I saw Phill Jupitus wandering around and I bumped into Jim Bob (Carter USM) backstage, was hoping to see his set later in the day but was called away on work-related stuff.
View all pics on Picasa:
Saturday, 25 September 2010
264: Rose Elinor Dougall, Southend Village Green
This event's been running a few years but it was the first time I managed to get down there - it's a free festival held in Chalkwell Park. It wasn't a full-blown music festival but Rose Elinor Dougall was playing there and after seeing and meeting her at Latitude I decided to wander down to see her again. The stage was pretty impressive - I like the way it was constructed like some piece of modern wooden furniture, with a surreal backdrop of the River Thames, about three miles wide at this point with the Isle of Grain in the background.
I saw Phill Jupitus wandering around and I bumped into Jim Bob (Carter USM) backstage, was hoping to see his set later in the day but was called away on work-related stuff.
View all pics on Picasa:
I saw Phill Jupitus wandering around and I bumped into Jim Bob (Carter USM) backstage, was hoping to see his set later in the day but was called away on work-related stuff.
View all pics on Picasa:
Friday, 17 September 2010
263: Electio Pop launch party Kingmaker MMX, Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, London
This was a launch party for the Electio Pop compilation CD put out by Helen Llewellyn Product 19, or as I like to call her, Splinx.
This was most notable as being Kingmaker's first live show for 15 years, although they were rebadged as Kingmaker MMX for the occasion. Splinx had been trying for some time to get the whole band together but the original lead singer, Loz Hardy, had gone missing and still can't be found. However the band put together for the evening contained most of the original members, I'm told - my face recognition is poor on a good day - and who cares anyway because they knocked off six Kingmaker classics perfectly, finishing off with a second rendition of Armchair Anarchist for an encore.
The whole evening was pretty high calibre too, particularly Bozwood - with Ed Borrie on vocals they could have been an up-to-date version of his old band S*M*A*S*H.
Don't want to single anyone out really as I enjoyed the other three bands too, who were:
Abdoujaparov
David Cronenberg's Wife
Paul Hawkins and the Awkward Silences
View all pics on Picasa:
This was most notable as being Kingmaker's first live show for 15 years, although they were rebadged as Kingmaker MMX for the occasion. Splinx had been trying for some time to get the whole band together but the original lead singer, Loz Hardy, had gone missing and still can't be found. However the band put together for the evening contained most of the original members, I'm told - my face recognition is poor on a good day - and who cares anyway because they knocked off six Kingmaker classics perfectly, finishing off with a second rendition of Armchair Anarchist for an encore.
The whole evening was pretty high calibre too, particularly Bozwood - with Ed Borrie on vocals they could have been an up-to-date version of his old band S*M*A*S*H.
Don't want to single anyone out really as I enjoyed the other three bands too, who were:
Abdoujaparov
David Cronenberg's Wife
Paul Hawkins and the Awkward Silences
View all pics on Picasa:
Saturday, 4 September 2010
262: Offset Festival, Hainault Forest, Hainault, Essex
Bands seen: Invasion, Bo Ningen, Egyptian Hip Hop, Male Bonding, Kap Bambino, Comanechi, Good Shoes, Bridport Dagger, Art Brut, Thomas Tantrum, Mystery Jets, Pulled Apart By Horses, Not Cool, Chrome Hoof, Connan Mockasin, Fiction, These New Puritans
Meh. This is another Offset Festival, some great bands, but full of terrible poseurs. It's like Hoxton in the countryside.
Who was great this year? Art Brut are always good. Thomas Tantrum were surprisingly great. This is the third time I've seen them and they did nothing for me previously but they were really good this year. I was drawn in by Megan Thomas's vocals which sounded surprisingly like Louise Wener to me. Kap Bambino makes up in stage performance what their music lacks. It seems like one of the best bands was one I just missed - I would have loved to have seen Oh! Gunquit and their hula-hooping singer on stage.
View all pics on Picasa:
Meh. This is another Offset Festival, some great bands, but full of terrible poseurs. It's like Hoxton in the countryside.
Who was great this year? Art Brut are always good. Thomas Tantrum were surprisingly great. This is the third time I've seen them and they did nothing for me previously but they were really good this year. I was drawn in by Megan Thomas's vocals which sounded surprisingly like Louise Wener to me. Kap Bambino makes up in stage performance what their music lacks. It seems like one of the best bands was one I just missed - I would have loved to have seen Oh! Gunquit and their hula-hooping singer on stage.
View all pics on Picasa:
Friday, 27 August 2010
261: Reading Festival 2010, Reading
Bands watched: Gaggle, Luke Wright, The Eddie Argos Experience, New Young Pony Club, Egyptian Hip Hop, Lostprophets, Biffy Clyro, Delphic, Adam Green, Futureheads, Yuck, Mystery Jets, Chief, Cribs, Kids In Glass Houses, Dizzee Rascal, Libertines, Motion City Soundtrack, Goldheart Assembly, Joy Formidable, All Time Low, Los Campesinos!, Fools Gold, Angelos Epithemiou, Limp Bizkit, The Like, Cypress Hill
This was my 6th Reading Festival and my 8th Reading or Leeds in ten years, and it was one of the better ones. Wasn't tons of brilliant stuff (I'm getting jaded in my old age) but lots of good stuff. Friday morning started with two highlights for me, Gaggle and the Eddie Argos Experience (which was basically Art Brut under a different name and stripped down a bit). The Futureheads, The Joy Formidable and New Young Pony Club were as great as ever and I got to meet - among other people - JOHNNY MARR (!) and We Are Scientists who were really nice guys and just made you feel like you could hang out with them all day (although of course, I made my excuses and left after a reasonable time).
Keeping in with the spirit of the early 2000s I did look forward to seeing Limp Bizkit, who were surprisingly good - to my utter embarrassment I found myself mouthing all the words to Break Stuff, which made me feel rather childish. I did also look forward to seeing the Libertines, who turned out to be considerably less interesting than I had found them all those years ago. No surprise at all that the security in the guest area described Pete Doherty as the biggest arsehole they had to deal with all weekend, although perhaps surprisingly they singled out Fred Durst as the Official Nice Guy of the Festival - charming, polite and not demanding anything from anyone.
Ritzy - Joy Formidable
The Like
Gaggle
The Eddie Argos Experience
View all pics on Picasa:
This was my 6th Reading Festival and my 8th Reading or Leeds in ten years, and it was one of the better ones. Wasn't tons of brilliant stuff (I'm getting jaded in my old age) but lots of good stuff. Friday morning started with two highlights for me, Gaggle and the Eddie Argos Experience (which was basically Art Brut under a different name and stripped down a bit). The Futureheads, The Joy Formidable and New Young Pony Club were as great as ever and I got to meet - among other people - JOHNNY MARR (!) and We Are Scientists who were really nice guys and just made you feel like you could hang out with them all day (although of course, I made my excuses and left after a reasonable time).
Keeping in with the spirit of the early 2000s I did look forward to seeing Limp Bizkit, who were surprisingly good - to my utter embarrassment I found myself mouthing all the words to Break Stuff, which made me feel rather childish. I did also look forward to seeing the Libertines, who turned out to be considerably less interesting than I had found them all those years ago. No surprise at all that the security in the guest area described Pete Doherty as the biggest arsehole they had to deal with all weekend, although perhaps surprisingly they singled out Fred Durst as the Official Nice Guy of the Festival - charming, polite and not demanding anything from anyone.
Ritzy - Joy Formidable
The Like
Gaggle
The Eddie Argos Experience
View all pics on Picasa:
Saturday, 24 July 2010
260: Phoenix FM Unplugged: Tibetan Tea Company and others, Brentwood Theatre, Brentwood
This was a gig I put together pretty much at the last minute, and by last minute I think it was all sorted out in 24 hours. As a result I didn't bother to sell any tickets for it although we had a bit of a crowd through word of mouth, more than at some gigs I've sold tickets for!
It was meant to be acoustic although some of the bands brought more stuff than they should have but it all sounded good.
Bob Collum
Phillious Williams
Echelons
The Tibetan Tea Company
Paul Dorling
It was meant to be acoustic although some of the bands brought more stuff than they should have but it all sounded good.
Bob Collum
Phillious Williams
Echelons
The Tibetan Tea Company
Paul Dorling
Friday, 16 July 2010
259: Latitude Festival 2010, Henham Park, Southwold
Bands seen: Aaron Wright, These Ghosts, Rose Elinor Dougall, Unthanks, Black Mountain, Alice Gold, Good Natured, Wild Beasts, Everything Everything, Boycott Monday, Standard Fare, James, Nedry, Tom Jones, Cevanne, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Mumford and Sons, Jesca Hoop, Morning Parade, These New Puritans
This was my fourth year out of four at Latitude and I think the calibre of the acts is still on a slow decline.
But there were highlights. Said highlights for me included sets from Rose Elinor Dougall, Everything Everything, Cevanne, Nedry and These New Puritans, and also watching and meeting Sweet Billy Pilgrim, but mainly because they were so NICE (and of course because memories of that appearance on the IT Crowd are still fresh in my mind). I was also the only photographer in the press pit (for the MAIN STAGE!) when they were on. Next band - Mumford and Sons - about 60 people. Photowhores!
Biggest disappointment was Tom Jones, for whom everyone turned up at midday on Sunday, only to be treated to no banter, none of his hits and the whole of his pisspoor new album of verysubstandard blues songs. I only stomached a few songs, making the excellent move to catch Cevanne on the Lake Stage, but most people seemed to enjoy it. Is it because they're all too polite to be rude to a very old man?
View all pics on Picasa:
This was my fourth year out of four at Latitude and I think the calibre of the acts is still on a slow decline.
But there were highlights. Said highlights for me included sets from Rose Elinor Dougall, Everything Everything, Cevanne, Nedry and These New Puritans, and also watching and meeting Sweet Billy Pilgrim, but mainly because they were so NICE (and of course because memories of that appearance on the IT Crowd are still fresh in my mind). I was also the only photographer in the press pit (for the MAIN STAGE!) when they were on. Next band - Mumford and Sons - about 60 people. Photowhores!
Biggest disappointment was Tom Jones, for whom everyone turned up at midday on Sunday, only to be treated to no banter, none of his hits and the whole of his pisspoor new album of verysubstandard blues songs. I only stomached a few songs, making the excellent move to catch Cevanne on the Lake Stage, but most people seemed to enjoy it. Is it because they're all too polite to be rude to a very old man?
View all pics on Picasa:
Saturday, 3 July 2010
258: The Pre New, Lexington, King's Cross, London
I saw Earl Brutus for the first and last time in June 1998, when they supported Kenickie at the Electric Ballroom. It was a fantastic gig and I'll probably get round to writing about it on this website one day (or if I have done already, look it up!)
I waited a long time for news that they might get back together (it worked for the Sultans of Ping, after all) but when lead singer Nick Sanderson died in June 2008 it looked like that ship had sailed for good. So I was pretty amazed and delighted in equal measures when I heard that Jim Fry, Gordon King, Stuart Boreman and Shinya Hayashida had got back together to play old stuff and write new stuff under the "Pre New" name.
I was also surprised and disappointed in equal measures to see that Shinya had learned to play bass (albeit in an odd fully-vertical way), and didn't just stand on the stage and headbang and shout random abuse at people. He actually seemed like he was having a great time!
I did too, and so did the rest of the crowd. It was just one of those "so happy to be there" moments.
View all pics on Picasa:
I waited a long time for news that they might get back together (it worked for the Sultans of Ping, after all) but when lead singer Nick Sanderson died in June 2008 it looked like that ship had sailed for good. So I was pretty amazed and delighted in equal measures when I heard that Jim Fry, Gordon King, Stuart Boreman and Shinya Hayashida had got back together to play old stuff and write new stuff under the "Pre New" name.
I was also surprised and disappointed in equal measures to see that Shinya had learned to play bass (albeit in an odd fully-vertical way), and didn't just stand on the stage and headbang and shout random abuse at people. He actually seemed like he was having a great time!
I did too, and so did the rest of the crowd. It was just one of those "so happy to be there" moments.
View all pics on Picasa:
Friday, 18 June 2010
257: Trash Monroe, Railway Hotel, Southend on Sea
This was a good but weird night out. I wasn't expecting too many people to be there because it clashed with the England v Algeria World Cup group stage match (world's worst match, 0-0). I watched most of this downstairs in the pub in an unfeasibly comfortable armchair on a massive projector screen, listening to commentary from BBC 5 Live which was 10 seconds ahead of the picture, so you knew what was going to happen every time.
Eventually wandered upstairs to the gig and the room was packed out by the end of it, maybe 60-70 people. Was good to see Death Of The Elephant live, Triptycon is one of my favourite songs by anyone this year. I lost about 2 seconds of video while I tampered with my new camera about a minute in, although the picture does suddenly become quite a bit brighter.
While fiddling about with the settings I also found out how to take "black and white and grainy" photos with ease. I feel like a real photographer now!
View all pics on Picasa:
Eventually wandered upstairs to the gig and the room was packed out by the end of it, maybe 60-70 people. Was good to see Death Of The Elephant live, Triptycon is one of my favourite songs by anyone this year. I lost about 2 seconds of video while I tampered with my new camera about a minute in, although the picture does suddenly become quite a bit brighter.
While fiddling about with the settings I also found out how to take "black and white and grainy" photos with ease. I feel like a real photographer now!
View all pics on Picasa:
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Top 100 songs from BBC 6music listeners – 2009
Far from perfect but a much more palatable list than the one provided by listeners of the admittedly-not-for-very-long-but-still-once-great XFM. This was a list voted for by listeners to BBC 6music, although admittedly from a shortlist of 100 songs, so it must be a real bugger if you came in at no 100. It’s clearly a tribute to how well fans of the Basildon boys managed to organise themselves as they got four times as many votes as second-placed Muse. (originally posted 7/1/10 on my old blog)
1. Depeche Mode – Wrong
2. Muse – Uprising
3. Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
4. Morrissey – I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
5. Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
6. Jay Z ft Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
7. Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
8. Kasabian – Fire
9. Frank Turner – The Road
10. Lily Allen – The Fear
11. Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
12. Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc.
13. Placebo – The Never-Ending Why
14. Camera Obscura – French Navy
15. Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
16. M83 – Kim & Jessie
17. Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
19. Echo And The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too
20. La Roux – In For The Kill
21. Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
22. Wintersleep – Weighty Ghost
23. Bad Lieutenant – Sink Or Swim
24. Prodigy – Omen
25. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times
26. Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
27. Royksopp – Happy Up Here
28. Animal Collective – My Girls
29. Green Day – Know Your Enemy
30. Jamie T – Sticks ‘N’ Stones
31. Biffy Clyro – That Golden Rule
32. Foo Fighters – Wheels
33. Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
34. Mariachi El Bronx – Cell Mates
35. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
36. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
37. Them Crooked Vultures – New Fang
38. White Lies – Farewell To The Fairground
39. Fanfarlo – The Walls Are Coming Down
40. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
41. Idlewild – Readers & Writers
42. Wild Beasts – Hooting & Howling
43. Ash – True Love 1980
44. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
45. Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
46. Big Pink – Dominos
47. Richard Hawley – For Your Lover Give Some Time
48. Radiohead – Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
49. Deadmau5 – I Remember
50. Editors – Papillon
51. XX – Islands
52. Little Boots – New In Town
53. Cribs – Cheat On Me
54. Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
55. Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight
56. Phoenix – Lisztomania
57. Bloc Party – One More Chance
58. Vampire Weekend – Laughing With
59. Joy Formidable – Whirring
60. Eels – The Look You Give That Guy
61. Pearl Jam – The Fixer
62. Noah & The Whale – Blue Skies
63. Madness – Dust Devil
64. Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
65. Ian Brown – Stellify
66. Maccabees – No Kind Words
67. Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me At The Equinox
68. PJ Harvey And John Parish – Black Hearted Love
69. Golden Silvers – True Romance
70. Friendly Fires – Kiss Of Life
71. Passion Pit – The Reeling
72. Miike Snow – Animal
73. Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
74. TV On The Radio – Dancing Choose
75. Horrors – Whole New Way
76. Basement Jaxx – Raindrops
77. Jarvis Cocker – Angela
78. Wilco – You Never Know
79. Gossip – Heavy Cross
80. Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin The
81. Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
82. Amadou & Mariam – Masiteladi
83. Jack Penate – Tonight’s Today
84. Mos Def – Quiet Dog
85. Justice feat. Uffie – Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
86. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
87. Vampire Weekend – Horchata
88. Metric – Sick Muse
89. Dinosaur Jr – Over It
90. Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
91. Reverend And The Makers – Silence Is Talking
92. Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands The
93. Maximo Park – The Kids Are Sick Again
94. Monsters Of Folk – Say Please
95. Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
96. Very Best – Warm Heart Of Africa The
97. School Of Seven Bells – My Cabal
98. Speech Debelle – Spinnin
99. A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus
100. Alessi’s Ark – Over The Hill
1. Depeche Mode – Wrong
2. Muse – Uprising
3. Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
4. Morrissey – I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
5. Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
6. Jay Z ft Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
7. Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
8. Kasabian – Fire
9. Frank Turner – The Road
10. Lily Allen – The Fear
11. Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
12. Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc.
