New Year Mixtape From Last Year (yeah I know, confusing!)

 Hello friends,


 First I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year, lots of happiness, health and success - anything that can help to make your 2011 a fun and memorable year! Don't we all deserve a good time in this age of economical mayhem and freedom-annihilating new laws? Of course we fucking do!


 Wherever you live, I think you might agree the last decade saw things go from bad to worse on many levels. Politically, it has been a spectacularly awful time. We are all walking around with iPhones now, and loving it, but are we better off than ten years ago? Any satisfaction these days has to be strictly personal, while our sense of community is slowly disappearing. In other words: everyone has gone solo. Like Bill Wyman, or something. So, here's to a new era - hopefully we can go somewhere more interesting very soon... And I hear Mr Wyman is reuniting with the Stones to record a song, so there you go.


 Now that we have kissed 2010 goodbye, I indulged in preparing a mixtape with some of my favorite songs from this past year. Please note that "I'm Dead" or any of the songs on The Limiñanas debut album should have been included, but I strongly encourage you to support them and buy their music instead. Not that I'm "against" illegal downloading: that topic is getting old by now and I couldn't care less if the music industry is in trouble. Small record companies and artists have historically always been struggling, and illegal copies existed long before the days of internet. Why feel guilty because you fail to be a perfect consumerist?... Personally, I probably could buy a house with all the money I spent on records in my life! So screw them if they can't adapt. Laws and systems like the french "Hadopi" are the most ridiculous and useless measures ever taken, and everyone seems to know that but the moronic people who run cultural matters. If a business doesn't work, incriminating and pissing off the potential buyers is no solution. On top of that, whether they can afford to buy something or not, most music fans are conscious that there are bands and labels who truly deserve to be helped commercially. When they go platinum, however, feel free to steal anything they release (just kidding!).


 So, this is how it goes:


 THINKING NOISE #1

   SIDE A
   1. Saying Goodbye - The Greenhornes
   2. Bootstraps - Drew Grow And The Pastors' Wives
   3. Tighten  Up - The Black Keys
   4. Solitude Is Bliss - Tame Impala
   5. Mexico - The Soft Pack
   6. Oh So Protective One - Girls
   7. In The Sun - She & Him
   8. Winter Rose - The Bees


   SIDE B
   1. Telephone - The Black Angels
   2. Come On - Mujeres
   3. The Way to Gone - Black Mountain
   4. 1000 Years - The Coral
   5. Eyesore - Women
   6. Sweetest Kill - Broken Social Scene
   7. Revival - Deerhunter
   8. Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti




 This is not meant to be the ultimate 2010 playlist or anything along those lines. Just a bunch of cool songs that caught my attention last year. I'd rather upload a few songs every now and then than drop one mp3 at a time over several scattered posts. Hope you will enjoy the mix!