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January 1, 2007: The Magic Oyster

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Happy New Year, one and all. Like every other jerk on the internet, I've assembled some faves of 2006 in clickable/listenable form. Check it out here.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	Incident on 57th St.	The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle			0:00:35 Pop-up)
Starlite Desperation	New Year's Bathroom Magic	Show You What a Baby Won't			0:08:09 Pop-up)
Entrance	Pretty Baby	Prayer of Death		*	0:11:57 Pop-up)
The Ex with Getatchew Mekuria	What is the Heart?	Moa Anbessa		*	0:18:32 Pop-up)
Dosh	Ship Wreck	The Lost Take		*	0:23:03 Pop-up)
Brother JT and Vibrolux	Comin' Out	Doomsday Rock			0:26:39 Pop-up)
Oakley Hall	Living in Sin in the USA	Gypsum Strings		*	0:32:08 Pop-up)
James Brown	It's Magic	Soul on Top			0:43:44 Pop-up)
Golden	(Side One)	Jazz and Rhythm Beat 12"			0:46:53 Pop-up)
Bruce McCulloch	Grade 8	Shame-Based Man			0:59:27 Pop-up)
Basement Jaxx w/ Siouxsie Sioux	Cish Cash	Kish Kash			1:00:20 Pop-up)
Subtitle	Seventies Western Crime Scene Pt. 2	Terrain to Roam		*	1:04:33 Pop-up)
"The Biggest Hip Hop Club in America"			Photo by Thomas Hawk.		1:06:51 Pop-up)
3rd Bass	Steppin' to the A.M.	History of Rap Volume 3			1:07:51 Pop-up)
"Chuck Chillout Radio Spot"		History of Hip Hop Radio Vol. 1 New York 1986-1991		*	1:12:50 Pop-up)
D-Nice	They Call me D-Nice	12"			1:12:56 Pop-up)
Jonathan Kane	BQE	I Looked at the Sun EP			1:22:52 Pop-up)
Chavez	Hack the Sides Away	Better Days Will Haunt You 2xCD + DVD		*	1:28:10 Pop-up)
Mico	After Rain	4 Women No Cry Vol. 2	compilation, also featuring Dorit Chrysler, Monotekktoni, and Iris.	*	1:31:17 Pop-up)
Shelagh McDonald	Mirage	Let no Man Steal Your Thyme 2xCD	Both her albums, from 70 and 71. More info on Shelagh here.		1:36:27 Pop-up)
Colleen	What is a Componium? Part 2	Colleen et les Boites a Musique		*	1:40:27 Pop-up)
Hall & Oates	Sara Smile Slowly	MP3			1:43:27 Pop-up)
Roy Richards	Get Smart	Studio One: Rudeboy	compilation	*	1:48:42 Pop-up)
Michael Mills	Introduction to Rock & Roll	MP3	Part of the brand new 365 Days Project for 2007. Big ups to Otis Fodder!		1:51:32 Pop-up)
The Idiot Formerly Known as FOOM	Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll	Crazy People Music		*	1:54:21 Pop-up)
A Gun Called Tension	There is a War	Triumph of Lethargy 7"		*	2:00:43 Pop-up)
Selda	Yaz Gazeteci Yaz	Selda	Re-issue, 1975	*	2:04:12 Pop-up)
Queen Adreena	Razor Blade Sky	The Butcher and the Butterfly			2:15:59 Pop-up)
Afghan Whigs	Milez is Dead	Congregation			2:20:09 Pop-up)
Flat Earth Society	Clusterthing	Psycho Scout		*	2:25:17 Pop-up)
Crime	Rockabilly Drugstore	San Francisco's STILL Doomed			2:32:57 Pop-up)
Sticks & Stones	Cynical	The Strife & Times of Sticks & Stones 2xCD			2:35:36 Pop-up)
Filastine (feat. Dorothy Lemoult)	Palmares	Burn It		*	2:39:22 Pop-up)
Surreal	Moment in Time	Heavy Rotation	compilation	*	2:41:47 Pop-up)
Terea	Pretty Bird	Hunk of Heaven	compilation		2:45:16 Pop-up)
Sade	Kiss of Life	Diamond Life			2:49:12 Pop-up)
Margo vs. Eiffel Tower	Tonight is my New Year	The My Pal God Holiday Record	compilation		2:52:37 Pop-up)