What music are you into?

[JHyde]

So, I've been avoiding this thread because I love music, and this thread would probably just becomes my own little soliloquy on the latest favourite album, but here is the track list for this year's mix CD titled Attic Language which I give to my nearest and dearest and a few new people I like to add every year. I don't repeat bands or artists (although side projects or solo acts are OK, so for instance I can have Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, which I have done in the past. I can't repeat acts - so for example Sarah Blasko is not on this year's CD because she's been on it before. They're basically the two big rules.)

(I am very serious about this project as you as you can tell.)

Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova - Falling Slowly
Sia - Soon We'll Be Found
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
The Hilltop Hoods - Chase That Feeling
The Pretenders - Kid
M.I.A. - Boyz
The Arcade Fire - Intervention
Gillian Welch - Everything Is Free
Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love
The Presets - Yippiyo-ay
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Whitley - Head, First, Down
Phoenix - Lisztomania
The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day/Reach For The Sun

My two favourite bands have already appeared on past years' CDs, being The Smiths and TV on the Radio. My favourite album this year was Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orce.

And I shamefacedly just broke my almost twelve month embargo on not buying concert tickets (I've been trying to save money this year) by buying a ticket to see the Dirty Projectors in March. Music is like water or oxygen for me, and I love live music. I'm already not going to see Florence + The Machine or Franz Ferdinand when they tour, so I'm sucking it up. I held out as long as I could.