Friday is Scheming and Plotting and Making Lists
Okay, so today we start our lists. I have made my own list of my top twenty albums of the year, but in all honesty I am still struggling to pare down my Festive Fifty to, er, fifty. At the moment it’s more like a Festive three hundred and seventy six, which won’t do at all. It is, as my father (and W.C. Fields) used to say, no use to man nor beast.
This is your chance, however, to put your five favourite songs of the year into the comments, and we’ll see who the readers of Song, by Toad have been loving the most over the course of the year.
And for those of you preparing for the Weekend of Alcoholic Annihilation next week, you might be interested to hear about something just a little bit classier happening tomorrow night, to which my pal Pete Harvey has asked me to give a quick plug. And he’s a nice chap, so why not. Besides I still nurture an intellectual inferiority complex about classical music which presumably stems from my traumatic childhood.
Saturday 11th December 2010, 7.30pm at the Canongate Kirk – Macmillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross & Byrd: Motets.
The Rose Street Ensemble with the Calton Consort – Conductor: Jason Orringe.
The Facebook event is here if you would like to investigate further, and a nice handy Google Maps link here. And no, I doubt it’s that Jason Orange. And no, of course he’s never heard that joke before.
So, we are all doing our five favourite songs of the year vote this week. Last year I was quite bad about adding it up, but this year I promise to keep a running total (at least, of everything with more than one vote, anyway). I can’t add mine because obviously I don’t want to jump the gun on my own Festive Fifty, but I thought I might revisit my top five songs from last year, and then sit back and do my sums while you let me know what has been exciting you the most in 2010.
Looking back at my top five from last year, I do notice a couple of Song, by Toad Records bands in there, and that is one thing which will be different this year: I am banning Song, by Toad Records bands from any of my lists. It was fair enough to include them when we hadn’t released that much, but we’ve had a very busy year and so there would be a definite danger of the label swamping the list this year, and besides, I could hardly put one of our bands’ debut albums in the top five while another barely scraped the top ten, now could it?
So just take it as read that I love our bands the most and that if it weren’t for this ban, everyone else would be scrapping over tenth place at best. So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, nerds and nerdettes, your votes please…
Elvis Perkins in Dearland – Shampoo
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Meursault – William Henry Miller Pt.2 (Single Version) (Buy on clear vinyl 7″ here)
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Trips and Falls – And In Real Life He Wears Corduroy Pants (Buy here)
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FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session)
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And just to start you off, here’s Lucy’s slightly premature one from last week:
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
Spanish Sahara – Foals
Tighten Up – Black Keys
Flash A Hungry Smile – Mystery Jets
Probably something off the Phantom Band album.. I’m no good at those sort of lists!
In no particular order:
Mitchell Museum – Tiger Heartbeat
Sufjan Stevens – Impossible Soul (yeah, so it could be an EP on its own, but it’s still technically just one song)
Admiral Fallow – Squealing Pigs
The Scottish Enlightenment – If You Would Just Try A Bit Harder
Loch Lomond – Holiday
In no order
Broken Records – You know you’re not dead
John Grant – Chicken Bones
Field Music – Them that do nothing
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
eagleowl – No Conjunction
1. Bombay Bicycle Club – Rinse Me Down
2. John Grant – Queen of Denmark / Outer Space
3. Perfume Genius – Learning
4. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
5. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
Excellent, our first song with two votes!
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
3 dumbo
No order:
Big Boi – Shutterbugg
Meursault – Some Day This’ll All Be Fields
Harlem – Friendly Ghost
Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em
Sufjan Stevens – Too Much
again in no real order:
Axe Behind My Back – Stagecoach
Dead Crow Blues – Sperman Revenge Squad
The Curse – Josh Ritter
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
Angela Surf City – The Walkmen
thanks Matthew, saved me a job… make it O off the phantom band LP…
1. Real Love – Beach House
2. Bloodbuzz Ohio – Ze National
3.Stranded – Ze Walkmen
4. Save my Love – Bruuuuuce Springsteen (only released this year!)
5. Modern Drift – Efterklang
1. The National – England
2. Surfer Blood – Catholic Pagans
3. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
4. Perfume Genius – Learning
5. Les Savy Fav – Let’s Get Out of Here / dems – lioness
so many good songs this year!!!!
