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:
- White Rabbits, "The Plot"
- Modest Mouse, "Dashboard"
- The Noisettes, "Scratch Your Name"
- The Box Social, "kcmo"
- Rooney, "I Should Have Been After You"
- Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby"
- Robbers on High Street, "Across Your Knee"
- Eisley, "Taking Control"
- Motion City Soundtrack, "It Had to Be You"
- Idlewild, "No Emotion"
- Immaculate Machine, "Nothing Ever Happens"
- Locksley, "Don't Make Me Wait"
- Testa Rosa, "Ollie & Delilah"
- The Bird and the Bee, "La La La"
- The Icicles, "Chasing Fireflies"
- The Apples in Stereo, "Sunndal Song"
- The Super Eights, "If You're From Illinois"
- Pale Young Gentlemen, "Clap Your Hands"
- Dinosaur Jr., "This Is All I Came to Do"
- Maritime, "Pearl"
- Bloc Party, "Song For Clay (Disappear Here)"
- Nine Inch Nails, "The Great Destroyer"
Disc Two:
- Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, "I'm a Rock and Roll Mess"
- Dethklok, "Better Metal Snake"
- Yourcodenameis:Milo, "Understand"
- Foo Fighters, "Long Road to Ruin"
- Baby Teeth, "Taste the Wine"
- The New Pornographers, "Mutiny, I Promise You"
- The Rentals, "Little Bit of You in Everything"
- The Brunettes, "If You Were Alien"
- Bishop Allen, "Corazon"
- The National, "Slow Show"
- Minipop, "Ask Me a Question"
- The Eames Era, "Dear Gabby"
- Of Montreal, "Gronlandic Edit"
- Dolores O'Riordan, "In the Garden"
- 1997, "Garden of Evil"
- The Cacti Hi-Fi, "Texas"
- Arctic Monkeys, "Fluorescent Adolescent"
- Spoon, "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"
- Sleeping in the Aviary, "Pop Song"
- Kristin Hersh, "In Shock"
- Kaddisfly, "Campfire"
- Piebald, "We Cannot Read Poetry"
Posted by Aaron S. Veenstra ::: 2007:12:29:01:38