Here's a little bit of trivia for you readers out there: did you know that the first List Addicts was posted way back in 2008 as a New Year's songs list? Bet you didn't know that - and rightly so, since this is practically useless trivia. Putting the year into perspective though, I can't believe that this site has been chugging away that long and is still alive today (considering that it's basically held together by duct tape and craft glue). With probably one of the roughest years I've ever had, I consider it an internet miracle :)
Since I'm not really good at compiling the best of the year albums - which might probably be the reason why this site isn't high on the popularity rankings, our List Addicts End of the Year edition gives you five of my of favorite artists that I've featured or mentioned on the site within the past year:
The feature for Scary Mansion came at the time I was struggling to keep up with artist interviews that I actually stopped it altogether. I would say, that one was especially significant as it might have been the last full artist interview that I'll ever have on the site. Scary Mansion was also a band that anyone's ever contacted me about to have their song featured on a primetime TV show. Blame it on an outdated PR contact at their site - the musical supervisor of Hellcats shot me an email asking how to reach the band. Long story short, their song made an appearance in one of the TV show's episodes which had everybody asking - 'Who sang that song?'. My mission in life is now complete.
Here's their cover of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - the other Cyndi Lauper song that hasn't been remade to death, and this link to the video of it being used in Hellcats.




















allie on The Year Ender
allie on Frederik Teige, Gaoler's Daughter and Year of the Tiger
anonymous on Have a Happy Vancouver Saturday