Artist	Song
Stars	Midnight Coward
Albert Hammond Jr.	Cartoon Music for Super Heroes
Belle and Sebastian	The State I Am In
Paul Simon	50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Joni Mitchell	Free Man in Paris
Modern Lovers	I'm Straight
Yo La Tengo	Black Flowers
The Kooks	Jackie Big Tits
Cold War Kids	We Used to Vacation
Arctic Monkeys	You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights But You Were Staring Straight at Me
Tapes N' Tapes	Cowbell
Justin Timberlake	My Love
Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere
Midlake	It Covers the Hillside
Bright Eyes	Bowl of Oranges
Arcade Fire	Keep the Car Running
Bruce Springsteen	Thunder Road
Hawksley Workman	A Moth is Not a Butterfly
Nico	The Fairest of the Seasons
Cansei de ser Sexy	Music is my Hot Hot Sex

Comment:

This is this year's edition of my iPod cleansing. Something I started three years ago with my brother- every fall I go through my iPod, put the top 20 tracks by playcount into a playlist (omitting duplicate songs by the same artist and songs that had previously appeared on a year-end top 20) and then re-set the play count. Just an excellent way to see what governed your year. Especially interesting for me, considering I have mine fairly consistently on 'random: all'.
Note: as I mentioned last year, 'YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD' by Stars once again would have cracked the top 20 this year. Officially my favourite song now. Enjoy! s.

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