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Playlist 2006
Rather than list my favourite singles and albums of the year, painstakingly ordered, here instead is a playlist of 33 tracks I've made up for my journeys across London gathered from my favourite singles and albums of the year. It does the same job. It's not in order of preference, just on shuffle, although you must always start with Intro by DJ Yoda. There has been an awful lot of average music this year riding high in the charts while clinging to a certain NME-style credibility it doesn't, to my mind, merit. But looking down this list, you'd have to say that 2006 was a good, diverse, original year, with some fine debuts, more singer-songwriters of note than I'd usually expect to include and some vintage fare from a couple of big hitters. It may or may not be significant that a large proportion of this lot didn't trouble the Top 40, while, say, The Kooks did. (It's also thanks to the 6 Music Chart that I've become so familiar with a lot of it.)
Intro DJ Yoda The Adventures Of DJ Yoda
I Was A Lover TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain
A Tried And Tested Method The Longcut A Call And Response
Ain't No Other Man Christina Aguilera single
Christobel Joan As Policewoman Real Life
Go Figure The Race Be Your Alibi
(My 1st) Big Break Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening
Black Swan Thom Yorke The Eraser
All Too Human The Rakes single
Gold Lion Yeah Yeah Yeahs single
Bombs Faithless To All New Arrivals
Alone, Jealous And Stone Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops
Life Is A Pigsty Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Operated On Union Of Knives Violence And Birdsong
The Stuntman Kasabian Empire
The Killing Moon Nouvelle Vague Bande A Part
Little Derek Sway This Is My Demo
Take What You Take Lily Allen Alright, Still
Peace And Quiet The Rifles No Love Lost
Shakey Dog Ghostface Killah Fishscale
Pretty In A Panic My Latest Novel Wolves
Sing The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia
The Way It Is Sunshine Underground Raise The Alarm
Too Much To Ask For Radio 4 Enemies Like This
Up To You David Kitt Not Fade Away
No More Eatin' Plan B Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
Walking Home Through The Aim Flight 602
Trains To Brazil The Guillemots Through The Window
The Young Idealists Lloyd Cole Antidepressant
Sea Of Love Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers
That Time Regina Spektor Begin To Hope
When The Sun Goes Down Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
You Only Live Once The Strokes First Impressions Of Earth
Comments and your own choices gratefully received.
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I've probably heard about one of these tracks. These days I have almost zero interest in modern music. Everything's so derivative. This of course, is an age thing.
My only exposure to today's sounds is from Radio 2, where the most up to date thing you hear is The Feeling (who are nice and lite), or those free CDs from Mojo or Word, which throw up the odd gem.
My album of the year? Gather In The Mushrooms, same as last year.
Wholeheartedly agree with Secret Machines (although might have gone for Lightning Blue Eyes) and good to see My Latest Novel in there - patchy album I thought but real flashes of genius.
Only entry which raised the hackles was The Guillemots. I surprised myself by hating this album - reading the reviews it seemed likely to push all the right buttons. But maybe that's the problem - all the right buttons are pressed but in such a deliberate, knowing way that it loses all impact. Everything seems so contrived. And smug as well.
Major omissions? Midlake. Anything off the album would do as it's consistently wonderful but if forced to choose then either 'Van Occupanther' or 'Branches'. Terrible title mind you.
And although this is cheating a little a mention for The Delgados Complete BBC Peel Sessions which came out this year - the most underrated British band of all time? Andrew, their blistering version of Mr Blue Sky should serve as inspiration to the 6 Music band.
Following on from your post on the Word board, Steve Lake, yes it is me. Thank you for your kind words. Good to see you in the mag.
I find it rather disconcerting/depressing that a) I don't know a single song and b) have only heard of 10 bands/artists on that list.
Incidentally, apologies for having to moderate the comments from now on, which slows down their appearance, but I have started to get spam sent as comments, and this is the best way of stopping it, I think. I'm never too far away from a computer, so hopefully I'll be able to "mod" pretty rapidly.
Ain't No Other Man? Ugh. It's impossible to understand what Christina Aguilera is "singing". It's just a lot of warbling with the occasional English word thrown in as an afterthought.
No Sunset Rubdown?
If you haven't heard their 'Shut Up I'm Dreaming' album yet, it comes highly recommended from me.
Guessed that you must be receiving spam.
A few months back Richard's guestbook was being hit with a lot of it and his website minion then added a basic maths test to the form in order to foil the spambots. Was a rather clever idea.
