than to sit and make a audio CD (if you can remember them) that contains all your most wonderlicious musicial moments from the 12 months past.

The idea of the compilation CD is thus: with 16000GB capacity MP3 players giving more music at fingertips than you’ll live long enough to listen to, it’s important to keep it frugal and force yourself to choose only the tastiest selection that will fit on ONE solitary audio CD (80mins or less). MP3 CDs are cheating.

The idea is to create your own CD and post the track listings here, swap CDs with pals and discover new music, or maybe just display disbelief that others have left off a particular song for that band you happen to like.

Make sure all your music selections ARE actually from 2009 (just sort your WinAmp / Media Player / iTunes into ‘year’ order).

Also, only one entry per artist please, but I suppose if someone is part of two groups, then that’s fine.

My 2009 Compilation CD (under 80 mins)

1. Mew – Introducing Palace Players » listen here
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Role » listen here
3. Fever Ray – Triangle Walks » listen here
4. The xx – Islands » listen here
5. Beirut – My Wife, Lost in the Wild » listen here
6. Golden Silvers – True No.9 Blues (True Romance) » listen here
7. St. Vincent – The Party » listen here
8. Why? – Against Me » listen here
9. Blue Roses – I Am Leaving » listen here
10. Memory Tapes – Bicycle » listen here
11. Passion Pit – The Reeling » listen here
12. The Pains of Being Pure of Heart – A Teenager in Love » listen here
13. Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust on the Ground » listen here
14. Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others » listen here
15. White Denim – I Start to Run » listen here
16. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career » listen here
17. Bat For Lashes – Daniel » listen here
18. Sufjan Stevens – You Are The Blood » listen here

What music have you been listening to this yeear? What’s your favourite song? Favourite album? Top 5 songs? What’s on your 2009 CD? Let me know below…