January 6, 2006

Theme: Best of 2005 On Air: Frank

I didn't really have an overall strategy on how I played the songs on the Best of 2005 show, however I did leave my picks for the top 3 albums of the year until close to the end. I had a tough time picking the top album from my top three. But in the end, I chose the CD that I most consistently wanted to be in my player, New Order's "Waiting For The Siren's Call". I know it is old school but even after all these years they still managed to put out a solid album. I put the Diskettes down as number two with their album "Weeknights at Island View Beach", their low-fi sound is about as far from New Order's as you can get. The Magic Numbers self-titled CD was number three, the album is filled with lots of incredibly catchy songs. You can see all my picks for the best of 2005 here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/2005/best_of_2005.htm One of the hardest things I had to do was to make sure that the albums and singles were actually released in 2005. I was good with most of the albums, but I was surprised at how many of my picks for singles were actually from 2004. Then there is also the difficulty in deciding what to do about albums that were released in their native countries in 2004 but not in Canada till 2005. That is why my number one single is "Heartbeat" by Annie, although it was released in Europe in 2004, it only came out here in 2005. TALK-Theme Le Sport - Tell No One About Tonight The Futureheads - Decent Days and Nights Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot SS Cardiacs - Noo Noo (C) Russian Futurists - Paul Simon (C) TALK Dandy Warhols - Smoke It! Elefant - Misfit Magneta Lane - The Constant Lover (C) The Cloud Room - Hey Now, Now Novillero - The Hypothesist (C) TALK Elliot Brood - President (C) Carolyn Mark & Corb Lund - Sweet Thing (C) Kathleen Edwards - In State (C) Clap Your Hands And Sey Yeah! - The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth TALK Sharon Jones & The Dapkings - How Do I Let A Good Man Down Oneself - Bluebird Ivy - Thinking Of You Lemon Jelly - Make Things Right TALK Antony and the Johnsons - Fistful Of Love Calvin Johnson - When Hearts Turn Blue Firefly - Made Me Glad (C) Crooked Fingers - Call To Love Portastatic - I Wanna Know Girls The Mountain Goats - This Year TALK Jens Lekman - Julie (Remix) Magic Numbers - Forever Lost TALK The Diskettes - Get Together (C) TALK New Order - Krafty Black Mountain - Modern Music (C) Denotes Canadian Content