Festive 50

OK, so the end of year polls are rolling in and I thought, "who am I to buck this trend?" So I've been thinking, compiling and seeing which tracks that I've heard this year would make my top tunes of the year.
I ddecided to limit myself to 50 tracks as, if 50 was good enough for John Peel the it's just fine and dandy for me. So here, in no particular (ok alphabetical) order are my tunes of the year:

Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
Au Revoir Simone – Shadows
Bat For Lashes – Daniel
Biffy Clyro – The Captain - Single Version
Blakroc – Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Beware Your Only Friend
Brendan Benson – A Whole Lot Better
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Copy Haho – You Are My Coal Mine
The Cribs – Hari Kari
Deadmau5 – Ghosts 'n' Stuff (Feat. Rob Swire)
Dinosaur Pile-Up - Summer Hit Single
The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
Eels – Beginner's Luck
Empire Of The Sun – Half Mast
The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands
Florence + The Machine – You've Got The Love
Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls
Golden Silvers – Arrows Of Eros
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Hjaltalín – Goodbye July/Margt Að Ugga
Jarvis Cocker – “Further Complications."
The Leisure Society – The Last Of The Melting Snow
Local Natives – Airplanes
The Low Anthem – Cage The Songbird
Marina And The Diamonds – I Am Not a Robot
Marmaduke Duke – Rubber Lover
Matt & Kim – Daylight
Miike Snow – Animal
Monsters Of Folk – Say Please
Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
Muse – United States Of Eurasia [+Collateral Damage]
Noah And The Whale – Love Of An Orchestra
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Come Saturday
Passion Pit – Little Secrets
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20 - Radio Version
Phoenix – 1901
School Of Seven Bells – Prince Of Peace
Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
Sky Larkin – Pica
Slow Club – When I Go
Sub Focus – Rock It
Sufjan Stevens – Introductory Fanfare for the Hooper Heroes
Them Crooked Vultures – No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
White Lies – Death - Chase & Status Remix
Why – This Blackest Purse
The xx – VCR
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

If you'd like to listen to these fine songs then all you need to do is click on the following Spotify link:

Festive 50

The only thing with Spotify is that they don't have all 50 of the tracks available, only 45 of them are available so you'll have to make do with them!

Hope you enjoy!

Next post will be my tracks of the year (CD version) so lets see who makes it into my top 22 tracks of 2009!