MUSIC IN 2007: 44 SHOTS IN THE DARK.

Instead of actually producing CD's this year, I did my best-of mix as a set of MP3's included on my year-end DVD. But despite the fact that this could have allowed me to just include as many tracks as I wanted, for whatever reason I still restricted it to two CD's worth of time, mixed it out, etc. In a nice show of what's happened to the music industry in the past few years, all but one of these 44 tracks are available via the iTunes store -- the missing one is from a now-defunct local band, though the other now-defunct local band managed to get their stuff online. When compiling the links for the songs, I was surprised to find how many of them also had videos available at the store -- this year's version may, be sheer coincidence, have more actual singles on it than any other edition.

Disc One:
  1. White Rabbits, "The Plot"
  2. Modest Mouse, "Dashboard"
  3. The Noisettes, "Scratch Your Name"
  4. The Box Social, "kcmo"
  5. Rooney, "I Should Have Been After You"
  6. Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby"
  7. Robbers on High Street, "Across Your Knee"
  8. Eisley, "Taking Control"
  9. Motion City Soundtrack, "It Had to Be You"
  10. Idlewild, "No Emotion"
  11. Immaculate Machine, "Nothing Ever Happens"
  12. Locksley, "Don't Make Me Wait"
  13. Testa Rosa, "Ollie & Delilah"
  14. The Bird and the Bee, "La La La"
  15. The Icicles, "Chasing Fireflies"
  16. The Apples in Stereo, "Sunndal Song"
  17. The Super Eights, "If You're From Illinois"
  18. Pale Young Gentlemen, "Clap Your Hands"
  19. Dinosaur Jr., "This Is All I Came to Do"
  20. Maritime, "Pearl"
  21. Bloc Party, "Song For Clay (Disappear Here)"
  22. Nine Inch Nails, "The Great Destroyer"

Disc Two:

  1. Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, "I'm a Rock and Roll Mess"
  2. Dethklok, "Better Metal Snake"
  3. Yourcodenameis:Milo, "Understand"
  4. Foo Fighters, "Long Road to Ruin"
  5. Baby Teeth, "Taste the Wine"
  6. The New Pornographers, "Mutiny, I Promise You"
  7. The Rentals, "Little Bit of You in Everything"
  8. The Brunettes, "If You Were Alien"
  9. Bishop Allen, "Corazon"
  10. The National, "Slow Show"
  11. Minipop, "Ask Me a Question"
  12. The Eames Era, "Dear Gabby"
  13. Of Montreal, "Gronlandic Edit"
  14. Dolores O'Riordan, "In the Garden"
  15. 1997, "Garden of Evil"
  16. The Cacti Hi-Fi, "Texas"
  17. Arctic Monkeys, "Fluorescent Adolescent"
  18. Spoon, "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"
  19. Sleeping in the Aviary, "Pop Song"
  20. Kristin Hersh, "In Shock"
  21. Kaddisfly, "Campfire"
  22. Piebald, "We Cannot Read Poetry"

Posted by Aaron S. Veenstra ::: 2007:12:29:01:38