13. Placebo – The Never-Ending Why
14. Camera Obscura – French Navy
15. Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
16. M83 – Kim & Jessie
17. Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
19. Echo And The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too
20. La Roux – In For The Kill
21. Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
22. Wintersleep – Weighty Ghost
23. Bad Lieutenant – Sink Or Swim
24. Prodigy – Omen
25. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times
26. Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
27. Royksopp – Happy Up Here
28. Animal Collective – My Girls
29. Green Day – Know Your Enemy
30. Jamie T – Sticks ‘N’ Stones
31. Biffy Clyro – That Golden Rule
32. Foo Fighters – Wheels
33. Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
34. Mariachi El Bronx – Cell Mates
35. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
36. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
37. Them Crooked Vultures – New Fang
38. White Lies – Farewell To The Fairground
39. Fanfarlo – The Walls Are Coming Down
40. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
41. Idlewild – Readers & Writers
42. Wild Beasts – Hooting & Howling
43. Ash – True Love 1980
44. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
45. Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
46. Big Pink – Dominos
47. Richard Hawley – For Your Lover Give Some Time
48. Radiohead – Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
49. Deadmau5 – I Remember
50. Editors – Papillon
51. XX – Islands
52. Little Boots – New In Town
53. Cribs – Cheat On Me
54. Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
55. Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight
56. Phoenix – Lisztomania
57. Bloc Party – One More Chance
58. Vampire Weekend – Laughing With
59. Joy Formidable – Whirring
60. Eels – The Look You Give That Guy
61. Pearl Jam – The Fixer
62. Noah & The Whale – Blue Skies
63. Madness – Dust Devil
64. Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
65. Ian Brown – Stellify
66. Maccabees – No Kind Words
67. Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me At The Equinox
68. PJ Harvey And John Parish – Black Hearted Love
69. Golden Silvers – True Romance
70. Friendly Fires – Kiss Of Life
71. Passion Pit – The Reeling
72. Miike Snow – Animal
73. Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
74. TV On The Radio – Dancing Choose
75. Horrors – Whole New Way
76. Basement Jaxx – Raindrops
77. Jarvis Cocker – Angela
78. Wilco – You Never Know
79. Gossip – Heavy Cross
80. Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin The
81. Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
82. Amadou & Mariam – Masiteladi
83. Jack Penate – Tonight’s Today
84. Mos Def – Quiet Dog
85. Justice feat. Uffie – Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
86. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
87. Vampire Weekend – Horchata
88. Metric – Sick Muse
89. Dinosaur Jr – Over It
90. Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
91. Reverend And The Makers – Silence Is Talking
92. Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands The
93. Maximo Park – The Kids Are Sick Again
94. Monsters Of Folk – Say Please
95. Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
96. Very Best – Warm Heart Of Africa The
97. School Of Seven Bells – My Cabal
98. Speech Debelle – Spinnin
99. A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus
100. Alessi’s Ark – Over The Hill
Monday, 4 January 2010
XFM “greatest” 100 songs ever or something equally unbelievable
Once upon a time there was a station called XFM. And it played great alternative music that you couldn’t hear anywhere else.
Sadly that doesn’t make anyone any money and those days are long gone, as can be reflected in XFM’s Greatest Songs Ever listeners’ poll which took place at the end of 2009.
The Killers at no 1? 9 from Oasis? 4 from Kasabian? Are there really only four songs in the world better than Sex On Fire? Did XFM twin itself with Nuts or Zoo or something and I didn’t even notice? Oh why oh why am I even typing this. (originally posted on my old blog 4/1/10)
1. Killers - Mr Brightside
2. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
3. Oasis - Live Forever
4. Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
5. Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
6. Elbow - One Day Like This
7. Oasis - Wonderwall
8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. Muse - Plug In Baby
10. Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger
11. Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.
12. Libertines - Don’t Look Back Into The Sun
13. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
14. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
15. Coldplay - Yellow
16. Muse - Hysteria
17. Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
18. Killers - All These Things I’ve Done
19. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
20. Libertines - Can’t Stand Me Now
21. Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
22. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
23. Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
24. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
25. Strokes - Last Nite
26. Kasabian - Club Foot
27. Libertines - Time For Heroes
28. Clash - London Calling
29. Smiths - How Soon Is Now
30. Muse - Time Is Running Out
31. Smiths - This Charming Man
32. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
33. Stereophonics - Dakota
34. Who - My Generation
35. Blur - Song 2
36. Stone Roses - Fool’s Gold
37. Kasabian - L.S.F.
38. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
39. Pulp - Common People
40. Radiohead - Creep
41. Muse - Starlight
42. Beatles - Hey Jude
43. Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
44. Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
45. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
46. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
47. David Bowie - Life On Mars
48. Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
49. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
50. Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
51. Killers - When You Were Young
52. Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
53. Doves - There Goes The Fear
54. Snow Patrol - Run
55. Jam - A Town Called Malice
56. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
57. Coldplay - Fix You
58. Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
59. New Order - Blue Monday
60. Kasabian - Fire
61. Killers - Somebody Told Me
62. Beatles - A Day In The Life
63. Oasis - Slide Away
64. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
65. Oasis - Supersonic
66. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
67. Jam - Going Underground
68. Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
69. Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
70. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
71. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
72. Foo Fighters - Everlong
73. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
74. Undertones - Teenage Kicks
75. Coldplay - Clocks
76. Bloc Party - Helicopter
77. Oasis - The Masterplan
78. Who - Baba O’Riley
79. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
80. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
81. Kasabian - Empire
82. David Bowie - Heroes
83. Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
84. Green Day - American Idiot
85. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
86. Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol
87. Stone Roses - Waterfall
88. Jam - That’s Entertainment
89. Feeder - Just A Day
90. Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
91. Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
92. Coldplay - The Scientist
93. Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
94. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
95. Oasis - Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
96. Bloc Party - Banquet
97. Doves - Pounding
98. MGMT - Time To Pretend
99. Athlete - Wires
100. Kings Of Leon - The Bucket
Sadly that doesn’t make anyone any money and those days are long gone, as can be reflected in XFM’s Greatest Songs Ever listeners’ poll which took place at the end of 2009.
The Killers at no 1? 9 from Oasis? 4 from Kasabian? Are there really only four songs in the world better than Sex On Fire? Did XFM twin itself with Nuts or Zoo or something and I didn’t even notice? Oh why oh why am I even typing this. (originally posted on my old blog 4/1/10)
1. Killers - Mr Brightside
2. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
3. Oasis - Live Forever
4. Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
5. Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
6. Elbow - One Day Like This
7. Oasis - Wonderwall
8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. Muse - Plug In Baby
10. Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger
11. Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.
12. Libertines - Don’t Look Back Into The Sun
13. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
14. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
15. Coldplay - Yellow
16. Muse - Hysteria
17. Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
18. Killers - All These Things I’ve Done
19. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
20. Libertines - Can’t Stand Me Now
21. Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
22. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
23. Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
24. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
25. Strokes - Last Nite
26. Kasabian - Club Foot
27. Libertines - Time For Heroes
28. Clash - London Calling
29. Smiths - How Soon Is Now
30. Muse - Time Is Running Out
31. Smiths - This Charming Man
32. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
33. Stereophonics - Dakota
34. Who - My Generation
35. Blur - Song 2
36. Stone Roses - Fool’s Gold
37. Kasabian - L.S.F.
38. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
39. Pulp - Common People
40. Radiohead - Creep
41. Muse - Starlight
42. Beatles - Hey Jude
43. Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
44. Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
45. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
46. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
47. David Bowie - Life On Mars
48. Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
49. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
50. Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
51. Killers - When You Were Young
52. Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
53. Doves - There Goes The Fear
54. Snow Patrol - Run
55. Jam - A Town Called Malice
56. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
57. Coldplay - Fix You
58. Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
59. New Order - Blue Monday
60. Kasabian - Fire
61. Killers - Somebody Told Me
62. Beatles - A Day In The Life
63. Oasis - Slide Away
64. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
65. Oasis - Supersonic
66. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
67. Jam - Going Underground
68. Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
69. Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
70. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
71. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
72. Foo Fighters - Everlong
73. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
74. Undertones - Teenage Kicks
75. Coldplay - Clocks
76. Bloc Party - Helicopter
77. Oasis - The Masterplan
78. Who - Baba O’Riley
79. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
80. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
81. Kasabian - Empire
82. David Bowie - Heroes
83. Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
84. Green Day - American Idiot
85. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
86. Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol
87. Stone Roses - Waterfall
88. Jam - That’s Entertainment
89. Feeder - Just A Day
90. Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
91. Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
92. Coldplay - The Scientist
93. Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
94. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
95. Oasis - Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
96. Bloc Party - Banquet
97. Doves - Pounding
98. MGMT - Time To Pretend
99. Athlete - Wires
100. Kings Of Leon - The Bucket
Friday, 1 January 2010
More end of year lists: my last.fm charts
Been listening to music a lot more on my iPod this year, and the scrobbling software isn’t always very accurate.
Nevertheless a list is a list and I can only assume it’s rightish!
All of these charts reflect the last 12 months.
Most played artists:
1. Franz Ferdinand – 101
2. They Might Be Giants – 72
3. Blur – 71
4. The Joy Formidable – 52
5. Hafdis Huld – 41
6. Starsailor – 27
7. Pop Will Eat Itself – 24
8. Patrick Wolf – 21
9. Elastica – 20
9. Kaiser Chiefs – 20
9. The Lovely Eggs – 20
12. British Sea Power – 18
12. Brownies – 18
12. Buzzcocks – 18
12. Super Furry Animals – 18
12. The Duke Spirit – 18
17. Hyperbubble – 17
17. Kate Bush – 17
19. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – 15
19. Yes – 15
21. Genesis – 14
21. Richard Cheese – 14
21. Saint Etienne – 14
24. Charlotte Hatherley – 13
24. Resque – 13
24. Therapy? – 13
27. Art Brut – 12
27. Radiohead – 12
27. Sultans of Ping F.C. – 12
27. We Were Promised Jetpacks – 12
31. Katie and the Ayres – 11
31. Space – 11
33. Baddies – 10
33. Maxïmo Park – 10
33. The Divine Comedy – 10
33. The Mighty Roars – 10
33. The Trash Can Sinatras – 10
38. Everything Everything – 9
38. The Duckworth Lewis Method – 9
38. The Others – 9
38. Tom Allalone & The 78s – 9
42. Baïkonour – 8
42. Be Your Own Pet – 8
42. Bloc Party – 8
42. Focus – 8
42. Hatfield and the North – 8
42. Rage Against the Machine – 8
42. Spoon – 8
42. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – 8
42. The Cardigans – 8
42. The Fighting Cocks – 8
52. Eliza – 7
52. Gestir – 7
52. Madness – 7
52. Metric – 7
52. MJ Hibbett & the Validators – 7
52. Pale – 7
52. Placebo – 7
59. A House – 6
59. Cerys Matthews – 6
59. Department S – 6
59. Fiona Bevan – 6
59. FM Belfast – 6
59. Graham Coxon – 6
59. Half Man Half Biscuit – 6
59. Jarvis Cocker – 6
59. Marc Almond – 6
59. Mew – 6
59. Monocle Rose – 6
59. Pink Floyd – 6
59. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box – 6
59. Senseless Things – 6
59. Senser – 6
59. Spongebob Squarepants – 6
59. The Young Knives – 6
76. ¡Forward, Russia! – 5
76. Bad Manners – 5
76. Broadcast – 5
76. Elvis Costello – 5
76. Kasabian – 5
76. Mascot Fight – 5
76. Miike Snow – 5
76. My Life Story – 5
76. Mystery Jets – 5
76. Rulers Of The Planet – 5
76. The Boxer Rebellion – 5
76. The Hot Puppies – 5
76. The Jam – 5
76. The Rakes – 5
76. The Robocop Kraus – 5
76. Trash Monroe – 5
76. White Rose Movement – 5
76. XTC – 5
94. A – 4
94. A Place to Bury Strangers – 4
94. Ace Out – 4
94. Alexei Sayle – 4
94. Amiina – 4
94. Battles – 4
94. Bis – 4
94. Black Moth Super Rainbow – 4
94. Bleech – 4
94. Blizzards – 4
94. Botnleðja – 4
94. Coldplay – 4
94. Dodgy – 4
94. Future of the Left – 4
94. Kenickie – 4
94. Lush – 4
94. Mark Ronson – 4
94. Prodigy – 4
94. Queen – 4
94. Rose Elinor Dougall – 4
94. Severe – 4
94. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – 4
94. Starts – 4
94. Stuart James – 4
94. Swell Maps – 4
94. Ten Tigers – 4
94. Test Icicles – 4
94. The Chalets – 4
94. The Dead 60s – 4
94. The Stone Roses – 4
94. Ultra Vivid Scene – 4
94. Ungdomskulen – 4
94. Untitled Musical Project – 4
The most played tracks were:
1. Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls – 14
2. Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses – 9
2. The Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade – 9
2. The Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too – 9
2. The Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives And He Drinks Sake – 9
6. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome – 8
6. Franz Ferdinand – Katherine Kiss Me – 8
6. Franz Ferdinand – Twilight Omens – 8
6. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times – 8
6. The Joy Formidable – Cradle – 8
6. The Joy Formidable – Whirring – 8
6. The Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion? – 8
13. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous – 7
13. Blur – Pressure On Julian – 7
13. Franz Ferdinand – Send Him Away – 7
13. Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words – 7
13. The Joy Formidable – While The Flies – 7
18. Blur – Turn It Up – 6
18. Blur – Villa Rosie – 6
18. Department S – Wonderful Day – 6
18. Franz Ferdinand – Turn It On – 6
18. Hafdis Huld – Ski Jumper – 6
18. Monocle Rose – Alley Cat – 6
18. Saint Etienne – Barnyard Brouhaha – 6
18. The Joy Formidable – The Last Drop – 6
26. Blur – Advert – 5
26. Fiona Bevan – The Balance – 5
26. Franz Ferdinand – Backwards On My Face – 5
26. Franz Ferdinand – Dream Again – 5
26. Franz Ferdinand – Katherine Hit Me – 5
26. Hafdis Huld – Diamonds On My Belly – 5
26. Metric – Gold Guns Girls – 5
26. Starsailor – Good Souls – 5
26. The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Age Of Revolution – 5
26. The Joy Formidable – 9669 – 5
26. The Joy Formidable – Ostrich – 5
37. Alexei Sayle – Web User Advert Mar 2001 – 4
37. Baïkonour – Look… Wa! – 4
37. Battles – TRAS 3 – 4
37. Be Your Own Pet – Food Fight – 4
37. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise – 4
37. Blur – Blue Jeans – 4
37. Blur – Chemical World – 4
37. Blur – Colin Zeal – 4
37. Blur – For Tomorrow – 4
37. Blur – Miss America – 4
37. Blur – Oily Water – 4
37. Blur – Star Shaped – 4
37. Blur – Sunday Sunday – 4
37. Franz Ferdinand – Be Afraid – 4
37. Franz Ferdinand – Die On The Floor – 4
37. Hafdis Huld – My Heart Beats – 4
37. Hafdis Huld – Tomoko – 4
37. Hyperbubble – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too – 4
37. Placebo – For What Its Worth (Radio Edit) – 4
37. Rose Elinor Dougall – Start/Stop/Synchro – 4
37. Spoon – Everything Hits at Once – 4
37. Swell Maps – Mining Villages – 4
37. The Duke Spirit – Love Is An Unfamiliar Name – 4
37. The Joy Formidable – Austere – 4
61. Alexander Rybak – Fairytale – 3
61. Bad Manners – Cider Drinker – 3
61. Baddies – Holler For My Holiday – 3
61. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme – 3
61. Bleech – Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry – 3
61. British Sea Power – Carrion / All In It (Pressbutton remix) – 3
61. British Sea Power – Men Together Today – 3
61. Brownies – Dance Romance – 3
61. Brownies – It Kills – 3
61. Charlotte Hatherley – White – 3
61. Cherbourg – Man – 3
61. Codeine Velvet Club – I Am The Resurrection – 3
61. Elastica – Annie – 3
61. Elastica – Generator (Peel Session 22 Sep 1999) – 3
61. FM Belfast – Lotus (Killing In The Name Of) (Clean) – 3
61. Focus – Anonymus II – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Bite Hard – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Can’t Stop Feeling – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Feel The Envy – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Live Alone – 3
61. Graham Coxon – This House – 3
61. Hyperbubble – Non Biodegradable Hazardous Waste Disposal – 3
