The long awaited autumn playlist has arrived… Never you fear- Mixes shall be passed like hotcakes during the Christmas season.

The Best of Fall 2008’s Music

1. The Decemberists- Valerie Plame
2. First Aid Kit- Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Fleet Foxes cover)
3. Blitzen Trapper- Furr
4. Joshua Radin & Patty Griffin- You Got Growing Up to Do
5. Sigur Ros- Gobbledigook
6. Ingrid Michaelson- You and I
7. Delta Spirit- People, Turn Around
8. Rachel Yamagata & Ray LaMontagne- Duet
9. The Welcome Wagon- Sold! To the Nice Rich Man
10. Conor Oberst- Cape Canaveral
11. The Last Shadow Puppets- Standing Next to Me
12. Mirah- The Garden
13. Ray LaMontagne- You Are the Best Thing
14. Meaghan Smith- If You Asked Me
15. Common Market- Winter Takes All
16. Sufjan Stevens- Ring Them Bells (Bob Dylan cover)
17. Coldplay & Jay-Z- Lost+
18. The Avett Brothers- Murder in the City
19. These United States- Honor Amongst Thieves
20. The Apples in Stereo- Stephen Stephen

Notes: (2) First Aid Kit are two teenage Swedish girls with insanely good harmonies; The Fleet Foxes have appeared, in some form, on my last three “best of mixes); (3) Blitzen Trapper opened for Iron & Wine this past Saturday at Workplay; (7) Delta Spirit played at Bottletree a few months back with Dr. Dog, played a year ago with Fleet Foxes, and are coming back to The Magic City in December; (9) The Welcome Wagon is a Presbyterian minister & his wife signed to Sufjan’s record label- many thanks to Caleb Chancey for this recommendation; (11) The Last Shadow Puppets- thanks Ashley Xue Grimm- are a side project from a dude in The Arctic Monkeys & another from The Rascals; they have a mid-1960s feel; (12) Erin, who has moved to crutches!!!, saw a group on So You Think You Can Dance? perform to this song; (13) Ray’s third output is rather disappointing in my book- perhaps success has made him too happy to write those heart-wrenching ballads we’ve grown accustomed to; (15) The lone rap track to make the cut for quite some time; (17) A merger of glorious proportions; (20) The ever-so-peppy Apples in Stereo wrote a song for Stephen Colbert

Parks introduced to me to SeeqPod during the Saturday of his bachelor party. It’s fantastic. While I couldn’t find every track from the playlist above, a great number of them are playable below. Patrick, enjoy this while you’re not doing anything at work… Erin, if you gain enough courage to bring headphones to work, you can enjoy this too!

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