Your year-end CD-80

Generally this will tend to contain your favourite tracks, but it's all about the sequencing, the use of non-obvious songs in crucial positions, the 80-minute limit, the creation of a whole new album.

My year-end '07 mix-CD was completely awesome, and I still listen to it regularly. It'll be interesting to see whether '08 holds up so well. I've had to make some interesting decisions, especially with regards track four...

1. Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day (06.25)
2. Silvery - Revolving Sleepy Signs (04.10)
3. Virgin Passages - This Is Not The End Of The World Again (06.49)
4. Esoteric - Circle (20.45)
5. Los Campesinos - Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time (02.37)
6. Elbow - The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver (05.14)
7. Thomas White - The Silence Stops Tonight (04.32)
8. Late Of The Pier - The Enemy Are The Future (06.01)
9. The Chap - Proper Rock (03.55)
10. Torche - Amnesian (06.26)
11. Youthmovies - Surtsey (05.36)
12. Volcano! - Palimpsests (07.18)

yes there is a 20-minute song early on in the mix, yes it is a deliberate "lives or dies by this" move

ok I have just made a change to this, Elbow wasn't working at all, so it is directly replaced (same position) by:

6. The Hold Steady - Lord I'm Discouraged (05.08)

playlist now 50% more passantino-friendly

DISC ONE
1. TV On The Radio - Halfway Home
2. Gang Gag Dance - First Communion
3. Marnie Stern - Transformer
4. Extra Life - The Refrain
5. The Breeders - Overglazed
6. Be Your Own Pet - What's Your Damage?
7. Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death
8. The Oh Sees - Block Of Ice
9. The Roots - 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)
10. Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me (Throw Da Water On 'Em)
11. GZA ft. RZA and Irfane Khan-Acito) - Life Is A Movie
12. Guilty Simpson - Footwork
13. Midnight Juggernauts - Road To Recovery
14. Syclops - The Fly
15. Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns (In The Celestial City)
16. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
17. Music Go Music - Light Of Love
18. Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To?
19. Future Islands - Beach Foam
20. Ponytail - Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel)

DISC TWO
1. Rot - Fairytales
2. Trash Talk - All The King's Men
3. Shitstorm - Paranois Existence
4. Wasteoid - Bangover
5. Jarboe - Mahakali, Of Terrifying Countenance
6. Made Out Of Babies - Invisible Ink
7. Torche - Across The Shields
8. Helms Alee - A Weirding Away
9. Harvey Milk - Decades
10. Danava - The Emerald Snow Of Sleep
11. ABN - 3-16s
12. Heltah Skeltah - D.I.R.T.
13. David Banner ft. Chamillionaire - Ball With Me
14. Nappy Roots - Flex
15. N.E.R.D - Spaz
16. Poni Hoax - Pretty Tall Girls
17. Portishead - Machine Gun
18. Kanye West ft. Young Jeezy - Amazing
19. Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
20. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
21. James Blackshaw - Infinite Circle

TY! I need to give that Ponytail a few more listens...

The Emerald Snow Of Sleep is REALLY cool btw, was quite unlucky to miss out on any of my lists, some of the best-sounding keyboards in forever

and yeah that is easily the best track on what is imo a very disappointing TVOTR album :(

plus everyone's on about james blackshaw mebbe i shd find out what the deal is

vol. 1 of several

Erykah Badu, "Amerykahn Promise"
Anthony Hamilton, "Soul's on Fire"
Tommy Torres, "Pegadito"
Solange, "I Decided Part 2"
Lila Downs, "Minimum Wage"
Seun Kuti, "African Problem"
George Clinton f/ Sly Stone & El Debarge, "Ain't That Peculiar"
Monareta, "Raimundo Llevate al Mundo"
Emiliana Torrini, "Fireheads"
Plastilina Mosh, "My Party"
Gipsy.cz, "Barvoslepej svet"
Ike Reilly, "Lust Song '78"
Usher, "Moving Mountains"
Esperanza Spalding, "I Know You Know"
The Long Blondes, "I Liked the Boys"
Labelle, "Candlelight"
Tricky, "Council Estate"
Eddie Floyd, "Since You Been Gone"
The B-52's, "Keep This Party Going"

