Thursday's Playlist 12-30-10

Stereolab – “Everybody’s Weird Except Me”
Camouflage – “The Great Commandment”
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Tuberculoids Arrive in Hop”
Mew – “Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy”
LCD Soundsystem – “Someone Great”
Malcolm McLaren – “Obatala”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Shadow’s Keeper”
Metric – “Satellite Mind”
Stevie Wonder – “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
The Delays – “Over and Out”
A Flock of Seagulls – “2-30”
Sheila E. – “The Glamorous Life”
Pelican – “Ephemeral”
13th Floor Elevators – “I Had to Tell You”
Weezer – “Tired of Sex”
The Kinks – “Dandy”
Depeche Mode – “Black Celebration (Live)”
Elvis Costello – “Everyday I Write the Book”
Mogwai – “Like Herod”
Black Lips – “Bad Kids”
Danny Elfman – “It Only Makes Me Laugh”
A Flock of Seagulls – “Burning Up (Pigface Remix)”
Eels – “This is Where it Gets Good”
Def Leppard – “Photograph”
R.E.M. – “Medley: Time After Time / Red Rain / So. Central Rain”
Boston – “Cool the Engines”
The Dandy Warhols – “The Last High”
Gorillaz – “Clint Eastwood”
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (Stripped Down)”
Peter Gabriel – “Mirrorball”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Bad Blood”
A Guy Called Gerald – “Voodoo Ray”
Mumford & Sons – “White Blank Page”
Stereolab – “Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Mix)”
Wolf Parade – “Cave-O-Sapien”
Information Society – “Lay All Your Love on Me”
Mogwai – “Mogwai Fear Satan”
Japandroids – “Avant Sleepwalk”
The National – “Thirsty”
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Last Days”
Wilco – “We’re Just Friends”
Gorillaz – “Left Hand Suzuki Method”
Thom Yorke – “Black Swan”
The Free Design – “Howdjadoo (Fly Me Down)”
The Psychedelic Furs – “Fall”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Saturnine”
Refused – “Deadly Rhythm”
Jay-Zeezer – “Public Service Holiday”
Talk Talk – “Life’s What You Make It (Extended Mix)”
Boards of Canada – “Roygbiv”
Ok Go – “White Knuckles (Boys Like Us Remix)”
A Flock of Seagulls – “Space Age Love Song (Astralasia Remix)”
Adam Arcuragi & Royalty – “The Song the Sinner Sings”
Wilco – “Bull Black Nova”
OMD – “The Future, the Past, and Forever After”
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – “Hard Times are Over (Stripped Down)”
Grand Archives – “Witchy Park / Tomorrow Will (Take Care of Itself)”
The Future Sound of London – “Are They Fightin’ Us”
Freebass – “Killswitch Pt 141 (Instrumental)”
Pavement – “Gold Soundz”
Josh Rouse – “Dressed Up Like Nebraska”
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Nitetime Rainbows”
Tommy Tutone – “867-5309 / Jenny”
The Smiths – “Oscillate Wildly”
Foals – “Olympic Airwaves”
Tracey Thorn – “You are a Lover”
Kvelertak – “Nekroskop”
Fountains of Wayne – “Bought for a Song”
Titus Andronicus – “…And Ever”
The Like – “Narcissus in a Red Dress”
Jónsi – “Tornado (Live)”
Otis Redding – “You Don’t Miss Your Water”
Gorillaz – “19-2000 (Soul Child Remix)”
Nick Cave – “Far From Me”
The Chameleons – “Return of the Roughnecks”
Women – “Heat Distraction”
Dionne Warwick – “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”
Robbie Williams ft. Pet Shop Boys – “She’s Madonna”
Broken Social Scene – “Complications”
Great Northern – “Fingers”
Beach House – “Real Love”
The Killers – “Under the Gun”
Band of Horses – “Blue Beard”
U2 – “Lemon (Jeep Mix)”

