I Slam Dunked Last.fm Today

I don’t know why, but that little piece of spyware just came to irritate me to the point where I finally deleted all of it today. I was quitting out of it every day after I started up. It was starting to bug me that it couldn’t record the individual songs in the radio shows that I was mainly listening to. I knew it was a problem when it started to bother me that the cassettes I’d been playing on the way to work couldn’t register. What a mental snakepit. It was time to stop. Now if I could just stop huffing airplane glue…

For the morbidly curious, here’s my Last FM page.

Anyway… for the last few years I’ve put together a CD that I hand out at the holidays with that past year’s fave tracks, and it’s time to start working on the new one. Mostly new stuff, but a few oldies that made their way into heavy rotation too. A major omission here would be Slow Club, who I just have on a podcast. I also left out a few of the bigger acts like Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and CSS. So, in the interest of still spreading my dubious taste to the world, I offer this playlist - my own festive 50 - Optimator 07. It’s not necessarily sequenced… I’ve given links for a few of the more obscure artists.

Song Title - Artist - Album

Gojira Suit - Sunset Cinema Club

Konichiwa bitches - Robyn - Robyn

Hang Me Up To Dry - Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards

Cheer it on - Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson in crime

Can’t Stop (Produced By Rich Harrison) - Missy Elliott - The Cookbook

Electronic Battle Weapon 8 - The Chemical Brothers

Normal Teenager - Loaded Knife - Normal Teenager 7″

Star Trail - Duloks

The Prayer - Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City

Save Myself - Willy Mason

Stop Me - Mark Ronson - Versions

This Time (I’m Gonna Try it My Way) - DJ Shadow - The Outsider

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Splodgenessabounds

Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis - Costello Music

Valerie - Amy Winehouse - BBC 1 Live Lounge

Moving to New York - The Wombats - Girls, Boys & Marsupials

Meds (feat. VV of The Kills) - Placebo - Meds

Panda Style - L.A.O.S.

My blue heaven - Palast Orchester mit Max Raabe

Crambodia (Pink Skull Remix) - Plastic Little - Crambodia

Mind of Soon Hey - Tri-Lambs - Jacket Smasher EP

Rebellion (Lies) - The Arcade Fire - Funeral

We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives - Los Campesinos!

Burn My Shadow - Unkle - War Stories

Satan Said Dance - Clap your Hands Say Yeah - Live

Elzeviro - Piero Umiliani - Musicaelettronica Volume Uno

A New Experience - Piero Umiliani - Musicaelettronica Volume Uno

MAH-NA-MAH-NA - Piero Umiliani - ARIEL RECORDS 500 Single

Beats to the Rhyme - Run-DMC - Tougher Than Leather

Can’t Stop Moving - Sonny Jim

Grip Like A Vice - The Go! Team

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield - Extended 12″ mix

D.A.N.C.E. - Justice

You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster…

Chemistry - Unkle - Nights Temper EP (A Prelude To War Stories)

3-2-1 Contact theme song

The Late, Late Show - Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret - Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

Hangin Tree - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

solta o frango - Bonde Do Role - Solta o Frango - EP

Starz In Their Eyes - Just Jack - Overtones (Album Sampler)

Don’t Be Afraid To Sweat - Miss Odd Kidd

Convenience Shopping - Alan Hawkshaw - Music For TV Dinners - The ’60s

Sexual Healing - Hot 8 Brass Band - Rock With the Hot 8

Boyz - M.I.A.

Amylase - Cajun Dance Party

You Don’t Know Her Name - Maps - We Can Create - This track is just massive. I can’t possibly say enough good things about it.

You might guess, if you are a dedicated listener to BBC Radio 1, that I’ve been heavily influenced by Rob da Bank, Huw Stephens and Mary Anne Hobbs these last couple of years… I can honestly say that I haven’t been as excited by the new music coming out since like 1985.

So… what have you been listening to?