1. Robin Thicke ft. Mary J. Blige and Wale, "Magic (Mark Ronson Remix)" (Interscope) 3:53
2. Hot Chip, "One Pure Thought (Supermayer Remix)" (EMI) 7:50
3. Spoon, "Don't You Evah (Ted Leo's I Want It Hotter Remix)" (Merge) 4:01
4. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, "How Long Do I Have To Wait For You (Ticklah Remix)" (Daptone) 5:42
5. Paleface & Kyla, "Do You Mind (Crazi Cousinz Remix)" (Maximum Bass) 7:15
6. Lil Wayne, "A Milli (Flying Lotus' Robo Tussin Remix)" (Warp/MP3) 3:06
7. Zomby, "Spliff Dub (Rustie Remix)" (Hyperdub) 3:33
8. Burial, "Archangel (Boy 8-Bit's Simple Remix)" (MP3) 4:50
9. The Juan Maclean, "Happy House (Lee Douglas Remix)" (DFA) 6:10
10. Matias Aguayo, "Minimal (DJ Koze Radio Edit)" (Kompakt) 4:20
11. Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts, "Les Gans (Philip Sherburne Remix)" (Musique Risquée) 8:53
12. Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)" (DFA) 7:56
13. Alphabeat, "Boyfriend (Pete Hammond 7" Radio Edit)" (Copenhagen/EMI) 3:13
14. The Whitest Boy Alive, "Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)" (Modular) 8:29

total time: 79:04

no MJB Swizz Beats remix?

I like that one too! A lot of good stuff got bumped for my final version.

Whiney's mix is not bad at all, I like the looks of it.

I'll come up with my own shortly.

I was aiming for a personal "moods of 2008" feel for the mix, as opposed to simply selecting my favourite tracks. The running time is 80:04, but the last track ends with about 30 seconds of silence, so AFAIC I'm under the time limit.

1. Kardinal Offishall, "Set It Off (feat. Clipse)" (4:37)
2. Nachtmystium, "One of These Nights" (1:50)
3. Nachtmystium, "Assassins" (8:07)
4. No Age, "Miner" (1:50)
5. Animal Collective, "Water Curses" (3:25)
6. Growing, "Reconstruction" (5:56)
7. Mike Shannon, "Regalos de Pandora" (7:52)
8. David K, "Mayann (Patrick Zigon Remix)" (7:13)
9. The Mole, "Baby, You're the One" (13:21)
10. James, "Of Monsters and Heroes and Men" (4:36)
11. M83, "Too Late" (4:59)
12. Pyramids, "The Echo of Something Lovely (Remixed by Jesu)" (6:13)
13. Lil Wayne, "Mr. Carter (feat. Jay-Z)" (5:16)
14. Scarlett Johansson, "Who are You?" (4:49)

This is a great idea btw.

Also Louis, I thought that Chap album was the kind of thing you'd like for a little while and get sick of pretty quick.

y'all should rip em with ,like, http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ and share em at http://www.zshare.net

I'm stalling on the LC-HS midsection (too popular/too mainstream/not really adding anything much), but I haven't quite found a suitable 7-minute replacement(s). The trouble is, I really want the rest to stay. I COULD drop those two and Virgin Passages for the 14-minute ultra-noise-jam "Toilet Door Tits" by Shit And Shine (which I really would like to include) but that's really unfairly weighting it on two monsters, and the way it bleeds from Silvery -> Virgin Passages -> Circle is essential IMO. Plus, VP is probably the most obscure, arguably out-there thing here. Oh, conundrums.