Tuesday's Playlist 12-28-10

A Certain Ratio – “Shack Up”
Bow Wow Wow – “I Want Candy”
Them Crooked Vultures – “Reptiles”
Gorillaz – “Hip Albatross”
Gorillaz – “Hillbilly Man”
Modest Mouse – “Steam Engenius”
The Psychedelic Furs – “My Time”
Gorillaz – “Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head”
Stricken City – “Tak O Tak”
This Mortal Coil – “At First, And Then”
John Wesley Harding – “I’m Wrong About Everything”
Stina Nordenstam – “Purple Rain”
Glasvegas – “Go Square Go”
Devo – “Freedom of Choice”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – “Show Me”
Glasser – “T”
Aaliyah ft. Timbaland – “Try Again”
Miles Davis ft. Kenny Hagood – “Darn That Dream”
Blood Red Shoes – “It’s Getting Boring by the Sea”
Public Enemy – “Mind Terrorist”
X – “True Love”
Here We Go Magic – “F.F.A.P.”
Fran Healy – “As It Comes”
King Khan & BBQ Show – “Truth or Dare”
The National – “Guest Room”
Glasser – “Glad”
The Smiths – “Paint a Vulgar Picture”
Nite Jewel – “Am I Real”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls”
Daft Punk – “Rinzler”
The Old 97’s – “Adelaide”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “Antennas to Heaven”
Foreigner – “I Want to Know What Love Is”
Frightened Rabbit – “The Modern Leper (Live)”
Section 25 – “Girls Don’t Count”
The Lodger – “Flashbacks”
Billy Idol – “Dancing With Myself (Extended Version)”
Propellerheads – “Bang On!”
Pet Shop Boys – “Suburbia”
Morrissey – “I’ve Changed My Plea to Guilty (Live)”
Califone – “The Orchids”
Van Morrison – “Everyone”
Natalie Merchant – “Jealousy”
Peter Gabriel – “Big Time”

My Favorite Songs of the 80s

This is certainly not complete. It is restricted by the rules we at Treble created to limit our field, and I had my own special rules to follow to limit myself lest this list get to 800 or 1000.

