This is the Happyoblivion Best of 2016, part 1 of 2 this week.  We will go over the best tracks from singles & EPs in 2016.  There are also some singles are off of LPs that didn't make the cut for best albums, but just happen to be good enough to stand on their own.  First part of the show features songs in no particular order, but the latter part of the show we do our top 20 countdown!

Part 2 will be next week and we will look back at the best LPs (full length albums) of 2016!

12:00pm

toshiaki yamada - sumisu [Japan]
del sur - been so long
night flowers - chaser
building rockets - thurston & kim
day wave - deadbeat girl
evening cinema - everlasting summer [Japan]
12:20pm

plant cell - marguerite [Japan]
he luck door - natsuco [Japan]
num contena - flight to winter [Japan]
featherfin - helen richey (feat. the very most) [Norway]
yaoyoros - toke dashita natsu ni [Japan]

12:40pm

sally shapiro - if you ever wanna change your mind [Sweden]

heaven for real - subliminal

ancient youth club - meikyu shojo [Japan]

youthmemory - april kisses [Japan]

marlovers - just a boy [Spain]

1:00pm

space daze - what did you say

lightning in a twilight hour - black circles

the chandler estate - flash

coughs - in the morning [Japan]

los popov - dobap [Spain]

hanadorobow - daydream [Japan]

1:20pm

the tomorrowmen - parsec's paradox

death by unga bunga - dollar slice

and summer club - surfer girl [Japan]

secret meadow - water in the flowing river [Indonesia]

Top 20 Countdown

20) cullen omori - hey girl

19) wildhoney - horror movie

18) layne - beautiful life [Japan]

17) the bosss - rain [Japan]

16) charlie darling - since yesterday [UK]

15) halfnoise - in the summer

14) linustate - small world [Japan]

13) le superhomard - dry salt in our hair [France]

2:00pm

12) swimming tapes - souvenirs [UK]

11) boyish - color film [Japan]

10) terry vs. tori - dream wild [Spain]

9) pale spectres - d(r)iving [France]

8) gomes the hitman - jozetsu sutakkato [Japan]

2:20pm

7) california snow story - motorway [UK]

6) juvenile juvenile - planet heaven [Japan]

5) beverly - crooked cop

4) e'spaniel - just another day [UK]

3) the perfect english weather - the sweetest feeling [UK] 

2) youthcomics - and his car [Japan]

1) stephen's shore - ocean blue [Sweden]

2:45pm Happy New Year

homecomings - another new year [Japan]

camera obscura - happy new year

les bicyclettes de belsize - unhappy new year

holiday - new year's anything

gomes the hitman - auld lang syne [Japan]

3:00pm

beach house - new year

Happy Holidays!  More holiday tunes for you on this Christmas Eve to give you 3 shows, or 9 hours total of holiday music.  Oh, and a double-sized holiday surf set for today!

12:00pm
tramgirl karaoke club (Charlie Darling of Les Bicyclettes de Belsize + Edine of Marshmallow Kisses from Hong Kong) - an Eighties Christmas Song
math and physics club - cold as minnesota
the very most - this year, christmas came november 4th
the school - kiss you in the snow
element - rockin' around the christmas tree

the crookes - it's just not christmas without you
fitness forever - Su Šventom Kalėdom
12:20pm
Max & Eliza (from Wallflower) - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Like The Way That I Used to do [Japan]
fandaze - big socks [Japan]
karibean - xmas vibrations [Italy]
pentacon six - christmas is better with you
serenades - come home
the perfect english weather - call me (christmas single)
12:40pm
the mynabirds - all i want is truth (for christmas)
les bicyclettes de belsize - white horses
beanpole - let it snow
bubblegum lemonade - show me a miracle
hic astley (from fandaze) - you made me believe in magic [Japan]
give me wallets - on this christmas night [Japan]

