In alphabetical order by artist, here are The Upstate Life's favorite songs this year has brought us:
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance Art Brut - Good Weekend Band of Horses - The Funeral Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog Belle and Sebastian - To Be Myself Completely Birdman & Lil' Wayne - Stuntin' Like My Daddy Built to Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry Danielson - Bloodbook on the Half Shell The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2 Editors - Munich Girl Talk - Minute By Minute Girl Talk - Bounce That The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations The Hold Steady - Chillout Tent Hot Chip - And I Was a Boy from School Islands - Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone Islands - Rough Gem LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (2:44 to 9:16) Lupe Fiasco - Real Mates of State - Fraud in the 80's Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy OK Go - A Million Ways Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Number The Raconteurs - Level The Rapture - Whoo! Alright - Yeah.. Uh Huh The Rapture - Don Gon Do It Ratatat - Wildcat Scissor Sisters - She's My Man The Strokes - You Only Live Once Tapes 'N Tapes - Crazy Eights Tapes 'N Tapes - Cowbell The Thermals - Returning to the Fold Thunderbirds Are Now! - Why We War Thunderbirds Are Now! - Sleeping in the Lion's Mouth T.I. - What You Know Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, & Wives