1. Depeche Mode – “Never Let Me Down Again”
2. New Order – “Bizarre Love Triangle”
3. Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
4. U2 – “Running to Stand Still”
5. Echo & the Bunnymen – “The Killing Moon”
6. The Church – “Under the Milky Way”
7. U2 – “With or Without You”
8. The Smiths – “How Soon is Now”
9. Prince – “Baby I’m a Star”
10. New Order – “Ceremony”
11. The Waterboys – “This is the Sea”
12. Fugazi – “Waiting Room”
13. The Smiths – “Rubber Ring”
14. Simple Minds – “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
15. Jesus and Mary Chain – “Just Like Honey”
16. Public Enemy – “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”
17. Bruce Springsteen – “I’m on Fire”
18. Tom Waits – “Innocent When You Dream”
19. R.E.M. – “Fall on Me”
20. Prince – “Purple Rain”
21. The Waterboys – “The Whole of the Moon”
22. Kate Bush – “This Woman’s Work”
23. The Smiths – “This Charming Man”
24. Madonna – “Crazy for You”
25. The Cure – “Just Like Heaven”
26. New Order – “Perfect Kiss”
27. Prince – “Little Red Corvette”
28. Nik Kershaw – “Wouldn’t it Be Good”
29. OMD – “If You Leave”
30. The Dream Academy – “Life in a Northern Town”
31. The Jam – “Going Underground”
32. Joy Division – “Atmosphere”
33. Robbie Robertson – “Broken Arrow”
34. Peter Gabriel – “In Your Eyes”
35. Jane’s Addiction – “Jane Says”
36. The Smiths – “Cemetry Gates”
37. Depeche Mode – “Shake the Disease”
38. The Replacements – “Alex Chilton”
39. Morrissey – “Everyday is Like Sunday”
40. New Order – “Blue Monday”
41. Prince – “I Would Die 4 U”
42. The Bangles – “Eternal Flame”
43. Tears for Fears – “Head Over Heels”
44. Kate Bush – “Running Up that Hill”
45. Leonard Cohen – “Everybody Knows”
46. Depeche Mode – “Lie to Me”
47. The Cure – “In Between Days”
48. Nine Inch Nails – “Head Like a Hole”
49. Prince – “When Doves Cry”
50. R.E.M. – “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
51. The Clash – “Train in Vain”
52. Queen & David Bowie – “Under Pressure”
53. Depeche Mode – “Get the Balance Right”
54. XTC – “Dear God”
55. Siouxsie & the Banshees – “Cities in Dust”
56. New Order – “True Faith”
57. The Cure – “Fascination Street”
58. Aztec Camera – “Oblivious”
59. Til Tuesday – “Voices Carry”
60. The La’s – “There She Goes”
61. Tears for Fears – “Shout”
62. The Silencers – “Painted Moon”
63. The Lightning Seeds – “Pure”
64. The Smiths – “What Difference Does it Make?”
65. Blondie – “Atomic”
66. Echo & the Bunnymen – “Rescue”
67. Tom Waits – “Jersey Girl”
68. R.E.M. – “Radio Free Europe”
69. U2 – “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
70. Tom Waits – “Time”
71. The Psychedelic Furs – “Pretty in Pink”
72. David Bowie – “Ashes to Ashes”
73. R.E.M. – “The One I Love”
74. Scritti Politti – “Perfect Way”
75. Echo & the Bunnymen – “Lips Like Sugar”
76. The Cure – “The Walk”
77. X- “Los Angeles”
78. The Pixies – “Where Is My Mind?”
79. Stone Roses – “Fools Gold”
80. Scritti Polittii – “Absolute”
81. Altered Images – “Happy Birthday”
82. Morrissey – “Suedehead”
83. The Pixies – “Gigantic”
84. Billy Bragg – “Greetings to the New Brunette”
85. Jane’s Addiction – “Ocean Size”
86. Sugarcubes – “Birthday”
87. The Specials – “Ghost Town”
88. Duran Duran – “Planet Earth”
89. Scritti Politti – “Wood Beez”
90. The Clash – “Rock the Casbah”
91. Heaven 17 – “Let Me Go”
92. Yazoo – “Situation”
93. David Bowie – “Let’s Dance”
94. The Jam – “That’s Entertainment”
95. The Cure – “Lovecats”
96. Depeche Mode – “Just Can’t Get Enough”
97. Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored”
98. The Fixx – “One Thing Leads to Another”
99. Split Enz – “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”
100. Siouxsie & the Banshees – “The Last Beat of My Heart”
101. Stevie Nicks – “Edge of Seventeen”
102. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – “Come On Eileen”
103. Eric B. & Rakim – “Paid in Full”
104. The Sundays – “Here’s Where the Story Ends”
105. The Go-Go’s – “This Town”
106. The Psychedelic Furs – “Love My Way”
107. They Might Be Giants – “Ana Ng”
108. Alphaville – “Forever Young”
109. Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty – “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”
110. The Police- “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”
