Side A
Artist	Song
They Might Be Giants	Love is Eternity
The Ramones	Danny Says
Fountains of Wayne	Maureen
The Caesars	Spirit
Tegan and Sara	Living Room
The Ronettes	Baby, I Love You
Fountains of Wayne	Today's Teardrops
The Star Spangles	The Party
Rufus Wainwright	Oh What a World
Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
Future Bible Heroes	I'm a Vampire
Rilo Kiley	More Adventurous
The Raveonettes	Bubblegum
Rilo Kiley	Glendora
Scritti Politti	Perfect Way
Ben Lee	A Month Day
Electric Six	Devil Nights
Queen	Tie Your Mother Down
Taco	Cheek to Cheek
The New Pornographers	Use it
The New Pornographers	Broken Breads
Exploding Hearts	Modern Kick
Wheatus	Lemonade
Wheatus	Anyway
The Isley Brothers.	Shout (Matter Music remix)
The Wannadies	Little by Little
Rick Springfield	Love is Alright Tonight
Ladybug Transistor	Splendor in the Grass
Mountain Goats	Going to Georgia
Great Lake Swimmers	Moving Pictures, Silent Films
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Bon Jovi	In These Arms
The Star Spangles	In Love Again
Wolf Parade	Shine a Light
Sparks	Tips for Teens
April March	Chick Habit
Paul Westerberg	Dyslexic Heart
The Unicorns	Sea Ghost
The Clash	Death or Glory
Donots	Whatever Happened to the '80s
The Beatles	Please Mr. Postman
Rick Dees	Disco Duck
All Girl Summer Fun Band	Becky
Def Leppard	Armageddon it
The Del McCoury Band	Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Tim Curry	If the World Were Like the Movies
Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Wig in a Box
Tilly and the Wall	In Bed All Day
Harry Belafonte	Done Laid Around (Gotta Travel on)
The Sonics	Have Love Will Travel
Reel Big Fish	One Hit Wonderful
Johnny Cash	I've Been Everywhere
Aneka	Japanese Boy
Tsar	The Teen Wizards
The Runaways	Saturday Night Special
Aneka	Ooh Shooby Doo Doo Lang
The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl	Fairytale of New York
Johnny Cash	Ragged Old Flag
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Silver & Gold
Queen	'39
The Clash	The Sound of the Sinners

Comment:

To reiterate, this is my favorite music from the past year. Not ones that originated in 2005, but songs/musicians that I discovered/learned to appreciate/remember most fondly from the last 12 months of my musical canoodling, arranged in chronological order of when I listened to them. Alas, I thought it would be easy to condense this project into 2 60-song mixes, but I always underestimate my lack of self-control (although when it comes to positive things like expressing love for an entertainment medium, that can't be so bad). Hence, there will be one more, 3rd mix to finish up the year. It will be able to fit onto a regular 30-track CD format, however. This one goes up to September's end, so the next one will show what happened in the last 3 months of 2005. There's an accidental symmetry/organization to these that I like - this second mix, for example, covers pretty much the whole summer and nothing before or after, so it'll be nice and convenient to reference each one by time of year.

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