So every year instead of cards I give my mates a best of year CD of my favourite songs. Providing nothing else amazing is released, this is how it looks. What would be on yours?

Starlings - Elbow
Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River
Halfway Home - TV on the Radio
Closer - Kings of Leon
Language City - Wolf Parade
Rumors - Josh Ritter
Surprise - Gnarls Barkley
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Little Bit - Lykke Li
The Healer - Erykah Badu
The Rip - Portishead
Sarah - Ray Lamontagne
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
Ghosts - Laura Marling
The next Messiah - Jenny Lewis
Ghosts in the attic - Leona Naess

leona!

i think mine would consist of one song and that one song would be off the features' new album.

Oh my days I am in love with that woman

jenny!

Yes her too *sigh*

the features!

what jamb is your fave, malk?!

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"I think you should send that to rinda too"

You want one?

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email me your address s.murrell@nature.com

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brandy, i still don't have the whole album yet! just the three tracks they had up on their myspace months ago. of which "lions" was my favorite so far. but i have to wait until i get home from europe to get my copy. :\

lions is the jamb. i listened to contrast last night while i cleaned like a moron.

you should come to nashville for new years. they will be there.

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it's not like you had the only copy. sheesh! and i'm pretty sure you heard about them from me!

i gave you my unwavering love, bitch.

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omg.

i'm still dedicating taylor swift to you and our e-affair, noonanz.

ahhhh i still love "contrast" like woah.

ahhhh i need to go to nashville to spend my new years' with the features.

and brandy! don't forget brandy!

yes! omg. my brain is going to explode, i need to make decisions.

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it would be the most elegant thing ever if you were to attend.

it would be amazing.

what a nice idea! wonderwoman's.

it is a good idea, the trouble is that a lot of my friends likely wouldn't listen to a mix cd i made cos they think my music is weird ;)

no Sigur Ros on that list?!?!?!?

it's weird. I used to think my best friend's music taste was mostly pretty bland.

or often I'd go to her house and she'd be listening to music I had been excited about but years before. Jack Johnson, David Grey, etc. Stuff like that.

I'd [inwardly] sneer a bit to myself. But say nothing.

Lately, she has some cable related (I think) tv radio channel on that she mostly listens to. I think the channel style is called Adult Alternative. What suprises me (and impresses me) is that alot, alot of what they play is actually stuff I've been excited about for years...and still am.

what I used to consider more underground. Badly Drawn Boy and music artists like that.

it'd be easy now to make a compilation cd that she'd like.

badly drawn boy is so underrated its criminal.

something like:

ida maria - queen of the world
the hold steady - slapped actress
jenny lewis - acid tongue
conor oberst - get well cards
leona naess - leave your boyfriends behind
nick cave - dig, lazarus, dig
bon iver - skinny love
fleet foxes - your protector
drive by truckers - 3 dimes down
sun kil moon - tonight in bilbao
tift merritt - keep you happy
marah - wilderness

"nick cave - dig, lazarus, dig "

I would choose at least five other songs from that record way before that one.

Today's Lesson
Moonland
Hold on to Yourself
Jesus of the Moon
More News from Nowhere
We Called Upon the Author to Explain
etc.

Ain't no TMOE on there! WTF?

"leona naess - leave your boyfriends behind"

Is this a direct request to Leona?

i like it when she sings about leaving them.