111. Bow Wow Wow – “Do You Wanna Hold Me”
112. The Go-Go’s – “Get Up and Go”
113. AC/DC – “Back in Black”
114. Crowded House – “Into Temptation”
115. A Flock of Seagulls – “Space Age Love Song”
116. Elvis Costello – “Everyday I Write the Book”
117. The Go-Go’s – “Our Lips are Sealed”
118. The English Beat – “Save it for Later”
119. Michael Penn – “No Myth”
120. Tears for Fears – “Mad World”
121. Devo – “Beautiful World”
122. Mission of Burma – “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”
123. M – “Pop Muzik”
124. The English Beat – “I Confess”
125. OMD – “Souvenir”
126. Thompson Twins – “Lay Your Hands on Me”
127. Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter”
128. Duran Duran – “The Chauffeur”
129. Split Enz – “One Step Ahead”
130. Haircut 100 – “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)”
131. Elvis Costello – “Shipbuilding”
132. Hall & Oates – “Private Eyes”
133. Adam & the Ants – “Prince Charming”
134. Stray Cats – “Stray Cat Strut”
135. English Beat – “Mirror in the Bathroom”
136. Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place”
137. The Clash – “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
138. The Jam – “A Town Called Malice”
139. Split Enz – “I Got You”
140. Haircut 100 – “Love Plus One”
141. A Flock of Seagulls – “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph)”
142. Stray Cats – “Rock This Town”
143. Simple Minds – “Up on the Catwalk”
144. The Romantics – “Talking in Your Sleep”
145. Rolling Stones – “Start Me Up”
146. Vanity 6 – “Nasty Girl”
147. Hall & Oates – “Everytime You Go Away”
148. Squeeze – “Tempted”
149. Kajagoogoo – “Too Shy”
150. Modern English – “I Melt With You”
151. Pretenders – “Talk of the Town”
152. Joe Jackson – “Breaking Us in Two”
153. The Go-Go’s – “We Got the Beat”
154. Adam & the Ants – “Stand and Deliver”
155. Blondie – “Call Me”
156. The Cars – “Since You’re Gone”
157. U2 – “I Will Follow”
158. The Korgis – “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime”
159. Joan Jett – “Bad Reputation”
160. Thomas Dolby – “Hyperactive”
161. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – “Refugee”
162. Frankie Goes to Hollywood – “Relax”
163. Thomas Dolby – “She Blinded Me With Science”
164. Iron Maiden – “Run to the Hills”
165. Judas Priest – “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming”
166. Pretenders – “Brass in Pocket”
167. Elvis Costello – “Clubland”
168. Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)”
169. Wall of Voodoo – “Mexican Radio”
170. The Buggles – “Video Killed the Radio Star”
171. The Greg Kihn Band – “The Breakup Song”
172. Devo – “Freedom of Choice”
173. A Flock of Seagulls – “I Ran”
174. Human League – “Don’t You Want Me”
175. Pat Benatar – “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”
176. Duran Duran – “Save a Prayer”
177. The Police – “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
178. Tom Waits – “Way Down in the Hole”
179. Peter Gabriel – “Games without Frontiers”
180. Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
181. A-ha – “Take on Me”
182. Big Country – “In a Big Country”
183. Echo & the Bunnymen – “Villiers Terrace”
184. Orange Juice – “Falling and Laughing”
185. Altered Images – “I Could Be Happy”
186. Peter Gabriel – “Shock the Monkey”
187. Tom Tom Club – “Genius of Love”
188. Pete Shelley – “Homosapien”
189. Yes – “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
190. Asia – “Heat of the Moment”
191. The Vapors – “Turning Japanese”
192. Sigue Sigue Sputnik – “Love Missile F1-11”
193. ABC – “The Look of Love”
194. Scandal – “Goodbye to You”
195. Billy Squier – “My Kinda Lover”
196. Kim Carnes – “Bette Davis Eyes”
197. Lene Lovich – “New Toy”
198. Oingo Boingo – “Only a Lad”
199. The Clash – “Magnificent Seven”
200. The Cars – “Shake It Up”
201. Rolling Stones – “Waiting on a Friend”
202. Phil Collins – “In the Air Tonight”
203. Guns n Roses – “Welcome to the Jungle”
204. The Time – “Jungle Love”
205. Motley Crue – “Home Sweet Home”
206. Hall & Oates – “M.E.T.H.O.D. of Modern Love”
207. Bryan Ferry – “Slave to Love
208. Level 42 – “Something About You”
209. The Hooters – “All You Zombies”
210. Depeche Mode – “Fly on the Windscreen”