IKR, I totally bat for that Chap album, it's awesome. Get sick of pretty quick = Of Montreal. The Chap has genuine staying-power.

lol staying power!

shred my document

There's some cool stuff on the new Excepter, maybe I should combine with Curtis' album and go ILX on this shit

The LC stays, I have decided. It works nicely, especially after the Esoteric monster. It's that damned 5-minute #6 position I can't sort. Even Mogwai are jostling for inclusion, which definitely shouldn't happen.

If I get around to relaunching my blog over break, I'll up the zips to my CD-Rs

1. The Aluminum Group, “Milligram of Happiness”
2. The Sea and Cake, “New Schools”
3. Alla, “Una Dia Otra Noche”
4. No Kids, “For Halloween”
5. Stereolab, “Self-Portrait with ‘electric brain’”
6. Sara Bareilles, “Love Song”
7. Alphabeat, “10,000 Nights of Thunder”
8. Mariah Carey, “Touch My Body”
9. Lykke Li, “Little Bit”
10. D. Lissvik, “Track 08”
11. Jose Gonzalez, “Killing for Love (Todd Terje Brokeback Mix)”
12. Sigur Ros, “Gobbledigook”
13. Deerhoof, “Offend Maggie”
14. Kaki King, “Life Being What It Is”
15. Samamidon, “Wedding Dress”
16. Final Fantasy, “The Butcher”
17. Beck, “Chemtrails”
18. The Week That Was, “Scratch the Surface”
19. Dungen, “Satt Att Se”
20. Barbara Morgenstern, “Come to Berlin”
21. Portishead, “Nylon Smile”
22. Gang Gang Dance, “House Jam”
23. Air France, “No Excuses”
24. Sally Shapiro, “Hold Me So Tight (Cansecos Remix)”
25. Ladyhawke, “Paris Is Burning”
26. Estelle ft. Kanye West, “American Boy”
27. N*E*R*D, “You Know What”
28. John Legend ft. Andre 3000, “Green Light”
29. Ne-Yo, “Closer”
30. Hercules and Love Affair, “Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)”
31. Rihanna, “Don’t Stop the Music”
32. The Killers, “Human”
33. Annie, “Bad Times”
34. The Veronicas, “Untouched”
35. Hot Chip, “One Pure Thought”
36. Girl Talk, “Don’t Stop”
37. The Knux, “Cappuccino”
38. T.I. ft. Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, “Swagger Like Us”
39. M.I.A., “Paper Planes (DFA Remix)”
40. Q-Tip, “Gettin’ Up”
41. Kanye West, “Love Lockdown”
42. The Juan Maclean, “Happy House”
43. Hercules and Love Affair, “Athene”
44. Morgan Geist ft. Jeremy Greenspan, “Most of All”
45. Kelley Polar, “Sea of Sine Waves”
46. Goldfrapp, “A&E”
47. Fleet Foxes, “White Winter Hymnal”
48. Department of Eagles, “No One Does It Like You”
49. Festival, “Valentine”
50. Vivian Girls, “Where Do You Run To”
51. Fake Fictions, “(Don’t Drink the) Office Coffee”
52. No Age, “Teen Creeps”
53. Be Your Own Pet, “Becky”
54. Tokyo Police Club, “Tessellate”
55. Vampire Weekend, “Walcott”
56. MGMT, “Time to Pretend”
57. Ra Ra Riot, “Ghost Under Rocks”
58. Coldplay, “Violet Hill”
59. Shearwater, “The Snow Leopard”
60. Cat Power, “New York”
61. Joan As Police Woman, “Magpies”
62. She & Him, “I Thought I Saw Your Face Today”
63. Destroyer, “Dark Leaves from a Thread”
64. Los Campesinos!, “Death to Los Campesinos!”
65. Deerhunter, “Nothing Ever Happened”
66. Big Science, “DNC”
67. CSS, “Rat Is Dead”
68. Radiohead, “Bangers & Mash”
69. The Notwist, “Good Lies”
70. Death Cab for Cutie, “I Will Possess Your Heart”
71. Fujiya & Miyagi, “Knickerbocker”
72. TV on the Radio, “Golden Age”
73. Gnarls Barkley, “Run”
74. The Ting Tings, “That’s Not My Name”
75. Santogold, “L.E.S. Artistes”
76. Miley Cyrus, “See You Again”
77. Max Tundra, “Which Song”
78. Cut Copy, “Hearts on Fire”
79. Empire of the Sun, “Walking on a Dream”
80. The Whitest Boy Alive, “Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)”
81. M83, “Kim & Jessie”
82. Atlas Sound, “Quarantined”
83. Erykah Badu, “The Healer”
84. The-Dream, “I Luv Your Girl”
85. Cassie, “Official Girl”
86. Junior Boys, “No Kinda Man”
87. Luomo ft. Jake Shears, “If I Can’t”
88. Booka Shade, “Outskirts”

