yr year-end mix
03Dec07
So the past couple of days I’ve been working on compiling my annual year-end mix of favorite songs, but I’m convinced that I’m forgetting a ton. If you have already gotten to work compiling yours, please post the tracklisting below! Would love to catch up on some missed great tracks, whether they are on eMusic or elsewhere. Let’s hear yr suggestions, everyone.
Anything off the new Daft Punk live album should compliment your mix.
Can’t remember which of these are available on emusic. Just a few off the top:
Deserter - Matthew Dear
Eisbaden - Pantha du Prince
None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
Someone Great/All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
Comfy in Nautica/Take Pill/Bros - Panda Bear
Fireworks - Animal Collective
Archangel - Burial
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
My My - Menomena
Waiting on the Stairs - Pela
2080 - Yeasayer
No Ones Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
The People - Common
Oh jeez, it’s December, how did that happen? Thanks for the reminder, time to start compiling the mixes and lists. Posting here when complete…!
This years possible #1 is such a mainstream name I hesitate to say it… but it IS on emusic.
kris roughly 60% of those songs are on my shortlist. and the ones i don’t know i am searching out right now. thanks!
I started sequencing this a bit, but then stopped (when I realized that I don’t have the time or talent to do the job properly). Having said that, I’m crazy about the songs on this list. I think it’s been the best year for new music this decade. Not a revolutionary year, mind you, but a great year, with nods toward a possibly revolutionary future (in the Balearic, dark disco, dubstep and electronic stuff). Anyway, here it is:
• RadicalFashion – Not sure which song, I’d choose, but one of them (they all sort of wash over me, like something by The Books, but more elegant)
• Louis Philippe – Born Beautiful
• Panda Bear – Good Girl/Carrots
• Black Moth Super Rainbow – Rollerdisco
• Sorcerer – Egyptian Sunset
• The Field – Everyday
• A Mountain of One – Innocent Line
• Studio – Out There
• Lindstrom & Solale – Let’s Practice
• Strategy – Stop Spinning
• Prins Thomas – On Just Foot (Milky Disco Compilation)
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ghost in the Graveyard
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Killing The Blues
• The Shins – Phantom Limb
• The Shins – Sea Legs
• The Twilight Sad – Cold Days from the Birdhouse
• The Twilight Sad – That Summer At Home. . .
• The New Pornographers – All The Old Showstoppers
• The New Pornographers – Challengers
• The New Pornographers – Failsafe
• Wilco – Impossible Germany
• Wilco – Please Be Patient With Me
• Wilco — Hate It Here
• Map of Africa – Map of Africa
• M.I.A. – Come Around (without the Tim part)
• M.I.A. — Jimmy
• M.I.A. – Paper Planes
• Justice – Waters of Nazareth
• Kathy Diamond – All Woman
• Sally Shapiro – I’ll Be By Your Side
• Sally Shapiro – Find My Soul
• LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
• Low – Murderer
• Low – Breaker
• Stars of the Lid – Not sure which song, but one of them (See RadicalFashion)
• Farah – Law of Life (After Dark Compilation)
• Chromatics – In The City (After Dark Compilation)
• Burial – Archangel
• Burial – Near Dark
• Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey
• Andy Palacio – Miami
• Apparat – Hailin’ From The Edge
• Battles – Atlas
• Iron & Wine – Pagan Angel & A Borrowed Car
• Iron & Wine – Lovesong of the Buzzard
• James Blood Ulmer – Survivors of the Hurricane
• Liars – Houseclouds
• Lucky Soul – Lips Are Unhappy
• Nina Nastasia & Jim White – The Day I Would Bury You
• No Age – Boy Void
• Radiohead – All I Need
• Radiohead – Reckoner
• Radiohead – House of Cards
• Skull Disco (Shackleton) – Blood On My Hands
