The other day while I was in the bank, Xanadu (yes, from the Olivia Newton-John film) began playing in the background. I was so surprised I had to point it out to the girl helping me out, "I love the music, it's all over the place." As if to prove her point the next song was Paula Abdul, though it was Xanadu that has been rolling around my head for the last few days.

This morning, when I saw Chris had posted his top 10 songs of the year, I saw it as an option to go through what I'd been listening to and drive Olivia Newton-John out.

It was easy enough to coax out of iTunes my most listened to songs, I'm going to keep it to my top 5 though:

1. Arcade Fire - "Cold Wind"
   Composed for Six Feet Under's next to last episode, this song still haunted me well after the credits ended a few hours later I bought it off iTunes.

2. Sigur Rós - "Glósóli"
   Not knowing a lick of Icelandic, the music and the voice and the emotional quality they carry have brought me to tears more than once on a crowded Muni train. If you haven't yet, watch the video.

3. José González - "Heartbeats"
   I don't know that I will ever hear this without the images from the television commercial (thanks to Jackson) I first heard it in. Watch the ad, filmed here in San Francisco, if you don't yet know if that is good or bad.

4. Bright Eyes - "First Day Of My Life"
   I stopped here the first time I listened to the album and listened to this song over and over for about 10 minutes. The morning after I saw the video I spent the entire Muni ride to work listening to it over and over once again. I someday want to feel like this about a boy!

5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - "Details of the War" There's just something about this entire album that feels right... "And I'm a wounded bird/I will take your word"

I only have a total of 72 songs from this year in my music library, much of the rest of the top 20 are more tracks from some of these albums.