - Ready

 

1.  The Hangover

1.  District 9

3.  Star Trek

4.  Up

5.  500 Days of Summer

 

1. The Watchmen

2. GI Joe

3. Duplicity

4. X-men origins

5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - It just a set-up for the next movie.

 

1. Mad Men

2. Hung

3. Entourage

4. Real Housewives of the ATL

5. TMZ

 

1. US Airways Landing On The Hudson River

2. Barack Obama Inauguration

3. Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift at MTV Awards

4. Tiger Woods caught having multiple affairs.

 

1. Having a job when jobs were scarce this year.

2.Cash for clunkers, gave my husband and I the ability to buy a new car, the one we had was on the verge of breaking down.

3. Broadcasting live from December Nights

 

1. No end to the wars in Iran and Afghanistan

2. Barack Obama's performance thus far.

3. The collapse of the US economy

4. Credit Card Companies increasing rates on good customers

5. Learning of the XM radio rate increases and performance royalty fees for subscribers

6. Swine Flu

7. Not one but several mass shootings

8. R&B Singer Chris Brown assaulting R&B Singer Rhianna

9. The Hype behind Twilight New Moon.

10. David Letterman having affairs with his interns...YUCK!

 

James Cameron's Avatar

 

1. New Season of Mad Men

2. Sade's New Album

3. Michael Buble Tour

4. The end of the Bonnie Hunt Show

5. The end of Lost

 

1. A better season for the Raiders & Browns

2. Going to Vegas to see Donny and Marie Osmond

3. Gay Marriage becoming legal nationwide.

4. Jimmy Fallon being replaced.

5. Conan and SNL being funnier.

6. More people of color on broadcast TV.

7. A new home for the Chargers in Chula Vista

8. More good news days and less bad news days :)

 

Favorite Concert(s) of 2009

1. Trans Siberian Orchestra @ Sports Arena (12/09/09)
2. No Doubt @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (05/22/09)

 

1. The Blind Side
2. The Hangover

 

1. Community
2. Flash Forward
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Chelsea Lately
5. Gary Unmarried

 

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown