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Monday, February 16, 2009

Best of 2008 Mix

I know I am posting this really late. I am so late that I was beat by the Village Voice, which is never a good sign. Anyway, here are the songs from my best of 2008 Mix.

Artist - Song - Album
State Bird - I Saw the Light - Mostly Ghostly
Army Navy -Snakes of Hawaii - Army Navy
Ra Ra Riot - Suspended In Gaffa - The Rhumb Line
Blackblack - The Energy Song - Blackblack
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Sia - The Girl You Lost To Cocaine - Some People Have Real Problems
Port O'Brien - Close The Lid - All We Could Do Was Sing
Of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance - Skeletal Lamping
Ringo Starr - Love Is - Liverpool 8
Karl Blau - Make Love That Lasts - Nature's Got Away
Jason Anderson - This Will Never Be Our Town - The Hopeful and the Unafraid
Okkervil River - Pop Lie - The Stand Ins
The Avett Brothers - Pretty Girl At The Airport - Mignonette
British Sea Power - A Trip Out - Do You Like Rock Music?
The War On Drugs - Arms Like Boulders - Barrel of Batteries
Your Beautiful Ex - I Don't Know - Electric Whateverland
Old Crow Medicine Show - Methamphetamine - Tennessee Pusher
The Old Haunts - Hurricane Eyes - Poisonous Times
What Made Milwaukee Famous - And The Grief Goes On... - What Doesn't Kill Us
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place - Hometowns
The Dodos - Undeclared - Visiter

Labels: 2008, best of 2008, best of CD Challange, end of year, mix, mixcd

- Rich, 6:56 PM

Sunday, March 09, 2008

End of year mixes 2007

I know this is late, but I thought this was still important for me to publish this

Best of 2007

Phenomena - Akron/Family
Can You Feel It? - Apples In Stereo
Shine In Exile - Beat the Devil
Fiery Crash - Andrew Bird
Detlef Schrempf - Band Of Horses
Cherbourg - Beirut
Worst Trip - Dr. Dog
Sad Songs - The Frames
Jesus Saves, I Spend - St. Vincent
Oh No - Lavender Diamond
Let's Duet - Dewey Cox
Pink Light - Laura Veirs
Florida - Modest Mouse
Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse - Of Montreal
Our Mouths Were Wet - Oh No! Oh My!
The Ruby Ring Man - Page France
Section 23: Get Up And Go - The Polyphonic Spree
Turn On Me - The Shins
The Shadow Government - They Might Be Giants
All My Mistakes - The Avett Brothers
These Truths - Luddite Machine

2007 SXSW

HeavyMetal - Bisc1
Robin Zander - The Breakup Society
Space Mission - Brute Force & Daughter of Force
Teenage Crimewave - CPC Gangbangs
Patience - Damien Dempsey
Love In New Wave - Electrico
Eight Arms To Hold You - The Gear
Shaking Like A Flame - Glossary
Summer of the Evening - Goldenboy
Elephant In White - Hot IQs
According To Plan - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Ozark Empire - Listener
Our Eyes Fill Up With Water - Tulsa


2007 New to me

This Is Not The End - Laura Gibson
People Get Ready - The Frames
Don't Let Me Explode - The Hold Steady
Dance For Me - Pony Up!
Growin' Old - Pigeon John
Borneo - The Fiery Furnaces
Postcards from Italy - Beirut
Trampoline - Page France
Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go - Jason Molina
Tangled - The Black Heart Procession
Lord Stop The Bar - Our Lady of the Highway
Second Option - Caitlin Cary And Thad Cockrell
Vervain (Volume 9) - MF Doom
Take It Off - Tender Forever
funeral face - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Icebound Stream - Laura Veirs
Love And War (11/11/46) - Rilo Kiley
New Partner - The Frames
Song My Friends Taught Me - Laura Veirs

Labels: 2007, best of 2007, best of CD Challange, mixcd, music, tag overload

- Rich, 12:31 AM

Monday, February 11, 2008

Past end of year mixes

Here are a few of my best of the year mixes. I am not sure what you can learn about my by looking at these links. I think that you can learn something about me by looking at my musical tastes.

Best of 2003, Best of 2004 Best of 2005, Best of 2006.

Labels: Best of, best of 2004, best of 2005, best of 2006, best of CD Challange, link, mix, mixcd, music

- Rich, 10:02 PM

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Best of 2006 Mixes

It is time again for my best of the year mixes. I did three mixes this year. I did Best of 2006, New to Me 2006, and the Best of the SXSW 2006 Bittorrent.



Best of 2006
I listened to about 65 albums released in 2006. I know that I listen to a lot of music. That should not surprise anyone. There was a lot of good music that came out this year. This mix only has a fraction of the music I would say it good.

