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.)