Thursday's Playlist 12-16-10

By some fluke of luck, I started with The Very Best, and ended with the same.

The Very Best – “Julia”
The Strange Death of Liberal England – “Flickering Lights”
The Magnetic Fields – “Painted Flower”
Rush – “Red Barchetta”
HEALTH – “Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs HEALTH)”
Cat Power & Karen Elson – “I Love You (Me Either) (Je T’aime Moi Non Plus)”
Stereolab – “Two Finger Symphony”
Everest – “Taking on the Future”
HEALTH – “Lost Time (C.L.A.W.S. Remix)”
The Pixies – “Broken Face”
The Decemberists – “An Interlude”
Echobelly – “Great Things”
The Tallest Man on Earth – “It Will Follow the Rain”
Kid ‘n Play – “Kid Vs Play (The Battle)”
Tommy James & the Shondells – “Crimson and Clover”
Jawbox – “Green Glass”
Hooverphonic – “Shake the Disease”
De La Soul – “Oooh.”
David Bowie – “Waiting for the Man (Live)”
Explosions in the Sky – “Remember Me as a Time of Day”
Stereolab – “Jaianto”
Nine Inch Nails – “Starf#$@ers, Inc.”
Life Without Buildings – “The Leanover”
Mogwai – “I Know You Are But What Am I (Live)”
Ryan Adams – “Desire”
Tears for Fears – “I Believe”
Future of the Left – “Fingers Become Thumbs!”
Fountains of Wayne – “Radiation Vibe”
Darker My Love – “Trail the Line”
The Kinks – “Suzannah’s Still Alive”
Corinne Bailey Rae – “Venus as a Boy”
Everest – “The Rush”
Gabriella Cilmi – “How Can I Tell You?”
Mock & Toof – “Move Along”
Clint Mansell – “Lose Yourself”
Morrissey – “Moon River”
The Very Best – “Nsokoto”
Eels – “Christmas is Going to the Dogs”
Santogold – “Say Aha”
Clinic – “Fingers”
Dirty Projectors – “Thirsty and Miserable”
Harlem – “Prairie My Heart”
Rosa Lee Brooks – “My Diary”
Suede – “The Living Dead”
A Flock of Seagulls – “I Ran (Pistel Remix)”
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Rescue”
Oasis – “Wonderwall”
Rilo Kiley – “Portions for Foxes”
Everest – “East Illinois”
The Bird & the Bee – “Kiss On My List”
John Cougar Mellencamp – “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)”
Sigur Rós – “Viðrar vel til Loftárása”
Free Energy – “Dark Trance”
Rush – “Finding My Way”
Brandon Flowers – “Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts”
Simple Minds – “All the Things She Said”
Foals – “Two Trees”
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Heads Will Roll”
Primal Scream – “Higher than the Sun”
Loverboy – “Working for the Weekend”
Garbage – “Bleed Like Me”
The Tough Alliance – “Forever UTD”
Van Morrison – “These Dreams of You”
Dead Confederate w/ J. Mascis – “Giving it All Away”
The Dismemberment Plan – “Following Through”
Refused – “The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax”
Morrissey – “Ganglord”
The English Beat – “Save it for Later”
Prince – “Soft and Wet”
Doves – “Ambition”
Sex Pistols – “Holidays in the Sun”
Stars – “We Don’t Want Your Body”
Mastodon – “Ghost of Karelia”
Best Coast – “Crazy for You”
Miles Davis – “All Blues”
Doves – “Here it Comes”
This Mortal Coil – “A Single Wish”
Nine Inch Nails – “Down In It (Shred)”
The Drones – “She Had an Abortion that She Made Me Pay For”
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “One on One”
Richard Hawley – “Don’t You Cry”
Sunny Day Real Estate – “47”
New Order – “This Time of Night”
Duran Duran – “Planet Earth (Night Mix)”
Dum Dum Girls – “Rest of Our Lives”
Stereolab – “Laser Blast”
Marilyn Manson – “Tourniquet”
The Maldives – “Tequila Sunday”
M.I.A. – “XXXO”
The Very Best – “Warm Heart of Africa”