can i add another top 5
1 – Go Compaaaaare by Gocompare.com
2 – 5 see above
The Walkmen – Angela Surf City
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
The Scottish Enlightenment – St.Germain Is Thick Tonight
The Twilight Sad – The Wrong Car
Mitchell Museum – Take The Tongue Out
Steve Mason – Am I Just a Man
I Am Kloot – Lately
Cold Seeds – The Perfume of Mexican Birds
Lawrence Arabia – Apple Pie Bed
The European – I’m Compromising
I shall give you reasons why I like these songs more than others, because I don’t want to study…
1. The National – England
I was listening to High Violet on the ferry to Shetland in the summer at like 6am and as soon as I stood on the deck outside ‘England’ started to play. I could see puffins flying buy and the wind was in my hair. It felt fucking cool. It also kinda sums up the whole album for me, as I hated this song at first, but grew to love it.
2. Surfer Blood – Catholic Pagans
“A weakness for cocaine and liquor, not much you can do for love”
3. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
When I first saw this song live (and Neil was counting the timing) there was just something really special. It is nothing like how I thought it would sound and made me feel all tingly in my man parts.
4. Perfume Genius – Learning
First got into Hadreas’ stuff early last year with a zip. file of myspace rips. There is something so open and vunerable about this song that I really love.
5. Les Savy Fav – Let’s Get Out of Here / dems – lioness
Choons to the moons.
In alphabetical order –
eagleowl – No Conjunction
Meursault – New Ruin
National, The – Bloodbuzz Ohio
Superchunk – Everything At Once
Versus – The Ones And Threes
Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius
Clem Snide – I Got High
Arcade Fire – Month of May
Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch
Tame Impala – Alter Ego
Shite, I meant to include Baby Birch. No wait, In California…
Revised list –
eagleowl – No Conjunction
Meursault – New Ruin
Newsom, Joanna – In California
National, The – Bloodbuzz Ohio
Superchunk – Everything At Once
In order of height of the lead singer:
The National – England
Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
Meursault – What You Don’t Have
Silver Columns – Way Out
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River – Goodbye Sweet Dreams
Christ, keeping up with this is a bit of a challenge.
So far I think we have:
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio (loads)
=2. Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
=2. eagleowl – No Conjunction
=2. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
=2. The National – England
Quite a few repeated groups, but not so many repeated songs.
Is it unpatriotic for a Scottish blog to choose ‘England’ as its favourite song?
And if it happens is it wrong of me to snigger?
In no particular order….
Twin Shadow – Tyrant Destroyed
The National – England
Modern Drift – Efterklang
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers – Twisted Mile
Grinderman – Mickey Mouse And The Goodbye Man
Looks like Bloodbuzz Ohio is well out in front….
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
2. The National – England
=3. Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
=3. eagleowl – No Conjunction
=3. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
=3. The Walkmen – Angela Surf City
=3. Perfume Genius – Learning
Ian….that Twin Shadow album is awesome!
John Grant, Sufjan Stevens and Meursault suffering a bit from splitting their own votes across too many songs.
So “Go Compaaare” is deal last?
This list is a MOCKERY!
DEAD last I mean. Totally dead.
I listen to so little these days that I don’t feel able to choose five songs from this year but it’s been such a long time since I commented here (except last Friday when I was really really late) that I thought I’d say hello anyway. I rather like ‘Swimming’ by Tracey Thorne and ‘I Hate Seagulls’ by Kate Nash, and something from the Rose Elinor Dougal album which I would guess might set Matthew off on a rant. Anyway. Hello all.
Foals – Blue Blood
Deerhunter – Desire Lines
Meursault – Weather
Avi Buffalo – What’s It In For?
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
Get in. Bloodbuzz Ohio is one of the weaker songs on High Violet, surprised it’s getting so much support.
Rose Elinor Dougal is so incredibly good-looking she makes my eyes bleed, which makes it incredibly hard to concentrate on her music, even on the radio.
Madcow – are you going to do a list or just make smart remarks all day?
1. The Scottish Enlightenment – The First Shall Be Last
2. eagleowl – Into the Fold
3. Dag for Dag – Boxed up in Pine
4. These New Puritans – Three Thousand
5. Foals – Spanish Sahara
Yeah, I don’t think I would choose Bloodbuzz Ohio from High Violet either. England would be right up there though.
