Holiday Tunes

For me December doesn't usually mean so much Christmas music (though you gotta have some Bing Crosby sometime) as thinking back on the music for the year. And let me tell you, there's a lot of it. I could probably make an equally long list of records I haven't gotten to yet.

Trying to hang with the tech-savvy, I have created an iMix on iTunes (yes iThink this iThing is getting out of hand) with some of my 2005 faves. Listen and listen well.

For those not on the Apple bandwagon, here's a big list:

• SONG - ARTIST - ALBUM
  
• The Purple Bottle - Animal Collective - Feels
• Chewing Gum - Annie - Anniemal
• Hope There's Someone - Antony & The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
• O, KY - Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
• Do the Whirlwind - Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
• Formed a Band - Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
• Evil Eye - Ash - Meltdown
• Don't Run Our Hearts Around - Black Mountain - Black Mountain
• Powers - Blackalicious - The Craft
• Cold Hands (Warm Heart) - Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
• Burn That Broken Bed - Calexico & Iron and Wine - In the Reins EP
• Bees - Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
• My Own Face Inside the Trees - The Clientele - Strange Geometry
• The Mask - Danger Doom & Ghostface - The Mouse and the Mask
• 16 Military Wives - The Decemberists - Picaresque
• Wrong Time Capsule - Deerhoof - The Runners Four
• We Were Gonna - Dengue Fever - Escape from Dragon House
• Heard Somebody Say - Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
• Mystified - Dirtbombs - If You Don't Already Have a Look
• Forget Myself - Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
• Knock That Door - Enon - Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence
• Around the Corner - The Evens - The Evens
• Here Comes the Summer - The Fiery Furnaces - EP
• Time to Undress - General Elektriks - Cliquety Kliqk
• Your Little Hoodrat Friend - The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
• Jezebel - Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
• This Time It Will - Jeff Hanson - Jeff Hanson
• Hwy 5 - John Doe & Neko Case - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
• Failure - Kings Of Convenience - Failure EP
• Paradiso - Konono N1 - Congotronics
• Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
• '75 aka Stay With You - Lemon Jelly - '64-'95
• Just Stand Back - Low - The Great Destroyer
• I'll Be Yr Bird - M. Ward - Transistor Radio
• I Can Not Have Seen the Light - Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues
• Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
• Empty - Metric - Live It Out
• Way West Way - Mommy and Daddy - Duel At Dawn
• Yekermo Sew - Mulatu Astatke - Broken Flowers Soundtrack
• Off the Record - My Morning Jacket - Z
• Baby We’ll Be Fine - The National - Alligator
• Star Bodies - The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
• Forecast Fascist Future - Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
• Black - Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
• What's It Like Mary Jo? - The Orange Peels - Circling the Sun
• Atmosphere - The Oranges Band - The World & Everything In It
• My So-Called Celibate Life - Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You
• Today - The Ponys - Celebration Castle
• White Wave - Portastatic - Bright Ideas
• Where There's a Road - Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard
• Outnumbered - The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbors
• Two Dedications - Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor
• Rollercoaster - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
• I Turn My Camera On - Spoon - Gimme Fiction
• Chicago - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• Psyclone! - Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
• Cells - Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
• Amerimacka - Thievery Corporation & Notch - The Cosmic Game
• From: Skulls - Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache
• It's All the Same - Wilderness - Wilderness

Anyone interested in some "Best of 05" CD swapping, hit me at gregrmurphy at gmail.com