• Skull Disco (Shackleton) – Blood On My Hands (R. Villalobos’ Edit)
• Spencer Moore – Our Baby Boy is Gone
• Spoon – You Got Yer Cherry Bomb
• Spoon – The Underdog
• Stars – The Ghost of Genova Heights
• The Clientele – Dreams of Leaving
• The Clientele – Bookshop Casanova
• Thurston Moore – Frozen Gtr
• Tinariwen – Matadjem Yinmixan
• Tinariwen – Assouf
• White Williams – New Violence
• Cobblestone Jazz – Change Your Apesuit
• Mathew Jonson – Stop
• Yeasayer – 2080
• Yeasayer – Sunrise
• A Place to Bury Strangers – To Fix The Gash in Your Head
• Beirut – Nantes
• Irakere – Bacalao Con Pan (from the Si, Para Usted Compilation)
No home computer in front of me, so this is off the top of my head…
MIA–Paper Planes
Cindy–Ola Podrida
Everday–The Field
Archangel–Burial
Head Rolls Off–Frightened Rabbit
Murderer–Low
Norberg–Tim Hecker
Joyride–Heliocentrics
Your English Is Good–Tokyo Police Club
in no particular order other than the skeleton of an actual sequenced mix, here’s what made my list earlier today (which is sure to grow after listening to everyone else’s suggestions):
glassy candy, “candy castle”
kanye the clipse, “flashing lights (benzi remix)”
ghetto fabulous gang, “regrets”
no age, “neck escaper”
times new viking, “ladders”
celebration, “heartbreak”
matthew dear, “deserter”
lcd soundsystem “45:33 part 2″ (cheating here)
blonde redhead, “we are a real team harry and i”
common, “the people”
animal collective, “fireworks”
prinzhorn dance school, “you are the space invader”
the affair, “last dance”
high places, “head spins”
battles, “atlas”
gui boratto, “it’s majik”
the national, “gospel”
vampire weekend, “mansard roof”
yeasayer, “2080″
the willowz, “evil son”
colleen, “sun against my eyes”
radicalfashion, “shousetsu”
clap yr hands say yeah, “underwater”
killed by 9v batteries, “this might be some sort of art”
frightened rabbit, “square 9 (emusic sessions version)”
lykke i, “tonight”
burial, “archangel”
m.i.a., “paper planes”
answering machine, “silent hotels”
answering machime, “lightbulbs”
kanye west, “can’t tell me nothing”
jamie t, “salvador”
strategy, “can’t roll back”
delorean, “as time breaks off”
spoon, “you got yr cherry bomb”
lcd soundsystem, “all my friends”
love or perish, “boys”
I’m pretty sure these are most of my faves of ‘07 — such commitment issues, I know. In no particular order:
The Long Blondes - The Unbearable Lightness of Building
Grinderman - Go Tell The Woman
Jens Lekman - A Postcard For Nina
The Maccabees - First Love
Frightened Rabbit - Square 9
New Young Pony Club - Hiding On The Staircase
Sea Wolf - You’re A Wolf
The Hold Steady - Massive Nights
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (Final Fantasy Mix)
Alamo Race Track - Stanley vs. Hannah
The Black Keys - You’re The One
Electrelane - Cut And Run
Fesit - I Feel It All
Ghostface Killah - Charlie Brown
Flight of the Concords - Foux Da Fa Fa
Sunparlour Players - Talk It To Death
Black Francis - Threshold Apprehension
The Gossip - Dark Lines
Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin
Joan As Police Woman - Feed The Light
White Rabbits - I Used To Complain Now I Don’t
The Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici
Wilco - Shake It Off
Elvis Perkins In Deerland - While You Were Sleeping
Baby Teeth - Swim Team
Snowman - You’re A Casino
i’m forgetting sooo many pop tracks that i enjoyed outside of my bedroom (gasp!), from passings cars, from my shower radio, etc, but these are a handful- in no particular order- that immediately or associatively popped into my mind. at any rate, i had some sort of obsession with all of these tracks at different points this year.
gang gang dance - “nicoman”
Just the Top fave bands from O7 as I’m not sure I could remember all the tracks I love
Beruit
Celebration
Caribou
Imperial Teen
Heartless Bastards
Interpol
Peter Bjorn and John
Scanners
Sybris
I’m sure there are more and I’m forgetting. Ah well.