I'm with Peaksy on this one. I used to have access to all manner of freebie CD's but since I hit the big 4-0, unless I hear it on Radio 2, or a covermounted thingy, it's not in my universe. But... I bought The Gullemots thinking they'd be right up my street from reviews. Not only are they not, we seem to be living on different continents. I liked The Feeling, though, and am warming to Amy Winehouse, despite her appalling diction and poor tattoo of topless bird with hammocky tits. Ron Sexsmith's new elpee is good, too.
I have absolutely no idea why people rate Lily Allen. Her voice on Smile descended into that David Walliams 'computer says no' character which immediately makes her annoying.
Then we get this spiel about her 'making it on her own' without any help from estranged dad (and equally annoying) Keith Allen. I doubt it very much - if it were that easy anyone could make a success from myspace. Her latest single takes a sample from Wild World, and butchers it with some ramble about relationship problems that shows no intelligence, wit or appeal. Just some over-opinionated pixie-chav taking up too much oxygen.
I'll take Nellie McKay's album anyday.
And what's happened to pop? why does no-one bare any influence to the intelligent pop bands of the 80's - Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Squeeze, Crowded House, Teardrop Explodes (in case you wondered who I was thinking of).
Ain't No Other Man is a great single. I have a mash-up of it with Curtis Mayfield's Pusherman and that really brings out the soulful quality in it.
Having only heard a third of the list I think it's high time I got downloading...
My song of the year is Hey Chicken by Loose Fur off their tremendous Born Again In The USA cd. Loose Fur are one of Jeff Tweedy from Wilco's many side-projects, if you haven't come across them before.
Biggest disappointment of the year was Thom Yorke's Eraser. When did he lose the ability to write brilliant lyrics? How can he be content with this prosaic nonsense?
Agree with lots of those Andrew, your 6Music chart show introduced most of them to me. I also agree with Steve Lake, although I'd have gone with Young Bride or Head Home from Midlake. Secret Machines are my best discovery this year along with Trauma Pet.
'Setting Sun' by The Howling Bells was the last thing to grab me. A gem out of the blue by a band I'd never heard of. Seems to be the best thing they've done though.
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Wayne, the fact that you can't necessarily hear what Christina is singing on Ain't No Other Man doesn't bother me. I like the Cocteau Twins, after all. Also, you can hear every single word Johnny Borrell is singing on America. I rest my case.
Lloyd, i'm Ready to Be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura is my song of the year. Fantastic!
Good to see NME chose Over and Over by Hot Chip as their song of the year
Can't stomach the cynicism of the Lily Allen Package. A public schoolgirl masquerading as a chavette lights all my blue touchpapers at once, and not in a pervy way. The rest is interesting and typically eclectic, though I'm with the majority (so far) on Guillemots - at Leicester Summer Sundae they had to be heard to be believed, such was the paucity of talent on stage. I'd have sneaked in 'Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken' by Camera Obscura; nothing new in itself but a lovely slice of pop spongecake. And I do love the TV On The Radio album...
I agree with a lot of the stuff on there, especially The Way It Is by The Sunshine Underground, which is absolutely amazing. I also think Plan B and TV On The Radio are crimnally underrated, although I don't think that one does full justice to how good a song writer Plan B is. However, I think it is a great list!
I too enjoy the 6Music Chart Show - probably the most ecclectic show on the station and a playlist-free zone. I love all those curiously old school hip-hop tracks that creep in.
Completely derivative it may be, but Bouncy Ball by Ladyfuzz would certainly be top of my list for the year.
I'm really hoping Santa brings Johnny Borrell another T-shirt for Christmas.
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What about some T'Pau?
Good to see David Kitt in there. Not Fade Away is a fantasic album.
I'm still undecided on Guillemots on the whole but 'Trains To Brazil' is simply a perfect pop song.
Disagree with Steve Peake about My Latest Novel's album being patchy. It's all killer and no filler, in my book.
Those of you who saw our little exchange at the top of this discussion will have realised Jon Peake and I used to know each other in a previous life. However, we have yet to merge into one entity so less of the 'Steve Peake' if you don't mind.
Maybe patchy was a bit harsh for My Latest Novel. I think what I was trying to get at is there are occasions when I feel they're trying a bit too hard. They've clearly got loads of ideas and when they come off it works brilliantly; I'm just not sure they all come off. But better to try and occasionally trip up than remain in the land of the bland.
