10. The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie

 

 

Best line: "So everybody put your best suit or dress on let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once".

Listen to it while: Watching The O.C. reruns.

Don't listen to it if: You (rightfully) prefer your Ben Gibbard time with The Postal Service or just on his own.

One fact you didn't know: Death Cab are working on a new album due in May 2008.

 

 

9. The End Has No End - The Strokes

 

 

Best line: "It's not the secret of the government that's keeping you dumb".
Listen to it while: Philosophizing with friends over the true meaning of the end.

Don't listen to it if: You'd like to think of New Year as a beginning rather than an end.

One fact you didn't know: Julian Casablancas was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when he was 13 because he had drinking problems.

 

 

8. Happy New Year - Camera Obscura

 

Best line: "If I cry to set the mood oh please could you cry too?"

Listen to it while: Drinking your morning coffee on the first day of 2008.

Don't listen to it if: You can't appreciate good tunes.

One fact you didn't know: It's impossible to legally find this song and embed it for free, but trust me on that one and just buy the CD.

 

 

7. A long December - Counting Crows

 

 

Best line: "A long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last".

Listen to it while: Making your New Year resolutions.

Don't listen to it if: you have no reason to believe this year will be better.

One fact you didn't know: this is a beautiful song. Who knew Counting Crows has one of these?

 

 

6. New Years - Asobi Seksu

 

 

Best line: "Sono me o sotto ake natsukashii futari ga mieteta".

Listen to it while: Dreaming of the upcoming kiss.

Don't listen to it if: Japanese provokes you into eating too much sushi.

One fact you didn't know: Asobi Seksu means "playful sex" in Japanese.

 

 

5. Midnight Snack - You Say Party! We Say Die!

 

 

Best line: "What you doing tonight? What you doing tonight? I DON'T KNOW I AINT GOT NO MIDNIGHT SNACK!"

Listen to it while: Kissing on midnight.

Don't listen to it if: You're a vampire. You might take it the wrong way.

One fact you didn't know: The band is banned from touring the States until 2011.

 

 

4. The Party - Justice Ft. Uffie

 

 

Best line: "I'm turning orange from all the carats around my neck tonight, I'm takin' out the bling and I'm dressed to impress".

Listen to it while: You're getting ready for your night out on the town.

Don't listen to it if: You don't have a New Year's party to go to.

One fact you didn't know: I broke my leg during an Uffie show.

 

 

3. I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys

 

 

Best Line: "Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984".

Listen to it while: Checking out girls on the dance floor on a New Year's eve party.

Don't listen to it if: Guitars make you nausea.

One fact you didn't know: 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' is the fastest-selling debut album for a group in British music history.

 

 

2. New Year's Kiss - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

 

 

Best line: "Woke up with fingers crossed in a boy's bed with your pants off".

Listen to it while: handling the hangover of the reckless choices you've made in the last night of 2007.

Don't listen to it if: You're saving yourself.

One fact you didn’t know: The first three Casiotone for the Painfully Alone albums were made using only battery operated keyboards and electronics recorded to 4-track cassette.

 

 

1. New Year - Azure Ray

 

 

Best line: "Now I lay and watch the green leaves dance and whisper sweet breath a promise of a new year".

Listen to it while: holding the one you love.

Don't listen to it if: you're a cold hearted bitch.

One fact you didn't know: These amazing two girls have collaborated with Moby and co-wrote the song, "Great Escape" on his album '18'.

 

 

 

Have the best year, And enjoy celebrating the end of 2007!