joy, revisited :]

"When inspiration comes you somehow have disengaged your consciousness just a touch. The flow of images comes and it comes so quickly and so freshly that you know its just a transparency really. You've managed to remove the barrier and you're just reaching straight into the good stuff."

david gray

given my understood obsession with music I decided to provide a compilation of my 50 favorite songs in 2008. several people have done variations of this themselves and i just thought it might be nice to recollect and share with you guys the songs that meant the most to me. the firsts are by far my most favorite and have been of particular importance to me for one reason or the other. several miscellaneous others are "favorites" because of a moment or a person that has made them so! :) So please look through and feel free to request a CD if you decide you like, don't like, or don't know what I've chosen. Feel free to ask why too!! Oh yes and Happy New Year.
:)

and here we go...
1. You Are My Joy - David Crowder Band - A Collision

2. Shine - Anna Nalick - Shine - EP











3. Strawberry Swing - Coldplay - Viva La Vida











4. Milk - Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak











5. Street Lights - Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak











6. Fire - Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt











7. Rain King - Counting Crows - New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall











8. Song to the Siren (live) - David Gray - A Thousand Miles Behind










9. Psalm 23 - Jason Upton - Jacob's Dream - EP











10. Is There a Ghost - Band of Horses - Cease to Begin











11. Josh Likes Me - Mom - Little Brite
12. Closer - Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
13. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
14. My Only Swerving - El Ten Eleven - El Ten Eleven
15. Violet Hill - Coldplay - Viva La Vida
16. Come and Listen - David Crowder Band - Double Take: David Crowder Band
17. Washed By The Water - Needtobreathe - The Heat
18. The Greatest Sum (Acoustic) - The Avett Brothers - The Second Gleam
19. Saeglópur - Sigur Rós - Saeglópur - Single
20. Lavinia - The Veils - The Runaway Found
21. Where I Stood - Missy Higgins - On A Clear Night
22. Darling - Wyeuca/Joel Mooneyhan
23. Skinny Love - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
24. True Colors - Eva Cassidy - American Tune
25. Hannah - Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
26. Go Down Easy (live) - David Gray - A Thousand Miles Behind
27. Section 14 (Two Thousand Places) - The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
28. I'm Yours (From the Casa Nova Sessions) - Jason Mraz - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things
29. I Am - Eddie James - Free To Worship - Ultimate Call
30. He Is The Love - David Crowder Band - All I Can Say
31. Essex (Live in Atlanta) - The Album Leaf - Seal Beach
32. Questions - Tommy Emmanuel - Only
33. Mother -Antoine Dufour - Existence
34. Together We Will Live Forever - Clint Mansell - The Fountain (Score)
35. Ain't Gonna Lose You - Brett Dennen - Ain't Gonna Lose You - Single
36. Fiasco - Nancy Wilson - Elizabethtown (Score)
37. Bixby Canyon Bridge - Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
38. Healer - Hillsong - This Is Our God
39. Melt My Heart To Stone - Adele - 19
40. Christmas Song - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live At Luther College
41. Take A Bow - Rihanna - Take A Bow - Single
42. Figure It Out - Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long
43. Lay And Love - Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
44. I'm Amazed - My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
45. Faith - Jason Upton - Faith
46. Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song) - Enrique Iglesias - Insomniac
47. Busy Being Fabulous - The Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden
48. Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis - Spirit
49. Nothing Can Compare With God (Psalm 113) - Natalie LaRue - The Message: Psalms
50. Dear Claudia - SouthFM - Drama Kids