Heavy on my rotation this week:

The Walkmen "Canadian Girl"
Crystal Antlers "Vexation"
Silver Jews "San Francisco B.C."
Okkervil River "Lost Coastlines"
Plants and Animals "Keep it Real"
Frightened Rabbit "Backwards Walk"


I know some here may rip it... but I dig the new Kings of Leon single "Sex on Fire." Good rhythm, good energy.

My favorite songs so far this year:

Okkervil River - On Tour With Zykos
Wold Parade - Language City
Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
Portishead - The Rip
Why? - These Few Presidents
The Tallest Man on Earth - This Wind
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Death Cab For Cutie - Bixby Canyon Bridge
Cut Copy - Lights and Music
MGMT - Kids
T.I. - Whatever You Like
The War on Drugs - Taking The Farm
The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful
Gnarls Barkley - Run
Laura Marling - Cross Your Fingers

I don't mean to imply that it is musically superior to anything else released in 2008, but T.I.' s new single "Whatever You Like" is about as perfect as radio-ready hip-hop gets these days. It's been stuck in my head for days. It has the same effortless cool that "What You Know" had back in '06, but this time it's a slow jam. It's a great pop single.

I like King by T.I., but that is the only album I've heard from him. I haven't heard the new single yet... will now.

Top of the top of the list right now:

Haley Bonar - "Better Half"
Tallest Man on Earth - "Pistol Dreams"
South San Gabriel - "Emma Jane"
Sun Kil Moon - "Lucky Man"
Ready Fire Aim - "As If It Were That Easy"
Langhorne Slim - "She's Gone"
Winona - "Aline Tunnel"
Colm Mac Con Iomaire - "Emer's Dream"

I generally find these more interesting than album lists, because I get to put in really obscure stuff and tracks I love off albums I loathe.

60 Comin' atcha:

01. Trifonic - "Lies"
02. Morcheeba - "Enjoy The Ride"
03. Van She - "Cat & The Eye"
04. Headstrong - "Love Calls (Floris de Haan Mix)"
05. Mono In VCF - "Cinch Ring"
06. Subheim - "YBE 76"
07. Bersarin Quartett - "Inversion"
08. The Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Mix)"
09. The Presets - "My People"
10. Adam Singer - "Lifeforce"
11. Ladytron - "Burning Up"
12. Lange - "Home"
13. Ready Fire Aim - "So Fine"
14. System 7 - "Masato Eternity"
15. Jamie Lidell - "Hurricane"
16. M83 - "Highway Of Endless Dreams"
17. Jaytech - "Drive"
18. Hooverphonic - "50 Watt"
19. Atomic Hooligan - "Too Late To Be Afraid"
20. Gift Culture - "Blissed Out"
21. UNKLE - "Blade In The Black"
22. AmpLive - "15 Stepz"
23. Plump DJs - "Torque Of The Devil"
24. Cut Copy - "Hearts On Fire"
25. Big Monster - "Rite Of Passage"
26. Siriusmo - "Lastdear"
27. Felix Da Housecat & Kris Menace - "Artificial"
28. Kris Menace & Spooky - "Stereophonic (Extended Mix)"
29. Martina Topley-Bird - "Valentine"
30. Booka Shade - "Solo City"
31. Amon Tobin - "Shut Down"
32. Dub Pistols - "Speed Of Light"
33. Was (Not Was) - "Mr. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
34. The Herbaliser - "You're Not All That"
35. Carmen Rizzo - "Ecouter"
36. Oceanlab - "I Am What I Am"
37. Bufi - "Homeless Hero"
38. Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - "Bathtub Dub"
39. Kilowatts & Vanek - "Sinnerstate"
40. Tocadisco - "Let's Get Down"
41. Hercules & Love Affair - "You Belong"
42. Jazz Liberatorz - "The Return"
43. Andy Yorke - "Found The Road"
44. Tim Davison - "Beckoning Silence"
45. Otto von Schirach - "DJ Hepatitis Tofuburger"
46. Cicada - "Same Old Scene (Cicada Remix)"
47. UNKLE - "Restless (Fake Blood Remix)"
48. Ernesto vs. Bastian - "Sound Of Soul"
49. Modwheelmood - "Crumble"
50. Deepest Blue - "Miracle (Club Mix)"
51. Kleerup - "Chords"
52. Sam Sparro - "21st Century Life"
53. Blank & Jones - "The Night Starts Here"
54. Eric Lau - "Don't Let Them"
55. The Micronauts - "Reaction"
56. Clutchy Hopkins - "Love Of A Woman"
57. Little Boots - "Stuck On Repeat"
58. SebastiAn - "Momy"
59. Digital Underground - "Four One Four"
60. Boys Noize - "Oh! (A-Trak Remix)"

... Phew.

"The Modern Leper" / Frightened Rabbit (everyone seems to have their favorites from this album)
"Simeon's Dilemma" / Why?
"Martha Ann" / David Karsten Daniels (so brief and sad and sweet)
"If Only I Knew" / Jeff Hanson
"Glorious Ballad of the Ignored" / PAS/CAL (This whole album wins. I'm having a hard time convincing others, but to spur your interest, think Belle & Sebastian + Of Montreal + Brian Wilson.)
"Don't Haunt This Place" / The Rural Alberta Advantage
"Aloyisius, Bluegrass Drummer" / Silver Jews (everyone has their personal favorites from this, too)
"I Don't Always Know What You're Saying" / Ladyhawk (this one track blows the rest of the album away)
"Teenagers Talking" / Sunny Day Sets Fire (They've earned comparisons to The New Pornographers. They hail from Italy. And Hong Kong. And Canada.)
"That's What It Is" / Immortal Technique (incendiary political hip hop)
"Sixteen" / The Indelicates
"Thou Shalt Always Kill" / Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip (hilarious for music fanatics, I think)

Those last two were previously released in prior years, but, as they say, they're new to me.