Quick list…
Apparat - Fractales (Part I & II)
Apparat - Arcadia
Architecture in Helsinki - Hold Music
Art Brut - Blame It On The Trains
The Boggs - Arm in Arm
The Boggs - Melanie in the White Coat
Chemical Brothers - All Rights Reversed
Dntel - Roll On
Dust Galaxy - Overhead
Frost - Sleepwalker
Husky Rescue - Ghost is not Real
Husky Rescue - Caravan
Justice - D.A.N.C.E
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Matthew Dear - Deserter
Mint Royale - Show Me
Nine Inch Nails - The Good Soldier
Punk TV - Snowboy
Radiohead - All I Need
Radiohead - Reckoner
Robots in Disguise - DIY
Saul Williams - Break
Saul Williams - DNA
Small Sails - Aftershocks and Afterthoughts
Tim Armstrong - Inner City Violence
Tim Armstrong - Lady Demeter
Two Lone Swordsmen - Rattlesnake Daddy
Two Lone Swordsmen - Glories Yesterday
Here’s the stuff that I happened to rate 5 stars in iTunes
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Beirut - Nantes
Birds & Batteries - Ocarina
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Red Planets
Of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
Of Montreal - The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Of Montreal - She’s a Rejecter
Parts & Labor - Brighter Days
Radiohead - All I Need
Radiohead - Reckoner
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Radiohead - Videotape
Yeasayer - 2080
Surely there’s lots missing there.
The Most Serene Republic - Present of Future End
Deer Tick - Standing at the Threshold
Parts and Labor - Fractured Skies
Laakso - Norrkoping
Akron/Family - Ed is a Portal
Le Loup - Planes Like Vultures
Yeasayer - 2080, Red Cave
Menomena - Evil Bee
The Besnard Lakes - Devastation
Hallelujah the Hills - Wave Backwards to Massachusetts
Ha Ha Tonka - St. Nick on the Fourth in a Fervor
Phosphorescent - At Death A Proclamation
O’ Death - Adelita
Jonquil - Lions
Annuals - Brother
The Strange Death of Liberal England - God Damn Broke and Broken Hearted
Eldridge Skell’s The Rude Staircase - A Gaggle of Swans
Bark Bark Bark - I’m Needy
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Everything You Paid For
To My Boy - Model
The XYZ Affair - Ideals
Everything, Now! - Take a Gawk at the Weird Side
Drakes Hotel - Broadcast to the Addicted
Butterfly Assassins - Prelude No. 1 in D Minor
Bat for Lashes - What’s a Girl to Do
Get Him Eat Him - The Coronation Show
Cloud Cult - Chemicals Collide
Track a Tiger - Not Far from This Anger
The Mules - Problems with Exits
Chris Garneau - Relief
Revival - Fog Rolling In
Jukebox the Ghost - Good Day
(shameless guilty pleasure) My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
I think most of these came from emu
1. Over the Rhine ‘I Don’t Wanna Waste Your Time’
2. Wilco, ‘Either Way’,
3. The Rentals ‘Life Without a Brain’
4. My Teenage Stride ‘To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge’
5. Moonbabies ‘War on Sound’,
6. Josh Ritter ‘Right Moves’
7. Grant McLennan (1958-2006) ‘Haven’t I Been a Fool’
8. The Veils ‘Advice for Young Mothers To Be’
9. Robbers on High Street ’Crown Victoria’,
10. Blonde Redhead ‘23’,
11. Apples in Stereo ‘Skyway’,
12. Two Cow Garage ‘Epitaph’,
13. brakesbrakesbrakes ‘Hold Me In the River’,
14. Emma Pollock ‘Acid Test’,
15. Arctic Monkeys ‘Brianstorm’,
16. Good Shoes ‘All In My Head’
17. Super Furry Animals ‘Into The Night’,
18. Jay Reatard ‘My Shadow’,
19. Bishop Allen ‘Click, Click, Click, Click’,
20. Stars ‘Take Me To The Riot’,
21. Iron & Wine ‘The Devil Never Sleeps’,
22. Jens Lekman ‘Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo’,
23. The Avett Brothers ‘Shame’,
no particular order
MIA - Paper Planes
Radiohead - Reckoner
Wilco - Impossible Germany
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green
Panda Bear - Bros
Joe Henry - Our Song