And Jon, don't give me any of this 'it's an age thing'. Even as a young pup in your 20s you were always more excited by finding an obscure 1959 B-side than anything that was happening at the time. And probably quite right too. Assume you didn't get to become subscriber of the month by the way? Philistines. Have a word Mr Collins.
Re: Curtis Mayfield - I'm just about getting Pusherman, but prefer Superfly, Keep on Keeping on and the more obvious Move on Up.
I've been getting into a Parliament concert recently - the four song arc that includes Doctor Funkenstein is a particular joy.
And i really dug The Neville Brothers' version of Way down in the Hole, but can't get it on CD anywhere.
Mine own list would look like -
A Certain Romance. Arctic Monkeys.
I Made My Excuses And Left. Pet Shop Boys.
Christlike. Melnyk.
Silent Shout. The Knife.
In The Morning. Junior Boys.
Set The Fire To The Third Bar. Snow Patrol
Promises. Badly Drawn Boy.
Disco Dancer. Louie Austen.
The Actor. Robbie Williams.
Bling (Confessions Of A King). The Killers.
Testcard Girl. White Rose Movement.
A Lady Of A Certain Age. The Divine Comedy.
Still A Long Way To Go. James Dean Bradfield.
Harrowdown Hill. Thom Yorke.
Crystal Ball. Keane.
Such A Tease. Junkie XL.
Life Is a Pigsty. Morrissey.
Dick Around. Sparks.
Song To Say Goodbye. Placebo.
It's not so much the fact that I can't hear every/any words that Xtina sings, more that it sounds like a sort of subhuman grunting/howling rather than singing!
I've not disliked a song so much in years. It's right up there with M People's "Just For You" (for me? No thanks) and Des'ree's "Life" (scared of dark/park/ghost/toast) in my all-time detested list!
Oh good. I thought I was the only one who finds the whole Lily Allen thing to be , frankly, kack.
In particular I find the misandry (look it up - I had to) in her video offensive. Fuck art let's hate a man.
I have two favourite albums.... "Jollity" by Pugwash... mainly because I play on it and they're mates..haha....
and today I think my 2nd favorite is Albert Hammond Jr.'s solo album. But a few days ago it was the Guillemots... last week it was Captain.. because it's a glor-or-or-or-ee-us album.
Innit Lily ?
I too think that it has been a pretty good year ... my twopeneth ...
Why Won't You Give Me Your Love? - The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around
Analyse - Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Memento Mori - The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make an Easy Living
The Sodom & Gomorrah Show - Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
Weekend Without Makeup - Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
Littlest Things - Lily Allen - Alright Still
Fat Children - Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Over And Over-Hot Chip - The Warning
Made-up Lovesong #43 - Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Gone Daddy Gone - Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Karma Police - Easy Star All*Stars - Radiodread
Everything I Cannot See - Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Juicebox - The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
Oops. Apologies Steve Lake and Jon Peake. Whoever was the most offended by my amalgamation.
Fair point about My Latest Novel. I think their next one will be a out and out corker though.
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Good to see Secret Machines make the list. Although I'd agree with the comment that Lightning Blue Eyes is a better song. I'm still kicking myself for missing out on their gig in Nottingham, I hear they're stunning live.
elmsyrup - I have to say i disagree about Pretty Little Head and Word magazine. Word readers prefer Simon Amstell to Mark Lamarr as host of NMTB (could they be more wrong?). As for the magazine, there are problems I have with it but I don't want to name names. As for PLH, sound wise it improved on GAFM, and I love Cupcake, Columbia is Bleeding, Long and Lazy River particularly.
Hey, name names, Anonymous, if that isn't a contradiction in terms.
"Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken" Camera Obscura,
"The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" Sufjan Stevens,
"Pull Shapes" The Pipettes, and
"Take Me" Candy Payne" were my favourite tracks of the year.
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Lloyd, I'm Ready To be Heartbroken (Camera Obscura), The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders (Sufjan Stevens), Pull Shapes (The Pipettes) and Take Me (Candy Payne) were my favourites this year.
In all fairness, contradictory is appropriate to my opinions about the magazine. I had a few problems with David Hepworth's classification of band names - largely because I liked A Perfect Circle's first album, and couldn't care less about the name. I admired him for describing being a fan of Crowded House as 'as a way of life', although I would suggest that tag isn't mutally exclusive. And it is just personal, but it got my blood boiling when I heard Jude Rogers praise Jamelia's "Superstar" as one the pop records of that year (Ugh), and slate Phoenix whose first album was more worthy of such an accolade.
