A Spotify playlist of 100 of our staff's favourite tracks of the year (SO FAR!!!) from 100 of the year's finest acts, clocking in at 7 hours 40ish minutes .
Compiled over the past couple of weeks, this hundred song playlist is a combination of choices from the DiS editorial team. It's a fairly epic listen and has been ordered in an attempt to make it as digestible as possible but also allow you to flick through it to various moods and styles.
Without furtherado bash your mouse on this text to listen to the playlist. You will require the Spotify software in order to listen to it, which is available for free from spotify.com but access is only currently available in select countries, but this does include the UK, Sweden, etc...
Drownedin... 100 Songs of 2009 (So Far)
The Horrors 'Scarlet Fields'
The Maccabees 'No Kind Words - Single Version'
The Veils 'Sit Down By The Fire'
Manic Street Preachers 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time'
Animal Collective 'My Girls'
Handsome Furs 'Radio Kaliningrad'
Dirty Projectors 'Stillness Is The Move'
Women 'Black Rice'
St. Vincent 'The Strangers'
PJ Harvey & John Parish 'Black Hearted Love'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Zero'
Chew Lips 'Solo'
Telepathe 'So Fine'
The Big Pink 'Velvet'
Phoenix 'Love Like A Sunset Part I'
Metric 'Gold Guns Girls'
Temper trap 'Science Of Fear'
M. Ward 'To Save Me'
Camera Obscura 'French Navy'
School Of Seven Bells 'Iamundernodisguise'
Sunset Rubdown 'Idiot Heart'
Wilco 'Bull Black Nova'
Sufjan Stevens 'You Are The Blood'
MONO 'Ashes In The Snow'
Micachu 'Sweetheart'
Dananananaykroyd 'Black Wax'
Sky Larkin 'One Of Two'
Bombay Bicycle Club 'Always Like This'
Deerhunter 'Circulation'
Sonic Youth 'What We Know'
Pink Mountaintops 'While We Were Dreaming'
Emmy The Great 'City Song'
Tori Amos 'Mary Jane'
Regina Spektor 'Human Of The Year'
Bat For Lashes 'Daniel'
Fever Ray 'When I Grow Up'
Soap&Skin 'Spiracle'
Patrick Wolf 'The Bachelor'
Bloc Party 'Letter To My Son - Gold Panda Remix'
Andrew Bird 'Anonanimal'
Beirut 'Mimizan'
Bon Iver 'Blood Bank'
Jason Lytle 'Yours Truly, The Commuter'
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 'Buriedfed'
Conor Oberst 'White Shoes'
My Latest Novel 'I Declare A Ceasefire'
Fanfarlo 'Drowning Men'
The Phantom Band 'Folk Song Oblivion'
Banjo Or Freakout 'Somone Great - LCD Soundsystem Cover'
Passion Pit 'Sleepyhead'
Jamie T 'Sticks 'n' Stones'
Jack Penate 'Tonight’s Today'
Empire Of The Sun 'Walking On A Dream'
Franz Ferdinand 'No You Girls'
Silversun Pickups 'The Royal We'
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 'Isis Unveiled - false'
Dinosaur Jr. 'Pieces'
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard 'The Upside-down Cross'
Thomas Truax 'Twin Peaks (Falling)'
White Denim 'Everybody Somebody'
Jarvis Cocker 'Angela'
Peter Bjorn and John 'Lay It Down'
Future Of The Left 'Arming Eritrea'
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern 'Pram Town'
Johnny Foreigner 'DJ's Get Doubts'
Copy Haho 'You Are My Coal Mine'
Let's Wrestle 'We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love Soon'
Abe Vigoda 'Don't Lie'
Japandroids 'Young Hearts Spark Fire'
Crystal Stilts 'Shattered Shine'
Super Furry Animals 'Cardiff In The Sun'
Moderat 'Seamonkey'
Nathan Fake 'Fentiger'
Gossip 'Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix)'
La Roux 'In For The Kill - Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix'
Florence + The Machine 'Dog Days Are Over'
Au Revoir Simone 'Shadows'
God Help The Girl 'Funny Little Frog'
Little Boots 'Click'
Lady Gaga 'Poker Face - Tommy Sparks & The Fury Remix'
J Dilla (aka Jay Dee) 'Showtime - Instrumental'
Blk Jks 'Summertime'
Staff Benda Bilili 'Avramandole'
Willie Isz 'Georgiavania'
Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti) 'Blood Pt 2'
Eels 'In My Dreams'
Cursive 'From the Hips'
Gold Panda 'Like Totally'
Akron/Family 'River'
Anni Rossi 'Las Vegas'
Blue Roses 'I Am Leaving'
The Decemberists 'The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle The Thistles Undone)'
The National 'So Far Around The Bend'
The Mars Volta 'Halo of Nembutals'
Hatcham Social 'Sidewalk'
Propagandhi 'Dear Coach's Corner'
Mastodon 'Quintessence'
Wavves 'Goth Girls'
Kevin Drew 'Love vs. Porn'
Chris Anderson 'The new media models'
Listen: Drownedin... 100 Songs of 2009 (So Far)
DiScuss: thoughts? Notes? Best track? Worst track? What are we missing? Did you manage to listen to the whole thing? Discover anything new from this? Anyone fancy putting this together in format for those not able to access Spotify?