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Listen Up! New Year's Edition

This week, Listen Up!, our music column, welcomes 2009 with a New Year’s playlist. What songs are perfect for the occasion? Let us know in the comments and we’ll add your suggestion to our playlist.

By Alejandro Salinas   Published Tuesday, December 30, 2008

As 2008 wraps up, we—doing our best Carrie Bradshaw impression—can’t help but wonder: What songs best capture the mixed bag of feelings that accompany the arrival of a new year? After all, if Death Cab for Cutie has taught us anything, it’s that not everyone welcomes the new year with excitement, a bottle of André, and a sloppy, wet midnight kiss with a significant other . . . or a total stranger, depending on your level of inebriation—but that, dear reader, is the subject for a separate playlist. (Oh, foreshadowing!)

Whether you see 2009 as an opportunity to clean the slate and start fresh or as just another reminder of the inexorable passing of time that brings you one step closer to the grave, we want to know what you’ll be listening to when the clock strikes midnight. Leave us your suggestions in the comments, and we’ll add them to the playlist.

That’s it. We’re really out this time. We’ll be back in 2009—we hope a bit wiser but no less fun. We promise.

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Comments


Kicking myself for forgetting this one: "Ice of Boston" by DC’s own Dismemberment Plan. Great song, and totally appropriate for this list.

Posted by: Catherine, Dec 31, 2008 07:04:51 AM

Oh, and I’d also like to submit the always-appropriate Eddie Money masterpiece "Take Me Home Tonight."

You’re welcome in advance.

Posted by: Jolly, Dec 30, 2008 01:29:54 PM

"This Will be Our Year" by the Zombies

Posted by: Heather, Dec 30, 2008 12:44:21 PM

Elbow, "One Day Like This." It was one of my favorite songs of 2008, and it always makes me think about starting a new day (or new year!) in the right way - with excitement about all the potential.

Posted by: Catherine, Dec 30, 2008 12:32:06 PM

oooh ooh and Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right"
and Reel Big Fish "Beer."

=)

Posted by: Jesseka, Dec 30, 2008 12:25:45 PM

Um, I still like to "Party Like It’s 1999." Can we believe that was 10 years ago already? Holy crap!

•ABBA "Happy New Year"
•David Bowie "Changes"
•Bob Dylan "Times They Are A-Changin"
•R.E.M "It’s the End of the World (I Feel Fine)"

Posted by: Jesseka, Dec 30, 2008 12:22:21 PM

"One Year Later" - The Get Up Kids
"The End Has No End" - The Strokes
"Midnight Show" - The Killers
"The Good Ole Days" The Lodger
"Contructive Summer" - The Hold Steady (basically for the "Let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger" line)

Posted by: Jolly, Dec 30, 2008 12:21:17 PM

Happy New Year - Oneida
Such A Night -Dr. John
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Dignity - Bob Dylan (entirely and only because of the reference to the evening at hand)


Posted by: J. Tom, Dec 30, 2008 12:05:06 PM

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