Toad – I think you know the answer to that!!
I will try and come back with a proper list though.
Rose Elinor Dougal is so incredibly good-looking she makes my eyes bleed
Just Google Image searched her, which made me feel a bit pervy. Or it did until a picture of David Carradine appeared, which then just made me feel a bit weird about feeling pervy.
But, yes, she’s a winsome filly and no word of a lie!
Before I come back with a list I feel I need to share this with everyone first….
http://www.joblo.com/elijah-wood-danny-mcbride-and-will-ferrell-to-star-in-beastie-boys-film-updated-with-pic
This film will be fantastic.
It just feels like cheating:
What’s In It For? Good shout.
Bloodbuzz Ohio nearly squeaked past England for me. I rememebr being really excited about the new album soming out – and when I first heard that track it just dovetailed with the anticipation beautifully.
But England is probably – in terms of craftsmanship – the superior song.
1. Blood – The Middle East
2. Spanish Sahara – Foals
3. Rinse Me Down – Bombay Bicycle Club
4. Weather – Meursault
5. Stay Close – Delorean
I realise we’ve had quite a few of these already, but they are true, and at least will bump up the odds a bit…
that Beastie Boys thing looks amazing by the way.
The same votes is good. It’s better than ending up with a list of five hundred songs all with one vote each!
my thoughts exactly… and I really love all those songs – honest!
if you haven’t heard The Middle East by now, you need to get that sorted, quick.
1 – Little Sleep – The Scottish Enlightenment
2 – No Conjuction – Eagleowl
3 – Sleet – Meursault
4 – Hope is not enough – I LIKE TRAINS
5 – Spanish Sahara – Foals
Latest running:
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
2. Foals – Spanish Sahara
=3. eagleowl – No Conjunction
=3. The National – England
=5. Several songs with two votes each.
The Scottish Enlightenment, Meursault and Sufjan Stevens still very much dividing people about which was the best song on their albums and hence not charting in this list. Which is a different kind of compliment I suppose.
In chronological order:
Animal by Dag for Dag
Them That Do Nothing by Field Music
Pascal by the Scottish Enlightenment
Wallingford by Damien Jurado
A Darkness Rises Up by Broken Records
Thirty Pounds Of Bone – A Lesson In Talking
Sufjan Stevens – Heirloom
Meursault – Crank Resolutions
The Mariner’s Children – It Carved Your Name Into the Ground
Field Music – Let’s Write A Book
And probably hundreds of others!
I really shouldn’t be looking at pictures of Rose Elinor Dougall when I’m in the office…
These are the ones I’ve played most
1) The National – Terrible Love
2) Arcade Fire – We used to wait
3) BSP -Zeus
4) Meursault – Crank Resolutions
5) Meursault – What you don’t have
I have a separate dance / hip hop list but Yelawolf wins that one
The Middle East are really good….just so you know
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
2. Foals – Spanish Sahara
=3. eagleowl – No Conjunction
=3. The National – England
=3. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
The Scottish Enlightenment now have about five different songs on the list, all with one vote each. They and Meursault might have their whole bloody album up here by the end of the day!
1. Kid Canaveral – And Another Thing!
2. RM Hubbert – For Maria
3. Randolph’s Leap – Going Home
4. The Scottish Enlightenment – Little Sleep
5. Come on Gang! – Fortune Favours The Brave
make that two votes
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT FINALLY GET A SECOND VOTE FOR A SONG!
It’s such a compliment to their album that their vote is so divided, but I’d still like to see them do well on this bloody list!
It’s a weird one though. As much as I like the album there isn’t really a track that sticks out for me, they all just seem to have a nice coherence that makes the record work so well. If I was going to choose one Scottish Enlightenment song it would probably be Drip Feed, off their Little Sleep EP. Anyone agree?
Chutters says I’m not allowed to put Lately by British Sea Power into my five for 2010.
It’s not up to him, is it?
at the expense of which song numbnuts
Recount = What you don’t have =4 ….early doors drinking?
Either Field Music or John Grant
you didn’t vote for either of those you freak!
