1. LemonMelon
Total Points: 192
Highest Ranking: 1st
Lowest Ranking: 9th
If I've gained a reputation for anything in this competition, it's perfectionism, particularly in regards to sequencing. I tend to spend a lot of time tweaking that facet of my lists, but this entry took that to an extreme; I have been working on this list (on and off) for the past 18 months, and the version of it you see today has been drawn from two other versions, tacking on a few of my recent favorites while taking the best unique choices from its ancestors. The result is, surprisingly, not a mess at all; you couldn't pass this list off as conceptual, but recurring themes of love, loneliness, restlessness and self-discovery pop up now and again. The original version of this list was comically diverse musically, but it has since cohered into something that I feel represents my tastes exceptionally well; if nothing else, this list will give you a reason not to bother with my subsequent entries...at least until I break out my Estonian chillwave list for DI13.
Track listing:
1. Joni Mitchell - "All I Want" - Blue (3:33)
2. The Velvet Underground - "What Goes On" - The Velvet Underground (4:52)
3. Blur - "Out Of Time" - Think Tank (3:51)
4. The New Pornographers - "The Bleeding Heart Show" - Twin Cinema (4:26)
5. The Stone Roses - "She Bangs The Drums" - The Stone Roses (3:42)
6. The Cure - "Just Like Heaven" - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (3:31)
7. Camera Obscura - "The Sweetest Thing" - My Maudlin Career (4:22)
8. Surfer Blood - "Swim" - Astro Coast (3:17)
9. Built To Spill - "Carry The Zero" - Keep It Like A Secret (5:43)
10. Liz Phair - "Johnny Sunshine" - Exile In Guyville (3:26)
11. Simon & Garfunkel - "America" - Bookends (3:35)
12. Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne" - Songs Of Leonard Cohen (3:50)
13. Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains" - Fleet Foxes (4:23)
14. Willie Nelson - "Phases And Stages (Theme)/Washing The Dishes" - Phases And Stages (1:42)
15. Tom Waits - "Lonely" - Closing Time (3:10)
16. Randy Newman - "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" - Randy Newman Creates Something New Under The Sun (2:56)
17. The London Suede - "The Wild Ones" - Dog Man Star (4:50)
18. Ryan Adams - "Anybody Want To Take Me Home" - Love Is Hell (5:30)
19. Doves - "Snowden" - Some Cities (4:11)
20. Coldplay - "Strawberry Swing" - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (4:07)
21. The Allman Brothers Band - "Melissa" - Eat A Peach (3:55)
22. Smokey Robinson - "Quiet Storm (Single Edit)" - The 35th Anniversary Collection (4:02)
23. Outkast - "Da Art Of Storytellin' (Part 1)" - Aquemini (3:42)
24. Eels - "Trouble With Dreams" - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (4:33)
25. Spoon - "Everything Hits At Once" - Girls Can Tell (4:03)
26. Lupe Fiasco - "Streets On Fire" - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (4:40)
27. Talking Heads - "Once In A Lifetime" - Remain In Light (4:19)
28. LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great" - Sound Of Silver (6:24)
29. Massive Attack - "Teardrop" - Mezzanine (5:29)
30. David Bowie - "Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)" - Aladdin Sane
31. Fiona Apple - "O' Sailor" - Extraordinary Machine (5:35)
32. The Dismemberment Plan - "The City" - Emergency & I (4:26)
33. Pink Floyd - "Cymbaline" - Soundtrack From The Film More (4:45)
34. Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" - Daydream Nation (6:56)
35. Teenage Fanclub - "Alcoholiday" - Bandwagonesque (5:25)
36. Neil Young - "Don't Cry No Tears" - Zuma (2:34)
37. The Clash - "Train In Vain" - London Calling (3:09)
Total runtime: 158:21