Tuesday's Playlist 12-14-10

Squeeze – “In Quintessence”
Everest – “Fallen Feather”
Male Bonding – “All Things This Way”
Stars – “Winter Bones”
Life Without Buildings – “Envoys”
The Beach Boys – “Feel Flows”
Future of the Left – “Manchasm”
Flying Lotus – “Physics for Everyone!”
Can – “I’m So Green”
Visqueen – “The Capitol”
T. Rex – “Bang a Gong (Get it on)”
Morrissey – “That’s Entertainment”
She & Him – “Lingering Still”
Happy Mondays – “Step On”
LCD Soundsystem – “Yr City’s a Sucker (Full Version)”
DJ Lobsterdust – “EasyWall”
Gorillaz – “Dirty Harry”
Roy Buchanan – “Sweet Dreams”
Sufjan Stevens – “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “Moya”
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Crocodiles”
Eels – “Hospital Food”
Built to Spill – “Car”
Chevy Chase, Eric Olson & Tom Wolfe – “Getting Rid of Britta”
The Pixies – “Is She Weird”
Lansing-Dreiden – “Glass Corridor”
Jesu – “Losing Streak”
The Antlers – “Wake”
LCD Soundsystem – “New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”
Bryan Ferry – “Song to the Siren”
Travis – “The Humpty Dumpty Love Song / Ring Out the Bell / You Don’t Know What I’m Like”
Here We Go Magic – “Herbie I Love You, Now I Know”
Devo – “Later is Now”
Prince – “When Doves Cry”
Mew – “Reprise”
Culture Club – “It’s a Miracle / Miss Me Blind (US 12” Mix)”
Broken Bells – “Mongrel Heart”
The Hold Steady – “Soft in the Center”
Jenny & Johnny – “Slavedriver”
The Autumn Defense – “Every Day”
Billy Joel – “Only the Good Die Young”
Bruce Springsteen – “Someday (We’ll Be Together)”
Iron Maiden – “Run to the Hills”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – “I’m Just Looking”
The Pipettes – “A Winter’s Sky”
Tom Waits – “Tom Traubert’s Blues”
Stars – “What I’m Trying to Say”
The Romantics – “Talking in Your Sleep”
Matt & Kim – “K”
Nine Inch Nails – “Gave Up (Remix by Coil)”
A Place to Bury Strangers – “Smile When You Smile”
Duran Duran - "Faith in This Colour (Alternate Slow Mix)"

Friday's Playlist 12-10-10

Kid ‘N Play – “Decisions”
Bobby Brown – “My Prerogative (Extended Remix)”
Michael Jackson – “Girlfriend”
The Ocean Blue – “Frigid Winter Days”
Drive Like Jehu – “Bullet Train to Vegas”
Torche – “Cast Into Unknown”
The Sundays – “Joy”
Bright Eyes – “I Will Be Grateful For This Day”
Daft Punk – “Da Funk”
Suckers – “A Mind I Knew”
Underworld – “Born Slippy . NUXX”
Pelican – “Last Day of Winter”
Thelonious Monk – “This is My Story, This is My Song”
Can – “Halleluhwah”
The Smiths – “Asleep”
The Knack – “Siamese Twins (The Monkey and Me)”
Red Sparowes – “Our Happiest Days Slowly Begin to Turn into Dust”
Cat Stevens – “The Wind”
Teenage Fanclub – “Your Love is the Place Where I Come From”
Prince – “Controversy”
Kele – “All the Things I Could Never Say”
Miles Davis – “Move”
Scritti Politti – “Skank Bloc Bologna”
LCD Soundsystem – “Home”
The Smiths – “A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours”
Foals – “Alabastr”
Blonde Redhead – “Black Guitar”
Sufjan Stevens – “From the Mouth of Gabriel”
Tracey Thorn & Jens Lekman – “Yeah! Oh, Yeah!”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – “Geno”
Flying Burrito Bros. – “Man in the Fog”
Dusty Springfield – “Anyone Who Had a Heart”
The Boo Radleys – “Lazarus”
Stevie Wonder – “It’s Wrong”
Stina Nordenstam – “Come to Me”
The Decemberists –“The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)”
Explosions in the Sky – “Greet Death”
Raphael Saadiq – “Still Ray”
Patrick Park – “The Long Night”
Thom Yorke – “Hearing Damage”