61. Katie and the Ayres – Pop Song (live mix) – 3
61. Katie and the Ayres – Sorry In Japanese (live mix) – 3
61. Killed by 9V batteries – this city is lit when you’re on top of it – 3
61. Maxïmo Park – Wraithlike – 3
61. Pale – Stop It I Might Like It – 3
61. Period Pains – Spice Girls who do you think you are – 3
61. Peter Bjorn and John – It Don’t Move Me – 3
61. Pop Will Eat Itself – Shortwave Transmission On ‘Up To The Minuteman Nine’ – 3
61. Prodigy – Omen – 3
61. Rage Against the Machine – Renegades of Funk – 3
61. Richard Cheese – Hate to Say I Told You So – 3
61. Ropes – I Stand For Nothing – 3
61. Senser – Resistance Now – 3
61. Severe – Stop The Cavalry – 3
61. Spongebob Squarepants – SpongeBob SquarePants – 3
61. Spongebob Squarepants – Theme – 3
61. Starsailor – Alcoholic – 3
61. Starsailor – Alcoholic (Glastonbury 26-06-2004) – 3
61. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Around the Bend (radio edit) – 3
61. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age – 3
61. The Dead 60s – Riot Radio – 3
61. The Fighting Cocks – (tea break) – 3
61. The Jam – News Of The World – 3
61. The Pan I Am – Fire Dance – 3
61. The Robocop Kraus – Sometimes I wonder if you’d been a dog in a previous life – 3
61. The Trash Can Sinatras – Obscurity Knocks – 3
61. The Trash Can Sinatras – One at a Time – 3
61. The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird – 3
61. They Might Be Giants – Robot Parade – 3
61. They Might Be Giants – Shoehorn with Teeth – 3
61. They Might Be Giants – Ten Mississippi – 3
61. Tom Allalone & The 78s – Sign On You Lazy Diamond – 3
61. We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning – 3
61. White Rose Movement – Cigarette Machine (Club Mix) – 3
The most played albums were:
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – 67
2. Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish – 58
3. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning – 52
4. Hafdis Huld – Dirty Paper Cup – 37
5. Franz Ferdinand – Blood – 21
6. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback – 18
6. Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady – 18
6. Duke Spirit – The Duke Spirit – 18
6. Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads – 18
10. They Might Be Giants – Here Come The 123s – 17
11. Yes – Going for the One – 15
12. Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor – 14
13. Resque – Life’s A Bonus – 13
13. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years – 13
13. Therapy? – Crooked Timber – 13
13. They Might Be Giants – No! – 13
17. Katie and the Ayres – All Souls – 11
18. Hyperbubble – Candy Apple Daydreams – 10
18. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives – Single – 10
18. Pop Will Eat Itself – This Is The Day…This Is The Hour…This Is This! – 10
18. They Might Be Giants – Lincoln – 10
18. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls – 10
23. Charlotte Hatherley – New Worlds – 9
23. Elastica – Elastica – 9
23. Lovely Eggs – Blalock’s Indie/Rock Playlist: August (2009) – 9
23. They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18 – 9
23. Tom Allalone & The 78s – Major Sins Pt. 1 – 9
28. Baïkonour – Your Ear Knows Future – 8
28. British Sea Power – The Decline of British Sea Power – 8
28. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome – 8
28. Focus – Focus 3 – 8
28. Hatfield and the North – Hatfield and the North – 8
33. Fighting Cocks – Music For Lapdancers – 7
33. Space – Spiders – 7
33. Starsailor – Boy In Waiting EP – 7
36. A House – I Am The Greatest – 6
36. Blur – Parklife – 6
36. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down – 6
36. Half Man Half Biscuit – Back in the Dhss/the Trumpton Riots Ep – 6
36. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications – 6
36. Metric – Fantasies – 6
36. Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry, They Washed Away – 6
36. Others – The Others – 6
36. Pale – Proper Order – 6
36. Pink Floyd – Meddle – 6
36. Plus tech squeeze box – Cartooom! – 6
36. Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha – 6
36. Saint Etienne – Up the Wooden Hills – 6
36. They Might Be Giants – Flood – 6
36. They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants – 6
51. Art Brut – Playlist March 2009 – 5
51. Bad Manners – Ska Party – 5
51. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran – 5
51. Kasabian – The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum – 5
51. Kate Bush – Aerial – A Sky Of Honey – 5
51. Mascot Fight – Pantomime Hearse – 5
51. Miike Snow – Miike Snow – 5
51. Pop Will Eat Itself – The Looks or the Lifestyle – 5
51. Sultans of Ping FC – Teenage Drug – 5
51. They Might Be Giants – The Spine – 5
51. Trash Monroe – Shooting from the Lips and Other Crimes of Passion – 5
62. A – A vs Monkey Kong – 4
62. Ace Out – Ace Out – 4
62. Amiina – Kurr – 4
62. Baddies – Do The Job – 4
62. Battles – B EP – 4
62. Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward – 4
62. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us – 4
62. Cardigans – Acoustic on KCIW 24/05/2005 – 4
62. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – 30 Something – 4
62. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Post Historic Monsters – 4
62. Chalets – Check In – 4
62. Franz Ferdinand – Blood – sampler – 4
62. Gestir – Burtur Frá Toftunum – 4
62. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top – 4
62. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon – 4
62. Mark Ronson – Version – 4
62. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate! – 4
62. Mystery Jets – Making Dens – 4
62. Pop Will Eat Itself – Cure for Sanity – 4
62. Pop Will Eat Itself – The Cure For Sanity – 4
62. Queen – A Night At The Opera – 4
62. Richard Cheese – The Sunny Side of the Moon – 4
62. Richard Cheese – Tuxicity – 4
62. Rulers Of The Planet – Disco Boogie For Death Rockers – 4
62. Severe – The Punk Rock Advent Calendar – 4
62. Space – Tin Planet – 4
62. Stuart James – Phoenix FM session 28-04-2007 – 4
62. Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe – 4
62. Test Icicles – For Screening Purposes Only – 4
62. They Might Be Giants – The Astoria – London, UK 09/09/04 – 4
62. Ultra Vivid Scene – Mercy Seat 12” – 4
62. Ungdomskulen – Bisexual – 4
62. Untitled Musical Project – Untitled Musical Project – 4
Originally posted to my old blog on 1/1/10
Nevertheless a list is a list and I can only assume it’s rightish!
All of these charts reflect the last 12 months.
Most played artists:
1. Franz Ferdinand – 101
2. They Might Be Giants – 72
3. Blur – 71
4. The Joy Formidable – 52
5. Hafdis Huld – 41
6. Starsailor – 27
7. Pop Will Eat Itself – 24
8. Patrick Wolf – 21
9. Elastica – 20
9. Kaiser Chiefs – 20
9. The Lovely Eggs – 20
12. British Sea Power – 18
12. Brownies – 18
12. Buzzcocks – 18
12. Super Furry Animals – 18
12. The Duke Spirit – 18
17. Hyperbubble – 17
17. Kate Bush – 17
19. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – 15
19. Yes – 15
21. Genesis – 14
21. Richard Cheese – 14
21. Saint Etienne – 14
24. Charlotte Hatherley – 13
24. Resque – 13
24. Therapy? – 13
27. Art Brut – 12
27. Radiohead – 12
27. Sultans of Ping F.C. – 12
27. We Were Promised Jetpacks – 12
31. Katie and the Ayres – 11
31. Space – 11
33. Baddies – 10
33. Maxïmo Park – 10
33. The Divine Comedy – 10
33. The Mighty Roars – 10
33. The Trash Can Sinatras – 10
38. Everything Everything – 9
38. The Duckworth Lewis Method – 9
38. The Others – 9
38. Tom Allalone & The 78s – 9
42. Baïkonour – 8
42. Be Your Own Pet – 8
42. Bloc Party – 8
42. Focus – 8
42. Hatfield and the North – 8
42. Rage Against the Machine – 8
42. Spoon – 8
42. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – 8
42. The Cardigans – 8
42. The Fighting Cocks – 8
52. Eliza – 7
52. Gestir – 7
52. Madness – 7
52. Metric – 7
52. MJ Hibbett & the Validators – 7
52. Pale – 7
52. Placebo – 7
59. A House – 6
59. Cerys Matthews – 6
59. Department S – 6
59. Fiona Bevan – 6
59. FM Belfast – 6
59. Graham Coxon – 6
59. Half Man Half Biscuit – 6
59. Jarvis Cocker – 6
59. Marc Almond – 6
59. Mew – 6
59. Monocle Rose – 6
59. Pink Floyd – 6
59. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box – 6
59. Senseless Things – 6
59. Senser – 6
59. Spongebob Squarepants – 6
59. The Young Knives – 6
76. ¡Forward, Russia! – 5
76. Bad Manners – 5
76. Broadcast – 5
76. Elvis Costello – 5
76. Kasabian – 5
76. Mascot Fight – 5
76. Miike Snow – 5
76. My Life Story – 5
76. Mystery Jets – 5
76. Rulers Of The Planet – 5
76. The Boxer Rebellion – 5
76. The Hot Puppies – 5
76. The Jam – 5
76. The Rakes – 5
76. The Robocop Kraus – 5
76. Trash Monroe – 5
76. White Rose Movement – 5
76. XTC – 5
94. A – 4
94. A Place to Bury Strangers – 4
94. Ace Out – 4
94. Alexei Sayle – 4
94. Amiina – 4
94. Battles – 4
94. Bis – 4
94. Black Moth Super Rainbow – 4
94. Bleech – 4
94. Blizzards – 4
94. Botnleðja – 4
94. Coldplay – 4
94. Dodgy – 4
94. Future of the Left – 4
94. Kenickie – 4
94. Lush – 4
94. Mark Ronson – 4
94. Prodigy – 4
94. Queen – 4
94. Rose Elinor Dougall – 4
94. Severe – 4
94. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – 4
94. Starts – 4
94. Stuart James – 4
94. Swell Maps – 4
94. Ten Tigers – 4
94. Test Icicles – 4
94. The Chalets – 4
94. The Dead 60s – 4
94. The Stone Roses – 4
94. Ultra Vivid Scene – 4
94. Ungdomskulen – 4
94. Untitled Musical Project – 4
The most played tracks were:
1. Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls – 14
2. Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses – 9
2. The Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade – 9
2. The Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too – 9
2. The Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives And He Drinks Sake – 9
6. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome – 8
6. Franz Ferdinand – Katherine Kiss Me – 8
6. Franz Ferdinand – Twilight Omens – 8
6. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times – 8
6. The Joy Formidable – Cradle – 8
6. The Joy Formidable – Whirring – 8
6. The Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion? – 8
13. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous – 7
13. Blur – Pressure On Julian – 7
13. Franz Ferdinand – Send Him Away – 7
13. Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words – 7
13. The Joy Formidable – While The Flies – 7
18. Blur – Turn It Up – 6
18. Blur – Villa Rosie – 6
18. Department S – Wonderful Day – 6
18. Franz Ferdinand – Turn It On – 6
18. Hafdis Huld – Ski Jumper – 6
18. Monocle Rose – Alley Cat – 6
18. Saint Etienne – Barnyard Brouhaha – 6
18. The Joy Formidable – The Last Drop – 6
26. Blur – Advert – 5
26. Fiona Bevan – The Balance – 5
26. Franz Ferdinand – Backwards On My Face – 5
26. Franz Ferdinand – Dream Again – 5
26. Franz Ferdinand – Katherine Hit Me – 5
26. Hafdis Huld – Diamonds On My Belly – 5
26. Metric – Gold Guns Girls – 5
26. Starsailor – Good Souls – 5
26. The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Age Of Revolution – 5
26. The Joy Formidable – 9669 – 5
26. The Joy Formidable – Ostrich – 5
37. Alexei Sayle – Web User Advert Mar 2001 – 4
37. Baïkonour – Look… Wa! – 4
37. Battles – TRAS 3 – 4
37. Be Your Own Pet – Food Fight – 4
37. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise – 4
37. Blur – Blue Jeans – 4
37. Blur – Chemical World – 4
37. Blur – Colin Zeal – 4
37. Blur – For Tomorrow – 4
37. Blur – Miss America – 4
37. Blur – Oily Water – 4
37. Blur – Star Shaped – 4
37. Blur – Sunday Sunday – 4
37. Franz Ferdinand – Be Afraid – 4
37. Franz Ferdinand – Die On The Floor – 4
37. Hafdis Huld – My Heart Beats – 4
37. Hafdis Huld – Tomoko – 4
37. Hyperbubble – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too – 4
37. Placebo – For What Its Worth (Radio Edit) – 4
37. Rose Elinor Dougall – Start/Stop/Synchro – 4
37. Spoon – Everything Hits at Once – 4
37. Swell Maps – Mining Villages – 4
37. The Duke Spirit – Love Is An Unfamiliar Name – 4
37. The Joy Formidable – Austere – 4
61. Alexander Rybak – Fairytale – 3
61. Bad Manners – Cider Drinker – 3
61. Baddies – Holler For My Holiday – 3
61. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme – 3
61. Bleech – Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry – 3
61. British Sea Power – Carrion / All In It (Pressbutton remix) – 3
61. British Sea Power – Men Together Today – 3
61. Brownies – Dance Romance – 3
61. Brownies – It Kills – 3
61. Charlotte Hatherley – White – 3
61. Cherbourg – Man – 3
61. Codeine Velvet Club – I Am The Resurrection – 3
61. Elastica – Annie – 3
61. Elastica – Generator (Peel Session 22 Sep 1999) – 3
61. FM Belfast – Lotus (Killing In The Name Of) (Clean) – 3
61. Focus – Anonymus II – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Bite Hard – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Can’t Stop Feeling – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Feel The Envy – 3
61. Franz Ferdinand – Live Alone – 3
61. Graham Coxon – This House – 3
61. Hyperbubble – Non Biodegradable Hazardous Waste Disposal – 3
61. Katie and the Ayres – Pop Song (live mix) – 3
61. Katie and the Ayres – Sorry In Japanese (live mix) – 3
61. Killed by 9V batteries – this city is lit when you’re on top of it – 3
61. Maxïmo Park – Wraithlike – 3
61. Pale – Stop It I Might Like It – 3
61. Period Pains – Spice Girls who do you think you are – 3
61. Peter Bjorn and John – It Don’t Move Me – 3
61. Pop Will Eat Itself – Shortwave Transmission On ‘Up To The Minuteman Nine’ – 3
61. Prodigy – Omen – 3
61. Rage Against the Machine – Renegades of Funk – 3
61. Richard Cheese – Hate to Say I Told You So – 3
61. Ropes – I Stand For Nothing – 3
61. Senser – Resistance Now – 3
61. Severe – Stop The Cavalry – 3
61. Spongebob Squarepants – SpongeBob SquarePants – 3
61. Spongebob Squarepants – Theme – 3
61. Starsailor – Alcoholic – 3
61. Starsailor – Alcoholic (Glastonbury 26-06-2004) – 3
61. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Around the Bend (radio edit) – 3
61. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age – 3
61. The Dead 60s – Riot Radio – 3
61. The Fighting Cocks – (tea break) – 3
61. The Jam – News Of The World – 3
61. The Pan I Am – Fire Dance – 3
61. The Robocop Kraus – Sometimes I wonder if you’d been a dog in a previous life – 3
61. The Trash Can Sinatras – Obscurity Knocks – 3
61. The Trash Can Sinatras – One at a Time – 3
61. The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird – 3
61. They Might Be Giants – Robot Parade – 3
61. They Might Be Giants – Shoehorn with Teeth – 3
61. They Might Be Giants – Ten Mississippi – 3
61. Tom Allalone & The 78s – Sign On You Lazy Diamond – 3
61. We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning – 3
61. White Rose Movement – Cigarette Machine (Club Mix) – 3
The most played albums were:
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – 67
2. Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish – 58
3. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning – 52
4. Hafdis Huld – Dirty Paper Cup – 37
5. Franz Ferdinand – Blood – 21
6. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback – 18
6. Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady – 18
6. Duke Spirit – The Duke Spirit – 18
6. Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads – 18
10. They Might Be Giants – Here Come The 123s – 17
11. Yes – Going for the One – 15
12. Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor – 14
13. Resque – Life’s A Bonus – 13
13. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years – 13
13. Therapy? – Crooked Timber – 13
13. They Might Be Giants – No! – 13
17. Katie and the Ayres – All Souls – 11
18. Hyperbubble – Candy Apple Daydreams – 10
18. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives – Single – 10
18. Pop Will Eat Itself – This Is The Day…This Is The Hour…This Is This! – 10
18. They Might Be Giants – Lincoln – 10
18. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls – 10
23. Charlotte Hatherley – New Worlds – 9
23. Elastica – Elastica – 9
23. Lovely Eggs – Blalock’s Indie/Rock Playlist: August (2009) – 9
23. They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18 – 9
23. Tom Allalone & The 78s – Major Sins Pt. 1 – 9
28. Baïkonour – Your Ear Knows Future – 8
28. British Sea Power – The Decline of British Sea Power – 8
28. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome – 8
28. Focus – Focus 3 – 8
28. Hatfield and the North – Hatfield and the North – 8
33. Fighting Cocks – Music For Lapdancers – 7
33. Space – Spiders – 7
33. Starsailor – Boy In Waiting EP – 7
36. A House – I Am The Greatest – 6
36. Blur – Parklife – 6
36. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down – 6
36. Half Man Half Biscuit – Back in the Dhss/the Trumpton Riots Ep – 6
36. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications – 6
36. Metric – Fantasies – 6
36. Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry, They Washed Away – 6
36. Others – The Others – 6
36. Pale – Proper Order – 6
36. Pink Floyd – Meddle – 6
36. Plus tech squeeze box – Cartooom! – 6
36. Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha – 6
36. Saint Etienne – Up the Wooden Hills – 6
36. They Might Be Giants – Flood – 6
36. They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants – 6
51. Art Brut – Playlist March 2009 – 5
51. Bad Manners – Ska Party – 5
51. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran – 5
51. Kasabian – The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum – 5
51. Kate Bush – Aerial – A Sky Of Honey – 5
51. Mascot Fight – Pantomime Hearse – 5
51. Miike Snow – Miike Snow – 5
51. Pop Will Eat Itself – The Looks or the Lifestyle – 5
51. Sultans of Ping FC – Teenage Drug – 5
51. They Might Be Giants – The Spine – 5
51. Trash Monroe – Shooting from the Lips and Other Crimes of Passion – 5
62. A – A vs Monkey Kong – 4
62. Ace Out – Ace Out – 4
62. Amiina – Kurr – 4
62. Baddies – Do The Job – 4
62. Battles – B EP – 4
62. Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward – 4
62. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us – 4
62. Cardigans – Acoustic on KCIW 24/05/2005 – 4
62. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – 30 Something – 4
62. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Post Historic Monsters – 4
62. Chalets – Check In – 4
62. Franz Ferdinand – Blood – sampler – 4
62. Gestir – Burtur Frá Toftunum – 4
62. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top – 4
62. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon – 4
62. Mark Ronson – Version – 4
62. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate! – 4
62. Mystery Jets – Making Dens – 4
62. Pop Will Eat Itself – Cure for Sanity – 4
62. Pop Will Eat Itself – The Cure For Sanity – 4
62. Queen – A Night At The Opera – 4
62. Richard Cheese – The Sunny Side of the Moon – 4
62. Richard Cheese – Tuxicity – 4
62. Rulers Of The Planet – Disco Boogie For Death Rockers – 4
62. Severe – The Punk Rock Advent Calendar – 4
62. Space – Tin Planet – 4
62. Stuart James – Phoenix FM session 28-04-2007 – 4
62. Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe – 4
62. Test Icicles – For Screening Purposes Only – 4
62. They Might Be Giants – The Astoria – London, UK 09/09/04 – 4
62. Ultra Vivid Scene – Mercy Seat 12” – 4
62. Ungdomskulen – Bisexual – 4
62. Untitled Musical Project – Untitled Musical Project – 4
Originally posted to my old blog on 1/1/10
Singles and albums of the decade
After much procrastinating I’ve compiled my favourite singles and albums from the 00s.
