Used to be, I'd labor in front of the stereo for several nights at the end of every year, making friends a cassette tape with my favorite songs. Now it takes me a half-hour in front of the computer. But the same amount of love goes into it. Here's the mix I'm burning to CD this year (shhh, don't tell the RIAA). • "North American Scum," LCD Soundsystem
A 2007 mixtape: All the tracks that fit
December 29, 2007 at 11:02PM
• "Been There All the Time," Dinosaur Jr.
• "Young Folks," Peter Bjorn and John
• "For the Girl," the Fratellis
• "Stronger," Kanye West
• "Apartment Story," the National
• "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi," Radiohead
• "Knock 'Em Out," Lily Allen
• "Hip Hop Is Dead," Nas
• "Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart," Against Me! (with Tegan Quin)
• "Is There a Ghost," Band of Horses
• "Direct Hit," Art Brut
• "Sugar," Dan Wilson
• "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," Bruce Springsteen
• "Back to Black," Amy Winehouse
• "Paper Planes," M.I.A.
• "(Antichrist Television Blues)," the Arcade Fire
• "Killing the Blues," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
• "Headed for a Fall," M. Ward
