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.)
Pretty good mix there adam…have you heard Matisyahu Time of the song…TUNE! x