Singles:
1. Art Brut – St Pauli (2007)
2. Cardigans – I Need Some Fine Wine, And You, You Need To Be Nicer (2005)
3. Others – Stan Bowles (2004)
4. (International) Noise Conspiracy – Capitalism Stole My Virginity (2001)
5. Bellatrix – Jediwannabe (2000)
6. Amanda Palmer – Leeds United (2008)
7. Hot Puppies – The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful (2006)
8. Samurai Seven – Lucky Pierre (2002)
9. Coldplay – Shiver (2000)
10. Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist (2001)
11. Manda Rin – DNA (2008)
12. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome (2009)
13. Mystery Jets – You Can’t Fool Me Dennis (2005)
14. New Young Pony Club – The Bomb (2007)
15. Sons and Daughters – Darling (2008)
16. FM Belfast – Lotus (Killing In The Name) (2008)
17. Young Knives – Counters (2008)
18. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill (2007)
19. Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag (2006)
20. Maximo Park – Apply Some Pressure (2005)
21. Senser – Resistance Now (2009)
22. Madness – Drip Fed Fred (2000)
23. Dead 60s – You’re Not The Law (2004)
24. Data Panik – Cubis (2005)
25. Mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions (2002)
26. Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place (2007)
27. Hera Hjartardottir – Feels So Good (2008)
28. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out (2004)
29. WigWam – WigWam (2006)
30. Royksopp – Eple (2001)
31. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives (2009)
32. Robocop Kraus – Fashion (2003)
33. Hafdis Huld – Ski Jumper (2005)
34. Hot Hot Heat – No Not Now (2003)
35. Rakes – Retreat (2005)
36. British Sea Power – Lights Out For Darker Skies (2008)
37. Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat (2008)
38. Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres (2007)
39. Maximo Park – Our Velocity (2007)
40. Doves – There Goes The Fear (2002)
41. Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes (2006)
42. Young Knives – The Decision (2005)
43. Bloc Party – Banquet (2005)
44. Silt – In Line (2002)
45. Mike Flowers Pops – Talk (2007)
46. British Sea Power – No Lucifer (2008)
47. Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Heading For A Breakdown (2005)
48. Muse – Time Is Running Out (2003)
49. Fiona Bevan – Moths (2009)
50. Mark B & Blade – Ya Don’t See The Signs (Grant Nicholls remix) (2001)
51. Camera Obscura – French Navy (2009)
52. Kate Bush – Mrs Bartolozzi (2005)
53. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme (2008)
54. Sultans of Ping – Girlwatchin’ (2007)
55. Silver Sun – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2003)
56. Do Me Bad Things – Time For Deliverance (2004)
57. Spoon – Everything Hits At Once (2001)
58. Foals – Red Socks Pugie (2008)
59. Madness – I Chase the Devil AKA Ironshirt (2005)
60. Rosie and the Goldbug – War Of The Roses (Because You Said So) (2008)
61. Aberdeen City – God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me (2005)
62. Foals – Cassius (2008)
63. Feeder – Buck Rogers (2001)
64. Dandy Warhols – The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty (2008)
65. Franz Ferdinand – Darts Of Pleasure (2003)
66. Young Knives – Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) (2006)
67. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them – The Unstoppable Kite (2007)
68. Klang – L.O.V.E. (2003)
69. Metric – Poster Of A Girl (2006)
70. Art Brut – Direct Hit (2007)
71. Brownies – Dance Romance (2009)
72. Manic Street Preachers feat Nina Persson – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (2007)
73. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous (2009)
74. Cursor Miner – Library (2004)
75. Gemma Hayes – Hanging Around (2002)
76. Ting Tings – Great DJ (2008)
77. Courtney Love – Mono (2004)
78. Feeder – Just A Day (2001)
79. White Rose Movement – Girls In The Back (2006)
80. Dub Pistols Feat Terry Hall – Problem Is (2003)
81. Animalhouse – Small (2000)
82. Tahiti 80 – Soul Deep (2003)
83. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine (2003)
84. Kirsty MacColl – In These Shoes? (2000)
85. Foo Fighters – Breakout (2000)
86. Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade (2009)
87. Jenny Owen Youngs – Hot In Herre (2008)
88. Super Furry Animals – Ysbeidiau Heulog (2000)
89. Cardigans – For What It’s Worth (2003)
90. Girls Against Boys – Basstation (2002)
91. Fighting Cocks – The Little Goats’ Big Night Out (2007)
92. Hot Puppies – Clarinet Town (2008)
93. Rulers Of The Planet – Backbencher (2005)
94. Tunng – Bullets (2007)
95. Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So (2002)
96. Metric – Gold Guns Girls (2009)
97. Fischerspooner – Emerge (2002)
98. Boys In A Band – Black Diamond Train (2008)
99. múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes (2007)
100. Blood Arm – Suspicious Character (2006)
Albums:
1. British Sea Power – The Decline Of British Sea Power (2003)
2. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (2005)
3. Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
4. Young Knives – Superabundance (2008)
5. Robocop Kraus – They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus (2005)
6. Kate Bush – Aerial (2005)
7. Others – The Others (2005)
8. Gestir – Burtur Fra Toftunum (2006)
9. Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight (2003)
10. Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home (2006)
11. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (2008)
12. Rulers Of The Planet – In 30 Minutes We Destroy The Earth (2005)
13. Young Knives – Voices Of Animals And Men (2006)
14. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock ‘n’ Roll (2005)
15. Cardigans – Super Extra Gravity (2005)
16. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback (2009)
17. Younger Younger 28s – Soap (2000)
18. Foals – Antidotes (2008)
19. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight (2009)
20. Keane – Hopes And Fears (2004)
21. Couse and the Impossible – The World Should Know (2006)
22. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment (2005)
23. Divine Comedy – Victory For The Common Muse (2006)
24. Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger (2005)
25. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon (2006)
26. Frank and Walters – Glass (2000)
27. Chris T-T – 9 Red Songs (2005)
28. Abdoujaparov – Air Odeon Disco Pub (2002)
29. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (2004)
30. A – Hi-Fi Serious (2002)
31. New Young Pony Club – Fantastic Playroom (2007)
32. Chris T-T – The 253 (2001)
33. Hybrasil – The Monkey Pole (2007)
34. Art Brut – It’s A Bit Complicated (2007)
35. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007)
36. Jarvis – Jarvis (2006)
37. Elíza – Empire Fall (2007)
38. Abdoujaparov – Cycle Riot History Gang (2007)
39. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better With (2005)
40. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City (2007)
41. Lemon Jelly – lemonjelly.ky (2000)
42. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
43. Senser – How To Do Battle (2009)
44. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning (2009)
45. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down (2009)
46. They Might Be Giants – The Spine (2004)
47. Bis – Music For A Stranger World (2001)
48. Fighting Cocks – Come And See (2004)
49. My Life Story – Joined Up Talking (2000)
50. Echobelly – Gravity Pulls (2004)
51. Coldplay – Parachutes (2000)
52. Aberdeen City – The Freezing Atlantic (2005)
53. Futureheads – Futureheads (2004)
54. Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit (2009)
55. Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (2008)
56. Frank and Walters – Souvenirs (2005)
57. Stereolab – Chemical Chords (2008)
58. Art Brut – Art Brut vs Satan (2009)
59. Paddy McAloon – I Trawl The Megahertz (2003)
60. (International) Noise Conspiracy – The Cross Of My Calling (2008)
61. Therapy? – Crooked Timber (2009)
62. Divine Comedy – Regeneration (2001)
63. Soft Cell – Cruelty Without Beauty (2002)
64. M J Hibbett and the Validators – Shed Anthems (2004)
65. British Sea Power – Open Season (2005)
66. Samurai Seven – Le Sport (2002)
67. Ting Tings – We Started Nothing (2008)
68. Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads (2008)
69. Chris T-T – Capital (2008)
70. Mystery Jets – Twenty One (2008)
71. Blur – Think Tank (2003)
72. múm – Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (2007)
73. Fields – Everything Last Winter (2007)
74. Mark Ronson – Version (2007)
75. Jim’s Super Stereoworld – In A Big Flash Car On A Saturday Night (2002)
76. Dead 60s – Dead 60s (2005)
77. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate! (2006)
78. Others – Inward Parts (2006)
79. Fighting Cocks – Music For Lapdancers (2007)
80. Mystery Jets – Making Dens (2006)
81. Bravery – Bravery (2005)
82. Ooberman – Carried Away (2006)
83. Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High (2006)
84. Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1 (2005)
85. Untitled Musical Project – Untitled Musical Project (2007)
86. They Might Be Giants – No! (2002)
87. Twang – Love It When I Feel Like This (2007)
88. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Duckworth-Lewis Method (2009)
89. Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
90. Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures (2007)
91. VHS Or Beta – Night On Fire (2005)
92. Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse (2004)
93. ¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me A Wall (2006)
94. Elastica – The Menace (2000)
95. Kasabian – Kasabian (2004)
96. Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia (2009)
97. B-52’s – Funplex (2008)
98. S*M*A*S*H – Icon (2007)
99. Divine Comedy – Absent Friends (2004)
100. iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt (2007)
This post was originally put up on my old blog on 1st Jan 2010. Ten days later I had a message from the singer ofThey Came From The Stars, I Saw Them ... "hey there. i just discovered that my pop group made it onto this list. you’re right of course, only trouble is that you are pretty much alone in your faulty thinking, which is why we’ve pretty much given up ;o( Almost everyone else on your list has had at least some sort of success, but we never had any at all. ah well, thanks anyway – yours sadly – from the stars x" The nicest and saddest feedback all in one post I think I've ever had.
Singles:
1. Art Brut – St Pauli (2007)
2. Cardigans – I Need Some Fine Wine, And You, You Need To Be Nicer (2005)
3. Others – Stan Bowles (2004)
4. (International) Noise Conspiracy – Capitalism Stole My Virginity (2001)
5. Bellatrix – Jediwannabe (2000)
6. Amanda Palmer – Leeds United (2008)
7. Hot Puppies – The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful (2006)
8. Samurai Seven – Lucky Pierre (2002)
9. Coldplay – Shiver (2000)
10. Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist (2001)
11. Manda Rin – DNA (2008)
12. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome (2009)
13. Mystery Jets – You Can’t Fool Me Dennis (2005)
14. New Young Pony Club – The Bomb (2007)
15. Sons and Daughters – Darling (2008)
16. FM Belfast – Lotus (Killing In The Name) (2008)
17. Young Knives – Counters (2008)
18. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill (2007)
19. Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag (2006)
20. Maximo Park – Apply Some Pressure (2005)
21. Senser – Resistance Now (2009)
22. Madness – Drip Fed Fred (2000)
23. Dead 60s – You’re Not The Law (2004)
24. Data Panik – Cubis (2005)
25. Mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions (2002)
26. Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place (2007)
27. Hera Hjartardottir – Feels So Good (2008)
28. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out (2004)
29. WigWam – WigWam (2006)
30. Royksopp – Eple (2001)
31. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives (2009)
32. Robocop Kraus – Fashion (2003)
33. Hafdis Huld – Ski Jumper (2005)
34. Hot Hot Heat – No Not Now (2003)
35. Rakes – Retreat (2005)
36. British Sea Power – Lights Out For Darker Skies (2008)
37. Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat (2008)
38. Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres (2007)
39. Maximo Park – Our Velocity (2007)
40. Doves – There Goes The Fear (2002)
41. Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes (2006)
42. Young Knives – The Decision (2005)
43. Bloc Party – Banquet (2005)
44. Silt – In Line (2002)
45. Mike Flowers Pops – Talk (2007)
46. British Sea Power – No Lucifer (2008)
47. Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Heading For A Breakdown (2005)
48. Muse – Time Is Running Out (2003)
49. Fiona Bevan – Moths (2009)
50. Mark B & Blade – Ya Don’t See The Signs (Grant Nicholls remix) (2001)
51. Camera Obscura – French Navy (2009)
52. Kate Bush – Mrs Bartolozzi (2005)
53. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme (2008)
54. Sultans of Ping – Girlwatchin’ (2007)
55. Silver Sun – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2003)
56. Do Me Bad Things – Time For Deliverance (2004)
57. Spoon – Everything Hits At Once (2001)
58. Foals – Red Socks Pugie (2008)
59. Madness – I Chase the Devil AKA Ironshirt (2005)
60. Rosie and the Goldbug – War Of The Roses (Because You Said So) (2008)
61. Aberdeen City – God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me (2005)
62. Foals – Cassius (2008)
63. Feeder – Buck Rogers (2001)
64. Dandy Warhols – The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty (2008)
65. Franz Ferdinand – Darts Of Pleasure (2003)
66. Young Knives – Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) (2006)
67. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them – The Unstoppable Kite (2007)
68. Klang – L.O.V.E. (2003)
69. Metric – Poster Of A Girl (2006)
70. Art Brut – Direct Hit (2007)
71. Brownies – Dance Romance (2009)
72. Manic Street Preachers feat Nina Persson – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (2007)
73. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous (2009)
74. Cursor Miner – Library (2004)
75. Gemma Hayes – Hanging Around (2002)
76. Ting Tings – Great DJ (2008)
77. Courtney Love – Mono (2004)
78. Feeder – Just A Day (2001)
79. White Rose Movement – Girls In The Back (2006)
80. Dub Pistols Feat Terry Hall – Problem Is (2003)
81. Animalhouse – Small (2000)
82. Tahiti 80 – Soul Deep (2003)
83. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine (2003)
84. Kirsty MacColl – In These Shoes? (2000)
85. Foo Fighters – Breakout (2000)
86. Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade (2009)
87. Jenny Owen Youngs – Hot In Herre (2008)
88. Super Furry Animals – Ysbeidiau Heulog (2000)
89. Cardigans – For What It’s Worth (2003)
90. Girls Against Boys – Basstation (2002)
91. Fighting Cocks – The Little Goats’ Big Night Out (2007)
92. Hot Puppies – Clarinet Town (2008)
93. Rulers Of The Planet – Backbencher (2005)
94. Tunng – Bullets (2007)
95. Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So (2002)
96. Metric – Gold Guns Girls (2009)
97. Fischerspooner – Emerge (2002)
98. Boys In A Band – Black Diamond Train (2008)
99. múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes (2007)
100. Blood Arm – Suspicious Character (2006)
Albums:
1. British Sea Power – The Decline Of British Sea Power (2003)
2. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (2005)
3. Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
4. Young Knives – Superabundance (2008)
5. Robocop Kraus – They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus (2005)
6. Kate Bush – Aerial (2005)
7. Others – The Others (2005)
8. Gestir – Burtur Fra Toftunum (2006)
9. Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight (2003)
10. Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home (2006)
11. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (2008)
12. Rulers Of The Planet – In 30 Minutes We Destroy The Earth (2005)
13. Young Knives – Voices Of Animals And Men (2006)
14. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock ‘n’ Roll (2005)
15. Cardigans – Super Extra Gravity (2005)
16. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback (2009)
17. Younger Younger 28s – Soap (2000)
18. Foals – Antidotes (2008)
19. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight (2009)
20. Keane – Hopes And Fears (2004)
21. Couse and the Impossible – The World Should Know (2006)
22. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment (2005)
23. Divine Comedy – Victory For The Common Muse (2006)
24. Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger (2005)
25. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon (2006)
26. Frank and Walters – Glass (2000)
27. Chris T-T – 9 Red Songs (2005)
28. Abdoujaparov – Air Odeon Disco Pub (2002)
29. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (2004)
30. A – Hi-Fi Serious (2002)
31. New Young Pony Club – Fantastic Playroom (2007)
32. Chris T-T – The 253 (2001)
33. Hybrasil – The Monkey Pole (2007)
34. Art Brut – It’s A Bit Complicated (2007)
35. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007)
36. Jarvis – Jarvis (2006)
37. Elíza – Empire Fall (2007)
38. Abdoujaparov – Cycle Riot History Gang (2007)
39. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better With (2005)
40. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City (2007)
41. Lemon Jelly – lemonjelly.ky (2000)
42. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
43. Senser – How To Do Battle (2009)
44. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning (2009)
45. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down (2009)
46. They Might Be Giants – The Spine (2004)
47. Bis – Music For A Stranger World (2001)
48. Fighting Cocks – Come And See (2004)
49. My Life Story – Joined Up Talking (2000)
50. Echobelly – Gravity Pulls (2004)
51. Coldplay – Parachutes (2000)
52. Aberdeen City – The Freezing Atlantic (2005)
53. Futureheads – Futureheads (2004)
54. Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit (2009)
55. Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (2008)
56. Frank and Walters – Souvenirs (2005)
57. Stereolab – Chemical Chords (2008)
58. Art Brut – Art Brut vs Satan (2009)
59. Paddy McAloon – I Trawl The Megahertz (2003)
60. (International) Noise Conspiracy – The Cross Of My Calling (2008)
61. Therapy? – Crooked Timber (2009)
62. Divine Comedy – Regeneration (2001)
63. Soft Cell – Cruelty Without Beauty (2002)
64. M J Hibbett and the Validators – Shed Anthems (2004)
65. British Sea Power – Open Season (2005)
66. Samurai Seven – Le Sport (2002)
67. Ting Tings – We Started Nothing (2008)
68. Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads (2008)
69. Chris T-T – Capital (2008)
70. Mystery Jets – Twenty One (2008)
71. Blur – Think Tank (2003)
72. múm – Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (2007)
73. Fields – Everything Last Winter (2007)
74. Mark Ronson – Version (2007)
75. Jim’s Super Stereoworld – In A Big Flash Car On A Saturday Night (2002)
76. Dead 60s – Dead 60s (2005)
77. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate! (2006)
78. Others – Inward Parts (2006)
79. Fighting Cocks – Music For Lapdancers (2007)
80. Mystery Jets – Making Dens (2006)
81. Bravery – Bravery (2005)
82. Ooberman – Carried Away (2006)
83. Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High (2006)
84. Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1 (2005)
85. Untitled Musical Project – Untitled Musical Project (2007)
86. They Might Be Giants – No! (2002)
87. Twang – Love It When I Feel Like This (2007)
88. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Duckworth-Lewis Method (2009)
89. Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
90. Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures (2007)
91. VHS Or Beta – Night On Fire (2005)
92. Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse (2004)
93. ¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me A Wall (2006)
94. Elastica – The Menace (2000)
95. Kasabian – Kasabian (2004)
96. Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia (2009)
97. B-52’s – Funplex (2008)
98. S*M*A*S*H – Icon (2007)
99. Divine Comedy – Absent Friends (2004)
100. iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt (2007)
This post was originally put up on my old blog on 1st Jan 2010. Ten days later I had a message from the singer ofThey Came From The Stars, I Saw Them ... "hey there. i just discovered that my pop group made it onto this list. you’re right of course, only trouble is that you are pretty much alone in your faulty thinking, which is why we’ve pretty much given up ;o( Almost everyone else on your list has had at least some sort of success, but we never had any at all. ah well, thanks anyway – yours sadly – from the stars x" The nicest and saddest feedback all in one post I think I've ever had.
