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Quick. A co-worker asks you to slap together your favs of the year mix for a weekend roadtrip. You gotta fit 20 tracks and burn the CD in 15 minutes. What'll it be? Not necessarily your critical top 20 - just shit stuff sounds good. I'm sure I'm brain-farting on some great tracks, but an actual one I did just now:

The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It
The Mary Onettes - Henry
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
The Fratellis - Flathead
Foo Fighters - Band On The Run
The Shins - Phantom Limb
Maps - So Low So High
British Sea Power - Down On The Ground
Brakes - Mobile Communication
The Cinematics - Race To The City
Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
Artic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me
The Bees - Left Foot Stepdown
The Decemberists - Think About Me
Metric - White Gold

I'm a little crushed in retrospect about the cookie-cutter run of LCD-Kaiser-Fratellis. Oh well.

ooh, that's tough but I just finished my Best of for 2007 and there is over 150 songs, 2007 was indeed a good year:

I'll go for the Alphabetical playlist (sorry Q, U and X!) since that is quick and easy:

Against Me! - Up the Cuts
Babyshambles - Delivery
Coparck - A Good Year For The Robots
Dark Romantics - Another Song For Another Night
Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
Farrah - Dummb Dumb Ditty
GoodBooks - Passchendaele
Holloways - Dancefloor
Interpol - No I In threesome
Jai Alai Savant - White On White Crime
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Last Town Chorus - Modern Love
Mitch Easter - Ona And A Half Way Street
National - Mistaken For Strangers
Office - Ritz
Portugal The Man - Bellies Are Full
Robotville - Go Electric
Spoon - The Underdog
Twang - Lost My Smile
View - Same Jeans
Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division
You, Me And Everyone We Know - I'd Be More Interested If You Were Already Spoken For
Zutons - Valerie


I will be making my 150 songs available soon!

No particular order...

Tonight I Have To Leave It - Shout Out Louds
No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
Good To Sea - Pinback
Burying Luck - Minus The Bear
Bones - Editors
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
23 - Blonde Redhead
Don't Make Me a Target - Spoon
Bad Sun - The Bravery
Rest My Chemistry - Interpol
Animal Sounds - Grand National
Slow Show - The National
That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy - The Twilight Sad
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
No Cars Go - The Arcade Fire
Sea Legs - The Shins
The Future Pt. 1 - Voxtrot
She's the One - Caribou
Kreuzberg - Bloc Party
The Gift That Keeps Giving - Super Furry Animals


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The Shins- Phantom Limb
Panda Bear- Take Pills
Interpol- Pioneer To The Falls
Devastations- The Pest
Klaxons- Golden Scans
Amy Winehouse- Tears Dry On Their Own
The National- Brainy
The Rakes- Suspicious Eyes
Arcade Fire- Intervention
Huskey Rescue- Nightless Night
Of Montreal- Heimdalsgate Like a...
Metric- Rock Me Now
Papercuts- The World I Love
Working For A Nuclear Free City- Rocket
Andrew Bird- Fiery Crash
Modest Mouse- Dashboard
Muse-Starlight
Manic Street Preachers- Your Love Is Not Enough
Digitalism-Pogo
Peter, Bjorn and John- Young Folks





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Wolf Tones- The Sadies

Pictures of You- The Last Goodnight

Blood On My Hands- TheStart

Breathe Again- The Revisions

Fading Out- The Launderettes

Blood Beats- Moving Units

Sweet Talk- The Killers

The Hill- Bombay Bicycle Club

Ollie & Delilah- Testa Rosa

Savior- Monster In The Machine

Birthday (Radio Edit-) The Cruxshadows

Naturally High- Gabby Glaser

Tommy's Disease- The Paddingtons

More- Telephone

Ghetto- Sunshine

Sleepwalking- 120 Days

Invasion- Eisley

Run To- Emerson Hart

Hideaway- Eto

Tiny- The Parlotones

Little Star- Jesse Malin

A Strange Education- The Cinematics

The Fever- The Young Immortals

This Year (If We Fall In Love)- Test Your Reflex

Ocean- A Place to Bury Strangers



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In no order:

The National-Mistaken For Strangers
Bloc Party-I Still Remember
Rilo Kiley-Silver Lining
Arcade Fire-No Cars Go
Interpol-Mammoth
Amy Whinehouse-Back to Black
Kings of Leon-On Call
Iron & Wine-Boy With A Coin
The Cinematics-I Keep Forgetting
Editors-Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Band of Horses-Is There A Ghost
Peter, Bjorn and John-Amsterdam
Manic Street Preachers-Autumnsong
Blackfield-Once
Feist-My Moon My Man
Bat For Lashes-What's A Girl To Do
Jesse Mallin-Don't Let Them Take You Down(Beautiful Day)
Cold War Kids-Hang Me Up To Dry
Beck-Timebomb
VHS or Beta-Can't Believe A Single Word

LCD Soundsystem- Someone great
Hives-Tick Tick Boom
BRMC-Berlin
Patrick Wolf-magic position
Art Brut -direct hit
Maps-don't fear
Feist- 1234
Shins- sea legs
Cribs-Mens needs
Horrors-Sheena is a parasite
Southern Culture on the Skids-Tobacco road
Editors-An end has a start
Architecture in Helsinki-Heart it races
Switches-Drama queen
National- Mistaken for stangers
Vietnam-Welcome to my room
Cat Empire-Sly
Young Galaxy-outside the city
!!!-must be the moon

Cinematics - Human
The Fields - Song For The Fields
Marsheaux - Promise
Mary Onettes - Lost
Rosebuds - Cemetary Lawn
Plushgun - Dancing In A Minefield

These are my standouts for 07 but most of the tracks on all the albums are great

I have made my mix(es), and it's much more than one CD and 20 songs. I couldn't get by with any less than three CD's full of great music from 2007. Here are the track listings for my Best Of 2007 discs:

Disc 1:

1. Manic Street Preachers - "Your Love Alone (Is Not Enough)"
2. Maps - "So Low, So High"
3. Eisley - "Many Funerals"
4. Space March - "Time Will Make A Fool Out Of Me"
5. She Wants Revenge - "She Will Always Be A Broken Girl"
6. Tegan & Sara - "Hop A Plane"
7. The Aliens - "Setting Sun"
8. The Bravery - "Believe"
9. The Birthday Massacre - "Falling Down"
10. Them Terribles - "Yellow Line"
11. The Brothers Martin - "Communication"
12. The Epoxies - "Products"
13. The Cinematics - "Break"
14. The Cooper Temple Clause - "What Have You Gone And Done?"
15. The Lovemakers - "Misery Loves Company"
16. The Killers - "When You Were Young"
17. The Mary Onettes - "Lost"
18. Stars - "Take Me To The Riot"
19. The Singles - "I Want You Back Now"
20. Andrew Bird - "Imitosis"
21. Kate Nash - "Foundations"

Disc 2:

1. Band Of Horses - "Is There A Ghost?"
2. Blaqk Audio - "Stiff Kittens"
3. Bat For Lashes - "What's A Girl To Do?"
4. Caribou - "Melody Day"
5. The Coral - "Who's Gonna Find Me?"
6. Client - "Drive"
7. Cut City - "Like Ashes"
8. Shout Out Louds - "Tonight I Have To Leave It"
9. Blonde Redhead - "23"
10. Dommin - "Dyin' On The Radio"
11. Editors - "An End Has A Start"
12. The New Pornographers - "Challengers"
13. H.I.M. - "Passion's Killing Floor"
14. Hard-Fi - "Suburban Knights"
15. Sahara Hotnights - "Salty Lips"
16. Hirasawa Susumu - "The Girl In Bayakka"
17. Idlewild - "No Emotion"
18. Division Kent - "Pat The Pan-Am Pilot"
19. Matt Pond PA - "Last Light"
20. UNKLE - "Burn My Shadow"