1:00pm
the holiday scene - eight dates a week
belle and sebastian - winter wooskie
the jigsaw seen - what about christmas?
hombre de color - santa claus [Argentina]
gang clouds - Will You Send Me An Old-Fashioned Christmas Card (This Year)
tim wheeler & emmy the great - Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing)
1:20pm Santa's Super Surf Set
the wave benders - do you hear what i hear
bitch boys - jingle bells
aqualads - we wish you a merry xmas
thee swank bastards - we three kings
the ventures - santa claus is comin' to town
the surfites - santa claus goes surfin'
jon & the nightriders - sleigh ride
the mobsmen - Så Går Vi Rundt Om En Enebærbusk
1:40pm Santa's Super Surf Set continued
tacoma four - christmas is a drag
death valley - carol of the bells
king of hawaii - greensleeves
the barbary coasters - secret santa
the ventures - we wish you a merry christmas
burt rocket - santa's hot rod
urban surf kings - we three kings
bonesharks - little drummer boy
lunatics - rocknuts
2:00pm
the bird and the bee - carol of the bells
dent may - i'll be stoned for christmas
stuck in winter (from juvenile juvenile) - i want an alien for christmas [Japan]
razorcuts - snowbound
marie anne (from mariana in our heads) - one horse open sleigh [Japan]
math and physics club - it's a marshmallow world
2:20pm
september girls - i want you back (for christmas)
camera obscura - little donkey
she overruns (from superfriends) - christmas time is here [Japan]
iko cherie - merry christmas mr. lawrence (lalala version)
glo-worm - holiday
toshiaki yamada - christmas wish [Japan]
the fairways - winter song
2:40pm
billy squier - christmas is the time to say i love you
squirrel nut zippers - santa claus is smoking reefer
louis armstrong - 'zat you, santa claus? (the heavy remix)
frank sinatra - let it snow (dj zsuzsu & wolfgang lohr remix)
smithereens - rudolph
julian casablancas - christmas treat
kinks - father christmas
the polyphonic spree - happy christmas (war is over)

More holiday music!

12:00pm
attic lights - why should christmas be so hard?
belle & sebastian - santa, bring my baby back to me
the hit parade and amelia fletcher - christmas tears
summer cats - plastic christmas trees
the hopefuls - holiday

the marbles - christmas song

12:20pm

daydream cycle - christmas is here (Philippines)

the crookes - you're just like christmas
les bicyclettes de belsize - christmas card 1983
homecomings - winter bargain [Japan]
parker lewis & matilda berggren - all alone on christmas

12:40pm

the very most - wombling merry christmas

popguns - in red and white

xmas advent - (drive a...) snowplough through your heart

camera obscura - the blizzard

modular - el viaje magico de santa claus

yo zushi - merry christmas

1:00pm
les bicyclettes de belsize - the advent calendar

the magic theatre - christmas lights

it happens - fudge (christmas issue) [Japan]

tiny fireflies - snow

the silhouettes - under the mistletoe

curumi chronicle - white sweet cake [Japan]

1:25pm Santa's Surf Set

martin cilia - christmas in july

the ventures - blue christmas

the excelsiors - good king wenceslas

fronkensteen - nutty

surfaris- surfer's christmas list

los straitjackets - a marshmallow world

urban surf kings - i saw three ships (mr. rebel version)

1:40pm

red sleeping beauty - christmas

tesco chainstore mascara - santa baby

fountains of wayne - the man in the santa suit
karibean - down before xmas (Italy)

tacocat - snow day

asobi seksu - merry christmas (i don't wanna fight)

theoretical girl - wonderful christmastime

2:00pm

joy electric - lollipop parade (on christmas morn)

les bicyclettes de belsize - once upon a christmas time

stormclouds - cosmic christmas

nixon - snow day [Sweden]

slow club - christmas (baby please come home)
haruca hinata - the christmas song [Japan]

2:20pm

yo la tengo - it's christmas time

les bicyclettes de belsize - good king wenceslas

the new mendicants - a very sorry christmas

the soft city - snow keeps falling

the weddings - christmas morning [Japan]

softies - snow like this

pizzicato five - snowflakes

2:40pm

toshiako yamada - this year's christmas song [Japan]

the magnetic fields - everything is one big christmas tree

sappy - my death on christmas [Japan]

bmx bandits - let's make christmas love

old lacy bed - merry christmas baby [Japan]

dent may - holiday face

velocity girl - merry christmas, i love you

les bicyclettes de belsize - snow blitz

the very most - away in a manger

Holiday music starting with today's show.  We've got 3 shows (9 hours) worth of indie holiday tunes!

