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Favorite Songs for 2007

Here's my mix of my favorite songs for the year. The songs with an asterix are also from my favorite albums of the year, which follow below. Tracy's 2007 mix (zip)

1. Is It Any Wonder - Keane*
2. Way to Your Heart - Persephone's Bees*
3. Hella Good - No Doubt
4. New Black Day - Abney Park
5. We Danced Together - The Rakes*
6. Silence is a Burden - Voxtrot
7. The Underdog - Spoon*
8. Everything You've Done Wrong - Sloan
9. The Perfect Crime - The Decemberists*
10. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn & John*
11. Fucking Boyfriend - The Bird & the Bee*
12. La Familia (Guy Sigsworth remix) - Mirah
13. Half a Person - The Smiths
14. Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
15. Love is Not a Competition (But I'm Winning) - Kaiser Chiefs*
16. Cosmic Dancer - T.Rex*
17. Split the Difference - Aqueduct*
18. Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
19. Couldn't Get It Right
20. Fett's Vette - MC Chris

Best Albums Released in 2007

• Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Aqueduct - Or Give Me Death
• Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
• The Bird and the Bee
• Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
• Voxtrot - Voxtrot
• Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
• The Rakes - Ten New Messages

Additional Favorite Albums of 2007

• Aqueduct - I Sold Gold
• Keane - Under the Iron Sea
• Decemberists - The Crane Wife
• Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
• Pulp - His N Hers
• Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
• T. Rex - Electric Warrior
• Persephone's Bees - Notes from the Underworld
• Abney Park - From Dreams or Angels
• Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet is Missing
• Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy

Labels: music, opinion

I've determined that 26 gigs, or 67%, of my 38 gig music collection is completely legal. If mix CDs are considered legal, add another gig. I challenge most people my age to do better. I have a list of 31 CDs (for which I already have mp3s) that I intend to buy as soon as I have a source of income, which amazingly only accounts for another 1.6 gigs and will bring me up to about 75% legal. I wonder how much of that I actually listen to, and how much I can delete?

Based on mix cds and sample mp3s from music blogs etc, I've bought 54 CDs that I would not have otherwise bought. I have only bought 3 CDs without having heard any music by the artist(s). This is my anecdotal argument that mix CDs may actually, to a degree, benefit record companies.

Cool artists I just found:
Greg Simkins, click on illustrations
Amy Sol, click gallery
Audrey Kawasaki

Labels: inspiration, music