Thursday, 31 December 2009
The Noughties – what a rather shit decade for UK radio
… according to PPL. These were the most commonly played songs on the radio in the UK over the last 10 years:
1. Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars (2006)
2. Take That – Shine (2006)
3. Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ (2006)
4. Feeling – Love It When You Call (2005)
5. Sugababes – About You Now (2007)
6. Take That – Rule The World (2007)
7. James Blunt – You’re Beautiful (2004)
8. Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict A Riot (2004)
9. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2001)
10. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (2006)
11. Razorlight – America (2006)
12. Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town (1976)
13. Gwen Stefani featuring Akon – The Sweet Escape (2006)
14. Stereophonics – Dakota (2005)
15. Spiller – Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) (2000)
16. Take That – Patience (2006)
17. Nelly Furtado – Say It Right (2006)
18. Mika – Grace Kelly (2006)
19. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn (1997)
20. Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free (1976)
21. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (2007)
22. Stranglers – Golden Brown (1981)
23. Outkast – Hey Ya! (2003)
24. Keane – Somewhere Only We Know (2004)
25. Duffy – Mercy (2007)
26. Toploader – Dancing In The Moonlight (2000)
27. Modjo – Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (2000)
28. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby (2006)
29. Police – Every Breath You Take (1983)
30. Scissor Sisters – Filthy/Gorgeous (2003)
31. Pink – Who Knew (2006)
32. Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z – Crazy In Love (2003)
33. Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse – Valerie (2007)
34. U2 – Beautiful Day (2000)
35. All Saints – Pure Shores (2000)
36. Stereophonics – Have A Nice Day (2001)
37. Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You (1972)
38. Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way (2006)
39. Robbie Williams – Rock DJ (2000)
40. Onerepublic – Apologize (2007)
41. Barry White – You’re The First, The Last, My Everything (1974)
42. Feeling – Fill My Little World (2005)
43. Abba – Dancing Queen (1976)
44. Bon Jovi – Livin On A Prayer (1986)
45. Elvis Presley – A Little Less Conversation (1972)
46. Pink – Trouble (2003)
47. Daniel Powter – Bad Day (2004)
48. Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry (2006)
49. Orson – No Tomorrow (2006)
50. Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer (1968)
Of course this list will ignore the playlists of many community and RSL stations up and down the UK who don’t have to list every single song they pay to PPL, paying a blanket fee instead. Actually with some of the community station’s I’ve heard (outside the Brentwood area of course) Take That might have even more songs in there if you include those.
1. Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars (2006)
2. Take That – Shine (2006)
3. Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ (2006)
4. Feeling – Love It When You Call (2005)
5. Sugababes – About You Now (2007)
6. Take That – Rule The World (2007)
7. James Blunt – You’re Beautiful (2004)
8. Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict A Riot (2004)
9. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2001)
10. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (2006)
11. Razorlight – America (2006)
12. Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town (1976)
13. Gwen Stefani featuring Akon – The Sweet Escape (2006)
14. Stereophonics – Dakota (2005)
15. Spiller – Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) (2000)
16. Take That – Patience (2006)
17. Nelly Furtado – Say It Right (2006)
18. Mika – Grace Kelly (2006)
19. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn (1997)
20. Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free (1976)
21. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (2007)
22. Stranglers – Golden Brown (1981)
23. Outkast – Hey Ya! (2003)
24. Keane – Somewhere Only We Know (2004)
25. Duffy – Mercy (2007)
26. Toploader – Dancing In The Moonlight (2000)
27. Modjo – Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (2000)
28. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby (2006)
29. Police – Every Breath You Take (1983)
30. Scissor Sisters – Filthy/Gorgeous (2003)
31. Pink – Who Knew (2006)
32. Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z – Crazy In Love (2003)
33. Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse – Valerie (2007)
34. U2 – Beautiful Day (2000)
35. All Saints – Pure Shores (2000)
36. Stereophonics – Have A Nice Day (2001)
37. Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You (1972)
38. Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way (2006)
39. Robbie Williams – Rock DJ (2000)
40. Onerepublic – Apologize (2007)
41. Barry White – You’re The First, The Last, My Everything (1974)
42. Feeling – Fill My Little World (2005)
43. Abba – Dancing Queen (1976)
44. Bon Jovi – Livin On A Prayer (1986)
45. Elvis Presley – A Little Less Conversation (1972)
46. Pink – Trouble (2003)
47. Daniel Powter – Bad Day (2004)
48. Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry (2006)
49. Orson – No Tomorrow (2006)
50. Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer (1968)
Of course this list will ignore the playlists of many community and RSL stations up and down the UK who don’t have to list every single song they pay to PPL, paying a blanket fee instead. Actually with some of the community station’s I’ve heard (outside the Brentwood area of course) Take That might have even more songs in there if you include those.
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Singles and albums of the year – 2009
Back to the present at last, 10 years of charts posted up in the last 2 days, so now I can get working on my songs and albums of the decade!
A really strong line up this year, but I love the prog rock of Everything Everything, wrapped up in no pomp at all and for all the world just coming out like a regular bit of indie that we all know and love.
The Mighty Roars single is just such a great feel-good song too, and a nice video too.
After the suprising amount I played Franz Ferdinand during the first half of the year, it was edged from being the best album by some foul-mouthed young ladies from Norwich, the Brownies. Caught them live twice this year and while not groundbreaking, the music and energy is mightily refreshing.
Singles
1. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome
2. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives
3. Senser – Resistance Now
4. Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too
5. Brownies – Dance Romance
6. Fiona Bevan – Moths
7. Camera Obscura – French Navy
8. We Are The Physics – Goran Ivanisevic
9. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous
10. Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade
11. Metric – Gold Guns Girls
12. Ash – Return Of White Rabbit
13. Tom Allalone and the 78s – Sign On You Lazy Diamond
14. Hafdis Huld – Kongulo
15. Rose Elinor Dougall – Start/Stop/Synchro
16. Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordian
17. Cerys Matthews – It’s What’s Left (That Makes It Right)
18. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme
19. Cheek – Hung Up
20. Senser – Brightest Rays
21. Prodigy – Omen
22. Soft Toy Emergency – Critical
23. Kovak – I’ll Be Good To You
24. Hjaltalin – Traffic Music
25. Cerys Matthews – Arlington Way
26. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
27. Future Of The Left – Arming Eritrea
28. Joy Formidable – Whirring
29. Skunk Anansie – Tear The Place Up
30. Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
31. Franz Ferdinand – Can’t Stop Feeling
32. Choppersauraus – Boy Recesson
33. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Age Of Revolution
34. Good Shoes – The Way My Heart Beats
35. Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
36. Killed By 9V Batteries – This City Is Lit When You’re On Top Of It
37. Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words
38. Robocop Kraus – Sometimes I Wonder If You’d Been A Dog In A Previous Life
39. Department S – Wonderful Day
40. Death Of The Elephant – Trypticon
41. Silversun Pickups – Substitution
42. Surfquake – Surf And Destroy
43. Eliza – Hopeless Case
44. WeirdGear – Game
45. Hickey Underworld – Mystery Bruise
46. Everything Everything – My Keys, Your Boyfriend
47. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
48. Therapy – The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself
49. Ungdomskulen – Idunno
50. White Rose Movement – Cigarette Machine (club mix)
51. Monocle Rose – Alley Cat
52. Bleech – Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry
53. Pet Shop Boys – Love etc
54. Madness – Idiot Child
55. Pale – Stop It, I Might Like It
56. Miike Snow – Silvia
57. Maximo Park – Wraithlike
58. Pan I Am – Fire Dance
59. Delphic – Doubt
60. Muse – Uprising
61. Sicknurse – Sheepnesting
62. Le Corps Mince De Francoise – Something Golden
63. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
64. Grave Architects – The Bike Song
65. Polly Scattergood – Please Don’t Touch
66. Rakes – 1989
67. Royksopp – Happy Up Here
68. Baddies – Holler For My Holiday
69. Maximo Park – Questing Not Coasting
70. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times
71. Helmholtz Resonators – Choc’ Full of Chix
72. Pure Reason Revolution – Les Malheurs
73. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
74. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
75. Blizzards – Trust Me I’m A Doctor
76. Trash Monroe – Love Dysmorphia
77. Kabeedies – Petits Filous
78. Silversun Pickups – There’s No Secrets This Year
79. Boxer Rebellion – Evacuate
80. Charlotte Hatherley – White
81. Animal Kingdom – Tin Man
82. Simple Minds – Rockets
83. A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus
84. Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing
85. Japanese Voyeurs – Dumb
86. Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard – Roll Bus Roll
87. Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart [Raise It Up]
88. A Place To Bury Strangers – In Your Heart
89. Esser – Work It Out
90. Andy J Gallagher – Faster
91. Angry Vs The Bear – I Am Electric
92. Charlotte Hatherley – Alexander
93. Violet Violet – C-C-C-Cat
94. Editors – Papillon
95. I, Ludicrous – We’re The Support Band
96. Client – Can You Feel
97. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age
98. Le Monnier – Save Yourself
99. Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
100. Milk Kan – Don’t Panic
Albums
1. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback
2. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
3. Senser – How To Do Battle
4. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
5. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down
6. Therapy? – Crooked Timber
7. Art Brut – Art Brut vs Satan
8. Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit
9. Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia
10. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Duckworth-Lewis Method
11. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
12. Baddies – Do The Job
13. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
14. Metric – Fantasies
15. Future Of The Left – Travels With Myself And Another
16. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
17. Boxer Rebellion – Union
18. Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed
19. Tom Allalone and the 78s – Major Sins pt 1
20. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez
21. Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
22. Baikonour – Your Ear Knows Future
23. Hjaltalin – Sleepdrunk Sessions
24. Miike Snow – Miike Snow
25. Pale – Proper Order
26. Franz Ferdinand – Blood
27. 9bach – 9Bach
28. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran
29. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
30. Trash Monroe – Shooting From The Lips And Other Crimes Of Passion
31. Hickey Underworld – The Hickey Underworld
32. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
33. Charlotte Hatherly – New Worlds
34. Violet Violet – The City Is Full Of Beasts
35. Ungdomskulen – Bisexual
36. Trashcan Sinatras – In The Music
37. A Camp – Colonia
38. Client – Command
39. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
40. Editors – In This Light And On This Even
41. Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
42. Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
43. Sean Taylor – Calcutta Grove
44. Human Foals – Antidotes
45. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
46. Kasabian – The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
47. White Lies – To Lose My Life
48. Mika – The Boy Who Knew Too Much
49. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Fruit
A really strong line up this year, but I love the prog rock of Everything Everything, wrapped up in no pomp at all and for all the world just coming out like a regular bit of indie that we all know and love.
The Mighty Roars single is just such a great feel-good song too, and a nice video too.
After the suprising amount I played Franz Ferdinand during the first half of the year, it was edged from being the best album by some foul-mouthed young ladies from Norwich, the Brownies. Caught them live twice this year and while not groundbreaking, the music and energy is mightily refreshing.
