I originally wrote the singles list in December 2002, but I didn’t list the albums so I did this in December 2009. Interestingly I picked 66 singles at that time but can only find 10 albums now that I want to list.
The Samurai Seven track is a brilliant piece of pop and it would still be my number one today. But consistency is NOT my watchword. WTF did I put U2 in my top 10 for? I thought, oh maybe I wasn’t being a music snob, it might actually be good. But I’ve listened to it again and it ain’t good, it SHITE.
Deprived of a deserved place in my top 10 today are:
11. Mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions
21. Parva – Good Bad Right Wrong
26. Distillers – The Young Crazed Peeling
27. Gemma Hayes – Hanging Around
52. Jack – The Emperor Of New London
64. Girls Against Boys – Basstation
Parva, of course, became the Kaiser Chiefs later in life.
Albumwise I was still loving the rock and A’s Hi-Fi Serious is a great bit of powerpop. I saw them live a couple of times when they were touring this album and they were a top quality act. Apparently they’ve got back together again, lead singer Jason Perry clearly getting tired of making oodles writing songs for Busted and McFly.
No 2 and 3 respectively are the first solo efforts from Fruitbat and Jim Bob of Carter USM. They’re both very different albums but if you fuse the songs together you’d probably get a classic Carter LP.
Here’s one of the more-folky, less-punky Abdoujaparov songs which I appear to have recorded myself and put on the Youtubes:
Singles
1. Samurai Seven – Lucky Pierre
2. Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
3. Fischerspooner – Emerge
4. Coral – Dreaming of You
5. Toktok vs Soffy O – Day Of Mine (Ludicrous Idiots)
6. Doves – There Goes The Fear
7. System Of A Down – Toxicity (Version 7.0)
8. Deadbeat Radicals – Little Yellow Mini (Fruitbat remix)
9. Harry – So Real
10. U2 – Electrical Storm
11. Mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions
12. Badly Drawn Boy – You Were Right
13. Libertines – Up The Bracket
14. Richard Ashcroft – Check The Meaning
15. Nu – Disco Hurts
16. Athlete – You Got The Style
17. H-Blockx – The Power
18. Puddle Of Mudd – Blurry
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers – By The Way
20. Supergrass – Grace
21. Parva – Good Bad Right Wrong
22. Seafood – Pleasurehead
23. Coral – Skeleton Key
24. Jim’s Super Stereoworld – Bubblegum
25. Haven – Til The End
26. Distillers – The Young Crazed Peeling
27. Gemma Hayes – Hanging Around
28. Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
29. Ladytron – Seventeen
30. Idlewild – American English
31. Soft Cell – Monoculture
32. Division Of Laura Lee – Need To Get Some
33. A – Something’s Going On
34. Abdoujaparov – Emergency Medical Hologram
35. No Doubt – Hella Good
36. Inme – UnderDose
37. Interpol – PDA
38. Hundred Reasons – If I Could
39. Desert Hearts – DSR
40. Budapest – Is This The Best It Gets
41. Doves – Pounding
42. Gemma Hayes – Let a Good Thing Go
43. Coldplay – In My Place
44. Aqualung – Strange And Beautiful (I’ll Put A Spell On You)
45. Alien Ant Farm – Attitude
46. Lostprophets – The Fake Sound Of Progress
47. Ash – Envy
48. White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl
49. Hell Is For Heroes – I Can Climb Mountains
50. David Bowie – Slow Burn
51. Sum 41 – What We’re All About
52. Jack – The Emperor Of New London
53. McAlmont and Butler – Falling
54. Gomez – Shot Shot
55. Lemon Jelly – Spacewalk
56. Eminem – Without Me
57. Filter – Where Do We Go From Here
58. Missy Elliott – 4 My People (Basement Jaxx Remix)
59. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Speakers Push The Air
60. Tenacious D – Tribute
61. The Music – The People
62. Koop feat Yukimi Nagano – Summer Sun
63. Elviss – SKP
64. Girls Against Boys – Basstation
65. Liam Lynch – United States Of Whatever
66. Asian Dub Foundation – Fortress Europe
Albums
1. A – Hi-Fi Serious
2. Abdoujaparov – Air Odeon Disco Pub
3. Jim’s Super Stereoworld – In A Big Flash Car On A Saturday Night
4. They Might Be Giants – No!
5. Soft Cell – Cruelty Without Beauty
6. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
7. Samurai Seven – Le Sport
8. Focus – Focus 8
9. Doves – The Last Broadcast
10. Sugarcoma – Becoming Something Else