No, you did.
ha ha ha funny……not
1DR-C+2DR = 2 TPM
calm down
You Know You’re Not Dead – Broken Records
Sleet – Meursault
Conversation 16 – The National
Ambling Alp – Yeasayer
Shampoo – Elvis Perkins in Dearland
At least, for the moment. I’ll probably change my mind in a few minutes.
Based partly on what Last.fm tells me I’ve listened to most over the last year:
Dems – Lioness
Miaoux Miaoux – Snow
French Wives – Me Vs Me
Come on Gang! – Fortune Favours The Brave
PAWS – Violent Vicky Violet
Yes it would be interesting to see which band wins out overall. Are we going to get graphs, pie charts etc too? (I think I might know the answer to this one)
And good to see someone else with a Dag for Dag song up, too!
I was going to select “Sorrow” by The National in my list, but everyone else has chosen a song by them. I’ll break the trend.
01 – Les Savy Fav – “Let’s Get Out of Here”
02 – Eluvium – “The Motion Makes Me Last”
03 – Wild Nothing – “Chinatown”
04 – Sisters – “Highway Scratch”
05 – The Books – “All You Need Is A Wall”
bugger, I completely neglected Kid Canaveral… poo.
I did too Ella, I couldn’t decide on just one off the album.
What’s In It For? – Avi Buffalo
You – Gold Panda
Mexico – The Soft Pack
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) – Arcade Fire
One Day This’ll All be Fields – Meursault
Cogstar, there hasn’t been any early doors drinking but there will be quite soon.
I Are – yeah right, all sorts of interactive charts and graphs and stuff, of course. Now I see the downside of having so many scientists reading this bloody site. I will add up the bands with the most votes overall though, will that be enough?
Dianna – Isn’t Shampoo last year?
am i the only one that thinks Avi Buffalo or totally and utterly overrated?
Yes, that would be lovely, thank you. Sneaking suspicion it’ll be between TSE and Meursault.
Incidentally, what are the lastest scores on the doors?
Avi Buffalo – if we were doing the top 5 gigs of the year, which we aren’t I know, then the Low Anthem at the Queens Hall would be in it, but their AB support slot would easily prop up the bottom 5. I thought they were awful and had to pretend to keep needing the toliet to escape them.
Granted that song they’ve got is pretty catchy though.
Errr…none of these will get anywhere near your finger-in-the-ear-hey-nonny-beardie list but hey…
1. Error Operator – Mistakes (slightly flawed, but any album that uses a speech from Eisenhower about post D-Day is fine by me)
2. Chemical Brothers – Swoon (I thought they were past it but this proves they’re not)
3. Max Cooper – Chaotisch Serie (geneticist does akademishe dance)
4. Electric Assembly – Slow Exit (where shoegaze meets ambient)
5. Steve Mason – Boys Outside Weatherall Dub (fab bit of Weatherall dubbing up ex-Beta Band Mason)
Good effort CTEL especially Electric Assembly an electro beat takeover of SBT is long overdue
Games of the year:
(In no particular order)
Fallout New Vegas – Bethesda
Assasins Creed Brotherhood – EA
Pinball FX2 (Marvel tables) – Zen Studios
Mass Effect 2 – Bioware
Just Cause 2 – Square Enix
Much easier for me. What a rebel (cock).
in no order…
The National – Sorrow
The Walkmen – Stranded
Meursault – Weather
Dead Boy Robotics – Tale of the Winter Kids
Liars – Scissor
1. Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
2. Come On Gang! – Fortune Favours The Brave
3. How To Swim – Diego Whirlwind
4. Miniature Dinosaurs – Cold Shoulder
5. The Last Battle – Natures Glorious Rage
Walls – The Phantom Band
The High Road – Broken Bells
Peaceful Liquid Shell – The Unwinding Hours
All Come Down – Steve Mason
House On The Hill – Emma Pollock
Top 5 games of the year WITHOUT Black Ops. Or Red Dead Redemption… that is being rebellious. Fallout New Vegas is utter shite.
top five games of the year
1) poking fun at Dylan
2) wacking off
3) waiting for the bus
4) finding someone to drink with
5) moving to london
I did like Red Dead – quite a bit. I LOVED the sudden appearance of the incidental songs at certain points. Totally inspired. However I did find it boring riding from place to place constantly (after the initial impressive WOW factor of the scenery). I know Fallout is much the same in terms of journeying (if not slower and more tedious)but the post apocalypse gameworld held my attention more. I am yet to sample the delights of the Undead Redmption though. Matthew can you tell me if it’s any good?
