Friday Five: Favourite Songs of the Year
 Okay, angry mob of the Toad readership, do your very worst. Today, as promised, is the day we vote on our five favourite songs of the year so there will be no foolish questions as per usual, but what there will be is the chance for you to write down your favourite songs, in no particular order, and I will count them up and find out which songs the readers of Toad have enjoyed the most this year.
There aren’t any real rules, although the song should have been released in 2011. And also, just to help me count, I’d appreciate it if you could write in in the form Artist – Song Title please. Other than that, umm… well, do your worst, I suppose.
And, as per usual, El, Brian and myself will be live on Fresh Air Radio from about half three in the afternoon. We have special guests this week, but they were invited by El and I have no idea who they are, what they do or why they are there. I guess I will find out when I get there.
Live on Fresh Air Radio from 3:30pm UK time – listen here.
Now, to get you in the mood for voting for your top five songs, here’s a quick recap of last year’s winners, as well as a link to the thread itself where the voting took place.
1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
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=3. Meursault – What You Don’t Have
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=3. Broken Records – You Know You’re Not Dead
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And the playlist for this week’s show shall appear live below, as we play the songs:
1. Whirling Pig Dervish – Bawjaws
2. The Cure – The Love Cats
3. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – John Taylor’s Month Away
4. Ringo Deathstarr – Do It Every Time
5. Twin Shadow – Slow
6. Hooray for Earth – True Loves
7. DZ Deathrays – Teeth
8. Joanna Gruesome – Lemonade Grrl
9. Class Actress – Weekend
10. Shirley Ellis – The Clapping Song
11. Blondie – Hanging on the Telephone
12. Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea
13. Foals – Spanish Sahara
14. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
15. Diana Ross – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
For second there, I thought you had a Spanish Brian with you today.
Veronica Falls – Beachyhead
The Low Anthem – Boeing 737
Deerhunter – Cool (Pylon Cover)
The Black Tambourines – White Album
Ghostpoet – Cash And Carry Me Home
El Brian doesn’t have much of a ring to it, does it. Anyway, stop buggering about and get voting. There are rules here y’know. Fives first, pish later.
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Copper Top
The Antlers – Parentheses
PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
King Creosote & John Hopkins – John Taylor’s Month Away
Explosions In The Sky – Postcard from 1952
I think…..
King Creosote & John Hopkins – John Taylor’s Month Away
J Mascis – Several Shades of Why
Wilco – One Sunday Morning
Bon Iver – Holocene
D.R.U.G.S – Love/Lust
The Black Tambourines? Good call Mr. Oh Hi. Also, Boeing 737 is the one song so far also in my Festive Fifty, but it seems we have an early leader with KC & JH.
Anyway, WE’RE OFF!
Only time for jokes today, am learning how to bitchslap WordPress websites.
Darren Hayman – I Taught You How To Dance
Kurt Vile – Society is my Friend
Sparrow and The Workshop – Against The Grain
Josh T Peason – Woman when i’ve raised hell
Rob St John – Sargasso Sea
thats off the top of my head, theres been loads of songs that have caught my ears this year…….so i might vote for another 5 under another name!!!
Nineball, perhaps?
Mogwai – George Square thatcher Death Party
Bill Wells Aidan Moffat – Glasgow Jubilee
Paws – Kitten
Lil Daggers – King Kopse
Last one a bit of a sketchy one but:
The Twighlight Sad- Suck
oh Nineball, where has he gone?
maybe that hotrod guy would know?
I’m not going to justify any of this, and I’ll change my mind tomorrow. Fuck you all. Just no-one put Fleet Foxes or Iron & Wine in your list, or I’ll be off to the shed for my pitchfolk and flaming torch.
Slow Club – Two Cousins
Darran Hayman – I Taught You How To Dance
The Mountain Goats – Damn These Vampires
The Spook School – History
Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea
This Silent Forest – The Fight
Vukovi – Try Before You Buy( Use your sex)
Otherpeople – Bored of Acoustic Guitars
Discopolis – Lofty Ambitions
Cancel The Astronauts – Seven Vices
i’ve also invented a new hashtag #befriendyourrecordcollection
So far, in no particular order:
Chad VanGaalen- Sara
Explosions In The Sky – Last known surroundings
Timber Timbre- Bad Ritual
Tom Waits- Tell Me
Youth Lagoon- Montana
1. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
2. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
3. Friends – I’m His Girl
4. Lana Del Rey – Video Games
5. Atlas Sound – Lightworks
George Square Thatcher Death Party = best song title of the year.
