Longtime readers of this blog would know that my year-end lists are usually composed of things from the year before -- or, indeed, many years before. Some are old (and new) songs I just discovered and burrowed themselves into my consciousness this year, some are old songs I've known for a while that finally clicked in this 12-month period.
It's in no order; the sequence is courtesy of an "anchored smooth shuffle" from MusicIP Mixer. All I picked was the first and last songs. (The whole thing also turned up as party favors for people this year.)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz – Stone in the River
Nina Simone – He Needs Me
Susie Suh – Won't You Come Away
Damien Rice – The Blower's Daughter
Shirley Collins & Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain
The Ditty Bops - Pale Yellow
The Little Willies - For the Good Times
The Mountain Goats – No Children
Stereolab – Changer
Indigo Girls – Power Of Two
The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
Jim O'Rourke – Naoru
Piano Magic – Bad Patient
Corinne Bailey Rae – Till It Happens To You
Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On
Regina Spektor – On the Radio
Rovo – Seer
The Mountain Goats – This Year
Herbert – Birds of a Feather
The Tammys – Egyptian Shumba
Skeeter Davis – Let Me Get Close to You
Stars – Reunion
YUI – Cloudy
Yo La Tengo – Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
パーランマウム – リンダ リンダ
Nil – Come On Eileen
YUI – LIFE
The New Pornographers – From Blown Speakers
The New Pornographers – The Laws Have Changed
Tommy february6 – MaGic in youR Eyes
McLusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness
Stars – Ageless Beauty
No Doubt – Simple Kind of Life
Tommy february6 – je t'aime ★ je t'aime
McLusky – Alan Is a Cowboy Killer
Elbow – Buttons and Zips
Weezer – Only in Dreams
Wire – Outdoor Miner
Kings of Leon – The Bucket
Belarus – Here, There and Everywhere
Jim Noir – I Me You I'm Your
The Left Banke – She May Call You Up Tonight
Maria João & Mário Laginha – Pés No Chão
Kode 9 & Daddi G – Sign of the Dub
Hot Chip – Playboy
Brightblack Morning Light – Star Blanket River Child
Fiona Apple – Criminal
Kath Bloom – Come Here
Crowded House – Fall at Your Feet
Bruce Springsteen – O Mary Don't You Weep
Up Dharma Down – We Give In Sometimes
Up Dharma Down – Maybe
The New Pornographers – Letter From an Occupant
Matthew Sweet And Susanna Hoffs – She May Call You Up Tonight
At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
The High Strung – Never Saw It as Union
bird – 髪をほどいて
Todd Rundgren – Couldn't I Just Tell You
Golden Boy with Miss Kittin – Rippin Kittin
Native Guns – Work It
Kelis – Milkshake
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
Primal Scream – Exterminator
Korekyojin – Poet And Peasant
aiko – 赤いランプ
BMX Bandits – This Lonely Guy
BMX Bandits – I Wanna Fall in Love
Jacqueline Taïeb – 7 Heures du Matin
New Radicals – Someday We'll Know
Boards of Canada – Satellite Anthem Icarus