Singles
1. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome
2. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives
3. Senser – Resistance Now
4. Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too
5. Brownies – Dance Romance
6. Fiona Bevan – Moths
7. Camera Obscura – French Navy
8. We Are The Physics – Goran Ivanisevic
9. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous
10. Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade
11. Metric – Gold Guns Girls
12. Ash – Return Of White Rabbit
13. Tom Allalone and the 78s – Sign On You Lazy Diamond
14. Hafdis Huld – Kongulo
15. Rose Elinor Dougall – Start/Stop/Synchro
16. Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordian
17. Cerys Matthews – It’s What’s Left (That Makes It Right)
18. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme
19. Cheek – Hung Up
20. Senser – Brightest Rays
21. Prodigy – Omen
22. Soft Toy Emergency – Critical
23. Kovak – I’ll Be Good To You
24. Hjaltalin – Traffic Music
25. Cerys Matthews – Arlington Way
26. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
27. Future Of The Left – Arming Eritrea
28. Joy Formidable – Whirring
29. Skunk Anansie – Tear The Place Up
30. Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
31. Franz Ferdinand – Can’t Stop Feeling
32. Choppersauraus – Boy Recesson
33. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Age Of Revolution
34. Good Shoes – The Way My Heart Beats
35. Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
36. Killed By 9V Batteries – This City Is Lit When You’re On Top Of It
37. Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words
38. Robocop Kraus – Sometimes I Wonder If You’d Been A Dog In A Previous Life
39. Department S – Wonderful Day
40. Death Of The Elephant – Trypticon
41. Silversun Pickups – Substitution
42. Surfquake – Surf And Destroy
43. Eliza – Hopeless Case
44. WeirdGear – Game
45. Hickey Underworld – Mystery Bruise
46. Everything Everything – My Keys, Your Boyfriend
47. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
48. Therapy – The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself
49. Ungdomskulen – Idunno
50. White Rose Movement – Cigarette Machine (club mix)
51. Monocle Rose – Alley Cat
52. Bleech – Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry
53. Pet Shop Boys – Love etc
54. Madness – Idiot Child
55. Pale – Stop It, I Might Like It
56. Miike Snow – Silvia
57. Maximo Park – Wraithlike
58. Pan I Am – Fire Dance
59. Delphic – Doubt
60. Muse – Uprising
61. Sicknurse – Sheepnesting
62. Le Corps Mince De Francoise – Something Golden
63. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
64. Grave Architects – The Bike Song
65. Polly Scattergood – Please Don’t Touch
66. Rakes – 1989
67. Royksopp – Happy Up Here
68. Baddies – Holler For My Holiday
69. Maximo Park – Questing Not Coasting
70. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times
71. Helmholtz Resonators – Choc’ Full of Chix
72. Pure Reason Revolution – Les Malheurs
73. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
74. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
75. Blizzards – Trust Me I’m A Doctor
76. Trash Monroe – Love Dysmorphia
77. Kabeedies – Petits Filous
78. Silversun Pickups – There’s No Secrets This Year
79. Boxer Rebellion – Evacuate
80. Charlotte Hatherley – White
81. Animal Kingdom – Tin Man
82. Simple Minds – Rockets
83. A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus
84. Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing
85. Japanese Voyeurs – Dumb
86. Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard – Roll Bus Roll
87. Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart [Raise It Up]
88. A Place To Bury Strangers – In Your Heart
89. Esser – Work It Out
90. Andy J Gallagher – Faster
91. Angry Vs The Bear – I Am Electric
92. Charlotte Hatherley – Alexander
93. Violet Violet – C-C-C-Cat
94. Editors – Papillon
95. I, Ludicrous – We’re The Support Band
96. Client – Can You Feel
97. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age
98. Le Monnier – Save Yourself
99. Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
100. Milk Kan – Don’t Panic
Albums
1. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback
2. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
3. Senser – How To Do Battle
4. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
5. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down
6. Therapy? – Crooked Timber
7. Art Brut – Art Brut vs Satan
8. Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit
9. Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia
10. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Duckworth-Lewis Method
11. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
12. Baddies – Do The Job
13. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
14. Metric – Fantasies
15. Future Of The Left – Travels With Myself And Another
16. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
17. Boxer Rebellion – Union
18. Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed
19. Tom Allalone and the 78s – Major Sins pt 1
20. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez
21. Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
22. Baikonour – Your Ear Knows Future
23. Hjaltalin – Sleepdrunk Sessions
24. Miike Snow – Miike Snow
25. Pale – Proper Order
26. Franz Ferdinand – Blood
27. 9bach – 9Bach
28. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran
29. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
30. Trash Monroe – Shooting From The Lips And Other Crimes Of Passion
31. Hickey Underworld – The Hickey Underworld
32. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
33. Charlotte Hatherly – New Worlds
34. Violet Violet – The City Is Full Of Beasts
35. Ungdomskulen – Bisexual
36. Trashcan Sinatras – In The Music
37. A Camp – Colonia
38. Client – Command
39. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
40. Editors – In This Light And On This Even
41. Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
42. Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
43. Sean Taylor – Calcutta Grove
44. Human Foals – Antidotes
45. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
46. Kasabian – The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
47. White Lies – To Lose My Life
48. Mika – The Boy Who Knew Too Much
49. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Fruit
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Exclusive: Queen (person, not band) is “bo-ring”
From Chortle
The comedian behind inept DJ Ivan Brackenbury has been fired from a genuine radio station – after interrupting the Queen’s speech with a gag.
Tom Binns was sacked by the Midlands-based Orion Media after pulling the plug on the royal Christmas broadcast and saying on air: ‘Two words: Bor-ing.’
A couple of listeners complained – including one who made a death threat – which was enough for bosses to give Binns the boot.
However, the group of stations, which includes BRMB in Birmingham and Mercia in Coventry, was never meant to broadcast the Queen’s message in the first place.
Binns told Chortle: “blah blah” (best read it on the link I think).
Good of his employer to sack him for keeping to the schedule.
I think you have to admire the courage of his convictions as well as his sheer stupidity. As someone who dabbles in radio broadcasting from time to time, and who is OF COURSE professional at all times, I should be rubbing my hands with glee saying “ha! Another idiot bites the dust!” but I just can’t quite seem to this time for some reason.
I think Mercia is a great name for a radio station too. I have visions of guys in full Anglo-Saxon battle gear trying to get their headphones on over their big horny helmets.
The comedian behind inept DJ Ivan Brackenbury has been fired from a genuine radio station – after interrupting the Queen’s speech with a gag.
Tom Binns was sacked by the Midlands-based Orion Media after pulling the plug on the royal Christmas broadcast and saying on air: ‘Two words: Bor-ing.’
A couple of listeners complained – including one who made a death threat – which was enough for bosses to give Binns the boot.
However, the group of stations, which includes BRMB in Birmingham and Mercia in Coventry, was never meant to broadcast the Queen’s message in the first place.
Binns told Chortle: “blah blah” (best read it on the link I think).
Good of his employer to sack him for keeping to the schedule.
I think you have to admire the courage of his convictions as well as his sheer stupidity. As someone who dabbles in radio broadcasting from time to time, and who is OF COURSE professional at all times, I should be rubbing my hands with glee saying “ha! Another idiot bites the dust!” but I just can’t quite seem to this time for some reason.
I think Mercia is a great name for a radio station too. I have visions of guys in full Anglo-Saxon battle gear trying to get their headphones on over their big horny helmets.
Monday, 7 December 2009
Katy Perry singing I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
Rather badly too, it would appear …
PRETTYBUBBLES by katyperry
Everyone knows it’s “United! (clap clap clap) United! (clap clap clap)” and not “United! (clap clap) United! (clap clap)”
I particularly liked the comment on one of the West Ham message board which ran along the lines of .. “Suicide seems more tempting than listening to this shower again. One of the most cringeworthy moments in the history of humankind when she unleashed the “United” (clap clap) crap at the end.” The poster then gave it a very generous 7.5 out of 10. Probably because this is still fresh in West Ham fans’ minds?
PRETTYBUBBLES by katyperry
Everyone knows it’s “United! (clap clap clap) United! (clap clap clap)” and not “United! (clap clap) United! (clap clap)”
I particularly liked the comment on one of the West Ham message board which ran along the lines of .. “Suicide seems more tempting than listening to this shower again. One of the most cringeworthy moments in the history of humankind when she unleashed the “United” (clap clap) crap at the end.” The poster then gave it a very generous 7.5 out of 10. Probably because this is still fresh in West Ham fans’ minds?
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Singles and albums of the year – 2008
I originally wrote both of these lists in December 2008.
I still can’t split number 1 and number 2 – I think I tossed a coin and I still would now.
Can’t really argue very much with the general order right now. I think I might have put Lights Out For Darker Skies a bit higher.
Hera Hjartardottir’s Feels So Good is just a beautiful pop song. I was in Reykjavik in the summer when the thermometer was touching a ridiculous 29 deg C (84F). She sang this song in the main park outside the Town Hall, which was full of sunbathers, and it was shown on the evening news programme which I watched while drowning myself in Icelandic beer which I had to buy from a special shop (there is only two places in the whole city where you can buy alcohol).
There’s one other Icelandic band – FM Belfast – who I didn’t discover until 2009. Their June 2008 release “Lotus” – a cover version of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” – has to be one of the best covers of all time. Here’s a clip of the song performed live at the Sirkus club, al fresco. (Or just Google their Myspace to hear the whole track).
One other song I didn’t find until 2009 which should have been in this list – Baikonour’s excellent Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme. I think that just means a version of “Oben Beg” recorded for CBC in Canada. Mr Baikonour himself isn’t from the old Soviet space launchpad from whence he is named, but a French guy living in Brighton (where else).
The British Sea Power album was a big breath of fresh air. I think it might have been the last CD I bought in a record shop too, two years ago now! Pretty harsh to keep an excellent album from Young Knives from the top.
Singles
1. Sons and Daughters – Darling
2. Manda Rin – DNA
3. Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat
4. Hot Puppies – Clarinet Town
5. Rosie and the Goldbug – War Of The Roses (Because You Said So)
6. Amanda Palmer – Leeds United
7. Foals – Red Socks Pugie
8. Hera Hjartardottir – Feels So Good
9. Robots In Disguise – We’re In The Music Biz
10. Young Knives – Counters
11. Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning
12. Late Of The Pier – Heartbeat
13. Boys In A Band – Black Diamond Train
14. Dandy Warhols – The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty
15. Absent Kid – Retaliate First
16. B-52’s – Funplex
17. Das Pop – Underground
18. Ting Tings – Great DJ
19. Fields – Are You Ready Yet
20. British Sea Power – Lights Out For Darker Skies
21. Your Friends Are Architects – Figure
22. Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
23. Future Of The Left – Manchasm
24. Foals – Cassius
25. Housse de Racket – Oh Yeah!
26. Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked
27. Friendly Fires – Paris
28. We Are Scientists – Chick Lit
29. Prince Edward Island – It’s All Over Bar The Shouting
30. Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man. – Fatherhood
31. Jenny Owen Youngs – Hot In Herre
32. Chris T-T – Where Were You?
33. Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer (Part 1)
34. Ipso Facto – Six & Three Quarters
35. British Sea Power – No Lucifer
36. Beck – Gamma Ray
37. Automatic – Steve McQueen
38. Asobi Seksu – Me & Mary
39. Sigur Rós – Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
40. Utah Saints – Something Good 08 (Van She tech remix)
41. Matt Trakker – Hypathetic
42. Howling Bells – Into The Chaos
43. Future Of The Left – The Hope That House Built
44. Bloc Party – Halo
45. Parlotones – Here Comes The Man
46. Prince Edward Island – Partlife
47. Stars and Sons – In The Ocean
48. Vicky Pollard – Tender Demand
49. Bloodgroup – Hips Again
50. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Around The Bend
51. Dirty Royals – I’m In Love
52. Long Blondes – Century
53. Mystery Jets – Hand Me Down
54. Nancy – Keep Cooler
55. Frank Turner – Reasons Not To Be An Idiot
56. Chris T-T – This Gun Is Not A Gun
57. British Sea Power – Canvey Island
58. Bertrand Soulier – L’ABCD
59. Stereolab – Fractal Dream Of A Thing
60. Ten Tigers – Superlucky
61. Glam Chops – Tell Us Are You Ready Eddie
62. Candy And The Raincloud – In It
63. Jyrojets – Dead On Arrival
64. Fight Like Apes – Something Global
65. Landon – Only 20
66. Poppy and the Jezebels – UFO
67. Vileevils – Fucking & Fighting
68. (International) Noise Conspiracy – I Am The Dynamite
69. Charlatans – Oh! Vanity
70. I, Ludicrous – Argument In The Laundrette
71. Kaiser Chiefs – Good Days Bad Days
72. Thirst – My Everything
73. Pigeon Detectives – This Is An Emergency
74. Ra Ra Riot – Suspended In Gaffa
75. Jessica Fletchers – Downtown
76. Colin MacIntyre – Stalker
77. Coldplay – Violet Hill
78. Choir Of Young Believers – Action/Reaction
79. Yeasayer – 2080
80. Jameson – Small Terraced Town
81. Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me
82. Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
83. Futureheads – Radio Heart
84. Jake Shillingford – You Can’t Uneat The Apple
85. Sara Bareilles – Love Song
86. Rosalita – What Would Your Mother Say
87. Serj Tankian – Empty Walls
88. Grenville Harrop – Make Believe
89. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Epic Last Song
90. Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip – Look For The Woman
91. Subways – Alright
92. Neon Neon – Dream Cars
93. Lionheart Brothers – 50 Souls And A Discobowl
94. Beautiful Life – Ritalin Boy
95. V Major – Filth
96. Detektivbyran – Partyland
97. Cling – Groovyshoes
98. XX Teens – Only You
99. dEUS – Slow
100. Grates – Burn Bridges
Albums
1. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Young Knives – Superabundance
3. Foals – Antidotes
4. Chris T-T – Capital
5. Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
6. Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
7. Stereolab – Chemical Chords
8. Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads
9. Bloc Party – Intimacy
10. Jake Shillingford – Written Large
11. Choir Of Young Believers – This Is For The White In Your Eyes
12. Charlatans – You Cross My Path
13. Hot Puppies – Blue Hands
14. Thirst – On The Brink
15. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
16. Long Blondes – Couples
17. Los Campesinos – Hold On Now, Youngster
18. Mystery Jets – Twenty One
19. (International) Noise Conspiracy – The Cross Of My Calling
20. Subways – All Or Nothing
21. B-52’s – Funplex
22. Forward Russia – Life Processes
23. Robots In Disguise – We’re In The Music Biz
24. Neon Neon – Stainless Style
25. Detektivbyran – Wermland
26. Fireman – Electric Arguments
I still can’t split number 1 and number 2 – I think I tossed a coin and I still would now.
Can’t really argue very much with the general order right now. I think I might have put Lights Out For Darker Skies a bit higher.
Hera Hjartardottir’s Feels So Good is just a beautiful pop song. I was in Reykjavik in the summer when the thermometer was touching a ridiculous 29 deg C (84F). She sang this song in the main park outside the Town Hall, which was full of sunbathers, and it was shown on the evening news programme which I watched while drowning myself in Icelandic beer which I had to buy from a special shop (there is only two places in the whole city where you can buy alcohol).
There’s one other Icelandic band – FM Belfast – who I didn’t discover until 2009. Their June 2008 release “Lotus” – a cover version of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” – has to be one of the best covers of all time. Here’s a clip of the song performed live at the Sirkus club, al fresco. (Or just Google their Myspace to hear the whole track).
One other song I didn’t find until 2009 which should have been in this list – Baikonour’s excellent Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme. I think that just means a version of “Oben Beg” recorded for CBC in Canada. Mr Baikonour himself isn’t from the old Soviet space launchpad from whence he is named, but a French guy living in Brighton (where else).
The British Sea Power album was a big breath of fresh air. I think it might have been the last CD I bought in a record shop too, two years ago now! Pretty harsh to keep an excellent album from Young Knives from the top.
Singles
1. Sons and Daughters – Darling
2. Manda Rin – DNA
3. Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat
4. Hot Puppies – Clarinet Town
5. Rosie and the Goldbug – War Of The Roses (Because You Said So)
6. Amanda Palmer – Leeds United
7. Foals – Red Socks Pugie
8. Hera Hjartardottir – Feels So Good
9. Robots In Disguise – We’re In The Music Biz
10. Young Knives – Counters
11. Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning
12. Late Of The Pier – Heartbeat
13. Boys In A Band – Black Diamond Train
14. Dandy Warhols – The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty
15. Absent Kid – Retaliate First
16. B-52’s – Funplex
17. Das Pop – Underground
18. Ting Tings – Great DJ
19. Fields – Are You Ready Yet
20. British Sea Power – Lights Out For Darker Skies
21. Your Friends Are Architects – Figure
22. Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
23. Future Of The Left – Manchasm
24. Foals – Cassius
25. Housse de Racket – Oh Yeah!
26. Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked
27. Friendly Fires – Paris
28. We Are Scientists – Chick Lit
29. Prince Edward Island – It’s All Over Bar The Shouting
30. Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man. – Fatherhood
31. Jenny Owen Youngs – Hot In Herre
32. Chris T-T – Where Were You?
33. Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer (Part 1)
34. Ipso Facto – Six & Three Quarters
35. British Sea Power – No Lucifer
36. Beck – Gamma Ray
37. Automatic – Steve McQueen
38. Asobi Seksu – Me & Mary
39. Sigur Rós – Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
40. Utah Saints – Something Good 08 (Van She tech remix)
41. Matt Trakker – Hypathetic
42. Howling Bells – Into The Chaos
43. Future Of The Left – The Hope That House Built
44. Bloc Party – Halo
45. Parlotones – Here Comes The Man
46. Prince Edward Island – Partlife
47. Stars and Sons – In The Ocean
48. Vicky Pollard – Tender Demand
49. Bloodgroup – Hips Again
50. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Around The Bend
51. Dirty Royals – I’m In Love
52. Long Blondes – Century
53. Mystery Jets – Hand Me Down
54. Nancy – Keep Cooler
55. Frank Turner – Reasons Not To Be An Idiot
56. Chris T-T – This Gun Is Not A Gun
57. British Sea Power – Canvey Island
58. Bertrand Soulier – L’ABCD
59. Stereolab – Fractal Dream Of A Thing
60. Ten Tigers – Superlucky
61. Glam Chops – Tell Us Are You Ready Eddie
62. Candy And The Raincloud – In It
63. Jyrojets – Dead On Arrival
64. Fight Like Apes – Something Global
65. Landon – Only 20
66. Poppy and the Jezebels – UFO
67. Vileevils – Fucking & Fighting
68. (International) Noise Conspiracy – I Am The Dynamite
69. Charlatans – Oh! Vanity
70. I, Ludicrous – Argument In The Laundrette
71. Kaiser Chiefs – Good Days Bad Days
72. Thirst – My Everything
73. Pigeon Detectives – This Is An Emergency
74. Ra Ra Riot – Suspended In Gaffa
75. Jessica Fletchers – Downtown
76. Colin MacIntyre – Stalker
77. Coldplay – Violet Hill
78. Choir Of Young Believers – Action/Reaction
79. Yeasayer – 2080
80. Jameson – Small Terraced Town
81. Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me
82. Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
83. Futureheads – Radio Heart
84. Jake Shillingford – You Can’t Uneat The Apple
85. Sara Bareilles – Love Song
86. Rosalita – What Would Your Mother Say
87. Serj Tankian – Empty Walls
88. Grenville Harrop – Make Believe
89. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Epic Last Song
90. Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip – Look For The Woman
91. Subways – Alright
92. Neon Neon – Dream Cars
93. Lionheart Brothers – 50 Souls And A Discobowl
94. Beautiful Life – Ritalin Boy
95. V Major – Filth
96. Detektivbyran – Partyland
97. Cling – Groovyshoes
98. XX Teens – Only You
99. dEUS – Slow
100. Grates – Burn Bridges
Albums
1. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Young Knives – Superabundance
3. Foals – Antidotes
4. Chris T-T – Capital
5. Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
6. Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
7. Stereolab – Chemical Chords
8. Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads
9. Bloc Party – Intimacy
10. Jake Shillingford – Written Large
11. Choir Of Young Believers – This Is For The White In Your Eyes
12. Charlatans – You Cross My Path
13. Hot Puppies – Blue Hands
14. Thirst – On The Brink
15. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
16. Long Blondes – Couples
17. Los Campesinos – Hold On Now, Youngster
18. Mystery Jets – Twenty One
19. (International) Noise Conspiracy – The Cross Of My Calling
20. Subways – All Or Nothing
21. B-52’s – Funplex
22. Forward Russia – Life Processes
23. Robots In Disguise – We’re In The Music Biz
24. Neon Neon – Stainless Style
25. Detektivbyran – Wermland
26. Fireman – Electric Arguments
Monday, 31 December 2007
Singles and albums of the year – 2007
I originally wrote the singles lists in December 2007 and I am sure I did an albums list at that time too but I can’t find it so I’ve done it again. (That was in Dec 2009, when I wrote this page for my old blog).