Fucksake people.
Yeah the Jose Gonzalez song left me a tad taken aback.
I agree it was baws riding from place to place. But you can use the camp travel thingy to travel to a specific marker on the map quickly.
Undead Redemption was rather good. But I’m quite the fool for zombies. Blowing heads off walking corpses on a flaming horse FTW.
P.S. If I had my way every games list ever would include CoD4.
Fucksake indeed!
i drink sake, never tried fucking it!
In fact – I will change Fallout New Vegas to Red Dead. New Vegas was a simple retrading of Fallout 3. Red Dead has a lot going for it. I particularly liked the end. The inclusion of the family based missions and, in particular, the impact of what happened after that (I wont say it on here in case I spoil it for someone) really took me aback. It was a really good narrative device and it felt quite special to be playing it at that point.
What? I thought I was allowed to talk pish after I’d given my Five?
Yup, the ending gave me a couple of man tears, I must admit. What did you think of the multiplayer?
DAMN MY OWN STUPID RULES!
I’m yet to try multiplayer actually. I stupidly got Assassins Creed almost instantly the moment I finished Red Dead singleplayer. I need to remedy this situation! Is it good? Also – thanks Matthew for talking pish on here. Everyone knows its more fun than following Toad’s rules and regulations paragraph 5a subsection c on Friday 5′s.
Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National
Contra by Vampire Weekend
We Used to Wait by Arcade Fire
Blood by The Middle East
I’ll Speak Because I Can by Laura Marling
for games of the year there is only one: Angry Birds
Should we try to 5 crap tunes just as a diversion?
I’ve a feeling ‘swim’ could win. (The album release was this year)
I’m no gamer but that Red Dead Redemption looks good from the adverts.
I understand it’s from the same people who did Grand Theft Auto – which is the only game I’ve ever enjoyed playing.
I think I was sold on the idea of Red Dead Redemption when someone was telling me they’d been playing it, and they said “Yeah, I was just messing about, firing off random shots into the air and stuff, when I accidentally shot dead my own horse!”
That’s the sort of game I could get on with.
The multiplayer is okay, I suppose. It does get a bit boring and repetitive though. I quite like just shouting abuse at people and shooting their horses. It does make me feel special inside.
Assassin’s Creed is awesome. Graphics are just yummy. Only thing that annoyed me about it was that at E3 they said they were doing a lot to improve the combat, but I hardly noticed anything. Apart from the crossbow and the gun aiming being faster. Oh and you can toss an axe at someone 20ft away. Meh, the story was pretty epic. Bit annoying where they left it off though with, eh, well, don’t want to spoil it for anyone. I thought there should have been more inclusion of the Templar side of the story too.
Dylan, if you stand at the edge of a cliff or something and shoot your horse in the head while you’re on it you flop over the edge and plummet to your death. It’s all good clean fun.
Yeah the combat is essentially unchanged. But they did also add in that one hit execution combo. That makes you feel even more god-like than previously! I still get creeped out by the hidden clusters from subject 16. (Is it subject 16?) I always look forward to the big story reveals – the bigger picture. Sometimes it gets too bogged down in the Rome narrative I think.
The whole office just left for a Xmas meal that I said I couldnt go to a month ago (when Creature still didnt have a job so was unsure to affordability). Now I am stuck here covering their sorry asses. I can’t believe this shit. I really can’t.
you 2! get a flamming room
It always amused me how on Grand Theft Auto you could take him up in a helicopter to like 10,000 feet or something, then if you pressed the wrong button he’d like – really nonchalantly – just get out!
You’d be shouting at him “What you doing you silly fucker?!! You’re in a helicopter!! You can’t just get out!!”
Dylan why don’t you follow them and watch?
1. AintNoWomanGonnaMakeAGeorgeJonesOuttaMe – Lovers Or Nothing
2. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II
3. The Scottish Enlightenment – Little Sleep
4. Jules Casablancas – I’ll Try Anything Once
5. Girls – Thee Oh So Protective One
I’m going to get the 4chan boys round to sort you out.
