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Score My Life: 10 Songs For Your New Year's Soundtrack

Let the celebrations begin.

Elle M. Juliette

Dec 30, 2015

William Marsh Rice University

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Score My Life: 10 Songs For Your New Year's Soundtrack

Everyone, it’s time. The time has come to usher in the new year. And regardless of what your New Year’s agenda holds, I wish you nothing but good cheer and an exciting celebration. To that end, I bring you an upbeat New Year’s playlist, mined from old and borrowed songs as well as new ones designed to get you up and dancing. The selection of each song was inspired by a sentiment associated with the new year. So play it in your car on your way home or in the thirty-seven (or so) minutes leading up to the dropping of the ball in Time Square. Either way, enjoy, and may all your New Year’s resolutions come true in 2016!

Note: "Score My Life" will be back again with new songs that you won't find on the top 40s list. These are songs from my music hunter archives, set to a theme and thrown at you, from my music library to yours.

1. Looking Back & Dreaming of Travel

ALONG THE ROAD - karmin

2. For The Wanderer

MONSTER LEAD ME HOME - sara hartman

3. Time With Family and Friends

HOME WE’LL GO - walk off the earth

4. The Essence of Getting Older

MOUTAIN AT MY GATES - foals

5. Winter Vacation in Houston

T-SHIRT WEATHER - circa waves

6. Past and Future Selves

CAN'T CONTROL THE WATER - fairground saints

7. Optimism, Hopefulness, And That Impulse That Convinces You that the Holidays Make You Impervious to Weight Gain

SUN IS SHINING - axwell^ingrosso

8. Fresh Start

BRAND NEW - ben rector

9. Looking Forward

NEXT YEAR (RAC REMIX) - two door cinema club

10. New Year's Resolutions

THIS IS THE NEW YEAR - a great big world

Enjoy!

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