It's petty I know, but when you get passionate about certain records/bands, you're less likely to think "Oh OK I take your point", and more likely scream obscenities and develop a personal hatred for the author involved.
Looking at all of that in print now, I feel such a fool. And I'll stay anonymous for now - largely because I'm lazy, but after writing this, too embarrassed.
Changing subject slightly Andrew, when are you going to give us your view of The Wire. As sycophantic as this may sound, I do admire your writing as much as Jim Shelley and Charlie Brooker (who are huge fans of the show, as they are of 24, Deadwood, and The Sopranos), so I was hoping your enthusiasm would match theirs. It's a show that definitely warrants more attention from the UK media.
Incidentally, my favourite tracks of the year were:
Wake Up - The Living End
Advice for young mothers to be - The Veils
Roddy Frame - Western Skies
RX Bandits - Only for the Night
Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
Tim Finn - Astounding Moon
Ron Sexsmith - All in Good Time
Graham Coxon - I can't look at your skin
Purchased season one of The Wire. Watched first episode. Liked it. Too much swearing, but I can live with that. Unfortunately we got Sky Plus around the same time, and I've barely watched a DVD since! Too much stuff on actual telly, which is now being efficiently programmed and recorded to order. The act of switching on the telly leads automatically to checking what's in the holding pattern, whether it's a George And Mildred from Paramount, or Planet Earth from BBC1, or Into The West from BBC2, or The Cinema show from BBC4. I'm sure I'll get back to The Wire, but it certainly didn't change my life as the first episode of The Sopranos did, or the first episode of Six Feet Under, or the first episode of The West Wing, all of which had their hooks in me by the first ad break. Perhaps it's unfair to compare. But people do rave about it. And I'm not raving yet.
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Re Lily Allen, I thought that she was a breath of fresh air this summer. Smile was a wonderful effort, but her follow-up LDN was irritating, especially with a contrived video, which looked like it was produced by record company bosses trying to overmilk a brand, a bit like Musical Youth with The Youth of Today. The new one is better, though.
By the way, another way to avoid some spam is to put on the word verification option in Blogger. But it's not foolproof.
I've not seen any Lily Allen videos, just seen her on Top Of The Pops, and I have no problem with her. I certainly prefer Smile to LDN, but there are much better tracks on the album: Friday Night, Littlest Things, Take What You Take. It's a really smart, various pop album, from a singer with her own personality. I also find the criticisms of her being a "chav" (or pretending to be one) patronising. I hate the word "chav". It's full of hate.
Oh, and thanks for the tip-off, I've enabled word-verification. Hope you don't mind, folks. I have to do it too!
No, Allen isn't a 'chav'. For a hoary old rock fan like me I found her album extremely refreshing. And it makes me laugh, which is never a bad thing.
One of the things that becomes clear when you watch TOTP2 is just how obviously manufactured most of the acts were and how little the people on stage had to do with the records they were selling. But the music was great, for the most part.
The general suspicion seems to be that Lily Allen is as fake as a Girls Aloud tan (although The Feeling are a "real" band of course). Personally I enjoyed her appearance on TOTP2 last night, and I suspect I will again in 20 years or so.
For what it's worth my top 40 albums of 2006
1. TOM WAITS – Orphans
2. HOT CHIP – The Warning
3. CAMERA OBSCURA – Let’s Get Out Of This County
4. SUFJAN STEVENS – The Avalanche
5. M. WARD – Post
6. ABSENTEE – Schmotime
7. THE DECEMBERISTS – The Crane Wife
8. BELLE & SEBASTIAN – The Life Pursuit
9. JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN –Real Life
10. MICAH P HINSON – Micah P Hinson And The Opera Circuit
11. Math And Physics Club – Math And Physics Club
12. Yo La Tengo –I’m Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
13. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Ballad Of The Broken Seas
14. The Essex Green – Cannibal Sea
15. The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
16. The Strokes – First Impressions Of Earth
17. Joanna Newsome – Ys
18. Sparklehorse – Dreamt For Years In The Belly of A Mountain
19. Tilly & The Wall – Bottoms of Barrels
20. The Dears – Gang Of Losers
21. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am……
22. Joe Volk – Derwnt Waters Sound
23. Various – The Kids At The Club: An Indiepop Compilation
24. Jim Noir – Tower Of Love
25. The Divine Comedy – Victory For The Comic Muse
26. Francois & The Atlas Mountains – The People To Forget
27. Sol Seppy – The Bells Of 1 2
28. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
29. Little Name – How To Swim And Live
30. Rose Melberg – Cast Away The Clouds
31. Peter, Bjorn & John – Writer’s Block
32. Amy Millan – Honey From the Tombs
33. Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down Quartet – Duper Sessions
34. Various – Stones Throw; Ten Years
35. Tapes ‘n Tapes – The loon
36. Louis Slipperz – Bareback Instrumentals
37. Lambchop – Damaged
38. Cut Chemist – The Audience’s Listening
39. The Concretes – In Colour
40. Electric President – Electric President
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"Wolves" by My Latest Novel and "Trials of Van Occupanther" by Midlake dominated my listening time. I'm happy to see you've included My Latest Novel in your list
Same as some already mentioned on here for me - Midlake, Decemberists, Flaming Lips, Graham Coxon, Yo La Tengo, Hot Chip, Arctic Monkeys. Good year for music I think, and the first year in a while where I've been buying/downloading a lot of new stuff - although I do think sometimes downloading takes a bit of the fun out of tracking new music down. Progress, eh?