Computer games?! *sighs*
I am off to HAVE SEX WITH A LADY.
Dylan – it is an odd aspect of games that the “realism” is suspended instantly in one press of a button. Immediately the player is detached from the experience as something seemingly unfair or stupid occurs. I dont know if games will ever get to the point that there will be seamless natural controls. Probably not. The thing that frustrates me most is invisible barriers, like being unable to climb a slope, yet bashing jump and going diagonally you can squeeze through invisible gaps and get yourself stuck in hopeless situations forcing a reboot.(I’m looking at you Fallout). Its just something we have to put up with though. Stupid games.
First chance I’ve had to long on and post them, but at the moment it’s something like this:
1. eagleowl -’No Conjunction.’
2. M.I.A.-’Born Free.’
3. Zola Jesus -’Sea Talk.’
4. Kid Canaveral -’You Only Went Out To Get Drunk Last Night.’
5.She’s Hit -’RE:PEATER’
Funny thing is, there can be tracks you love but the album doesn’t do much for you, and albums that you love but can’t pick out one standalone track…
Obviously, if I hadn’t been involved in putting them out, then songs by X-Lion Tamer, Last Battle, Dirty Cuts, Chris Bradley, Factory Kids and The Wildhouse would have made it in there, too…
No they wouldn’t, Ed. Because there’s six of them, and you can only pick five, so you’d have had to pick someone on your own label to leave off.
Which is precisely the reason I am not including our own bands on my lists this year!
CTEL – Great choices. Variation is always nice. Which Weatherall dub version do you mean? I absolutely love No.1 but hate No.2…
So, scores so far are as follows (listed in alphabetical order of band names in case of tie):
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
=2. Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
=2. eagleowl – No Conjunction
=2. Foals – Spanish Sahara
=5. Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
=5. Come On Gang! – Fortune Favours the Brave
=5. Meursault – Weather
=5. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
=5. The National – England
=5. The Scottish Enlightenment – Little Sleep
The two bands with by far the most votes are The National and Meursault, with Meursault one vote behind. I know all these ties open up the possibility of some rather sneaky tactical voting, but umm… please don’t. It’s not like this is an award people fight over, is it!
Ian, say hi to Pam and her five sisters for me.
I’ll have you know there are several positions that allows one to hold a controller whilst doing the deed.
Right, games is one thing, but games and wanking is GOING TOO FAR!
I am off to the Wark. Carry on voting though, I’ll keep it open until whatever time on Sunday my hangover wears off!
so hard but these will do for now – in no particular order…
the national – sorrow
arcade fire – rococo
meursault – weather
perfume genius – learning
over the wall – thurso
Is it? Balls.
Forced to Love – Broken Social Scene.
sozzles.
Splendid, added. Now, is there likely to be room for me at the Wark…?
Only one way to find out.
That song by The National isnt even more than 5 out of 10 for me. Of those in the top 5 Meursault’s What you Don’t Have definitely my top. Love that song
Young Matthew (not Young, Matthew), I will make it my mission for 2011 to get a gammy while playing Road Road 2 or Sensible Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive (last console I had). That is only fair…for science!
Road Rash 2, even. Road Road would probably be about building or fixing roads, which is what Edinburgh Council should start fucking thinking about.
Kid Canaveral – Hair Hangs Down
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
You Know You’re Not Dead – Broken Records
Meursault – What You Don’t Have
Frightened Rabbit – The Wrestle
It’s hard to imagine another website where I could feel so utterly unimaginative for post the five songs above as my favourite…
Not in any particular order.
Gil Scott Heron – I’ll Take Care Of You
Caribou – Odessa
El Guincho – Bombay
Laura Marling – Devils Spoke
Foals – After Glow
Ooft!
Fantastic calls on both Thurso and Her Hangs Down.
Well done, gentlemen.
I am off to HAVE SEX WITH A LADY.
No you’re not, you’re off to hump the sofa.