Radiohead - All I Need
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
Spoon - You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
The White Stripes - Rag & Bone
Angels Of Light - We Are Him
Jens Lekman - A Postcard To Nina
Radiohead - Nude
Phosphorescent - Wolves
MIA - XR2
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Elliott Smith - Whatever (Folk Song In C)
Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
MIA - The Turn
in no particular order (i think these are all from 2007):
animal collective — peacebone
dan deacon — wham city
lcd soundsystem — all my friends
new pornographers — all the old showstoppers
panda bear — bros
!!! — yadnus
liars — plaster casts of everything
les savy fav — rage in the plague age
deerhoof — the perfect me
feist — 1234
jens lekman — the opposite of hallelujah
the mae shi — run to your grave
eh, maybe 2007 wasn’t that great a year.
Dude, how could I have forgotten Holler, Wild Rose!’s Captive Train?
Myriad harbour- New pornographers
My Rights Vs. Yours- new Pornographers
Dashboard- Modest Mouse
each is a pop gem
Ok, here’s my sequencing for a Best of 2007 CD:
Stars - The Night Starts Here
Interpol - Scale
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
Tocotronic - Mein Ruin
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat
The Twilight Sad - Mapped By What Surrounded Them
Beirut - A Sunday Smile
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Mice Parade - Tales Of Las Negras
The Sea And Cake - Crossing Line
Prefab Sprout - Desire Is (2007 Version)
Elliott Smith - Thirteen
Burial - Etched Headplate
Thanks for the inspiration!
- Frank
Top 50
not ranked; I just think they might sound good in this order:
The Field - “Over the Ice”
Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan - “sia around the sandmill”
Apparat - “Limelight”
Grizzly Bear - “Knife” (Girl Talk Remix)
Battles - “Atlas”
Bonde do Role - “Geremia”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Kiss Kiss”
White Rabbits - “The Plot”
Dan Deacon - “The Crystal Cat”
Devo - “Watch Us Work It”
White Williams - “New Violence”
Patrick Wolf - “Accident & Emergency”
Mark Ronson [feat. Amy Winehouse] - “Valerie”
Feist - “I Feel It All”
Iron & Wine - “Boy with a Coin”
Kevin Drew - “Gang Bang Suicide”
Essie Jain - “Glory”
Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)”
Andrew Bird - “Heretics”
The Shins - “Sea Legs”
Dr. Dog - “Heart It Races”
The Fiery Furnaces - “Japanese Slippers”
!!! - “All My Heroes Are Weirdos”
Akron / Family - “Ed Is a Portal”
Animal Collective - “For Reverend Green”
Panda Bear - “Good Girl / Carrots”
The Boggs - “Melanie in the White Coat”
Mavis Staples - “99 1/2″
Menomena - “Air Aid”
Radiohead - “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi”
The National - “Squalor Victoria”
Pela - “Your Desert’s Not a Desert at All”
Beirut - “In the Mausoleum”
The Death Set - “Impossible” (Dan Deacon Remix)
Amon Tobin - “Esther’s”
Spoon - “The Ghost of You Lingers”
The Twilight Sad - “Cold Days from the Birdhouse”
Kings of Leon - “Knocked Up”
CRS (Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West & Pharrell) - “Us Placers”
Cool Calm Pete - “Get With the Times”
100 dBs - “Drop Alberto Like It’s Hot”
Busdriver - “The Troglodyte Wins”
Common [feat. Lily Allen] - “Drivin’ Me Wild”
M.I.A. - “Paper Planes”
Matthew Dear - “Deserter”
Of Montreal - “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal”
Okkervil River - “John Allyn Smith Sails”
Stars - “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” (Final Fantasy Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - “Someone Great”
Eluvium - “Prelude for Time Feelers”
i don’t know what happened to the rest of my post above… i really did like more than just “nicoman.” let’s try again.