Can't stand Hot Chip, another case of hype-over-content IMHO....
Just to reply to anonymous number 1 (whoever you may be!). There are two albums that came outthis year that remind me of Squeeze. Firstly the Arctic Monkeys' CD seems to have a very similar attitude to early Squeeze and secondly the new Bluetones album (yes yes I know it's very very uncool to even breathe their name) reminds me of the last few squeeze albums. Then there's Camera Obscura, Jim Bob, Elvis Costello...
Wondered what Arctic Monkey fans made of 'Dancing Shoes' as interpreted by the Beuna Vista Social Club... Mark Radcliffe was raving about it and it did sound fairly extraordinary the only time I heard it.
Actually, perhaps I ought to plug the album it comes from as I'm sure it's a Christmas present idea that Andrew would approve of...
Rhythms Del Mundo features collaborations between an all-star cast of Cuban muscians - including Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the The Buena Vista Social Club™ - with the hottest UK/US Artists.
Album proceeds will benefit disaster relief efforts and climate change awareness.
The video for the Arctic Monkeys track is on youtube via a link at rhythmsdelmundo.com. Apologies if I'm the last person to hear about this record.
I do quarterly compilations for my friends and as per usual have found time to do this singles list
100 | "Superstar Tradesman" - The View
99 | "Youth" - Matisyah
98 | "Girlfriend" - The Darkness
97 | "Fill My Little World" - The Feeling
96 | "She's Got Standards" - The Rifles
95 | "You're Supposed To Be My Friend" - 1990's
94 | "I Want You To Stay" - Maxïmo Park
93 | "The Boy Who Ran Away" - Mystery Jets
92 | "June Gloom" - The Like
91 | "The View From The Afternoon" (Who The Fuck Are The Artcic Monkeys? EP) - Arctic Monkeys
90 | "Dart For My Sweetheart" - Archie Bronson Outfit
89 | "What You Know" T.I.
88 | "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" - We Are Scientists
87 | "Little Derek" / "Download" - Sway
86 | "Mountains" - The Spinto Band
85 | "Don't Give Up" - The Noisettes
84 | "Dayvan Cowboy" - Boards of Canada
83 | "Alone, Jealous and Stoned" - The Secret Machines
82 | It Overtakes Me EP - The Flaming Lips
81 | "Blink And You'll Miss It" - Paul Weller
80 | "Hands" - The Raconteurs
79 | "Rehab" - Amy Whinehouse
78 | "We're From Barcelona" - I'm From Barcelona
77 | Once In The Night EP - Duels
76 | "Dick Around" / "Waterproof" Sparks
75 | "Roscoe" - Midlake
74 | "MagicK" / (Simian Mobile Disco Remix - The Klaxons
73 | "Naïve" - The Kooks
72 | "Kids With Guns" / "El Mañana" - Gorrilaz
71 | "Something To Bang" - Absentee
70 | The Blinding EP - Babyshambles
69 | "Elenaor Put Your Boots On (New Version)" / "Fade Together" (Avalanches remix) - Franz Ferdinand
68 | "Get Myself In To It" - The Rapture
67 | "It's Getting Light Outside" - Amber
66 | "True Skool" - Coldcut ft. Roots Manuva
65 | "Cheated Hearts" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
64 | "Hotel Room" - Richard Hawley
63 | "You Have Killed Me" - Morrissey
62 | "No Soul" / "Motorcycle" - Rumble Strips
61 | "Seperated By Motorways" - The Long Blondes
60 | "Sheena Is A Parasite" / "Jack The Ripper" - The Horrors
59 | "All To Human" - The Rakes
58 | "Something Kinda Ooh" - Gir;s Aloud
57 | "Prangin' Out" The Streets ft. Pete Doherty
56 | "Like A Pen" The Knife
55 | "She's Attracted To" - The Young Knives
54 | "Standing In The Way Of Control" / Le Tigre remix - The Gossip
53 | "The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth" - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
52 | "You're Kisses Are Wasted On Me" - The Pipettes
51 | "Trophy" - Bat For Lashes
50 | Satin Boys, Flaming Chic ("Satin Chic" / "Boys Will Be Boys") - Goldfrapp
49 | "Skip To The End" - The Futreheads
48 | "Easy Love" - MSTRKFT
47 | "Cup Of Tea" - Shack
46 | "When You Were Young" - The Killers
45 | "The Blues Are Still Blue" - Belle & Sebastian
44 | "Atlantis To Interzone" - The Klaxons
43 | "Boy From School" - Hot Chip
42 | "My Love" - Justi Timberlake ft. T.I.