Wednesday's Playlist 12-9-10

Röyksopp – “Senior Living”
Laura Veirs – “Freight Train”
Squeeze – “Tempted”
Mock & Toof – “P2160”
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “The Stick”
Squarepusher – “Tommib”
The 88 – “Coming Home”
Thin Lizzy – “The Rocker”
Trio – “Da Da Da (I Don’t Love You You Don’t Love Me Aha Aha Aha)”
Passion Pit – “Little Secrets”
The White Stripes – “Why Can’t You Be Nicer to Me”
Little Joy – “Don’t Watch Me Dancing”
Sufjan Stevens – “Jacksonville”
Duran Duran – “Hungry Like the Wolf”
The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid (Live)”
M83 – “Graveyard Girl”
This Mortal Coil – “The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb”
Interpol – “Direction”
The English Beat – “Save it for Later”
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman – “Autumn Serenade”
The Hot Rats – “Love is the Drug”
Pixies – “Head On”
The Human League – “Don’t You Want Me (Special Extended Dance Mix)”
The Strange Death of Liberal England – “Dog Barking at the Moon”
Mumford & Sons – “Winter Winds”
The New Pornographers – “Don’t Destroy This Night”
Curtis Mayfield – “Underground”
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Miss My Friends”
Jeff Buckley – “So Real (120 Minutes)”
Eels – “Bad News”
Death Cab for Cutie – “All is Full of Love”
Cake – “Up So Close”
AC/DC – “Hell’s Bells”
Mew – “Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)”
Warsaw – “Transmission (Early 7” Mix)”
Katrina & the Waves – “Walking on Sunshine”
Placebo – “Every You, Every Me”
Sufjan Stevens – “The Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good about Yourself in the Morning, Or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, Or, ‘I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until they Are Off Our Lands!’”
Curtis Mayfield – “Makings of You”
Eels – “It’s a Motherf#$@er”
The Swell Season – “If You Want Me”
X – “Devil Doll”
Gay Dad – “Oh Jim”
Garbage – “The Butterfly Collector”
Danger Mouse & Jay-Z – “Moment of Clarity”
The Smiths – “Death at One’s Elbow”
Midlake – “Winter Dies”
Jarvis Cocker – “Angela”
Suede – “We are the Pigs”
Doves – “The Sulphur Man”

My Top 100 Albums of 2010

Check in with Treblezine.com to see how my picks combined with the other writers' picks to create a final comprehensive list.

