For the last two years my Music Club chums and I have put together Best Of CDs for one another that showcase our favourite music from the past 12 months. It’s interesting to me that the songs on my Best Of CD aren’t necessarily my favourite albums of the year. Sometimes, they’re simply the most appropriate representation of what I listened to this year.

My Best Of tracks include:

• Stay Where You Are—The Delays (Faded Seaside Glamour, 2004)
• Found in the Ground—Girls in Hawaii (From Here to There, 2003)
• Forget Myself—Elbow (Leaders of the Free World, 2005)
• The Ride—Imogen Heap (Speak for Yourself, 2005)
• Gold Into Straw—Brendan Benson (The Alternative to Love, 2005)
• Walking With a Ghost—Tegan & Sara (So Jealous, 2004)
• John Wayne Gacy, Jr.—Sufjan Stevens (Illinoise, 2005)
• Parasol—Tori Amos (The Beekeeper, 2005)
• Video—Aimee Mann (The Forgotten Arm, 2005)
• One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)—Stars (Set Yourself on Fire, 2005)
• Weightless Again—Cerys Matthews (Cockahoop, 2003)
• Little Sadie—Mark Lanegan (I'll Take Care of You, 1999)
• Nos da cariad—David Gray (Life in Slow Motion, 2005)
• Too Little too Late—Metric (Live it Out, 2005)
• The Desperate Kingdom of Love—PJ Harvey (Uh Huh Her, 2004)