(I do CDR-700s.)

a quite clicky compilation 2008

1. olafur arnalds - himininn er ad hrynja en stjornurnar fara per vel
2. leila - teases me
3. susanna - can't shake loose
4. prosumer and murat tepeli - serenity
5. luomo (featuring apparat) - love you all
6. lee jones - mdmazing
7. sasse - berlin
8. sten - way to the stars
9. ost & kjex - sicksnacks
[some versions delete tracks 6 & 7 and add ben watt - guinea pig here]
10. noze - you have to dance
11. matias aguayo - minimal (dj koze maxi version)
12. portishead - machine gun
13. raz o'hara and the odd orchestra - where he at
14. earl brutus - navyhead

yr track 14 is a masterpiece no doubt but it has the faint whiff of 1997 about it...

Current Track 6 incumbent: Shit And Shine - The Germans Call It A Swimming Head (04.39)

I traditionally do a 2-disc set for year-end giving, but it's by no means confined to (or even focused on) current songs. Just stuff that has caught my ear and sounds good together.*

2008 disc 1: Chwrw nid Llaeth
King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 Neutral Milk Hotel 2:01
Pam Berry The Shins 0:57
Changing The Moondoggies 4:37
God's Gonna Cut You Down Johnny Cash 2:39
The Candle And The Flame fIREHOSE 3:14
Bleeding Powers Ted Leo & the Pharmacists 2:52
Get Up Jake (Outtake­ - Stereo Mix) The Band 2:18
Rosalie Alejandro Escovedo 3:49
Abandoned Love Bob Dylan 4:30
Fifty Years After The Fair Aimee Mann 3:46
More Axe Bob Marley & The Wailers 3:32
All These Governors The Evens 3:06
More Is More Komeda 4:30
Working To Work Field Music 2:53
Kicker of Elves Guided By Voices 1:04
Listen To The Band The Monkees 2:34
Gwn Mi Wn Gruff Rhys 2:34
Tiny Spark Brendan Benson 3:16
My Old Jacknife Ladyhawk 2:51
End Of Part One The Violet Archers 4:32

disc 2: If I Lose
Three More Springs Ghostkeeper 4:04
Don't You Evah (Ted Leo's I Want It Hotter Remix) Spoon 4:01
Download Super Furry Animals 3:19
Genius Warren Zevon 5:02
Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin The Magnetic Fields 1:46
Impossible Germany (live at Troutdale) Wilco 6:19
My Only Offer Mates of State 2:59
See My Friends (live) Richard Thompson 4:48
Mistress And Maid (demo) Elvis Costello 2:20
The State I Am In (BBC Version) Belle and Sebastian 4:44
These Days Nico 3:33
Gamblin' Man Gillian Welch 4:32
Glory, Glory Speeches from Don't Look Now Kenneth Patchen 10:41