1. Meursault – Crank Resolutions
2. Steve Mason – The Letter
3. Perfume Genius – Perry
4. The Kays Lavelle – Swanfields
5. Midlake – Rulers, Ruling All Things
The National – England
The Twilight Sad – Wrong Car
Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
Cloud Cult – You’ll Be Bright (Invocation Pt 1)
Postdata – The Coroner
You are all wrong!!! These are the best 5 songs of 2010. In descending order:
While We’re Young – Dept of Eagles
Marz – John Grant
The High Road – Broken Bells
81 – Joanna Newsom
I Still Do – I Am Kloot
One Day This’ll All Be Fields – Meeeeeersow
ok. first timer. hello!
1.midlake – in the ground
2.the national – anyone’s ghost
3.aaron – passengers
4.husky rescue – wolf trap motel
5.chimes & bells – the mole
Ben – that Away Game video made Hair Hangs Down for you didn’t it? Be honest. Three minutes of pure perfection!
And Dylan’s right, how the fuck has no-one else voted for Thurso? What’s wrong with you people?
Ba da ba ba da daaaaa…!
Bugger, I hate these things… mainly because that’s my evening shot, while I overturn piles of cds trying to remember my top 5 ….. this could take a while.
This is fun
Yeah, I have the same problem, poring over lists and such.
And can I just point out that Ian is in no way off to have sex with a woman. You’re on the Internet Ian, and Internet people never have sex in real life. That’s why we’re all on the Internet in the first place.
Thurso is utterly brilliant, but it’s a 2009 song for me.
am i the only person who voted for thurso? thats shocking!!!!
i did mean to add in brackets next to the choice that although it was out as a single in 2009 (i think) as the album just came out it surely qualifies.
It (kinda) counts.
well if it doesn’t count then i would change that choice to retaliate by benni hemm hemm
Matthew:
Absolutely not.
Matthew:
Yes.
In this specific order
1= Broken Social Scene – Sweetest Kill
1= Steve Mason – All Come Down
1= Phantom Band – The None of One
1= Deerhunter – Helicopter
1=Tame Impala – Solitude is Bliss
Oh I wasn’t trying to argue Thurso doesn’t count, just giving my own reason why I hadn’t picked it!
Mmmm… better get something down or this could take all night (see above re: internet folks)
Woodpigeon : And as the Ship Went Down You’d Never Looked Finer (Die Stadt Muzikanten)
Shearwater : Landscape at Speed (The Golden Archipelago)
The Burns Unit : Send Them Kids to War (Side Show)
Yusuf Azak : Thin Air (Turn on the Long Wire)
Broken Records : A Darkness Rises Up (Let Me Come Home)
Can’t resist an Honourable Mention :
I’ve just bought the re-release of Badfinger’s No Dice and I’m loving “Without You” all over again.
(Phew – that wasn’t so bad after all)
summer sun skateboard*- the japanese war effort
dear god, i hate myself- xiu xiu
way go, lily- sam amidon
bloodbuzz ohio- the national
eastern sun- yusuf azak
*i can only assume that, in a moment of collective amnesia, everyone on this thread forgot this song existed. this is the only possible reason i can fathom in regard to this songs absence from the above lists.
summer sun skateboard- the japanese war effort x5
You may believe me that Summer Sun Skateboard is going to be very, very high in my own Festive Fifty. It is not only an awesome song, but translated perfectly to an acoustic ballad the other week at Yusuf’s album launch in Edinburgh.
This is one of many reasons why Jamie is a genius. That and his obvious ability to write many songs about masturbation at the drop of a hat of course.
The Japanese War Effort qualifies as genius for being the only person I know who has a song about Inverness getting relegated, along with the other reasons.
Okay, current standings:
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
=2. Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
=2. eagleowl – No Conjunction
=2. Foals – Spanish Sahara
=2. Meursault – Weather
=2. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
=2. The National – England
So, erm, tighter than a nun’s chuff, as they say in Parliament.
+ What Jim said.
Hmm dont do top songs of the year as Im more impulsive
so, songs that I have enjoyed the most in the last few months.
Bruce Springsteen ; Aint good enough for you ( re release, whatever)
Edwyn Collins; Losing Sleep
Lenzie Moss; Kelvin British Summertime
AVI Buffalo, Remember Last time
Jesus H Foxx, Twins (live) please just release it before I forget about it
Is it okay if I change mine?
Erm, I guess so, but it’s not behaviour I generally want to encourage.
