Friday, January 11, 2008

More Best of 2007: Michael's Songs


Unlike the albums list, I don’t have (and won’t make) a list of my favorite songs of the year, but I do have a reasonable proxy in the form of the track listing for my year-end mix for 2007. This year, it swelled to four discs of new music that I compiled for myself and then forced on a few friends. To them, I can only apologize.

Disc One
1. Black Magic – Jarvis Cocker
2. Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
3. Unless It’s Kicks – Okkervil River
4. Fluorescent Adolescent –Arctic Monkeys
5. In Context – Field Music listen
6. Mistaken For Strangers – The National
7. I’ve Gotta Try – Sloan
8. I Think We’re Lost – Ron Sexsmith
9. Time Is A Lion – Joe Henry
10. Unsuffer Me – Lucinda Williams
11. Brand New Kind of Actress – Jason Isbell
12. The Day We Met – Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles
13. (I Don’t Need You To) Set Me Free – Grinderman
14. Isn’t Life Strenge? – The Clientele
15. Phantom Limb – The Shins
16. Impossible Germany – Wilco

Disc Two
1. Smile – Lily Allen
2. Tears Dry On Their Own – Amy Winehouse
3. Right Moves – Josh Ritter
4. Girls In Their Summer Clothes – Bruce Springsteen
5. Two – Ryan Adams
6. Cigarette – Jeremy Fisher
7. Shiftee – The Broken West
8. Hope For Us All – Nick Lowe listen
9. The Underdog – Spoon
10. Let’s Get Friendly – The Ike Reilly Assassination
11. Who Do You Love? – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
12. Make It Wit Chu – Queens of The Stone Age
13. Rag and Bone – The White Stripes
14. Dream World – Rilo Kiley
15. Floating By – The Red Button
16. Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog) – Iron and Wine

Disc Three
1. Patty Lee – Les Savy Fav listen
2. No Cars Go – Arcade Fire
3. All I Need – Radiohead
4. Herculean – The Good, The Bad and The Queen
5. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case – Spoon
6. Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John
7. Dashboard – Modest Mouse
8. Direct Hit – Art Brut
9. My Rights Versus Yours – The New Pornographers
10. You Made Me Like It – 1990s
11. Knock ‘Em Out – Lily Allen
12. Concrete Jungle – Céu
13. Paper Planes – M.I.A.
14. Us v Them – LCD Soundsystem
15. Atlas – Battles

Disc Four
1. When Irish Eyes Are Burning – The Ike Reilly Assassination
2. Radio Nowhere – Bruce Springsteen
3. You Can’t Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man – Okkervil River
4. Chicago Promenade – Jason Isbell
5. Bottom of the Rain – Buffalo Tom
6. Halloween Snow – Ezra Furman and The Harpoons
7. Hate It Here – Wilco
8. I Could Get Used To You – The Red Button
9. Close Call – Rilo Kiley
10. Four Winds – Bright Eyes
11. Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) – Robert Plant/Allison Krauss
12. God Only Knows – Joe Henry
13. Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time – Jarvis Cocker
14. Freckle Song – Chuck Prophet
15. Watch the Tapes – LCD Soundsystem
16. Little Star – Jesse Malin
17. Another Way I Could Do It – Sloan

2 comments:

Michael P. Rellahan said...

Please! Great cuts, but no "Impossible Germany"? A disgrace, I say, a disgrace!

Michael Atchison said...

Disc one, track 16.