And Spend Less Money On Shoes

Well here we are, facing the unlikely-sounding 2007.
Year two thousand and seven. It's just a number- but as a year, what will it be like?

A year is a good chunk of time. Pleasantly circuitous in a seasonal sort of way, plenty of opportunity to get stuff done, but short enough that if you just fancied a bit of a breather or weren't really paying attention you don't have to feel bad about not having ticked off much of the to-do list. Also the adding of another incremental digit to the communal running total of orbits of the sun is a good chance to give yourself a pat on the back for avoiding crime, corruption, hard drugs and any extra soap operas. Also for generally being yourself for another year.
Nicely done, you.

So while my better half is polling for her second 'Not So Faithful - Songs For The Festive Heathen' compilation in honour of the communal northern hemisphere winter solstice/religious festival, I'd like to turn your attention to the New Year.

Let's put together a compilation of hopeful, bouncy, cheery but not annoyingly plastic or chirpy tunes to herald the start of another lap of the sun on this spinning top of ours.
We want hope, party, rock, dance, grinny, sunny, cool, wintry, whatever. It just has to fit, you know?

First up I'd like to suggest, rather predictably, Jamie Cullum's 'Next Year Baby', which is what I might call the mix, even if we end up with 80 minutes' worth of tunes that are better than it.
The two discs go out together - Not So Faithful and this one, so if you're very, very good...and one way to be that good is to be a special type of bad...one might be heading your way.

Any suggestions?