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A pleasing number of people have been clamouring for this: the track listing to my annual compilation, ‘The Best Songs I Bought In 2006 Ever’. It was another good year – remember this is compiled from music I bought this year, but was not necessarily released this year.
The Best Songs I Bought In 2006 Ever
- Roscoe by Midlake from the album Trials of Van Occupanther
- This Month, Day 10 by CSS from the album Cansei De Ser Sexy
- Home Altars Of Mexiko by Art Brut from the single Good Weekend
- Dirty Barry Stole The Bluebird by The Fratellis from the single Chelsea Dagger
- Pile of Gold by The Blow from the album Paper Television
- Karma Police by Easy Star All*stars from the album Radiodread
- Cold & Wet by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy from the album The Letting Go
- Elevate by The People’s Revolutionary Choir from the single Elevate
- Such Great Heights by Iron & Wine from the single Such Great Heights
- Pull The Curtains by Grandaddy from the EP Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
- Woman by Wolfmother from the single Woman
- Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah from the album Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) by Beirut from the album Gulag Orkestar
- Young Folks by Peter Bjorn & John from the album Writer’s Block
- Cheated Hearts by Yeah Yeah Yeahs from the album Show Your Bones
- Rent a Wreck by Suburban Kids with Biblical Names from the EP #1
- Only Waiting by The Aliens from the EP Alienoid Starmonica
- Ballad Of Bitter Honey by Eef Barzelay from the album Bitter Honey
- Black Swan by Thom Yorke from the album The Eraser
- Assassin by Muse from the album Black Holes & Revelations
- (Wading Through) The Waters Of My Time by Richard Hawley from the album Coles Corner
These tracks just about squeeze on to a CD, so if you’d like a copy, put together your own compilation of the year and send it to me – you’ll get a copy of the above in return. Email me for details. Update: I stuck these in an iMix for your iTunes delectation.
Mark wrote:
Forgive my presumptiousness, but isn’t your offer blatantly and overtly illegal?
Rich wrote:
Mark – I forgive your presumptiousness but I’m less inclined to forgive your clinging to anonymity. My offer of an exchange may be illegal – I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know for sure.
But the fact remains that people have been exchanging mix tapes since home recording was invented and – despite their claims to the contrary – it hasn’t done the music industry any harm; the opposite is far more likely to be true.
Anyone who offers to exchange a compilation with me will be a music fan and someone, like me, who is on the look out for more music to buy. The only people impinged by any potential illegality are precisely the same people who will benefit from me seeking out new music. It’s not as if I’m uploading these tracks for all and sundry to download.
pauldwaite wrote:
This is free viral advertising (and the iMix gives us one button with which to buy every track here). Music companies wet themselves trying to get stuff like this going on.
If they prefer, we can all listen to music on our own, never share a CD, never talk about it. Or they can get over themselves, and realise they’re in the business of creating culture. You can’t own culture. Culture only exists because of the people who engage with it.
Yay to CSS, btw. “CSS Suxxx” is my new soundtrack to figuring out IE bugs.
MB wrote:
Much enjoying the music chap – thanks very much. The usual high quality stuff.
In response to ‘Mark’ – I normally end up buying at least 2 Album’s (sometimes more) on the strengh of Rich’s annual compilations. Now that’s not very harmful to anyone, is it? Except my bank balance of course. But then, I’m a music fan.
Mike Stenhouse wrote:
The CD and artwork are currently on my desk awaiting assembly. Thanks! You enjoy Friday?