Wolves Of Winter – The Art Of Temptation
Letters – Flash! Lights
French Wives – Numbers
Happy Particles – A.M. Sky (Bleary)
Evil Hand – Returned In Time
No doubt I’ve missed something obvious but there you go!
Yes Jonny, I’m with you. I am thinking of banning Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine and Destroyer from this vote. Pure soft-pop garbage, the lot of it.
1) The War on Drugs – Come to the City
2)PJ Harvey – On Battleship Hill
3)The Low Anthem – Boeing 737
4)Bon Iver – Holocene
5) Wild Beasts – Bed of Nails (best pop song i’ve heard in ages, though not such a big fan of the band)
I should also give a special mention for Alexandra Stan, who managed this year to get a song into my all-time bottom 10 with the truly abysmal “Mr. Saxobeat”. A noteworthy achievement. Well done, madam. Well done indeed.
The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
Childish Gambino – Freaks and Geeks
Dananananakroyd – All Us Authors
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Wild Beasts – Albatross
1= King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats in the Attic (Unravelled)
1= Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Glasgow Jubilee
3 Fucked Up – Queen of Hearts
4 Standard Fare – Suitcase
5 Joe Goddard – Gabriel
Evil Hand – Returned in Time is also in my Festive Fifty. Good call!
Death Cab For Cutie – You Are A Tourist
Rob St John – Sargasso Sea
Trapped In Kansas – Happiness is an Allegory, Sadness a Story
King Creosote and John Hopkins – John Taylor’s Month Away
PAWS – Bloodlines
Right, this will change in about 40 minutes, but here goes
Thurston Moore – Benediction
Something Beginning With L – Mean
Ringo Deathstarr – So High
Real Estate – All The Same
Yusuf Azak – Swim
Dead Cab? For the love of God, Brian…
Not a lot of common threads running through this one. Sargasso Sea and KC/JH seem to be the only ones which are coming up the most.
Martin, Saxobeat just sounds abhorrent, never mind the actual music itself.
1. Bon Iver – Perth
2. Bon Iver – Calgary
3. Bon Iver – Holocene
4. Bon Iver – Hannam, Tx
5. Bon Iver – Wash.
Unfortunately, in a moment of weakness, I played a Fleet Foxes track on my podcast earlier this year, and some fuckers have voted for it in the best tracks of the year poll. I may have to pull out my Cameron wanker veto.
No. Guess again.
1. King post kitsch – don’t you touch my fucking honeytone
2. The antlers – putting the dog to sleep
3. Fleet foxes – helplessness blues
4. New found glory – summer fling, don’t mean a thing
5. Wild flag – future crimes
Jonny, it’s the least you can do. Consider it your duty to the people of the internet.
Come on Matthew, are we really going to be banging on about production values again. If a song is good, it’s good.
Ho ho ho.
Only kidding. Although the Bon Iver album isn’t THAT bad.
1. Rob St John – Sargasso Sea
2. The Douglas Firs – I Will Kill Again
3. Wye Oak – Holy Holy
4. Ringo Deathstarr – Do It Every Time
5. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats in the Attic
Re. Saxobeat, it was ineluctable on holiday in Turkey. The irony that Saxo is also the name of a popular turkey stuffing was almost certainly lost in translation somewhere above the glistening Med.
Oh hang on, it’s Paxo isn’t it. Well, there goes that little bit of serendipity…
1. Howler – You like white women, I like cigarettes
2. Adam Stafford – Step Up, Raise Hands
3. White Denim – Street Joy
4. Josh T Pearson – Woman when Ive raised hell
5. PET – What you building?
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffatt – The Copper Top
Elbow – Lippy Kids
M83 – Midnight City
The Rapture – How Deep is your Love?
Burial – Street Halo
1. Johnny Robinson – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
2. Amy Winehouse – Something from her new ‘not good enough to release when she was alive’ album
3. Christina Perri – Jar Of Hearts
4. Slow Moving Millie – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
5. Colin & Justin – Mary’s Boy Child
Jamie, perhaps, but soft pop renders any song almost unlistenable, let alone the shite on those albums I mentioned.
Stephen Malkmus – Senator
Ben Marwood – Toil
Frank Turner – I Am Disappeared
Free Swim – I’ll Graft Two Extra Hands On My Chest
Wild Flag – Romance
can I stop being moderated next year please?