41 | "Animal" - Duels
40 | "Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above" - CCS
39 | "When You Wasn't Famous" - The Streets
38 | "Lottery Winners On Acid" - The Crimea
37 | "Setting Sun" - The Holloways
36 | "Gravity's Rainbow" - The Klaxons
35 | "You Only Live Once" - The Strokes
34 | "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" Scissor Sisters
33 | "Twelve" / "Fourteen" - ¡Forward, Russia!
32 | "The Youngest Was The Most Loved" - Morrissey
31 | "Once And Never Again" - The Long Blondes
30 | "The Wizard" - Bat For Lashes
29 | "Tendency" - Battle
28 | "Nag Nag Nag Nag" - Art Brut
27 | "Pull Shapes" - The Pipettes
26 | "Steady, As She Goes" / "Store Bought Bones" - The Raconteurs
25 | "Standing On My Own Again" - Graham Coxon
24 | "7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene
23 | "Valentine" - Delays
22 | "Song For the Fields" - Field Music
21 | "Crazy" - Gnarls Barkley
20 | "Lay Down The Law" - Switches
19 | "Running The World" - Jarvis
18 | "The Fallen" / "L. Wells" - Franz Ferdinand
17 | "No Good" / "Sick 2 Def" - Plan B
16 | "Young Folks" - Peter Bjorn And John ft. Victoria Bergsman
15 | "Hoppípolla " - Sigur Ros
14 | "Maneater" - Nelly Furtado
13 | "When The Sun Goes Down" - Arctic Monkeys
12 | "Valerie" - The Zutons
11 | "Over and Over" - Hot Chip
10 | "Funny Little Frog" - Belle and Sebastian
9 | "Wolf Like Me" - TV On The Radio
8 | "La Ritournelle" (Mr Dan's Magic Wand Mix) - Sebastian Tellier
7 | "The Funeral" - Band Of Horses
6 | "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heart Broken" - Camara Obscura
5 | "LDN" / "Knock 'Em Out" - Lily Allen
4 | "Wasted Little DJ's" - The View
3 | "Harrowdown Hill" - Thom Yorke
2 | "The Decision" - The Young Knives
1 | "Trains To Brazil" - Guillemots
Terrific list, Mitchell. You're clearly much fonder than I of the last Belle & Sebastian album. Funny Little Frog makes me feel a bit nauseous. Not sure about The Crimea either, although I still feel sorry for them after the advert running on TV earlier this year which stated, "the band of 2007". Cheers, marketing department.
Thank you Andrew. Ironically had I done the list in the middle of the year FLF wouldn't be on it. I prefer The Life Pursuit to the last one but I'm not dead keen on it (Maybe in my top 50.) Seems to be very well received in the States though. I quite liked the album last year but including LWOA is probably more an acknowledgement of not catching it first time round in 2002.
Excellent list Mitchell. One minor point from Pedant's Corner though ... Song For The Fields was by Fields, not Field Music, who had a few decent singles of their own this year.
My bad, I was probably listening to Field Music's album while thinking about that song. That is quite confusing though, having a song with your bands name in which is nearly also another bands name. Thanks for pointing it out though.
No Jamie-T? Your accolade on the radio pushed him from interesting to frankly exciting. James (above) - I can't agree. Thom Yorke's solo music and lyrics were great. It was, initially, the most disappointing album I bought this year, but turned out to be the longest lasting, outside Andy Hui's "In The Name Of...", of course.
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