Best of 2006

1. Fraud in The 80’s – Mates Of State
2. A Certain Romance – Arctic Monkeys
3. Gravity’s Gone – Drive by Truckers
4. E.N.Y House – Masta Killer
5. Lost In Boston – The Walkmen
6. Girl In A War – Josh Ritter
7. List of Baby Names – Bound Stems
8. Notion – Karl Blau
9. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood – Neko Case
10. Montgomery – Magnolia Electric Co
11. Chips Ahoy – The Hold Steady
12. Woke Up New – Mountain Goats
13. The Charging Sky – Jenny Lewis
14. Smiley Faces – Gnarls Barkley
15. The Competition – Kimya Dawson
16. Attraction is Ephemeral – Mecca Normal
17. Rubies - Destoryer
18. Rough Jems – Islands
19. The Greatest – Cat Power

New To Me 2006

No matter how much music I hear, something is always missed. That is why I make this mix. I think it is just as important as the best of the year mix.

New To Me 2006
1. If I’m Waiting – Jason Anderson
2. Huddle Formation – The Go! Team
3. Over and Over - Heavenly
4. So Long – Jason Anderson
5. Like A Monkey In A Zoo – K. McCarty
6. 1 Corinthians 13: 8-10 – Mountain Goats
7. I Wish I Was The Moon – Neko Case
8. Section 12 (Hold Me Now) – The Polyphonic Spree
9. Small Stakes - Spoon
10. The End Has No End – The Strokes
11. Hearts of Oak – Ted Leo / Pharmacists
12. Car Trouble – All Girl Summer Fun Band
13. You Held the World In Your Arms - Idlewild
14. Madam Truffle – Major Organ
15. At The Bottom of Everything – Bright Eyes
16. Love Steals Us From Loneliness - Idlewild
17. Off The Record – My Morning Jacket
18. The Purple Bottle – Animal Collective
19. Parisian Dream – Laura Veirs
20. Grounds For Divorce – Wolf Parade
21. Sorry Entertainer – Daniel Johnson


SXSW 2006

There are so many good bands that I have never heard of before. This is a good way to find some of them. I could spend my whole year just listening to the music from SXSW. I think that is a good thing.

SXSW 2006

1. Walkin’ On Nails – Mac Lethal
2. Binary Girl – Mathematicians
3. Memorize The City – The Organ
4. Agony – Awol One
5. Harvard Hand – The Foxymorons
6. I’ve Been Lost - +/-
7. Another Seven Year- Aberdeen City
8. na – Band of Horses
9. Postcards from Italy – Beirut
10. Birmingham – The Deaths
11. Girls & Sunshine – Dirty On Purpose
12. Hide and Seek – The Eighteenth Day
13. Buckeyed Rabbit – Grassy Knoll Boys
14. Try Telling That To My Baby – The Heavy Blinkers
15. Old Britannia – Hey Negrita
16. No Way Out – Love of Diagrams
17. Broken Plates – Magenta Lane
18. A Captive Audience – The Velvet Teen
19. No Good Here – Tim Fite
20. Red Drop - The Standard

If people want me to write about every song on this list let me know. I will get started on that entry.

Labels: 2006, best of 2006, best of CD Challange, mix, mixcd, music

- Rich, 6:34 PM

Friday, January 13, 2006

Best of 2004

That is right, this is my best of 2004 listing. I noticed that I never put my best of 2004 mixes up on the web last year. I just wanted to do this while I worked on my best of 2005 mix. I hope you enjoy these year old best of mix. Thanks

Chemical No 4 (and other Ingredients of life) Best of 2004

1. Somebody Told Me – The Killers
2. The Good Times Are Killing Me – Modest Mouse
3. The Rat – The Walkmen
4. C’mere – Interpol
5. Company In My Back – Wilco
6. Miracle Drug – A.C. Newman
7. Wonderful – Beta Band
8. Autumn’s Child – Devendra Banhart
9. German Test Drive - Spymob
10. Blinded By The Lights – The Streets
11. Barfly Blues – The Hold Steady
12. Cassiopia – Joanna Newsome
13. Yr Million Sweetnesses – Diane Cluck
14. Dear Landlord – Mirah with the Black Cat Orchestra
15. Terrible Angels - CocoRosie
16. Against All Odds – The Postal Service
17. Mad World – Gary Jules
18. Where Is The Line - Bjork
19. High Speed Train – R.E.M.
20. Another Day - AIR
21. Range Life (L.A.’s Desert Origins) – Pavement

I did not expect to hear that - New To Me 2004

1. Ink & Needles – Diane Cluck
2. So Much Water – M. Ward
3. Let A Good Thing Go – Gemma Hayes
4. Mass Romantic – The New Pornographers
5. Please – Apples In Stereo
6. Venus Stop The Train - Wilco
7. 405 – Death Cab For Cutie
8. Central Reservation – Beth Orton
9. Denver – The Beauty Shop
10. Already Dead – Beck
11. Symbolistic White Walls – Matthew Good Band
12. Slob - Weezer
13. I Wouldn’t Go Out With Me Either - Viewfinder
14. Love Athena – Olivia Tremor Control
15. Just Like Henry – Dressy Bessy
16. Brainwashed – George Harrison
17. Happiness – Whistler
18. The Aristocratic Swells – Beulah
19. Battlefield Nurse – Diane Cluck

Labels: 2004, Best of, best of 2004, best of CD Challange, cd, mixcd, music, tag overload

- Rich, 12:02 AM

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