1. Gorillaz – “Plastic Beach”
2. Jonsi – “Go”
3. The National – “High Violet”
4. Janelle Monae – “The Archandroid”
5. Mumford & Sons – “Sigh No More”
6. Titus Andronicus – “The Monitor”
7. Robyn – “Body Talk”
8. Big Boi – “Sir Lucious Left Foot”
9. Girl Talk – “All Day”
10. Sleigh Bells – “Treats”
11. Perfume Genius – “Learning”
12. The Roots – “How I Got Over”
13. Suckers – “Wild Smile”
14. Broken Bells – “Broken Bells “
15. Owen Pallett – “Heartland”
16. The Like – “Release Me”
17. Kylesa – “Spiral Shadow”
18. Frightened Rabbit – “The Winter of Mixed Drinks”
19. Beach House – “Teen Dream”
20. Deerhunter – “Halcyon Digest”
21. The Books – “The Way Out”
22. Glasser – “Ring”
23. Clem Snide – “The Meat of Life”
24. LCD Soundsystem – “This is Happening”
25. Foals – “Total Life Forever”
26. Spoon – “Transference”
27. Kvelertak – “Kvelertak”
28. Yeasayer – “Odd Blood”
29. Goldfrapp – “Head First”
30. Sun Kil Moon – “Admiral Fell Promises”
31. Minus the Bear – “Omni”
32. Flying Lotus – “Cosmogramma”
33. Twin Shadow - “Forget”
34. The New Pornographers – “Together”
35. ceo – “White Magic”
36. Laura Veirs – “July Flame”
37. The Drums – “The Drums”
38. Free Energy – “Stuck on Nothing”
39. Radio Dept – “Clinging to a Shadow”
40. Best Coast – “Crazy for You”
41. Menomena – “Mines”
42. Of Montreal – “False Priest”
43. Local Natives – “Gorilla Manor”
44. Sufjan Stevens – “The Age of Adz”
45. Male Bonding – “Nothing Hurts”
46. Les Savy Fav – “Root for Ruin”
47. The Thermals – “Personal Life”
48. Superchunk – “Majesty Shredding”
49. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Before Today”
50. Red Sparowes – “The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer”
51. Vampire Weekend – “Contra”
52. The Hold Steady – “Heaven is Whenever”
53. Baths – “Cerulean”
54. No Age – “Everything in Between”
55. Broken Social Scene – “Forgiveness Rock Record”
56. Benoit Pioulard – “Lasted”
57. Brian Eno – “Small Craft on a Milk Sea”
58. Underworld – “Barking”
59. The Tallest Man on Earth – “The Wild Hunt”
60. Harvey Milk – “A Small Turn of Human Kindness”
61. Torche – “Songs for Singles”
62. Avey Tare – “Down There”
63. Black Angels – “Phosphene Dream”
64. The Corin Tucker Band – “1,000 Years”
65. Band of Horses – “Infinite Arms”
66. Blitzen Trapper – “Destroyer of the Void”
67. Here We Go Magic – “Pigeons”
68. The Innocence Mission – “My Room in the Trees”
69. Blonde Redhead – “Penny Sparkle”
70. Ted Leo – “The Brutalist Bricks”
71. Los Campesinos – “Romance is Boring”
72. Midlake – “The Courage of Others”
73. Black Keys – “Brothers”
74. John Legend & the Roots – “Wake Up”
75. Tracey Thorn – “Love and Its Opposite”
76. Women – “Public Strain”
77. Liars – “Sisterworld”
78. Turin Brakes – “Outbursts”
79. Surfer Blood – “Astro Coast”
80. Belle & Sebastian – “Write About Love”
81. The Strange Death of Liberal England – “S/T”
82. The Walkmen – “Lisbon”
83. Swans – “My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky”
84. !!! – “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?”
85. Matthew Dear – “Black City”
86. Small Black – “New Chain”
87. Morning Benders – “Big Echo”
88. Bryan Ferry – “Olympia”
89. Darker My Love – “Alive as You Are”
90. Admiral Radley – “I Heart California”
91. Black Mountain – “Wilderness Heart”
92. Erykah Badu – “New Amerykah Part 2”
93. Ra Ra Riot – “The Orchard”
94. OMD – “History of Modern”
95. Hot Chip – “One Life Stand”
96. Childish Gambino – “Culdesac”
97. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo”
98. Matt & Kim – “Sidewalks”
99. Jenny & Johnny – “I’m Having Fun Now”
100. Freebass – “It’s a Beautiful Life”

Thursday's Playlist 12-2-10

Last 2010 Review before I post my final ranked list...

Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
Thermals – Personal Life
Benoit Pioulard – Lasted
Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

Wednesday's Playlist 12-1-10

Another Best of 2010 Review. My final list is coming soon!

Antony & the Johnsons – Swanlights
Beach House – Teen Dream
Black Tusk – Taste the Sin
Caribou – Swim
Devo – Something for Everybody
Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
Goldfrapp – Head First
Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday
Liars – Sisterworld
Mock & Toof – Tuning Echoes
Robyn – Body Talk