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So here it is again: the track listing to my annual compilation, ‘The Best Songs I Bought In 2007 Ever’. There’s some excellent tunes there (Aliens, Maccabees and Decemberists in particular), but somehow it’s a bit underwhelming – there’s certainly not the diversity I’d normally like. I guess my music buying was rather too consistent/unadventurous this year.
The Best Songs I Bought In 2007 Ever
- It’s Getting Light Outside by Clearlake from the album Amber
- Bodysnatchers by Radiohead from the album In Rainbows
- The Sporting Life by The Decemberists from the album Picaresque
- Alarm Clock by Rumble Strips from the album Girls And Weather
- Baby Ate My Eightball by Super Furry Animals from the album Hey Venus
- The World’s Greatest by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy from the EP Ask Forgiveness
- Rox by The Aliens from the album Astronomy for Dogs
- Catastrophe and the Cure by Explosions In The Sky from the album All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- Higgins vs Reardon by Darren Hayman from the album Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern
- Cult Status by The 1990’s from the album Cookies
- Latchmere by The Maccabees from the album Colour It In
- A Hold of You by Kurt Wagner from the album Kurt
- Funerals by Jason Loewenstein from the album At Sixes and Sevens
- Jab Jab by Archie Bronson Outfit from the album Derdang Derdang
- Battle Scars by The Chemical Brothers from the album We Are The Night
- Beacon In The Darkness by Gruff Rhys from the album Candylion
- Roses by Cherry Ghost from the album Thirst for Romance
- Intervention by Arcade Fire from the album Neon Bible
- 505 by Arctic Monkeys from the album Favourite Worst Nightmare
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.
Colly wrote:
I dunno Rich – pretty darned good selection as far as I’m concerned (received it on Friday and have been playing it a fair bit – must burn to iTunes).
Glad you fell for The Maccabees after I banged on about them (assuming it was after that as you said last year). I love that they just bravely released a tweaked version of Toothpaste Kisses as a single – such a gentle, lovely song.
505 is of course tremendous (you fell for that after the Jools performance same as me, right?), and Baby Ate My Eightball is sheer SFA repetitive-class in the style of Chewing Gum Weekend (but I prefer Run Away from Hey Venus).
Not fallen for any artists I didn’t know yet, save for maybe the Darren Hayman track. I’ll keep listening, and its about time I sent you a compilation of my own!
pauldwaite wrote:
I think it was just a quiet year for music. A few not-earth-shattering second albums, and not many exciting debuts.
Then again, I didn’t listen to much this year.
Rich wrote:
Thanks Colly – glad you liked it (surprised you got it Friday as I only posted it Thursday night – Royal Mail mebbe not so crap after all).
Your prompting about the Maccabees made me go and see them at the Great Escape and they were fantastic. Probably my favourite album of the year.
Bang on. Fabulous version – those boys really are very good.
Sure is. You’ve promised in public now, so there’s no getting away from it :-)
Simon Jessey wrote:
That is a great compilation you have there, Richard. There’s a few on the list I am not familiar with, but I will certainly check them out. You might want to be a teeny bit careful about offering to share your music. You know how tiresome these music industry lawyer types can be!
Maximus wrote:
Nice taste
AndreyM wrote:
Maybe I am a different person but I know no these songs!
Eamon wrote:
Really nice website you got here. Clean-looking, nice-looking, easy-to-use and original.
If i can earn some more money, might return here for a website facelift.
Rainer wrote:
That’s amazing, I don’t know any of these songs. And the only band I know from your list is The Chemical Brothers.
Maybe you could provide deeplinks to amazon, to the “hear example” page for these songs :-)