Playlist 19.12.08

I didn't sweat the list, to be honest. Many of the big songs essentially selected themselves. There was illness and pressing deadlines, but still the selection has the main ingredients of an annual Friday Late Show round-up. I'm promised myself to spend more time listening to good tunes in 2008, and hope to nuzzle up to more Primal Scream, Amadou & Miriam and Peter Broderick over the hols. Oh, and I must find the Randy Newman album, which was splendid but now AWOL.

The monthlies have gone a bit mad on the Portishead album. I didn't get it. A major oversight?

Playlist 19.12.08

BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Fridays, ten - midnight

Eli Paperboy Reed -Take My Love With You (Q Division)

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Rough Trade)

Paul Weller - All I Wanna Do Is Be With You (Island)

Vampire Weekend - M79 (XL)

Glasvegas- Geraldine (Columbia)

Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers (Rough Trade)

Primal Scream - Uptown (Sony BMG)

Oppenheimer - Kate Blanchett (Fantastic Plastic)

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (Bella Union)

Dengue Fever - Tiger Phone Card (Proper)

Teddy Thompson - In My Arms (Verve)

Neon Neon - I Told Her On Alderaan (Lex)

Elbow - Grounds For Divorce (Fiction)

Amadou & Miriam - Mastedeladi (Because)

The Gaslight Anthem - Meet Me By The River's Edge (Side One Dummy)

Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig (Mute)

Henry McCullough - The Burial Ground (There Wolf)

Bon Iver - Creature Fear (4ad)

Duke Special - What Does Anybody Love (Universal)

TV On The Radio - Halfway Home (4ad)

Martha Wainwright - Comin Tonight (Drowned In Sound)

Panama Kings - Young Blood (We Collect Records)

Billy Bragg - Sing Their Souls Back Home (cv)

David Holmes I Heard Wonders (Mercury)

Peter Broderick - With The Notes In My Ears (Bella Union)