I like the Rural Alberta Advantage and Ladyhawk picks, FW, though I disagree on the quality of the rest of the Ladyhawk album. I think it's a great album with several other standouts, particularly "Faces of Death."

In order:

Crystal Antlers - Vexation
Elbow - The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
Deerhunter - Operation
Portishead - The Rip
Silver Jews - San Fransisco B.C.
Wolf Parade - Language City
Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me
Hercules & Love Affair - Raise Me Up
Sebastian Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
T.I. - Whatever You Like
Gnarls Barkley - Run
Annie - Your Girlfriend Hates Me
Stereolab - Three Women

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Hi everybody. Thank you all for the many hints you give me to fill up the ideal playlist 2008.
So far my best 20:
m79 - vampire weekend
just for me - al green
while you wait for the others - grizzly bear
mykonos - fleet foxes
skinny love - bon iver
enjoy the ride - morcheeba
fools - dodos
boneless - notwist
illgresi - sigur ros
electric feel - mgmt
sex on fire - kings of leon
anna - santogold
c'è crisi - bugo
presume too much - merz
lost - coldplay
drive-by truckers - two daughters..
holy dances - beach house
the trees were mistaken - andrew bird
l'inconnu du placard - noze
lights and music - cut copy
lost coastlines - okkervil river
this wind - the tallest man on earth
river song - dennis wilson
the pilgrim - sam roberts

more than 20 actually..

In no particular order :

Time To Pretend - Mgmt
Dr.Carter - Lil' Wayne
Fatalist Palmistry - Why?
Cheap And Cheerful - The Kills
Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris
Acceptable In The 80's - Calvin Harris
Divine - Sébastien Tellier
Creator - Santogold
Blind - Hercules & Love Affair
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
I Lust U - Neon Neon
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
My Mistakes Were Made For You - The Last Shadows Puppets
Ready For The Floor - Hot Chip
Royal Flush - Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 & Raekwon
Hummer - Foals
Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings
Hearts On Fire - Cut Copy
What Up Man - Cool Kids
No Excuses - Air France
Run - Gnarls Barkley
The Healer - Erykah Badu

Deerhunter - Vox Celeste

I know it's been done before, but it's just such a perfect remake.

A few songs I have really enjoyed lately:

The Moondoggies - "Ol' Blackbird"
Elephant Micah - "Exotic Criminals"
The Visitations - "Ms. Brown's Robot"
Blackbird Harmony - "Caution & Dispatch"
James Yorkston - "Temptation"
Lambchop - "Sharing a Gibson With Martin Luther King Jr."

AC/DC -- Rock 'N' Roll Train

AT LEAST A SONG THAT ROCKS!!!!

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Originally posted by DrAwesome:
Elephant Micah - "Exotic Criminals"

I ordered this album (technically a homemade CD-R preview package; the regular CD is forthcomgin, but how knows when) less than 3 hours after he sent out the update, and I still haven't gotten it. Other people giot it 3 days ago. I live in the same state as Elephant Micah, but I guess I should've ordered it through Third Uncle instead of his home page. Very frustrating.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by DrAwesome:
Elephant Micah - "Exotic Criminals"

I ordered this album (technically a homemade CD-R preview package; the regular CD is forthcomgin, but how knows when) less than 3 hours after he sent out the update, and I still haven't gotten it. Other people giot it 3 days ago. I live in the same state as Elephant Micah, but I guess I should've ordered it through Third Uncle instead of his home page. Very frustrating.

It's a very good album though. Definitely worth the wait, though I can understand your frustration.

Just got it in the mail a few minutes ago!

Adding to my list but not sure where yet-

"Baby Don't Go" Hacienda
"Sun Up" Blake Jones and The Trike Shop
"Hot Mess" Sam Sparro
"Baby" Diplomats of Solid Sound
"Blackbird" Julie Fowlis
"Leftovers" Johnny Flynn
"Naked" The M's
"Maybe Brazil" Johnny Dowd

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Originally posted by basilisco:
Hi everybody. Thank you all for the many hints you give me to fill up the ideal playlist 2008.
So far my best 20:
m79 - vampire weekend
just for me - al green
while you wait for the others - grizzly bear
mykonos - fleet foxes
skinny love - bon iver
enjoy the ride - morcheeba
fools - dodos
boneless - notwist
illgresi - sigur ros
electric feel - mgmt
sex on fire - kings of leon
anna - santogold
c'è crisi - bugo
presume too much - merz
lost - coldplay
drive-by truckers - two daughters..
holy dances - beach house
the trees were mistaken - andrew bird
l'inconnu du placard - noze
lights and music - cut copy
lost coastlines - okkervil river
this wind - the tallest man on earth
river song - dennis wilson
the pilgrim - sam roberts

more than 20 actually..

like your sam roberts signature!!! totally singing that song in my head now.....i don't care if they eat my bones....

nice sigur ros choice as well...

no particular order, one song per artist:

.The Notwist - the devil + you and me - The devil + you and me
.Mountain Goats - How to embrace a swamp creature - Heretic Pride
.Ladytron - runaway - Velocifero
.The Field - morning - Sound of light EEP
.Kaki King - 2 O'clock - Dreaming of revenge
.Pop Levi - You don't gotta run - Never never love
.M83 - we own the sky - Saturdays = Mike
.James Blackshaw - echo and abyss - Lithany of echoes
.Plants and animals - faerie dance - park avenue
.My morning Jacket - Highly suspicious
.One day as a lion - one day as a lion - One day as a lion (eh...)
.Portishead - machine gun - Third