A great top 10 but I might have been able to squeeze some more songs into it if 10 wasn’t a finite number – songs like these:
11. Maximo Park – Our Velocity
12. Metronomy – Hear To Wear
15. Art Brut – St Pauli
16. Dead 60s – Stand Up
17. Detektivbyrån – Nattöppet
18. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them – The Unstoppable Kite
19. Mike Flowers Pops – Talk
21. Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres
22. múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes
23. Hot Puppies – King Of England
24. James Yuill – This Sweet Love
30. Chumbawamba – Add Me
31. Tunng – Bullets
35. Bird and the Bee – Again & Again
37. Fighting Cocks – The Little Goats’ Big Night Out
49. Marc Almond – Kitsch
50. Art Brut – Direct Hit
Art Brut quite possibly would be in my top 2, not hindered by a nice trip to the football stadium and a drinking session in the Jolly Roger pub (a bar for old punks) that I enjoyed in St Pauli in June 2009.
Radiohead’s return to excellence is well documented and I feel mightily aggrieved for volunteering four squid of my valuable coinage to pay for the download.
Singles
1. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill
2. Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
3. Young Knives – Terra Firma
4. New Young Pony Club – The Bomb
5. Blood Red Shoes – It’s Getting Boring By The Sea
6. Bloc Party – Flux
7. Sultans of Ping – Girlwatchin’
8. Baddies – Battleships
9. Twang – Wide Awake
10. Manic Street Preachers feat Nina Persson – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
11. Maximo Park – Our Velocity
12. Metronomy – Hear To Wear
13. Turin Brakes – Stalker
14. Pigeon Detectives – I’m Not Sorry
15. Art Brut – St Pauli
16. Dead 60s – Stand Up
17. Detektivbyrån – Nattöppet
18. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them – The Unstoppable Kite
19. Mike Flowers Pops – Talk
20. Operator Please – Leave It Alone
21. Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres
22. múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes
23. Hot Puppies – King Of England
24. James Yuill – This Sweet Love
25. Cerys Matthews – Awyrennau
26. Pony Up – The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die)
27. Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do
28. Mark Ronson – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
29. British Sea Power – Atom
30. Chumbawamba – Add Me
31. Tunng – Bullets
32. Asobi Seksu – Thursday
33. Koopa – The Crash
34. Untitled Musical Project – The People Versus Michael Miller
35. Bird and the Bee – Again & Again
36. Fields – Charming The Flames
37. Fighting Cocks – The Little Goats’ Big Night Out
38. Minus the Bear – Knights
39. Editors – The Racing Rats
40. New Young Pony Club – Get Lucky
41. Ash – You Can’t Have It All
42. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Catch You
43. Hives – Tick Tick Boom
44. Jakobinarina – His Lyrics Are Disastrous
45. Babyshambles – Delivery
46. Twang – Either Way
47. Fratellis – Baby Fratelli
48. Kate Nash – Foundations
49. Marc Almond – Kitsch
50. Art Brut – Direct Hit
51. Eliza – Change My Name
52. Tim Ten Yen – Girl Number One
53. Dinosaur Jr – Crumble
54. Kaiser Chiefs – The Angry Mob
55. Milk Kan – Here You Come Again And Again
56. Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye
57. Idlewild – No Emotion
58. Julian Cope – You Got A Problem With Me
59. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
60. Clean George IV – Wasted On The Radio
61. Client – Drive
62. iLiKETRAiNS – The Deception
63. Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad – Genni’s Song
64. Gallon Drunk – Grand Union Canal
65. We Start Fires – Play You
66. Charlatans – You Cross My Path
67. Maccabees – Precious Time
68. Beatsteaks – Jane Becomes Insane
69. Republic Of Heaven – West Country Witch
70. Cribs – Our Bovine Public
71. Feist – 1234
72. Good Shoes – Never Meant To Hurt You
73. Kate Nash – Mouthwash
74. Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars
75. Brakes – Beatific Visions
76. Bees – Who Cares What The Question Is
77. Editors – The End Has A Start
78. Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A
79. Kat Frankie – The Tops
80. Reverend & The Makers – He Said He Loved Me
81. Robocop Kraus – Waiting Above The Ocean
82. Wojtek Godzisz – The Moon And The Yew Tree
83. Soft Hearted Scientists – Eyes
84. Rakes – When Tom Cruise Cries
85. Electric Soft Parade – Appropriate Ending
86. Pigeon Detectives – Take Her Back
87. Sohodolls – Right And Right Again
88. Headlines – Takeover
89. Meat Puppets – Disappear
90. MJ Hibbett – My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
91. Bjork – Earth Intruders
92. Fast Computers – Sweden Hasn’t Changed, You Have
93. Polly Scattergood – Nitrogen Pink
94. Liars – Plaster Casts Of Everything
95. Cymbient – Dress The Salad
96. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – The Beat That My Heart Skipped
97. Envelopes – Life On The Beach
98. Belisha – Who’s A Clever Boy
99. 12 Stone Toddler – Candles On The Cake
100. Battant – Kevin (1989)
Albums
1. Radiohead – In Rainbows
2. New Young Pony Club – Fantastic Playroom
3. Art Brut – It’s A Bit Complicated
4. Untitled Musical Project – Untitled Musical Project
5. Twang – Love It When I Feel Like This
6. Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures
7. Hybrasil – The Monkey Pole
8. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
9. Elíza – Empire Fall
10. Abdoujaparov – Cycle Riot History Gang
11. Fighting Cocks – Music For Lapdancers
12. Fields – Everything Last Winter
13. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
14. Mark Ronson – Version
15. múm – Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
16. S*M*A*S*H – Icon
17. iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt
18. Minus The Bear – Planet Of Ice
19. Robocop Kraus – Blunders And Mistakes
20. Jakobínarína – The First Crusade
A great top 10 but I might have been able to squeeze some more songs into it if 10 wasn’t a finite number – songs like these:
11. Maximo Park – Our Velocity
12. Metronomy – Hear To Wear
15. Art Brut – St Pauli
16. Dead 60s – Stand Up
17. Detektivbyrån – Nattöppet
18. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them – The Unstoppable Kite
19. Mike Flowers Pops – Talk
21. Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres
22. múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes
23. Hot Puppies – King Of England
24. James Yuill – This Sweet Love
30. Chumbawamba – Add Me
31. Tunng – Bullets
35. Bird and the Bee – Again & Again
37. Fighting Cocks – The Little Goats’ Big Night Out
49. Marc Almond – Kitsch
50. Art Brut – Direct Hit
Art Brut quite possibly would be in my top 2, not hindered by a nice trip to the football stadium and a drinking session in the Jolly Roger pub (a bar for old punks) that I enjoyed in St Pauli in June 2009.
Radiohead’s return to excellence is well documented and I feel mightily aggrieved for volunteering four squid of my valuable coinage to pay for the download.
Singles
1. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill
2. Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
3. Young Knives – Terra Firma
4. New Young Pony Club – The Bomb
5. Blood Red Shoes – It’s Getting Boring By The Sea
6. Bloc Party – Flux
7. Sultans of Ping – Girlwatchin’
8. Baddies – Battleships
9. Twang – Wide Awake
10. Manic Street Preachers feat Nina Persson – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
11. Maximo Park – Our Velocity
12. Metronomy – Hear To Wear
13. Turin Brakes – Stalker
14. Pigeon Detectives – I’m Not Sorry
15. Art Brut – St Pauli
16. Dead 60s – Stand Up
17. Detektivbyrån – Nattöppet
18. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them – The Unstoppable Kite
19. Mike Flowers Pops – Talk
20. Operator Please – Leave It Alone
21. Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres
22. múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes
23. Hot Puppies – King Of England
24. James Yuill – This Sweet Love
25. Cerys Matthews – Awyrennau
26. Pony Up – The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die)
27. Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do
28. Mark Ronson – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
29. British Sea Power – Atom
30. Chumbawamba – Add Me
31. Tunng – Bullets
32. Asobi Seksu – Thursday
33. Koopa – The Crash
34. Untitled Musical Project – The People Versus Michael Miller
35. Bird and the Bee – Again & Again
36. Fields – Charming The Flames
37. Fighting Cocks – The Little Goats’ Big Night Out
38. Minus the Bear – Knights
39. Editors – The Racing Rats
40. New Young Pony Club – Get Lucky
41. Ash – You Can’t Have It All
42. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Catch You
43. Hives – Tick Tick Boom
44. Jakobinarina – His Lyrics Are Disastrous
45. Babyshambles – Delivery
46. Twang – Either Way
47. Fratellis – Baby Fratelli
48. Kate Nash – Foundations
49. Marc Almond – Kitsch
50. Art Brut – Direct Hit
51. Eliza – Change My Name
52. Tim Ten Yen – Girl Number One
53. Dinosaur Jr – Crumble
54. Kaiser Chiefs – The Angry Mob
55. Milk Kan – Here You Come Again And Again
56. Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye
57. Idlewild – No Emotion
58. Julian Cope – You Got A Problem With Me
59. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
60. Clean George IV – Wasted On The Radio
61. Client – Drive
62. iLiKETRAiNS – The Deception
63. Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad – Genni’s Song
64. Gallon Drunk – Grand Union Canal
65. We Start Fires – Play You
66. Charlatans – You Cross My Path
67. Maccabees – Precious Time
68. Beatsteaks – Jane Becomes Insane
69. Republic Of Heaven – West Country Witch
70. Cribs – Our Bovine Public
71. Feist – 1234
72. Good Shoes – Never Meant To Hurt You
73. Kate Nash – Mouthwash
74. Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars
75. Brakes – Beatific Visions
76. Bees – Who Cares What The Question Is
77. Editors – The End Has A Start
78. Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A
79. Kat Frankie – The Tops
80. Reverend & The Makers – He Said He Loved Me
81. Robocop Kraus – Waiting Above The Ocean
82. Wojtek Godzisz – The Moon And The Yew Tree
83. Soft Hearted Scientists – Eyes
84. Rakes – When Tom Cruise Cries
85. Electric Soft Parade – Appropriate Ending
86. Pigeon Detectives – Take Her Back
87. Sohodolls – Right And Right Again
88. Headlines – Takeover
89. Meat Puppets – Disappear
90. MJ Hibbett – My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
91. Bjork – Earth Intruders
92. Fast Computers – Sweden Hasn’t Changed, You Have
93. Polly Scattergood – Nitrogen Pink
94. Liars – Plaster Casts Of Everything
95. Cymbient – Dress The Salad
96. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – The Beat That My Heart Skipped
97. Envelopes – Life On The Beach
98. Belisha – Who’s A Clever Boy
99. 12 Stone Toddler – Candles On The Cake
100. Battant – Kevin (1989)
Albums
1. Radiohead – In Rainbows
2. New Young Pony Club – Fantastic Playroom
3. Art Brut – It’s A Bit Complicated
4. Untitled Musical Project – Untitled Musical Project
5. Twang – Love It When I Feel Like This
6. Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures
7. Hybrasil – The Monkey Pole
8. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
9. Elíza – Empire Fall
10. Abdoujaparov – Cycle Riot History Gang
11. Fighting Cocks – Music For Lapdancers
12. Fields – Everything Last Winter
13. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
14. Mark Ronson – Version
15. múm – Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
16. S*M*A*S*H – Icon
17. iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt
18. Minus The Bear – Planet Of Ice
19. Robocop Kraus – Blunders And Mistakes
20. Jakobínarína – The First Crusade
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Singles and albums of the year – 2006
I originally wrote both singles and albums lists in December 2006.
As we get nearer the current day I’ve got less room for maneouvre regarding changing the order of the songs. I was, however, a bit gutted that Alex James and Betty Boo’s WigWam never really took off. Here’s the video to the song, unsuprisingly produced by Dom Joly:
On the album front it was brilliant to see Dave Couse back with his best work since A House’s 1991 classic “I Am The Greatest”. The new band pretty much sounds like A House too, double bonus mega win!
Singles
1. Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag
2. Metric – Poster Of A Girl
3. Young Knives – Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
4. New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
5. Long Blondes – Weekend Without Makeup
6. Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes
7. Blood Arm – Suspicious Character
8. Automatic – Recover
9. Hot Puppies – The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful
10. Rakes – All Too Human
11. White Rose Movement – Girls In The Back
12. CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
13. Feeling – Fill My Little World
14. Mystery Jets – Diamonds In The Dark
15. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – The Gay Train
16. Mama Shamone – Over
17. Young Knives – Here Comes The Rumour Mill
18. Grates – 19-20-20
19. WigWam – WigWam
20. Modern – Industry
21. Celeste – Nothing In The Sky (With Diamonds)
22. Long Blondes – Once And Never Again
23. Feeling – Sewn
24. Divine Comedy – Diva Lady
25. Mystery Jets – The Boy Who Ran Away
26. Peter, Bjorn and John with Victoria Bergstrom – Young Folks
27. Divine Comedy – Lady Of A Certain Age
28. Lostprophets – A Town Called Hypocrisy
29. Snow Patrol – You’re All I Have
30. Automatic – Monster
31. Divine Comedy – To Die A Virgin
32. Feeling – Never Be Lonely
33. Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
34. Larrikin Love – Happy As Annie
35. iLiKETRAiNS – Terra Nova
36. Vatican DC – Wow
37. Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen
38. Others – The Truth That Hurts
39. LT United – We Are the Winners
40. Be Your Own Pet – Adventure
41. Fields – Song From The Fields
42. A-Ha – Analogue
43. Pink Grease – Carlights
44. iDou – Perfect Hands For Basketball
45. Ooberman – Crashing Ellipticals
46. Crimea – Lottery Winners On Acid
47. Young Knives – She’s Attracted To
48. Boy Kill Boy – Suzie
49. Cardigans – Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)
50. Kasabian – Empire
51. Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger
52. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
53. Sugababes – Easy
54. Polysics – Electric Surfin Go Go
55. Data Panik – Rulers and the States
56. Subliminal Girls – Burn Koko
57. ¡Forward, Russia! – Twelve
58. Upper Room – All Over This Town
59. Dirty Pretty Things – Wondering
60. Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla
61. CSS – Alala
62. Frank and Walters – Miles and Miles
63. Jim Noir – Key Of C
64. Boy Kill Boy – Civil Sin
65. I’m From Barcelona – We’re From Barcelona
66. Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames – Signal Noise
67. Keane – Is It Any Wonder?
68. Sparks – Perfume
69. Hard-Fi – Better Do Better
70. Kaiser Chiefs – Modern Way
71. S*M*A*S*H – All By Myself
72. Sean Lennon – Dead Meat
73. Futureheads – Area
74. Rifles – Repeated Offender
75. Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
76. Belle and Sebastian – Funny Little Frog
77. Coldplay – Talk
78. Queens Of The Stone Age – Burn The Witch
79. ¡Forward, Russia! – Eighteen
80. Editors – Munich
81. Kooks – Naïve
82. Protocol – Where’s The Pleasure?
83. Automatic – Raoul
84. Juliette and the Licks – Hot Kiss
85. Keane – Crystal Ball
86. Lostprophets – Rooftops (Liberation Broadcast)
87. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
88. Supergrass – Fin
89. Hope Of The States – Sing It Out
90. Delays – Valentine
91. Editors – Blood
92. Imogen Heap – Headlock
93. Knife – Silent Shout
94. Zutons – Valerie
95. Bluetones – My Neighbour’s House
96. Futureheads – Skip To The End
97. Howling Bells – Setting Sun
98. Hybrasil – When I’m Yawning
99. Sunshine Underground – Commercial Breakdown
100. Sunshine Underground – I Ain’t Losing Any Sleep
Albums
1. Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
2. Young Knives – Voices Of Animals And Men
3. Couse and the Impossible – The World Should Know
4. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate!
