Good songs about New Year's Eve?

No specific ref to NYE, but Mtn Goats "This Year"

"Let's Start the New Year Right," by Bing Crosby.

"11:59 (its january)" by scrawl. you can find it on the simple machines working holiday compilation.

"this year will be our year" by the zombies

er, "this will be our year"

I'm quite fond of Rufus Wainwright's version of "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" from the new McGarrigle Christmas Hour album.

Also Ella Fitzgerald's version. Good song.

Dismemberment Plan - "The Ice of Boston", still manages to break my heart every time I hear it.

'This Year' from Loudon Wainwright III's 'Therapy' album, seems tailor-made for your requirements:

Another year's gone
Here comes a new one
What's gonna happen
This year

We're gonna make it
Not gonna take it
Make no mistake, it's
This year

Last year was a fiasco
A real disaster
So full of sorrow
This year will be a great year
I just can't wait, dear
Until tomorrow

Forget the old pain
Sing a new refrain
Uncork the champagne
This year

No, it's not too late
We got a clean slate
The future's our fate
This year

It's after midnight
I'm just a bit tight
Hey, but I'll be alright
This year

The year is brand new
And the old one's all through
And it's time to kiss you
This year

Saturday Looks Good To Me, "Alcohol"
"When they started counting down
I could not believe that you were fast asleep
And i felt like those flashing lights
on the ocean floor, at the liqoue store"

The Decemberists, "Grace Cathedral Hill"
"I paid 25 cents to light a little white candle
For a new year's day I sat and watched it burn away
Then turned and weaved through slow decay
We were both a little hungry so we went to get a hot dog"

Bran Van 3000, "Ceci N'est Pas Une Chanson"
"Was the night before New Year's Eve,
I felt a curious desire for donuts,
I dragged my sorry ass to the city of Laval,
Where she drank from a Tim Horton's promo cup.
She read Paris Match by the toilet,
Some crap on John Holiday,
I tried desperately to avoid it,
But that's when she looked my sorry-ass way."

also
Leona Manning, "Satan is busy in Knoxville"
Death Cab For Cutie, "The New Year"
Molotov, "El Mundo"
Rachel Lipson + David-Ivar Herman Düne, "Better Days"

"Happy New Year to You!" Sun Ra

Blue Oyster Cult, "Dominance & Submission" (Specifically, New Year's Eve 1963 in Times Square.)

From context, it seems The Who's "1921" is about New Year's Eve, yes? And it's good!

I've got a feeling twenty one
Is going to be a good year.
Especially if you and me
See it in together.

So you think 21 is going to be a good year.
It could be for me and her,
But you and her-no never!
I had no reason to be over optimistic,
But somehow when you smiled
I could brave bad weather

january came too soon
survived the holidays without you

but who are you, you are anyone i wish i knew
and tonight i wish i knew every single one of you
first day champagne old acquaintances are far apart
tonight auld lang syne means leave before the kissing starts

last year went down the drain
they all do really so why complain
drink a cup of kindness yet
and say goodbye to all regrets

it's january

11:59 --- 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-midnight

was it a good year do i really need to know cause now it's behind me forever
it was a good year because it was such a bad year that this year can only get better

last year went down the drain
they all do really so why complain
drink a cup of kindness yet
and say goodbye to all regrets

it's january

and who are you, you are anyone i wish i knew
tonight i wish i knew every single one of you
tonight i wish i knew every single one of you
tonight i wish i knew ... every single one of you
every single one of you (it's january)
every single one of you (it's january)
every single one of you (it's january)
every single one of you (it's january)

--scrawl, "11:59 it's january"

Auld Lang Syne
New Year's Day - U2
1999 - Prince (sort of)