School of Seven Bells: Half Asleep

Q-Tip Featuring Norah Jones: Life Is Better

The XX: Crystalised

Lusine: Two Dots

Telekinesis: Awkward Kisser

Jack Penate: Be the One

One Eskimo: Kandi

Silversun Pickups: Panic Switch

The Temper Trap: Science of Fear

Miike Snow: Silvia

Florence + The Machine: You've Got the Love

Mayer Hawthorne: Green Eyed Love

Grizzly Bear: While You Wait for the Others

Phoenix: Lisztomania

Neko Case: People Got a Lotta of Nerve

Prefix: A Gift of Christmas

I wrote about Tokyo based duo Prefix (Tk and Mairi) in October. We have since become great friends - they are some of the kindest, most genuine people I have ever known. Cyberspace can lead to true friendship, and music is often the link.

Tk and Mairi have just finished making a sweet video for their latest song, the beautiful track "A Gift of Christmas". The song, video and our friendship give me hope for the world.

Speaking of humanity: thousands of delegates in Copenhagen - where I'm visiting family for Christmas and New Year's - were not able to agree on very much at the COP15 climate conference these past two weeks. Perhaps from now on, important summit delegations should consist of musicians - we seem to be able to put our differences aside in ways that bureaucrats and politicians are not!

www.myspace.com/prefixmairi

Queens of the Stone Age: No One Knows

Number 73 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

The Killers: Mr. Brightside

Number 48 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

The Roots: The Seed (2.0) Featuring Cody Chesnutt

Number 43 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list

Arcade Fire: Wake Up

Number 42 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out

Number 32 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

The Postal Service: Such Great Heights

Number 27 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

The Strokes: Last Night

Number 16 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

Johnny Cash: Hurt

Number 15 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps

Number 7 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

White Stripes: Seven Nation Army

Number 6 on the Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade list:

Rolling Stone: The Decade's Best Songs & Albums

Personal taste is just that - personal, but there are many excellent choices in the current Rolling Stone The Decade's Best Songs & Albums issue, voted on by a good mix of Rolling Stone editors and well-known songwriters.

The Nightfly has picked twelve favorite songs/videos from the 100 Best Songs of the Decade list.

Lists are silly, guilty pleasures.

Let the sillyness begin.

Imogen Heap: Canvas

Rain or shine or snow - Imma gonna go out there and paint, damn it!

Great video shot by Tom Kelly, great song by the fab Ms. Heap.

Trentemøller: Moan

Danish musician/remixer Anders Trentemøller aka Trentemøller or Trentemoller did this vocal remix featuring Ane Trolle in 2007.

The moving video about Laika - the guinea pig "space dog" who was sent into orbit aboard Sputnik in 1957 and died five to seven hours into flight from stress and overheating - was directed by Niels Gråbøl and Ulrik Crone.

Raveonettes: Black/White Sound

Sharin Foo and Sune Wagner founded The Raveonettes in Copenhagen in 2001.

Sharin turns 30 on Saturday Dec. 12 - Happy B-day to my almost namesake and fellow Great Dane!

http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes

Carpark North: More

Kids don't need Ritalin - just give 'em a drumset, a guitar or a mike!

Carpark North was founded in Denmark's second largest city, Århus in Jutland.

Crisp black/white video and fab energy.

http://www.myspace.com/carparknorth

Mew: Repeaterbeater

The historic and vital COP15 climate conference opened today in Copenhagen today - let's hope the many delegates can come up with something other than empty promises.

And speaking of Copenhagen - Mew are from the Copenhagen suburb Hellerup, just north of the capital and right on the coast.

The video for "Repeaterbeater" was directed by Martin de Thurah. It's a very cool short that has a Thomas Vinterberg/Lars von Trier feel to it. Apparently the band was under hypnosis during part of the video shoot - the guy in the white suit with the cane is not an actor but the real thing!

Ataris: The Boys of Summer

The video for Don Henley's original version seems to have vanished from cyber space. Thankfully, Ataris' version is pretty great too.

Kraak & Smaak: Squeeze Me

Dutch electronic/funk trio Kraak and Smaak.

Camera Obscura: Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken

Camera Obscura from Glasgow, Scotland with their fabtastic lead vocalist Tracyanne Campell.

Ken & Barbie dancing around Tokyo. Tres freaky.