telepathe - “chrome’s on it”
telepathe - “islands (soft pink truth mix)”
high places - “shared island”
effi briest - “mirror rim”
m.i.a. - “$20″
alex delivery - “milan”
the field - “everday”
ne-yo - “because of you”
kanye west - “can’t tell me nothing”
battles - “atlas”
von sudenfed - “the rhinohead”
beyonce - “get me bodied”
studio - “life’s a beach (prins thomas mix)”
studio - “origin”
tim hecker - “norberg”
kirsten ketsjer the rock band - “the bridge”
burial - “raver”
dragons of zynth - “xerathyn”
shining - “wintereisse”
again, forgetting a LOT of pop tracks here…
The Jai Alai Savant - White on White Crime
Blood Red Shoes - It’s Getting Boring by the Sea
Grand Atlantic - Coolite (favorite power pop album of the year)
Baroness - Rays on Pinion (favorite metal album of the year)
Future of the Left - Fingers Become Thumbs
The Duke Spirit - A Wild Hope
Kristen Hersch - Wild Vanilla
Nina Nastasia and Jim White - In the Evening
Emma Pollock - Adrenaline
Soulsavers - Paper Money
Galactic with Lyrics Born - What You Need
Agree with Alex on Von Sudenfed - The Rhinohead
Do you have any contact with your programming\database department? It might not be too hard to write a script that would scan a Top 10 list, check if emusic offers the songs, and then output the same list with the titles hyperlinked to their emusic location.
I downloaded 8 songs so far from these lists, but it would be 50 if I didn’t have to search emusic for each one.
It would be a good application for other areas too. Lots of bloggers have “What I’m Listening To” lists, and it would be a good promotional item for Emusic if these lists could be automatically hyperlinked to Emusic’s library.
Cloud Cult — Alien Christ
New Pornographers - Myriad Harbor
Tokyo Police Club - Your English is Good
The Broken West - In the Valley
Andrew Bird - Plasticities
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
Airborne Toxic Event - Does this mean you’re moving on
Shins - Australia
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Shout out Louds - Tonight I have to Leave it
Of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Konigvsberger
Roddy Woomble - Every Line of a long Moment
Tullycraft - Fangs on Bats
Bishop Allen - Like Castanets
Dylan in the Movies - City Skies
Okkervil River - Unless it’s kicks
Miracle Fortress - Five roses
MIA - Jimmy
Oddly enough, my favorite songs didn’t necessarily come from my favorite albums. For instance, the National’s “Boxer,” Radiohead’s “In Rainbows,” and Low’s “Drums and Guns” all rank up in there in my favorite records of the year but no songs from these albums made it into the list below.
Iron & Wine - Resurrection Fern
Avett Brothers - Shame
The Great Outdoors - If I Was A Car
Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues)
Jim Krewson - The Minivan Song
The Ponys - Today
Whispertown 2000 - 103
Dead Heart Bloom - Wish It Well
Arcadio - Randy LeBree
Tim Armstrong - Hold On
Tim Armstrong - Into Action
Fred Tyson - Freddy Gonna Do What He Wanna Do
Southwire - Bell