Saturday, December 20, 2008

Best Downloads 2008

So here are the final 19 tracks that made the Readers Best Downloads Cut for 2009. Everything With You by The Pains Of being Pure At Heart was far and away the peoples choice for this year which considering our coverage of them is hardly a surprise!

Both Cloudberry Records and Wee Pop artists were very popular. Surprisingly nobody raided the Series Two Records archives for their choices so if you get bored over the forthcoming holiday there is plenty to delve into there!

The Track listing is:

The Social Services - The Baltic Sea
Summercats - Lonely Planet
Godsmania - Thanks But No Thanks
The Just Joans - Hey Boy... You're So Sensitive
The Lodger - The Good Old Days
The Bridal Shop - Violation
Mount Wilson Repeater - Pencils/Pens
Je Reve De Toi - Decoracao
One Happy Island - Temporary Tattoo
Northern Portrait - Crazy
The Platers - We Were Stars
The Firekites - Good Times
Pete Green - Best British Band Supported By Shockwaves
Jam On Bread - I Heart Labrador Records
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
The Legends - Seconds Away
Billie The Vision And The Dancers - Stuttering Duckling
Girls - Lust For Life
Vivian Girls - Tell The World

I have never heard of Girls, Mount Wilson Repeater or Je Reve De Toi but they are all good choices. Nice to see some of my favourites here but I guess some of you were taking a cue form our Best Tracks of 2008 series!

Download the compilation from here [75 mb, zip](sorry no artwork this year as my favourite CD covers editing program refuses to work on Vista!)

Alternative download link http://www.mediafire.com/?xme50bbx1im

EDIT: Neri produced some artwork (thanks mate). You can download it from here.

The winner of the competition will be notified over the next couple of days.