5. Divine Comedy – Victory For The Common Muse
6. Others – Inward Parts
7. Mystery Jets – Making Dens
8. Ooberman – Carried Away
9. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon
10. ¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me A Wall
11. Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High
12. Fratellis – Costello Music
13. Simple Kid – SK2
14. Jarvis – Jarvis
15. Easy Star All*Stars – Radiodread
16. Keane – Under The Iron Sea
17. Feeling – Twelve Stops And Home
18. Delays – You See Colours
19. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
20. Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
As we get nearer the current day I’ve got less room for maneouvre regarding changing the order of the songs. I was, however, a bit gutted that Alex James and Betty Boo’s WigWam never really took off. Here’s the video to the song, unsuprisingly produced by Dom Joly:
On the album front it was brilliant to see Dave Couse back with his best work since A House’s 1991 classic “I Am The Greatest”. The new band pretty much sounds like A House too, double bonus mega win!
Singles
1. Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag
2. Metric – Poster Of A Girl
3. Young Knives – Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
4. New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
5. Long Blondes – Weekend Without Makeup
6. Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes
7. Blood Arm – Suspicious Character
8. Automatic – Recover
9. Hot Puppies – The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful
10. Rakes – All Too Human
11. White Rose Movement – Girls In The Back
12. CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
13. Feeling – Fill My Little World
14. Mystery Jets – Diamonds In The Dark
15. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – The Gay Train
16. Mama Shamone – Over
17. Young Knives – Here Comes The Rumour Mill
18. Grates – 19-20-20
19. WigWam – WigWam
20. Modern – Industry
21. Celeste – Nothing In The Sky (With Diamonds)
22. Long Blondes – Once And Never Again
23. Feeling – Sewn
24. Divine Comedy – Diva Lady
25. Mystery Jets – The Boy Who Ran Away
26. Peter, Bjorn and John with Victoria Bergstrom – Young Folks
27. Divine Comedy – Lady Of A Certain Age
28. Lostprophets – A Town Called Hypocrisy
29. Snow Patrol – You’re All I Have
30. Automatic – Monster
31. Divine Comedy – To Die A Virgin
32. Feeling – Never Be Lonely
33. Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
34. Larrikin Love – Happy As Annie
35. iLiKETRAiNS – Terra Nova
36. Vatican DC – Wow
37. Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen
38. Others – The Truth That Hurts
39. LT United – We Are the Winners
40. Be Your Own Pet – Adventure
41. Fields – Song From The Fields
42. A-Ha – Analogue
43. Pink Grease – Carlights
44. iDou – Perfect Hands For Basketball
45. Ooberman – Crashing Ellipticals
46. Crimea – Lottery Winners On Acid
47. Young Knives – She’s Attracted To
48. Boy Kill Boy – Suzie
49. Cardigans – Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)
50. Kasabian – Empire
51. Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger
52. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
53. Sugababes – Easy
54. Polysics – Electric Surfin Go Go
55. Data Panik – Rulers and the States
56. Subliminal Girls – Burn Koko
57. ¡Forward, Russia! – Twelve
58. Upper Room – All Over This Town
59. Dirty Pretty Things – Wondering
60. Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla
61. CSS – Alala
62. Frank and Walters – Miles and Miles
63. Jim Noir – Key Of C
64. Boy Kill Boy – Civil Sin
65. I’m From Barcelona – We’re From Barcelona
66. Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames – Signal Noise
67. Keane – Is It Any Wonder?
68. Sparks – Perfume
69. Hard-Fi – Better Do Better
70. Kaiser Chiefs – Modern Way
71. S*M*A*S*H – All By Myself
72. Sean Lennon – Dead Meat
73. Futureheads – Area
74. Rifles – Repeated Offender
75. Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
76. Belle and Sebastian – Funny Little Frog
77. Coldplay – Talk
78. Queens Of The Stone Age – Burn The Witch
79. ¡Forward, Russia! – Eighteen
80. Editors – Munich
81. Kooks – Naïve
82. Protocol – Where’s The Pleasure?
83. Automatic – Raoul
84. Juliette and the Licks – Hot Kiss
85. Keane – Crystal Ball
86. Lostprophets – Rooftops (Liberation Broadcast)
87. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
88. Supergrass – Fin
89. Hope Of The States – Sing It Out
90. Delays – Valentine
91. Editors – Blood
92. Imogen Heap – Headlock
93. Knife – Silent Shout
94. Zutons – Valerie
95. Bluetones – My Neighbour’s House
96. Futureheads – Skip To The End
97. Howling Bells – Setting Sun
98. Hybrasil – When I’m Yawning
99. Sunshine Underground – Commercial Breakdown
100. Sunshine Underground – I Ain’t Losing Any Sleep
Albums
1. Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
2. Young Knives – Voices Of Animals And Men
3. Couse and the Impossible – The World Should Know
4. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate!
5. Divine Comedy – Victory For The Common Muse
6. Others – Inward Parts
7. Mystery Jets – Making Dens
8. Ooberman – Carried Away
9. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon
10. ¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me A Wall
11. Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High
12. Fratellis – Costello Music
13. Simple Kid – SK2
14. Jarvis – Jarvis
15. Easy Star All*Stars – Radiodread
16. Keane – Under The Iron Sea
17. Feeling – Twelve Stops And Home
18. Delays – You See Colours
19. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
20. Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
Saturday, 31 December 2005
Singles and albums of the year – 2005
I originally wrote both singles and albums lists in December 2005.
Possibly the best year of the decade, a lot of really strong singles showing and all 20 of the albums listed could have been in any other year’s top 10. Good year for music all round as one of the impossibles was achieved, the reformation of the Sultans of Ping in November, and what’s more they played in Grays, just down the road to me! And what’s MORE, I MADE IT HAPPEN (yadda, yadda, true).
One of the great little gems of the year was from an unsigned Boston band who winged a CD my way, Aberdeen City.
Really hard for me to jiggle the places around with one obvious exception, this song (and video!) should have been much nearer the top.
Singles
1. Mystery Jets – You Can’t Fool Me Dennis
2. Bloc Party – Banquet
3. Maximo Park – Apply Some Pressure
4. Robocop Kraus – Small Houses Odd Cars
5. Futureheads – Hounds Of Love
6. Others – Lackey
7. Young Knives – The Decision
8. Rakes – Retreat
9. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – Never Going Back To Aldi’s
10. Kate Bush – Mrs Bartolozzi
11. Data Panik – Cubis
12. Kaiser Chiefs – Modern Way
13. Rulers Of The Planet – Backbencher
14. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
15. We Are Scientists – Great Escape
16. ¡Forward, Russia! – Thirteen
17. Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Heading For A Breakdown
18. Madness – I Chase the Devil AKA Ironshirt
19. Gorillaz – Dare
20. Aberdeen City – God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me
21. Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To?
22. Beauty Shop – Monster
23. Test-Icicles – Circle Square Triangle
24. Rakes – 22 Grand Job
25. British Sea Power – It Ended On An Oily Stage
26. Cardigans – I Need Some Fine Wine, And You, You Need To Be Nicer
27. Komakino – Say Something
28. Franz Ferdinand – This Boy
29. Others – William
30. Art Brut – Emily Kane
31. Kooks – Sofa Song
32. Arcade Fire – Power Out
33. Bloc Party – The Pioneers
34. Data Panik – Sense Not Sense
35. Jegsy Dodd and the Original Sinners – Grumpy Old Men
36. Chris T-T – A Plague On Both Your Houses
37. El Presidente – Rocket
38. Chalets – Sexy Mistake
39. We Are Scientists – Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
40. Foo Fighters – DOA
41. Starsailor – In The Crossfire
42. Rulers Of The Planet – Nandrolone
43. Nine Black Alps – Just Friends
44. Futureheads – Area
45. Be Your Own Pet – Fire Department
46. Robocop Kraus – After Laughter Comes Tears
47. Dead 60s – The Last Resort
48. Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
49. Maximo Park – Going Missing
50. Coldplay – Talk
51. Rulers of the Planet – Jesus Freak
52. Abdoujaparov – Ultra Cool
53. Charlotte Hatherley – Bastardo
54. Idlewild – Love Steals Us From Loneliness
55. Art Brut – Good Weekend
56. Robocop Kraus – You Don’t Have To Shout
57. Jacksonswarehouse – Hotel By The Sea
58. Long Blondes – Separated By Motorways
59. ¡Forward, Russia! – Nine
60. Duke Spirit – Lion Rip
61. Nine Black Alps – Shot Down
62. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
63. Sons and Daughters – Taste The Last Girl
64. Hybrasil – God Bless The Devil
65. Bravery – An Honest Mistake
66. Days Of Worth – Ladies And Gentlemen
67. Aberdeen City – Sixty Lives
68. Supergrass – Low C
69. Bloc Party – Two More Years
70. LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
71. Kaiser Chiefs – Every Day I Love You Less And Less
72. Babyshambles – Fuck Forever
73. A – Rush Song
74. Dead 60s – Ghostfaced Killer
75. Gorillaz – Dirty Harry
76. VHS Or Beta – Nightwaves
77. Editors – Bullets
78. Frank and Walters – You Asked Me
79. Thrills – Irish Keep Gate Crashing
80. Clor – Love & Pain
81. Hot Hot Heat – Goodnight Goodnight
82. Bloc Party – So Here We Are
83. Beck – E-Pro
84. Nizlopi – JCB Song
85. Burningpilot – You Can’t Kid A Kidder
86. Maximo Park – Graffiti
87. Hybrasil – We Got Music
88. Elbow – Forget Myself
89. Doves – Black And White Town
90. Subways – No Goodbyes
91. Chemical Brothers – Galvanize
92. Madness – Shame And Scandal
93. Duke Spirit – Cuts Across The Land
94. Stereophonics – Dakota
95. Jose Gonzalez – Hand On Your Heart
96. 65daysofstatic – Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
97. Soulwax – NY Excuse
98. Feeder – Shatter
99. Manic Street Preachers – Empty Souls
100. Boxer Rebellion – All You Do Is Talk
Albums
1. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
2. Robocop Kraus – They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus
3. Others – The Others
4. Rulers Of The Planet – In 30 Minutes We Destroy The Earth
5. Kate Bush – Aerial
6. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
7. Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger
8. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock ‘n’ Roll
9. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better With
10. Frank and Walters – Souvenirs
11. British Sea Power – Open Season
12. Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1
13. Aberdeen City – The Freezing Atlantic
14. Chris T-T – 9 Red Songs
15. Cardigans – Super Extra Gravity
16. Bravery – Bravery
17. Dead 60s – Dead 60s
18. VHS Or Beta – Night On Fire
19. Gorillaz – Demon Days
20. Coldplay – X & Y
Possibly the best year of the decade, a lot of really strong singles showing and all 20 of the albums listed could have been in any other year’s top 10. Good year for music all round as one of the impossibles was achieved, the reformation of the Sultans of Ping in November, and what’s more they played in Grays, just down the road to me! And what’s MORE, I MADE IT HAPPEN (yadda, yadda, true).
One of the great little gems of the year was from an unsigned Boston band who winged a CD my way, Aberdeen City.
Really hard for me to jiggle the places around with one obvious exception, this song (and video!) should have been much nearer the top.
Singles
1. Mystery Jets – You Can’t Fool Me Dennis
2. Bloc Party – Banquet
3. Maximo Park – Apply Some Pressure
4. Robocop Kraus – Small Houses Odd Cars
5. Futureheads – Hounds Of Love
6. Others – Lackey
7. Young Knives – The Decision
8. Rakes – Retreat
9. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – Never Going Back To Aldi’s
10. Kate Bush – Mrs Bartolozzi
11. Data Panik – Cubis
12. Kaiser Chiefs – Modern Way
13. Rulers Of The Planet – Backbencher
14. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
15. We Are Scientists – Great Escape
16. ¡Forward, Russia! – Thirteen
17. Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Heading For A Breakdown
18. Madness – I Chase the Devil AKA Ironshirt
19. Gorillaz – Dare
20. Aberdeen City – God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me
21. Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To?
22. Beauty Shop – Monster
23. Test-Icicles – Circle Square Triangle
24. Rakes – 22 Grand Job
25. British Sea Power – It Ended On An Oily Stage
26. Cardigans – I Need Some Fine Wine, And You, You Need To Be Nicer
27. Komakino – Say Something
28. Franz Ferdinand – This Boy
29. Others – William
30. Art Brut – Emily Kane
31. Kooks – Sofa Song
32. Arcade Fire – Power Out
33. Bloc Party – The Pioneers
34. Data Panik – Sense Not Sense
35. Jegsy Dodd and the Original Sinners – Grumpy Old Men
36. Chris T-T – A Plague On Both Your Houses
37. El Presidente – Rocket
38. Chalets – Sexy Mistake
39. We Are Scientists – Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
40. Foo Fighters – DOA
41. Starsailor – In The Crossfire
42. Rulers Of The Planet – Nandrolone
43. Nine Black Alps – Just Friends
44. Futureheads – Area
45. Be Your Own Pet – Fire Department
46. Robocop Kraus – After Laughter Comes Tears
47. Dead 60s – The Last Resort
48. Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
49. Maximo Park – Going Missing
50. Coldplay – Talk
51. Rulers of the Planet – Jesus Freak
52. Abdoujaparov – Ultra Cool
53. Charlotte Hatherley – Bastardo
54. Idlewild – Love Steals Us From Loneliness
55. Art Brut – Good Weekend
56. Robocop Kraus – You Don’t Have To Shout
57. Jacksonswarehouse – Hotel By The Sea
58. Long Blondes – Separated By Motorways
59. ¡Forward, Russia! – Nine
60. Duke Spirit – Lion Rip
61. Nine Black Alps – Shot Down
62. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
63. Sons and Daughters – Taste The Last Girl
64. Hybrasil – God Bless The Devil
65. Bravery – An Honest Mistake
66. Days Of Worth – Ladies And Gentlemen
67. Aberdeen City – Sixty Lives
68. Supergrass – Low C
69. Bloc Party – Two More Years
70. LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
71. Kaiser Chiefs – Every Day I Love You Less And Less
72. Babyshambles – Fuck Forever
73. A – Rush Song
74. Dead 60s – Ghostfaced Killer
75. Gorillaz – Dirty Harry
76. VHS Or Beta – Nightwaves
77. Editors – Bullets
78. Frank and Walters – You Asked Me
79. Thrills – Irish Keep Gate Crashing
80. Clor – Love & Pain
81. Hot Hot Heat – Goodnight Goodnight
82. Bloc Party – So Here We Are
83. Beck – E-Pro
84. Nizlopi – JCB Song
85. Burningpilot – You Can’t Kid A Kidder
86. Maximo Park – Graffiti
87. Hybrasil – We Got Music
88. Elbow – Forget Myself
89. Doves – Black And White Town
90. Subways – No Goodbyes
91. Chemical Brothers – Galvanize
92. Madness – Shame And Scandal
93. Duke Spirit – Cuts Across The Land
94. Stereophonics – Dakota
95. Jose Gonzalez – Hand On Your Heart
96. 65daysofstatic – Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
97. Soulwax – NY Excuse
98. Feeder – Shatter
99. Manic Street Preachers – Empty Souls
100. Boxer Rebellion – All You Do Is Talk
Albums
1. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
2. Robocop Kraus – They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus
3. Others – The Others
4. Rulers Of The Planet – In 30 Minutes We Destroy The Earth
5. Kate Bush – Aerial
6. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
7. Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger
8. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock ‘n’ Roll
9. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better With
10. Frank and Walters – Souvenirs
11. British Sea Power – Open Season
12. Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1
13. Aberdeen City – The Freezing Atlantic
14. Chris T-T – 9 Red Songs
15. Cardigans – Super Extra Gravity
16. Bravery – Bravery
17. Dead 60s – Dead 60s
18. VHS Or Beta – Night On Fire
19. Gorillaz – Demon Days
20. Coldplay – X & Y
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)