Aaaaargh!!!! Been debating what to put. Here’s my effort:-
What’s In it For – Avi Buffalo
Angela Surf City – The Walkmen
You Know You’re Not Dead – Broken Records
Funny For A Girl – Cancel the Astronauts
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National (although England is fab!)
Got another three…………………………………………
In no particular order.
Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Mumford & Sons, et. al. – Wagon Wheel (Bonaroo Festival 2010)
Micah P Hinson – Seven Horses Seen
Yusuf Azak – The Key Underground
The Se̱ors of Marseille РMars Need Guitars
Ok this has been pretty hard, so many great tunes this year.
1) ‘Blood’ – The Middle East
2) ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’ – The National
2) ‘No Conjunction’ – Eagleowl
3) ‘And Another Thing!’ – Kid Canaveral
5) ‘Strength In Numbers’ – Woodpigeon vs Eagleowl
I would’ve voted for Ward 119 but apparently that wouldn’t be very cool of me…..
I have suffered from being 100s of miles away from what I consider good music this year, and have also been limited in funds. However, I have listened a lot to:
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio (love the whole album, a bit of tactical voting here)
Blood Red Shoes – Heartsink
Interpol – Success
Caribou – Odessa
And something from the Errors album probably – A Rumour in Africa?
Man, my list sucks. I am very much looking forward to the Festive Fifty to set some of this straight!
Oh bollocks!
Eastern Sun – Yusaf Azak!
Javier – Micah P. Hinson, thank you very much! And shame on the rest of you for forgetting him!
I became a huge fan of Micah P Hinson, Elvis Perkins, and Clem Snide after reading about them in Song, by Toad.
By the way, Eef Barzelay recorded this great Tiny Desk concert for NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129910154
boke
No, Chutters, you are thinking of ‘Phlegm Slide’.
1. Zebra – Beach House
2. No Conjunction – eagleowl
3. Spanish Sahara – Foals
4. Desire Lines – Deerhunter
5. One Day All This’ll Be Fields – Meursault
Isn’t it boak, anyway?
both are right according the Urban Dictionary
1. The Scottish Enlightenment – Little Sleep
2. The Walkmen – Angela Surf City
3. Crystal Castles – Not In Love
4. The National – Anyone’s Ghost
5. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
We have just played What You Don’t Have so loud we may have broken yet another set of speakers. Awesome fuckin sauce though. Awesome. Fucking. Sauce.
Eagleowl – No Conjunction
Admiral Radley – G N D N
Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
Phantom Band – Into The Corn
Meursault – New Ruin
First five songs that come to mind. Nailing it down is a headache for another night.
Los Campesinos – ‘A heat rash in the shape of a show me state; or, letters to Charlotte’
Titus Andronicus – ‘Theme From Cheers’
Joanna Newsom – ‘Good Intentions Paving Co.’
Barton Carroll – ‘This Poor Boy Can’t Dance’
Arcade Fire – ‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)’
Over The Wall – Thurso
Eagleowl – No Conjunction
Kid Canaveral – Her Hair Hangs Down
The Savings & Loan – A Pleasing Companion
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
Is that Titus Andronicus version of the Theme From Cheers anything like the Me First & The Gimme Gimmes version?
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
Gorillaz – Rhinestone Eyes
The Drums – Down By The Water
Yusuf Azak – The Key Underground
Cults – Go Outside
BETTING ENDS!
we all know nine ball is dylan, so discount those votes
I think that was probably just a joke, Chutters, so no danger.
oh my sides are splitting…..i need some of that special tape that Gareth Bale uses
Bit late with these – apologies. Impossible task of course, but here’s my five:
Silver Columns – Columns
Kid Canaveral – Her Hair Hangs Down
Tracey Thorn – Oh! The Divorces
Arcade Fire – City With No Children
Sparrow & the Workshop – Crystals
Well I see this thread has gone off on a bit of a tangent since I last looked at it.
Five best political debates of the year???
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/27/christopher-hitchens-tony-blair-debate
MATTHEW
12 DEC 10 AT 07:17
We have just played What You Don’t Have so loud we may have broken yet another set of speakers.
12 DEC 10 AT 07:17?!!
Jesus. No wonder I was spangled all day Sunday and yesterday.
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