12:00pm
les bicyclettes de belsize - a very indie christmas
northern portrait - leave the trees alone [Denmark]

the hit parade - i love christmas

bathing beauty - christmas tears

tesco chainstore mascara - last christmas

the prissteens - christmas is a time for giving

12:20pm

squirrel nut zippers - sleigh ride

french pop dream - silver bells (remastered)

the school - kiss you in the snow

bubblegum lemonade - no room at the inn

nixon - anorak christmas

the crookes - you bring the snow

the boy least likely to - christmas isn't christmas

12:40pm

axolotes mexicanos - te espero en navidad  [Spain]

tender trap - leaving christmas day

allo darlin' - hymn on the 45

the primitives - you trashed my christmas

fireflies - x-mas song

gomes the hitman - deck the halls [Japan]

1:00pm

les bicyclettes de belsize - it only snows at christmas

eux autres - teenage christmas

helen love & friends - the townhall band

my teenage stride - is it christmastime already?

metro jets - jingle jangle christmas

jens lekman - run away with me

1:20pm Santa's Surf Set
mel-tones - silent night
the hollyberries - i wanna go surfin' with santa

the surfites - staffan var en stalledrang

aqualads - angels we have heard on high

space cossacks - christmas island

the kanaloas - x-mas palm tree

the rory mcbrides - (we like) eggnog!

tiki joe's ocean - jingle bells

1:40pm

wallflower - looks like snow [Japan]

the school - let me be the fairy on your christmas tree tonight

the icicles - snowman

fountains of wayne - i want an alien for christmas

the jigsaw seen - snow angels of pigtown

shonen knife - space christmas

2:00pm
dum dum girls - on christmas

featherfin - do not go gentle [Norway]

red sleeping beauty - merry christmas, marie [Sweden]

lorna - snowfall

edine avec lisle mitnik et son orchestre - x-mas song

summer fiction - christmas eve for two

2:20pm

strawberry whiplash - santa needs a holiday

the pines - chalet

the very most - little saint nick
boyish - love affair (Christmas version) [Japan]

Hiroshi Morishima - Christmas Mood [Japan]

moscow club - the c s (christmas song) [Japan]

2:40pm

les bicyclettes de belsize - an old fashioned christmas song

xtc - thanks for christmas

streetlight cadence - magic of a christmas (feat. sophie rose)

best coast & wavves - got something for you

the raveonettes - christmas song

belle & sebastian - santa claus

helen love - hark the herald angels sing

It's December already!  We'll hold off on the holiday music for now though, so just a regular show today. Enjoy!

12:00pm
super furry animals - juxtaposed with u
e'spaniel - just another day

stephen's shore - turn your head [Sweden]

radio dept. - heaven's on fire
letting up despite great faults - ride
the pains of being pure at heart - say no to love

12:20pm

teen runnings - high school love [Japan]
club 8 - saturday night engine
the lodger - the good old days
someloves - know you now
marine life - big sur

12:40pm

tesco chainstore mascara - tomorrow (2014 remix)
the go! team - apollo throwdown
boyish - blue balloon [Japan]
kids on a crime spree - i don't want to call you baby, baby
pizzicato five - groovy is my name
ACBs - ocean

teenage fanclub ~ i'm in love "here" [merge]

1:00pm

red sleeping beauty - happy birthday [Sweden]

brideshead - that kind of girl [Germany]

northern portrait - the young and hopefuls [Denmark]

homecomings - perfect sounds forever (handsomeboy technique remix)

the cardigans - country hell

the school - let it slip

1:20pm Surf Set

aqua velvets - ho'okipa

shadowy men on a shadowy planet - harlem by the sea

the kanaloas ~ toxica "surf a go go!" [double crown]

the stingrays - panic beach

mr. gerrymanders - molicone surf

the volcanics ~ geronimo "stompin' garage" [double crown]

the surfites - gremmie's blues

1:40pm

pale spectres - d(r)iving [France]

num contena - flight to winter [Japan]

charlie darling - darling

lia pamina ~ better off without you "love is enough" [elefant]

the yearning ~ fall in love with me "evening souvenirs" [elefant]

french pop dream - it's the middle of winter but it will be the summer soon

2:00pm
camera obscura - lloyd, i'm ready to be heartbroken

velocity girl - crazy town

heavenly - snail trail

rose melberg - they don't know (kristy maccoll cover)

lake ~ tracks and tunnels "constant and true: a tribute to rose melberg" [february]

2:20pm

la casa azul - esta noche sólo cantan para mí [Spain]

attic lights - war years (reworked by la casa azul)

san francisco - todos los besos del mundo[Spain]

for tracy hyde - favourite blue [Japan]

galants - evergreen

2:40pm

the camerawalls - i love you, natalie (2016 remix) [Philippines]

nixon - don't cry [Sweden]

alpaca sports - where'd you go [Sweden]

kero kero bonito - big city

cinnamons - dreamin' girl [Japan]

the perfect english weather - the sweetest feeling

melicoton - km83 [France]