Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

“I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right”

Midlake - Roscoe - / - Head Home - / - Young Bride

“Thought we were due for a change or two around this place”

“Well there's someone I'd like to see, she never mentions a word to me”

“My young bride, why aren't you keeping with you all the ones who really love you”

2006: Top of the crop

1) Tom Waits - Orphans











2) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go











3) Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye












4) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That












5) Hot Chip - The Warning











6) Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming











7) My Morning Jacket - Okonokos












8) M. Ward - Post-War












9) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain












10) Malajube - Trompe L'Oeil











11) The Knife - Silent Shout
12) Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
13) Lo-Fi-Fnk - Boylife
14) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
15) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
16) Ghostface - Fishscale
17) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
18) Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
19) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
20) Lambchop - Damaged
21) Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
22) Neil Young - Living With War
23) The DFA - The DFA Remixes: Chapter One
24) Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go
25) Band of Horses - Everything All The Time

TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me

“Baby doll I recognize you're a hideous thing inside, if ever there were a lucky kind, it's you, you, you, you”

The Knife - Silent Shout

“Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out, a cracked smile and a silent shout”

The Blue Nile - Stay

- dream pop -

“Stay, stay, stay and I will understand you”

Junior Boys - Teach Me How To Fight

- indie electronic -

“Can you teach my how to fight, show me what it's like to give back pain?”

Lo-Fi-FNK - Wake Up

- euro-dance -

“But soon it may be over, if you don't move on closer, so you should wake up”

Leonard Cohen - Bird on a Wire (live)

- folk-rock -

“Like a bird on a wire I have tried in my way to be free”

Nick Cave - Love Letter

- alt pop/rock -

“We live in hope, the sky hangs heavy with rain”

Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (live)

- singer/songwriter -

“I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, and I'm down on my knees tonight”

{A Charlie Brown Christmas}

I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus.
Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy.
I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel.
I just don't understand Christmas, I guess.
I like getting presents and sending Christmas cards
And decorating trees and all that,
But I'm still not happy.
I always end up feeling depressed...

- Charlie Brown -