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Dec. 30th, 2005 11:25 amI come from a family that doesn’t celebrate holidays. Or, rather, we celebrate all events in the same way: with adrenaline, strange trips, and a total lack of tradition. The point being, of course, that all the holiday cheer around lj serves to remind me that oh yeah the end of the year is a approaching, and people do special things for that.
Cool.
Years are handy ways to measure things, so I’m going to measure this year in music. I love music. I love listening to it, and finding it, but the best part of music is sharing it with other people. I totally started this list in mid-November(!), but then other people kept coming out with their own year-in-music lists and I got distracted by shiny and it was all very painful. I managed to cut my list down from the hundred-and-fifty best songs I heard this year to the twenty-odd behind the cut. (I tried to weight this toward the terrifical songs you might not have heard, rather than the more “objectively” best songs. I say this, because I just realized that there is neither a New Pornographers, nor Sufjan Stevens track on here. However: if you weren’t listening to Twin Cinema and Illinoise this year, I can pretty safely assume it’s because you chose not to.)
( Two Thousand Five, Musically: heavy on bluegrass, sort-of love songs, and sillyness )In sum: Green Day is cooler than I thought, electronica and dance are not all bad, a cappella continues to be awesome, and catchy songs are vicious, vicious creatures.
BONUS bonus track: The only Christmas song you ever need. (The arrangement on this absolutely makes my knees quiver. How do people get so awesome?)
The Washington University Piker- The 12.5 Days of Christmas
Cool.
Years are handy ways to measure things, so I’m going to measure this year in music. I love music. I love listening to it, and finding it, but the best part of music is sharing it with other people. I totally started this list in mid-November(!), but then other people kept coming out with their own year-in-music lists and I got distracted by shiny and it was all very painful. I managed to cut my list down from the hundred-and-fifty best songs I heard this year to the twenty-odd behind the cut. (I tried to weight this toward the terrifical songs you might not have heard, rather than the more “objectively” best songs. I say this, because I just realized that there is neither a New Pornographers, nor Sufjan Stevens track on here. However: if you weren’t listening to Twin Cinema and Illinoise this year, I can pretty safely assume it’s because you chose not to.)
( Two Thousand Five, Musically: heavy on bluegrass, sort-of love songs, and sillyness )In sum: Green Day is cooler than I thought, electronica and dance are not all bad, a cappella continues to be awesome, and catchy songs are vicious, vicious creatures.
BONUS bonus track: The only Christmas song you ever need. (The arrangement on this absolutely makes my knees quiver. How do people get so awesome?)
The Washington University Piker- The 12.5 Days of Christmas
