Side A
Artist	Song
The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket
Joshua Radin	Winter
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Exploding Hearts	I'm a Pretender
Fatboy Slim	Jin Go Lo Ba
Of Montreal	My British Tour Diary
Loretta Lynn	High on a Mountain
Ben Folds	Hiro's Song
Of Montreal	Nicki Lighthouse
Iron and Wine	The Trapeze Swinger
Kelly Clarkson	Since U Been Gone
The Clash	Rudie Can't Fail
The Juicy Fruits	Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye
Dropkick Murphys	The Dirty Glass
Bright Eyes	At the Bottom of Everything
The Star Spangles	Stay Away from Me
Jamie O'Neal	Trying to Find Atlantis
Of Montreal	Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree
Kaiser Chiefs	I Predict a Riot
Interpol	Evil
Ben Folds	There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
Talking Heads	Burning Down the House (live)
Fruit Bats	When U Love Somebody
The Beat Farmers	Reason to Believe
Modest Mouse	The Good Times are Killing Me
Strawberry Switchblade	Since Yesterday
Beck	Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)
Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, and James Taylor	What a Wonderful World
Erasure	Oh L'Amour
Yazoo	Nobody's Diary
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Altan	Roaring Water
The Pogues	The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
Tegan and Sara	Speak Slow
Social Distortion	Sometimes I Do
The Flirts	Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)
The Clash	Police on My Back
New Order	Blue Monday
The Eels	Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
Ted Leo	Since U Been Gone
The Stars	Your Ex-Lover is Dead
They Might Be Giants	New York City
Rockpile	Teacher Teacher
Keith West	Excerpt from a Teenage Opera
Brendan Benson	Alternative to Love
The Raveonettes	Love in a Trashcan
The Crystals	He's a Rebel
The White Stripes	Blue Orchid
Homegrown	Tomorrow
Rilo Kiley	Portions for Foxes
The Kinks	Apeman
Nick Lowe	I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)
Johnny Boy	You are the Generation Who Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve
First Class	Beach Baby
Belle and Sebastian	I'm a Cuckoo (Avalanches remix)
T'Pau	Heart and Soul
Weezer	My Best Friend
Rufus Wainwright	Instant Pleasure
TommyFebruary 6	Since Yesterday
The New Pornographers	Twin Cinema
Amy Ray	Driver Education

Comment:

Okay, so I made a Best of 2005 list, but as I compiled it, I noticed so many more songs that I listened to and strongly remembered from January to December of this year that couldn't really be represented because they weren't technically 2005 releases. So I said fuck it - I have to make a REAL list of my yearly memoirs. Unfortunately, that resulted in 2 titanic-sized mixes. This is the first one, and I made it in perfect chronological order, so "Lost in the Supermarket" is actually the first song I really fell in love with this year, like around January 7th or so. And yes, pretty much every single song on here was discovered by me in 2005, which is kinda sad considering some of the classics on here, but on the other hand, I'm proud that I had such a productive year of music-plumbing. This is by far the most obsessed and adventurous I've ever been about the audio medium, and it payed off big time, I think. There's not really any objective flow to this mix, but for once I have an excuse: it's an honest record of how my year unfolded, from beginning to end. This one only goes from January to about May 20th, while mix #2 covers from June to right now, the end of December. It will only mean anything to me, I suppose, because I have acute flashbacks to all the little "era"s in which I listened endlessly to all of these songs. Some notes: I found out about Neutral Milk Hotel through Art of the Mix, as a matter of fact, when I was reading the year-end stats and noticed that this unknown song by a band I'd never heard of was actually the #1 most used song on mixes here (this in turn eventually led to my further journeys into the wonderful archives of Elephant 6). Of everything on this and mix #2, the Strawberry Switchblade song is probably my very favorite that I discovered this year. Also, there are many bands on here that I had never heard of or bothered listening to prior to 2005, including Exploding Hearts, Of Montreal, Iron & Wine, Erasure, The Pogues, Altan, Ted Leo, Tegan and Sara, Rilo Kiley, Brendan Benson, and others. Pretty sad, huh? Unless you consider this a happy ending to my formerly sheltered life as a music fan. Anyway, I'll stop babbling now and get to posting part 2 of this mix.

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