Vote for Meursault and Withered Hand!
Yes indeed, I don’t care about your actual opinions, all I want you to do is vote for my friends, thank you very much.
It is time for the Contrast Podcast‘s annual Festive Fifty vote, and you have until the end of Monday to get your votes in, and there are a couple of local gentlemen who you might want to assist in scoring as highly as possible: Withered Hand and Meursault, both of whom are nominated more than once.
Music bloggers from around the world have nominated songs, from which Tim has created a shortlist, which I am including below the jump because it’s rather long. All you have to do is read the list, pick your top ten in order and email them to Tim before the end of tomorrow, Monday 23rd December at: contrast.podcast *at* gmail.com
In case you don’t know any of the songs in question, Tim’s also put together a handy player so you can have a listen, which can be found here. Read the rest of the post for the full list of songs, and please do vote.
A.A. Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
Aidan Moffat & the Best Ofs – Big Blonde
Alexi Murdoch – Towards The Sun
Alice In Chains – Check My Brain
Andrew Bird – Fitz & dizzyspells
Andrew Bird – Nomenclature
Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, but a Ghost
Animal Collective – My Girls
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
Antlers (The) – Two
Art Brut – DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake
Asobi Seksu – Transparence
At The Stars – Oxygen & Rust
Atlas Sound – Walkabout
Auld Lang Syne – Where My Fortune Lies
Avett Brothers (The) – I And Love And You
Bat for Lashes – Daniel
Beirut – The Akara
Bell X1 – The Great Defector
Big Pink (The) – Dominos
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – Get Yo’ Shit
Bob Dylan – Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Bombadil – Sad Birthday
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Builders and The Butchers (The) – Barcelona
Butcher Boy – Carve A Pattern
Buzz Aldrin – You and I
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Camera Obscura – Honey In The Sun
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – White Corolla
Cats On Fire – Horoscope
Cats On Fire – Letters From A Voyage To Sweden
Cats On Fire – Tears In Your Cup
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse with Wayne Coyne – Revenge
Das Racist & Wallpaper – Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper. RMX)
Dave Matthews Band – Why I Am
David Bazan – Bless This Mess
David Gedge And The BBC Big Band – My Favourite Dress (live at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 29 April 2009)
Death Cab for Cutie – Little Bribes
Decemberists (The) – Annan Water
Decemberists (The) – The Hazards of Love Part 4 (The Drowned)
Decemberists (The) – The Rake’s Song
Decemberists (The) – The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
Decemberists (The) – Won’t Want for Love
Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden – Bonkers
Doves – Jetstream
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
Drums (The) – I Felt Stupid
Editors – Papillon
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – 40 Day Dream
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home
Eels – Fresh Blood
Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Shampoo
Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot
Faunts (The) – It Hurts Me All The Time
Flight of the Conchords – Carol Brown
Flight Of the Conchords – Sugarlumps
Florence & The Machine – Cosmic Love
Florence & The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
Florence & The Machine – Kiss With a Fist
Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls
Franz Ferdinand – Twilight Omens
Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
Future Of The Left – Arming Eritrea
Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
Gong – Dance with the Pixies
Grand Archives – Oslo Novelist
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Guggenheim Grotto (The) – Fee Da Da Dee
HEALTH – Die Slow
Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Here We Go Magic – Fangela
Horrors (The) – Sea Within A Sea
I Like Trains – Sea Of Regrets
Iggy Pop – King Of The Dogs
Jarvis Cocker – Angela
Jarvis Cocker – I Never Said I Was Deep
Jarvis Cocker – Leftovers
Jason Lytle – Yours Truly, The Commuter
Jason Mraz – Traveler/Make it Mine (live)
Kasabian – Fire
Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier – Nice Very Nice
Langhorne Slim – I Love You, But Goodbye
Leisure Society (The) – A Matter Of Time
Leisure Society (The) – The Darkest Place I Know
Leisure Society (The) – The Last Of The Melting Snow
Lily Allen – The Fear
Low Anthem (The) – Champion Angel
Madness – We are London
Memory Tapes – Bicycle
Metric – Gimme sympathy
Metric – Sick Muse
Meursault – Love Or Limb
Meursault – Nothing broke
Meursault – William Henry Miller Pt. 2
Meursault – William Henry Miller Pt. 1
Mew – New Terrain
Middle East (The) – Blood
Morrissey – I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
Morrissey – Something Is Squeezing My Skull
Mountain Goats (The) – 1 John 4:16
Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone
Mumford & Sons – The Cave
Mumford & Sons – White Blank Page
Muse – Uprising
National (The) – So Far Around The Bend
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve
NOFX – My Orphan Year
Owl City – Fireflies
Pains of Being Pure At Heart (The) – Come Saturday
Pains of Being Pure At Heart (The) – Higher than the stars
Pains of Being Pure At Heart (The) – This Love Is Fucking Right
Pains of Being Pure At Heart (The) – Young Adult Friction
Passion Pit – Moth’s Wings
Passion Pit – The Reeling
Paul Haig – Relive
Pet Shop Boys – Love etc.