Martin, it’s a little early to be this drunk isn’t it?
Can’t believe I didn’t include Lana Del Rey!Thank you Martin. Now that is the song of the year! Unofficial 6th choice.
You really should include what we’re not allowed to vote for in the instructions, Matthew.
love donnellys five-some of my faves in there.
Jamie, you’re right actually, she should also be banned.
James, I thought it would be self-evident. You shouldn’t have to add ‘please don’t vote for songs which are shit’ in the instructions for ‘Best Five Songs of the Year’, really.
1. Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells – The Copper Top
2. FOUND – Anti-climb paint
3. Timber Timbre – Black Water
4. Liz Green – Gallows
5. Rob St John – Domino
It sort of feels wrong to be voting for this FOUND track as it’s been around for ages, but it’s on Factorycraft, so it counts in my book!
JT Pearson and PJ Harvey have also damned themselves by making it too difficult to pick just the one song.
Every time I hear someone say “Bon Iver” I want to punch something…
But Matthew, I didn’t vote for ANY Tom waits at all! Oh wait…you said “shit”. Sometimes I confuse the two.
What’s wrong with Death Cab?!
Just realised I forgot about Adam Stafford – Fire & Theft and We Were Promised Jetpacks – Pear Tree, gutted. If someone called “El Brian” votes for them later I will deny all knowledge.
Youth Lagoon! Good choice, Benjiin!
Real Estate – Green Aisles
Bill Callahan – Baby’s Breath
The War on Drugs – I Was There
Rob St. John – Domino
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Black Captain
Pet – Middle Child Syndrome
FOUND – You’re No Vincent Gallo
The Copper Top – Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
The Middle East – Jesus Came to My Birthday Party
Sparrow And The Workshop – Snakes In The Grass
can’t believe no ones put any Olly Murrs!!!!
1) Found: Lowlandness
2) Eleanor Friedberger: My Mistakes
3) Sparrow and the Workshop: Snakes in the Grass
4) EMA: The Grey Ship
5) St. Vincent: Cruel
And cause I can’t help myself.
Timber Timbre: Creep on Creepin’ On
6) Cults: Go Outside
7) The Dodos: Black Night
9) Kurt Vile: Baby’s Arms
Scientist, I have exactly the same problem with Josh T. Pearson. Kurt Vile too, actually – separating out one song from those albums seemed to be slightly against the spirit of them.
Shit I forgot factory craft was this year, argh and so was the Zoey Van Goey Album! So many tracks I coulda included. If my Twighlight Sad suggestion gets disqualified for not technically being released this year I may have to put one of them in or The Go! Team! Argh!
Panda Bear – Alsation Darn
Conquering Animal Sound – Giant
Kurt Vile – The Creature
Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart – Even In Dreams
The Rural Alberta Advantage – Good Night
The favourite song lists just reinforce how little attention I pay to track names these days. Couldn’t remember song names from Washed Out or Wooden Shjips albums.
I was also quite close to voting for Vincent Gallo – does anyone else hum that if passing a poster with him on it? .oh well, just me then..
1. Okkervil River – Your Past Life As a Blast
2. King Post Kitsch-The Werewolf Hop
3. Aunt Martha-Bloodshot
4. The Decemberists-Rise To Me
5. DeVotchKa-All The Sand In All The Sea
I are Scientist, I have a terrible habbit of humming it whenever people mention wine, or Im near the booze aisle in tesco!
Martin – isn’t Saxo some brand of table salt? Or a model of Citroen favoured by boy racers.
PJ Harvey – All and Everyone
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing
tUne-yArDs – Bizness
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat – Let’s Stop Here
Damn you, CMGRIGG, I hadn’t thought of that but will now also be condemned to hum it for ever more as a wine-induced earworm!
That Lykke Li song got played to death on 6Music, but I love it.
Apologies to everyone whose comments I have tinkered with. It’s just so the formatting will be easier to copy, paste and order alpahbetically so I can count the votes, that’s all.
I are scientist, I’m just glad I’m no longer suffering alone.
King Post Kitsch – You Talk Too Much
Ian Humberstone – House on the Hill
Fantasy Rainbow – Sun is a Drug
Wye Oak – Holy Holy
Bill Callahan – America!
I had to narrow this down from about 37!