*"good" being a highly subjective thing

Lloyd, "Girls Around the World" (f/ Lil Wayne) 3:49
Mary J. Blige, "Till the Morning 4:17
T-Pain, "Freeze" (f/ Chris Brown) 3:38
Grind Mode, "I'm So High" 5:49
Janet Jackson, "Rock With You" 3:51
The-Dream, "Fast Car" 4:50
Keri Hilson, "Turnin' Me On" (f/ Lil Wayne) 4:17
Teyana Taylor, "Google Me" 3:23
Jazmine Sullivan, "Need U Bad" 4:17
Muhsinah, "Construction" 3:24
Labelle, "Candlelight" 4:41
Robin Thicke, "Sidestep" 4:11
Ne-Yo, "Fade Into the Background" 3:18
The Foreign Exchange, "If She Breaks Your Heart" (f/ Yahzarah) 5:20
Erykah Badu, "The Cell" 4:20
Solange, "Champagnechronicnightcap" 4:09
J*Davey, "No More" 6:30
Al Green, "Lay It Down" 4:30

Total Running Time: 78:34

Grind Mode, "I'm So High" 5:49
Janet Jackson, "Rock With You" 3:51
The-Dream, "Fast Car" 4:50

^^^hoos this is a nice section

(no hoos)

nice one, Rev. I thought of making mine all R&B but decided to go w/what I felt surer about in terms of overview.

abandoned love is amazing. i think i heard it a couple of years ago on a desire outtakes boot, and it would've made my end of year list. there's a live version somewhere.

Afte MUCH deliberation, mostly concerning track segues, settled on

1. Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day (06.25)
2. Silvery - Revolving Sleepy Signs (04.10)
3. Virgin Passages - This Is Not The End Of The World Again (06.49)
4. Esoteric - Circle (20.45)
5. Mogwai - I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead (06.44)
6. Thomas White - The Silence Stops Tonight (04.32)
7. Late Of The Pier - The Enemy Are The Future (06.01)
8. The Chap - Proper Rock (03.55)
9. Torche - Amnesian (06.26)
10. Youthmovies - Surtsey (05.36)
11. Volcano! - Palimpsests (07.18)

Total time: (78:37)

If I get annoyed by presence of Mogwai I shall remove it and make no further alterations, sticking with a 72-minute CD-80. The seguing works both ways. I do very much like the Mogwai song, though, so for now it's a keeper.

lol i thought that didnt seem very hoos

cd1

1. ott - 382 seaside
2. ott - the queen of all everything
3. pit baumgartner - booboomca
4. max melvin - jupiter dub
5. gabor szabo - breezin'
6. chungking - vodoo
7. shawn lee and clutchy hopkins - dollar short
8. fresh moods - u gone
9. disrupt - the stars my destination
10. club las belugas - let love lead the way
11. fresh moods - livechange
12. redlounge orchestra - liquid cool
13. " - l'arrivee
14. aaron bingle & venom space - inner oceanscene
15. olive - youre not alone
--------
1:08:40

cd2

1. hardage feat. jocelyn brown - beautiful morning
2. nicola conte - bossa per due
3. zen-men - hold me (ambient mix)
4. david snell - international flight
5. jose feliciano - california dreamin
6. julie london - light my fire
7. the egg - say you will
8. slackwax - night out
9. sven libaek - misty canyon
10. omega 3 - silent blue
11. tom eno - tijuana 11
12. imam baildi - den thelo pia na xanartheis
13. bebel gilberto - simplesmente
14. stephane pompougnac - morenito and clementine
15. peter gust - nightlife
16. solarians - and then i fell
17. sunlounger - another day on the terrace
18. system 7 vs zen lemonade - chill dome
19. rue du soleil - missing
20. opus III - alzir
21. plastyc buddha - rhodes royce
---------
1:18:24

here we go:

1. Solange - Would've Been The One
2. Rahpael Saadiq - Big Easy
3. Santogold - You'll Find A Way
4. Janelle Monae - Many Moons
5. Ciara - Echo
6. Sophia Fresh - What It Is (feat. Kanye West)
7. Stuey Rock - Nymphomaniac (feat. Rob Fetti)
8. Ken Doll - If This Pussy Could Talk
9. Janet Jackson - Rock With U
10. Muffy - Dope Boi
11. Teedra Moses - So Cool
12. Danity Kane - Striptease
13. Flying Lotus - Camel
14. Musiq - Until
15. Raheem Devaughn - Love Drug
16. Jazmine Sullivan - Live A Lie
17. Robin Thicke - Dreamworld
18. Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul?
19. Brandy - A Capella (Something's Missing)
20. Erykah Badu - That Hump
21. Portishead - Deep Water

total runtime is somewhere between 79 and 80 mins.

I would probably use "Deep Water" to open my own mix. The calm before the storm, if you will.

the last few songs on my song are pretty heavy, culminating with "that hump" which is brutal, so I thought "deep water" would kind of lighten the mood a little and end on a good note

on my mix**

mine:

1. Chrome Hoof 'Circus 9000'
2. Tinariwen 'Chet Boghassa'
3. Moondog 'Enough About Human Rights'
4. Nurse With Wound 'Black Teeth'
5. Duncan Browne 'Cherry Blossom Fool'
6. Selda 'Yaz Gazeteci Yaz'
7. Dee Dee Young 'You Haven't Seen Nothing'
8. Mahmoud Ahmed 'Mar tèb yelal kafesh'
9. The Kinks 'This Time Tomorrow'
10. Dengue Fever 'Tiger Phone Card'
11. Caribou 'Melody Day'
12. The Fiery Furnaces 'Ex-Guru'
13. The Auteurs 'Lenny Valentino'
14. The Gresham Flyers 'Shiftwork'
15 David Vorhaus, Igor Stravinsky, & the Fairlight 'ORCH5'
16. SCOOTER 'Jump That Rock!'
17. Portishead 'Half Day Closing'
18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'The Singer'
19. Oneida 'Preteen Weaponry Part 2'
20. Sajuro 'Sakura: Cherry Blossoms'
21. Some random load of Ethiopian clergymen, possibly accompanied by a congregation of worshippers '[Liturgical music from a religious service of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church]'

These are tunes new to me over the last year, mostly though not entirely released pre-2008. More details: http://inuitbikini.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-favourite-tunes-of-2008.html

Chrome Hoof!

Nobody posting download links?

I can't remember a single thing I heard from 2008, but I guess I don't pay much attention.

Mine could change again, depending on how good the a.P.A.t.T. record I just ordered from Amazon is. If anything does change, it'll probably come through a Mogwai expulsion. ;_;

Never a bad thing, to cut out Mogwai. . . ; )

Actually--Mogwai still exist? Wow.

Yeah, that new Mogwai record was dire.

It was OK, and had one good song, but I'm seriously doubting whether having that song in my list isn't a seriously retrograde step. I think it'll have to go. It feels unclean.

FINALLY, this is the DEFINITIVE version, just in time for New Year! No further changes for sure now:

1. Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day (06.25)
2. Silvery - Revolving Sleepy Signs (04.10)
3. Virgin Passages - This Is Not The End Of The World Again (06.49)
4. Esoteric - Circle (20.45)
5. a.P.A.t.T. - And She Looked At The Swan (03.52)
6. Kayo Dot - The Awkward Wind Wheel (03.29)
7. Thomas White - The Silence Stops Tonight (04.32)
8. Late Of The Pier - The Enemy Are The Future (06.01)
9. The Chap - Proper Rock (03.55)
10. Torche - Amnesian (06.26)
11. Youthmovies - Surtsey (05.36)
12. Volcano! - Palimpsests (07.18)

Total time (79.14)

And very nicely it works too! Complete satisfaction! :D I may even up it if any of you fancy a listen, although as s1ocki said "I can only imagine the utter shit you listen to"... :-P