Is This What You Call Falling In Love?

1. Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step
2. Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind
3. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Balloon Man
4. Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
5. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - This Is What We Find
6. Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
7. Mick Harvey - Ford Mustang
8. Beach Boys - You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
9. Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself
10. Beryl Marsden - When The Lovelight Starts Shinin' Thru His Eyes
11. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
12. Aberfeldy - Love Is An Arrow
13. Spring - Chuck It Up
14. Harry Nilsson - Pretty Soon There'll Be Nothing Left For Everybody
15. Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In
16. Jim Noir - I Me You I'm Your
17. High Llamas - Up In The Hills
18. Tindersticks - Nectar
19. Shivaree - I Close My Eyes
20. R.E.M - Laughing
21. Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me
22. Harvey's Rabbit - Is This What You Call Change
23. Lick The Tins - Can't Help Falling In Love
24. Tom Waits - Burma Shave
25. The Beatles - For No One

Firstly, don't read too much into the title of this mix. It's working title was "Tom Waits For No One" but I changed that at the last minute feeling it was a bit naff. I chose to splice the titles of tracks 22 & 23 instead. There are quite a few love songs on here, though and the mix as a whole is quite upbeat (again). I will try my hand at a solemn mix one day, but the likes of Barry & Curtis do it so much better than I possibly could. So there we are then, another 'POP' mix!

Lost In A Song

1. Crystal Fighter - Plage
2. Still Flyin' - The Hottchord Is Struck
3. Emmy The Great - Iris
4. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Little Girl (feat Julian Casablancas)
5. Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks he Looks Daft
6. The Clash - The Right Profile
7. The Vaccines - Nørgaard
8. Deaf School - Where's the Weekend
9. Arctic Monkeys - The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
10. Telekinesis - I Cannot Love You
11. Ether Coil - Light
12. Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
13. Iron & Wine - Me And Lazarus
14. Lia Ices - Grown Unknown
15. Islands - No You Don't
16. Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
17. Those Darlins - Wild One
18. Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I
19. The Specials - Little Bitch
20. Correcto - Do It Better
21. 54-40 - Feast Of Ida
22. The Rolling Stones - I Am Waiting
23. Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me Of You

First mix in blooming' ages. Sorry about that. I'll try to be more prolific in the coming months. For now, enjoy this..

Sammy's Top 25 tracks of 2011

1. Tune-Yards - Powa
2. Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way
3. Cass McCombs - County Line
4. Emmy the Great - Iris
5. Real Estate - Green Aisles
6. St. Vincent - Cruel
7. M83 - Raconte-Moi Une Histoire
8. Grimes - Devon
9. Foster The People - Houdini
10. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
11. Girls - Honey Bunny
12. Little Comets - One Night In October
13. The Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten
14. Givers - Up Up Up
15. Washed Out - Amor Fati
16. Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I
17. Little Majorette - Overflow
18. Battles - Ice Cream (feat. Matias Aguayo)
19. Mini Mansions - Monk
20. The Feeling - Dance For The Lights
21. Those Dancing Days - I'll Be Yours
22. Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa
23. Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
24. Soft Hearted Scientists - The Trees Don't Seem To Know That It's September
25. Neon Indian - Polish Girl

Better late than never, my favourite tracks of 2011! I have compiled a Top 50 and you can listen to the Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/sammyg123/playlist/3eV7zTShQWpVB61AMJV7vL?si=rIRrCfXvQcuDmo9MU1Yj4Q.

I've spent a good month and a half working out the running order, listening to tracks I may have missed throughout the year and pretty much ignoring any music from outside of 2011. So now it's posted here I feel i can relax and get on with my life!

I actually compiled a Top 100 of 2010 last year and posted it to Facebook but neglected to post the result here, so here is the Spotify playlist for that.