I generally dislike tradition and I have never subscribed to the notion that New Year’s resolutions are anything but futile. That said, I do have one New Year’s tradition which has so far lasted me since 2006 (what a run, right?). I take the time to cut down my yearly music dump playlist down it my true favorites of the year. In the process, I take out any song which featured the previous year, cut almost all artists down to just one song and remove anything that I’m not totally thrilled about.

Anyway, yesterday I did my final 2008 playlist. Here it is.

Air     -     Sexy Boy AmpLive     -     Reckonerz (ft. Charli2na) Archive     -     Fuck U Basshunter     -     Patrik And The Small Guy – Throw Your Hands Up Beirut     -     Nantes Ben Folds     -     The Frown Song Bob Dylan     -     Like A Rolling Stone Brand New     -     Untitled 02 Bright Eyes     -     Lover I Don’t Have To Love Clearlake     -     Keep Smiling Conor Oberst     -     Lenders in the Temple Crystal Castles     -     Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS HEALTH) Daft Punk     -     Veridis Quo Death Cab For Cutie     -     Grapevine Fires Death Cab For Cutie     -     Styrofoam Plates The Decemberists     -     Record Year Deerhoof     -     Believe E. S. P. The Dexateens     -     Slender Thread DJ Blow     -     Title and Registration Elbow     -     Weather to Fly Electric Six     -     Dance Pattern Eminem     -     Rock Bottom The Faint     -     Worked Up So Sexual Finch     -     Ender The Flaming Lips     -     The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song Flobots     -     Handlebars Frightened Rabbit     -     The Modern Leper The Good, The Bad & The Queen     -     The Bunting Song Gym Class Heroes     -     Cupid’s Chokehold (feat. Patrick Stump) Interpol     -     Pioneer To The Falls Jonathan Coulton     -     Re: Your Brains Justice     -     The Party Kanye West     -     Stronger The Killers     -     Spaceman LCD Soundsystem     -     New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down Matisyahu     -     King Without A Crown MC Lars     -     Space Game Metric     -     Combat Baby MGMT     -     Kids Middleman     -     Good To Be Back Modest Mouse     -     Fire It Up Murder By Death     -     The Devil Drives Murder By Death     -     Spring Break 1899 Neutral Milk Hotel     -     In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Nine Inch Nails     -     Discipline of Montreal     -     Gallery Piece Panic At The Disco     -     That Green Gentlemen (Things Have Changed) Pendulum     -     The Otherside Pixies     -     Where Is My Mind? PJ Harvey     -     The Piano Psapp     -     Hill Of Our Home Queens Of The Stone Age     -     Suture Up Your Future Radiohead     -     Fake Plastic Trees Serj Tankian     -     Empty Walls The Shins     -     Saint Simon Sigur Rós     -     Gobbledigook Stars     -     In Our Bedroom After the War Stars     -     Going, Going, Gone [Live] Sufjan Stevens     -     For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti Vampire Weekend     -     I Stand Corrected Weezer     -     Pork & Beans Wolf Parade     -     You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son

Is this something you do? Will think of doing it now?

(list compiled by exporting playlist as unicode text and importing it into excel before editing.)