AAC (iPod)
If
you have iTunes/iPod, it's recommended that you download and save these
AAC (.m4a extension) files which come complete with artwork, track numbers
and other meta data. Import & sync the downloaded files into iTunes,
sync them to your 'pod and away you go ...
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
MP3 (Other)
If
you have any other digital music player, want to hear the files direct
from this site, or want to burn the tracks to CD, use these MP3 links instead
by either downloading or playing direct from this page.
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
In case you missed a song or news event and want to know what it is ... here's a month by month breakdown
January
Music: Mika - Relax, take it easy | Kayne West - Homecoming | ADELE - Chasing Pavements | Scouting for girls - Elvis ain't dead | Basshunter - Now you're gone
February
Music: Newton Faulker - Dream catch me | Duffy - Mercy| Feeling - I thought it was over | Sarah Cracknell - The Journey Continues | Hot Chip - Ready for the floor
News: Premiership Matches to be played ouside UK | Diana hearing - Fayed speaks out
March
Music: Madonna & Justin - Four minutes | Leona Lewis - Better in time | Estelle - American Boy | Kate Nash - Very Merry Happy | Panic at the Disco - Nine in the afternoon
News: Heathrow Terminal 5 Opens | Missing child Shannon Matthews found | Nasty Weather
April
Music: September - Cry for you | One Republic - Stop and Stare | MGMT - Time to pretend | Black Kids - Not gonna teach your girlfriend how to dance
News: Olympic Torch Protests | Snowing in April
May
Music: Wiley - Wearing my Rolex | Coldplay - Violet Hill | Ting Tings - That's not my name | Pendulum - Propane Nightmares | Fratellis - Mistriss Mabel
News: Boris Johnson - New Mayor of London | Wogan fed up with Eurovision Song Contest | Gordon Brown under pressure | Mars Lander on the red planet
June
Music: Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma | Basshunter - All I ever wanted | Ne Yo - Closer | Busta Rhymes - Together we made it | Alphabeat - 10,000 nights
News: Fuel Strike Protests | Housing Market issues | Bill Gates no longer Microsoft boss | Zimbabe Elections
July
Music: Ironik - Stay with me | Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me | Kooks - Shine on | MGMT - Electric feel | Jordin Sparks - No air
News: Stabbings rampant | Knife crime on the up | Radovan Karadzic captured | Dr. Who finale | Best Wimbledon Singles Final ever?
August
Music: Coldplay - Viva la Vida | The Script - The man who can't be moved | Little Jackie - The world should revolve around me | Rihanna - Disturbia
News: Olympic Games - GB's best ever haul of gold medals | Russia invades Georgia | Barry George released
September
Music: MIA - Paper Planes | Keane - Spiralling | Streets - Everything is borrowed | Iglu & Hartley - This city | Katie Perry - I kissed a girl
News: CERN big bang machine | Credit Crunch takes a grip on the UK | Banks collapse - Lehman Brothers | The worst financial crisis in history - GDP down
October
Music: Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008 | Kings of Lyon - Sex on fire | Ting Tings - Be the one | Razorlight - Wire to wire | Geraldine - The winners song
News: Peter Mandelson back in Government | Madonna & Guy splitting up | Britains Got the pop factor and possibly a new celebrity jesus chris superstar sopstar stricktly on ice
November
Music: Bond music | Killers - Human | Snow Patrol - Take back the city | T1 & Rihanna | Sugababes - Girls
News: Obama new US president | Lewis Hamilton wins F1 | Interest Rates cut
December
Music: Oasis - Out of time | Leona Lewis - Run | Take That - Greatest Day
Christmas track : Goldfrapp - Winter Wonderland
Geek note: The CD version this year just under a minute shorter than the downloadable version. The maximum capacity of an Audio CD is 79 minutes and 59 seconds, but the combined length of the downloaded segments came in at 32 seconds over (80 minutes and 31 seconds). So I went back to the original files and edited down some of the music, so that the CD total now comes to 79 minutes and 41 seconds. You'd probably never spot the difference.
Review of the Year Compilations
The 2008 Review of the Year is here, available now to download, for your iPod or other music player - or you can just play the MP3's direct off of this page, or also download them.
It's just over one hour long, and is a UK music & news review of the year, broken up into twelve tracks - one for each month - with all the popular tunes of the year alongside newsclips of the major events.
I confess that if you're an American reading this, then I admit you're probably not going to 'get' all the news clips as they pertain to some very British things! But there's enough international news in there as well as loads of fun music to make it worth listening to. If I don't it again next year, maybe it's time to go completely international with the news coverage.
There ARE also CD copies this year - in the last couple of years I had stop making CD's, but now realise they make excellent gifts to give to people, so I've gone and made a whole load to give out to people this year. If you ask me nicely, you can have one.
Merry Christmas