After reading Perfect From Now On, I promptly hopped on the internet and asked author John Sellers to make a mixtape for the M|H. He ever-so-kindly obliged and I now proudly present you with this lovely mix to close out the year. Clocking in at a little over sixteen minutes, it’s a perfect get ready and go mix.

From John Sellers:
“I have a shockingly short attention span. Luckily, some musicians have helped me out by writing incredibly short songs that still manage to totally rule. here are thirteen rockers that check in at 1:30 or under. The best part is, if you don’t like one of them, it’ll be over quick.”

01| Guided By Voices - Wire Greyhounds
02| The Beatnik Filmstars - Hairstyle of a Smug Bastard
03| Sleater-Kinney - A Real Man
04| Pavement - Heckler Spray
05| Robert Pollard - I’m A Strong Lion
06| Archers of Loaf - Fat
07| Times New Viking - Ladders
08| Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time
09| Guided By Voices - Shocker In Gloomtown
10| Bad Brains - Pay to Cum!
11| The Replacements - Customer
12| Sebadoh - Sixteen
13| Pixies - Broken Face

Instead of a “Best Of” list, M|H is presenting you with a favorites list instead. There were too many major albums we didn’t get around to hearing and don’t feel it would make for a very accurate list if the classification was ‘best’.

Nothing is in any particular order, except for albums which are sorted by release date.

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[ALBUMS]

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away - 01.23.07
2. Australia
4. Phantom Limb
7. Turn On Me
9. Spilt Needles
10. Girl Sailor

Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High - 02.06.07
2. “The Take Over, The Break’s Over”
7. Thnks Fr the Mmrs
10. The Carpal Tunnel of Love

Hayward Williams - Another Sailor’s Dream - 03.06.07
2. Redwoods
5. Careful, Please
7. A Glance Back
10. A Song For Lou

Brighton, MA - Brighton, MA - 06.19.07
2. Good Kind of Crazy
4. Graceland ‘02

Fionn Regan - The End of History - 07.10.07
3. Hunters Map
6. Put A Penny In the Slot
8. Snowy Atlas Mountains
12. Bunker or Basement

June - Make It Blur - 08.07.07
1. No Time For Sense
6. I’d Lose Myself
9. Swallowed
11. Sight For Sore Eyes

John Ralston -Sorry Vampire - 10.02.07
1. Fragile
2. The Only Evidence
9. No One Loves You Like I Do

Coheed & Cambria - No World For Tomorrow - 10.23.07
2. No World For Tomorrow
6. Mother Superior
10. Radio Bye Bye

[SINGLES]

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee
Kanye West - Stronger
Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds
Junior Senior - I Like Music (W.O.S.B.)
Treaty of Paris - Waking Up the Dead
Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
Calvin Harris - The Girls
The Comas - Come My Sunshine
Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing
Matt Pond PA - Magic Boyfriend

[BANDS WORTH PAYING TO SEE, REGARDLESS OF IF I PAID OR NOT]

Junior Senior
Kings of Leon
Saves the Day
Say Anything
Coheed & Cambria
Andy Jackson

Sara Bareilles - Love Song
Soulsavers - Revival
Kate Nash - Foundations
Shout Out Louds - Impossible

A couple of tracks to check out for your listening pleasure.

We’ve kind of disappeared and we apologize. We’re back in our Midwest office and have been spending the last week or so acclimating to the cold and snow.

Coming soon is a new celebrity mixtape from John Sellers, author of Perfect From Now On. As soon as we get it in the mail, we’ll post it for your listening pleasure.

The new year will bring some new features to M|H, so keep an eye out for those as well.

Filling your Christmas socks with whiskey drinks & chocolate bars,
M|H