Disc 3:

1. Kaiser Chiefs - "Ruby"
2. VHS Or Beta - "Burn It All Down"
3. The Apples In Stereo - "Energy"
4. Within Temptation - "What Have You Done?"
5. Ballad Bombs - "Change It All"
6. The Arcade Fire - "Intervention"
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Weapon Of Choice"
8. Nightwish - "Bye Bye Beautiful"
9. Calla - "A Sure Shot"
10. Of Montreal - "Heimdalsgate, Like A Promethean Curse"
11. Castaneda - "Radio"
12. New Young Pony Club - "The Bomb"
13. The Horrors - "Gloves"
14. The Len Price 3 - "If I Ain't Got You"
15. The National - "Brainy"
16. The Donnas - "What Do I Have To Do?"
17. Pinback - "From Nothing To Nowhere"
18. The Contrast - "My Peace Of Mind"
19. Interpol - "Heinrich Maneuver"
20. Schmoof - "Backseat Driver"
21. Ray - "Great Strange Dream"

Tess[8D]


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Nice list Tess! But I'm a little partial towards Tess cause she playing my stuff [:D]! She's got a great station, ya'll need to listen to it[;)]!

My top 10. Except for the first one, they're in no particular order.

1. "Dashboard" - Modest Mouse
2. "Invasion" - Eisley
3. "Strapped for Cash" - Fountains of Wayne
4. "Black Mirror" - Arcade Fire
5. "Is There a Ghost" - Band of Horses
6. "Goodbye" - Asobi Seksu
7. "Hemmingway" - Rind Stars
8. "Thinking of You" - Test Your Reflex
9. "Dancing in a Minefield" - Plushgun
10. "crushcrushcrush" - Paramore

Disappointment of the year: The [i]Challengers[/i] album by the New Pornographers.

[quote][i]Originally posted by plagiarism[/i]
<br>My top 10. Except for the first one, they're in no particular order.
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A mix...IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER?!!! Wha...? Huh....? Go back and read the fooking thread instructions as well as Thurston Moore's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mix-Tape-Thurston-Moore/dp/0789311992">Mix Tape</a>. Outrageous!


[}:)]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
A mix...IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER?!!! Wha...? Huh....? Go back and read the fooking thread instructions as well as Thurston Moore's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mix-Tape-Thurston-Moore/dp/0789311992">Mix Tape</a>. Outrageous!

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I was saving the mix tape concept for the top 100 NW songs thread.

The newer stuff is sticking in my head, so the beginning of the year is probably getting shorted. A tip of the hat in thanks to Blir for mentioning Ulrich Schnauss in an earlier posting this year- something I would never have heard about if not for that.

1. Mistaken For Strangers - The National
2. So Low, So High - Maps
3. Heinrich Maneuver - Interpol
4. Anticipation - Cut City
5. A Strange Education - The Cinematics
6. Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors - Editors
7. Golden Skans - Klaxons
8. Let Me In - Hot Hot Heat
9. Void - Mary Onettes
10. Hideaway - Eto
11. Collection of Stamps - I'm From Barcelona
12. She Says - VHS Or BETA
13. My Moon My Man - Feist
14. Stars - Ulrich Schnauss
15. Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping (Featuring N. Hannon) - AIr
16. Ooh La - The Kooks
17. Summer Bonfire - Great Lakes Myth Society
18. Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
19. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Spoon
20. Spilt Needles - The Shins
21. Everything Is Average Nowadays - Kaiser Chiefs
22. Tonight I Have to Leave It - Shout Out Louds

Blonde Redhead - 23
Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof
The Noisettes - Scratch Your Name
New Young Pony Club - The Bomb
Sea Wolf - You're a Wolf
The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing?
Minus the Bear - Knights
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Brand New - Jesus
Spoon - Don't You Evah
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Feist - 1234
The Decemberists - O Valencia!
Guster - Satellite
Foo Fighters - The Pretender
The Fields - Song for the Fields