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Relator
Phoenix – 1901
Phoenix – Lisztomania
PJ Harvey & John Parish – Black Hearted Love
Prefab Sprout – Earth, The Story So Far
Prefab Sprout – Let There Be Music
Prefab Sprout – Music Is A Princess
Raveonettes (The) – Suicide
Regina Spektor – Folding Chair
Regina Spektor – One More Time With Feeling
Richard Hawley – As The Dawn Breaks
Saint Etienne – Method of modern love
Sam Bisbee – Never Fall In Love
Spoon – Got nuffin’
Temper Trap (The) – Sweet Disposition
Thom Yorke – Hearing damage
Throw Me The Statue – Hi-Fi Goon
Twilight Sad (The) – I became a Prostitute
U2 – No Line on the Horizon
Very Best (The) – Warm Heart Of Africa
Wave Machines – The Greatest Escape We Ever Made
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Roll Up Your Sleeves
White Lies – To Lose My Life
Wilco – Wilco (The Song)
Wilco – You And I
Wilco – You Never Know
Wild Beasts – All the Kings Men
Withered Hand – Love in the Time of Ecstasy
Withered Hand – Religious Song
Wye Oak – That I Do
XX (The) – Crystallized
XX (The) – Intro
XX (The) – VCR
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Already have!
Ah … this explains a lot
Vote, beeyatch!
there’s my vote for lily allen. sorted.
Cogstar, you might have someone to relieve you of your duties.
Anyone who votes for the Allen or U2 or the fucking woeful XX is instantly barred from reading the site.
do i have to correct you all the time!!!!
The XX are far from woeful!
the other two are shite right enough!
Poor old Chutters.
i heard it was poor old Matthew last Friday!
I would have fought for your honour pal!
So would I if people hadn’t decided that the one not actually doing any hitting yet was the one who needed to be restrained.
Believe me, not getting the chance to fucking swing for the cunt was by far the most frustrating thing about the whole incident.
I let the kids have ONE vote. it doesn’t make me a bad person.
If someone else starts on you, you should always be given the chance to get a couple of swings in before anyone breaks up the scrap.
Prefereably while one of your mates stamps on the side of the other guy’s knee to make sure the fucker goes down.
hmmmm
Did the champ mananger debate get out of hand? tsk tsk.
My bet is someone said ‘Meersalt’
Matthew’s enthusiastic shushing habit during delicate folk finally hit long tail distribution paydirt in the form of a retaliatory headbutt.
Well will the Folk Music rioting end?
I really don’t get the whole XX phenomena. It bemuses me.
Me too. I just find them completely lifeless and bland and utterly unexceptional. I can’t even hate it, I probably wouldn’t recognise them if they were on the radio and will put money to them vanishing into the ether post haste. And rightly so.
ssshhhhhhh!
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I’d been hearing people going on about them all over the place and when I sampled a few tracks I was all ‘huh? this is what people have been raving about?’
Bland is the perfect description.
Will be interesting to see how they rate in the FF.
i think that The XX make music that is low key, beautiful and heartfelt.
It is is irrelevant if they disappear into the either.
Opinions are shite, i played a Few Kind Words (by Meursault, if you didn’t know) to a few pals the other weekend (i was trying to get them to go and see them at the Newcastle gig) and the cheeky fuckers said that it was just bleepy bleepy shite!
i nearly ripped their faces off!
They are just wrong, simple as that. It’s something they are going to have to learn to accept.
i might defriend them
Aren’t The XX just this season’s Black Kids?
That punky-looking lot who sing about girls falling over like dominoes will probably pick up the Black Kids’ flash-in-the-pan baton from The XX in a week or two, and then they too will vanish from our collective conciousness and be back manning the checkouts at Tesco’s before Lent begins.
That is seriously is the first time I’ve heard anyone say they don’t like A Few Kind Words. Geordies are weird.
A bit late on this post, but vote I did and I was rewarded. I will be introducing a track from your worthy gentlemen in Meursault for the Festive Fifty. Shit they had 4 tracks to choose from, so hopefully there is at least one another on the list as well!
I swear if the XX place higher than Meursault, I just might not forgive the recording industry in general.
Just sayin.
S.
Hmm, I don’t think I have a song yet. Tim, you bastard!