So, I want to begin this entry by saying that I think I cannot live without my agenda, that's why the last week of December I buy a new one... Anyway, there, I keep track of birthdays, events, deadlines, among others. But I also keep record of the songs that have been meaningful to me, so here it is, 2008 in music month by month.
January
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El Desierto
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Con Toda Palabra
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Le vieil amant
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To the Dancers in the Rain
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Dans la merco benz
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C'est si Bon
These are pretty much the pieces of 2007,
Emilie Simon was my muse back then, I also listened
Eartha Kitt and
Benjamin Biolay for the first time on 2007.
Lhasa was introduced by a friend who was madly in love with her music, at first I thought it was boring... how wrong was I??!!.
February
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Phoning
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Regarder La Lumière
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Vu d'ici
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This Weather
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Teignmouth
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Non, je ne regrette rien
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Something Of An End
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Qu'est-ce que ça peut faire
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The Rabbit
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J'y Suis Jamais Allé
Not much to say... I finally got into
My Brightest Diamond, who always seemed a little low-key for my taste before, but I finally got out of my confort zone with her - aka:
Gone Away. When I heard her second album was coming out I said 'I'll give it another try' and found some great surprises - as it happened with Patrick Wolf. I found
Magga Stína thanks to one of my neighbours and her album 'An Album' is actually pretty cool. My obsession with
Yann Tiersen began and has remained since then, obviously the easiest listening is the Amélie soundtrack, but after you get pass that you get to actually know his best work, in my opinion. As for
Édith Piaf, after watching La môme (aka La Vie En Rose) I couldn't stop listening to Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, it's such a perfect movie for me.... (good thing there wasn't much to say, huh?)
March
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Je veux te voir
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La Confession
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Silence
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Mein Herz brennt
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J'en ai marre
My french obsession continued and reached pop queens
Yelle and
Alizée. Je veux te voir, is, in fact, one of the songs that actually made 2008 for me, friends, people I know and some strangers as well. I rediscovered
Rammstein, again, and found out how great their music is and how forgotten they were in my library.
PJ Harvey's Silence is a strange pick, I think, but it really meant something to me... about letting things go and finishing a whole cycle and beginning a new one. Some sort of catharsis, if that.
April
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Graines d'étoiles
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J'te mentirais
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What's a Girl To Do?
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To Pluto's Moon
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À Cause des Garçons
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Ex-Girlfriend
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Read My Mind
It's not like I heard
No Doubt for the fist time on April, it's just that that song really meant something to me, right now I don't really remember what, but still... As for the rest, it was just so random...
My Brightest Diamond had just released a new album, so I was kind of obsessed with that at the time, and 'À cause des garçons' tried to be a 'Je veux te voir' - no way in hell that happens...
May
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Hope There's Someone
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La vie en rose
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Porque no vale la pena
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New Day
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J'arrive à la ville
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Quiero Dormir Cansado
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20/20
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Incomplete
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Not As We
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Para El Fin Del Mundo O El Año Nuevo
Well
Alanis Morissette's new album was just out and I became quite crazy about it... I has missed her, honestly, Incomplete pretty much sums up my 2008 - and my state of being at the moment, like in my life or someting... Emilie Simon's last pieces were still kicking up and well, I discovered Antony's music, Hope There's someone is just heartbreaking... how could I not like it?
June
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La Terrasse
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Sur le fil
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Comptine d'un autre été: L'après midi
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Moratorium
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La Vie en rose
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I'll Read You a Story
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La marée haute
My obsession about Yann Tiersen continued and I started to become curious about instrumental music and that's precisely the reason why
Colleen kicked in, actually I heard A LOT of ambient or chillout artists and though I liked them none of them really stuck with me.
July
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Stay
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Où que tu ailles
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U Never Know
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Winter Sleep
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What Else Is There?
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Emmenez-moi
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Hurt
This was a month of retrospective, I guess, Hurt, What Else Is There? and U Never Know I'd heard before, but, I suppose I kind of rediscovered them. Emmenez-moi was the follow-up of 'Je veux te voir', in terms of defining "defining moments" on 2008, as for Où que tu ailles by
La Grande Sophie, I'm not even sure why I liked it, but I listened to it in french class and it reminds of my teacher and my classmates at the time, which is pretty refreshing.
August
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Plus d'hiver
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Chillin'
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Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
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I Want You But I Don't Need You
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Si tu n'étais pas là
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Everyone Alive Wants Answers
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Volver a comenzar
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A Secret Place
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No Mercy for She
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Rainy Days and Mondays
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