i remember making a list of these in september, so here it is.

• surprise surprise - postcards from italy, beirut
• a song to pass the time, bright eyes
• through the roof n' underground, gogol bordello
• catastrophe and the cure, explosions in the sky
• death or glory, the clash (very hard pick)
• the wolves (act I and II), bon iver
• a day in the life, the beatles
• stand by me, ben e. king
• it's worse when you're young, neva dinova
• baby baby, the vibrators
• a certain romance, arctic monkeys
• close your eyes - we are blind, alaska in winter
• sovay, andrew bird
• everybody's happy nowadays, the buzzcocks
• dreams old men dream, cold war kids
• how it ends, devotchka
• say yes, elliott smith
• outsiders, franz ferdinand
• when i come around, green day
• search and destroy, iggy and the stooges
• everything i am, kanye west
• my list, the killers
• the district sleep alone tonight, the postal service
• down at the rock and roll club, richard hell and the voidoids
• the good old days, the libertines
• too late, m83
• a light on a hill, margot and the nuclear so and so's
• let's dace, the ramones
• til the sun turns black, ray lamontagne
• 1234, feist
• most of miles davis and frank sinatra
• seventeen, sex pistols
• new slang, the shins
• you, rogue wave
• three seed, silversun pickups
• hard to explain, the strokes
• asleep, the smiths
• omaha, tapes n' tapes
• m79, vampire weekend
• white light/white heat, the velvet underground
• hide and seek, imogen heap
• heartbeats, jose gonzalez
• black flowers, yo la tengo