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the year. october. the square. the data cut. my list, no ranking:

- my home my heart my soul (obviously)
- jashoo tüshü at the vigils
- sary kün outside the faculty
- altyn muuz in the dorm on fridays because we needed to laugh or we would have done something else

yours?

from bishkek, every night your internet was cut i put white stallion in fog on. the whole album. like leaving a light on in the window for someone

Cut the Stars on repeat in the wagon. "tonight the night is ours". In Surgut in December the night is twenty hours long. It was ours anyway.

Beneath Endless Skies, from Swift Hooves. The sad spoken part at the end. It was my father's favourite. I played it in the car every time I couldn't get through to Kara-Buura in October.

Old Man Tursun. I used to find it a bit silly, an American's idea of an Iradi grandfather. This year I didn't.

Talas Moon. Don't laugh. People say Dana Pak was on the square on the second day in a hoodie and a face mask. I don't know if it's true. I have decided to believe it.

jolchu. the radio copy, with the DJ talking over the end. my brother sent it to me in october, he still has it. the DJ in 1999 saying "good night, Nurzhan". i played that one sentence maybe 200 times.

Nothing. I worked fifteen shifts in a row. The refinery has its own song. It's a hum. It got me through.

No radio up here in October and no signal. I had one song, the one my wife sings to the ewes in the evening. I don't know its name and she says it hasn't got one. It worked.

I know I'm late and I wasn't there and it's not my year to talk about. But I read this whole thread after the Dream of Living one, and now I understand why the song sounds the way it does. Thank you.

one year since i joined. same list. i'd add dream of living from the americans' tv. it's ours, they just borrowed it