Tom Waits – Pay Me
The Twilight Sad – Sick
The Louche FC – Back Bedroom Casaulty
The Spook School – History
Edinburgh School For The Deaf – Of Scottish Blood And Sympathies
Currently we have:
1. Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea
=2. King Creosote & John Hopkins – John Taylor’s Month Away
=2. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Copper Top
Can Withered Hand – Real Snow be an honorary S,bT Xmas number one?
“Martin – isn’t Saxo some brand of table salt? Or a model of Citroen favoured by boy racers.”
According to the internet, the salt is Saxa and the car is Saxo. Maybe the unfortunate subject of Mr Saxobeat drives one. I neither know nor care – he is doomed.
Here we go (this may differ when I do the blog ones but for now)
1. Hiatus featuring Linton Kwesi Johnson – Insurrection
2. PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
3. CocknBullKid – Hold Onto Your Misery
4. Last Battle – Viv Nicolson
5. King Post Kitsch – Don’t You Touch my Fucking Honeytone
(typing this at work)
Chutters, I think I have the powers to summarily award that honour, yes! We’re not a fucking democracy here, that’s for sure.
FOUND – Machine Age Dancing
Jonnie Common – Summer Is For Going Places
Rob St John – Sargasso Sea
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats In The Attic
Meursault – And Butter Would Not Melt (from Jonnie Common’s Deskjob)
Good point, Nineball – WHERE THE FUCK IS JONNIE FUCKING COMMON, YOU FUCKING PHILISTINES???
Fuck – I forgot about Deskjob!
Glad that Nineball bloke remembered…
I’ll start thinking about my five now..
hiya Nineball, where have you been hiding you huffy shite?
most of the songs off Jonnie Common album are Down The Tiny Steps songs…….So unless he reforms the best band never, i’m not voting for them!
Oooh, controversial.
I am bloody well voting for them though!
Sparrow & the Workshop – Snakes in the Grass
Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Copper Top
Adam Stafford – A Temple of the Holy Ghost
Monoganon – Needle Green
That Nineball’s a bit of a lightweight pop-bitch though isn’t he?
I mean look at them – all a bunch of three-minute pop hits. He might as well have chosen Kylie fucking Minogue. Where’s the meaty heavyweight serious stuff?
And also Summer Is For Going Places – while being a great track – isn’t as good as Hand To Hand..
Adam Stafford – Shot Down You Summer Wannabes
King Creosote & John Hopkins – Bats in the Attic
Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea
The Twilight Sad – Sick
Wild Beasts – Albatross
Dylan thats a little too like the pished old bloke sitting at the end of the bar talking to himself!!!
stop it
I agree with Dylan that hand-hand is an amazing amazing song
Yeah, too right James.
Nineball’s a dick.
Chutters, what you on about now?
oh boy
Christ.
PJ Harvey – The Words that Maketh Murder
Bishi – Dia Ti Maria
Liz Green – Displacement Song
Big Joan – Noah’s Farm
Emily Barker – Ropes
Big year for the girls.
If I felt okay about listing stuff I’m directly involved in, I’d make room for Hysterical Injury’s Futuristic Nightmare, but I don’t so I won’t : )
gee.
i don’t think my voting 5 of my favorites will do any difference in your vote this year. oh well,at least i know about 60% of the songs being voted by all of you so far, that makes me feel relieved
ok, there’s my vote in no particular order
1.Alaska In Winter – Demons
2. Radiohead – Codex
3. Guillemots – Walk The River
4. Other Lives – Dustbowl III
5. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
and i think i have shown adequate respect on your no-fleet-foxes-or-iron-&-wine-or-bon-iver songs
ASHG – none of the ones which are leading the voting are in my personal list either. Even if I was allowed to pick a Rob St. John song in my Festive Fifty I’d be going for Domino or Stainforth Force rather than Sargasso Sea.
Wes, no problem listing stuff you’re involved in. Presumably the only reason you’re involved with it in the first place is because you genuinely, sincerely like it best anyway, so I think that’s fair enough.
The only reason I don’t list label stuff in my own lists is because I don’t think it’s fair or nice to start picking favourites.
(don’t think this worked first time, either that or Matthew wont let me vote for James Blake)
Adam Stafford – Fire & Theft
Metronomy – The Look
Rob St John – Sargasso Sea
Wilco – I Might
James Blake – There’s a limit to your love
I have that problem; however as I didn’t put out the last battle’s latest EP, I have no qualms about voting for stuff from that.
HP, I shouldn’t, but I will. Mostly because you included Rob on there.
Ed, well I think people realise that almost by definition we like the stuff we release the best, otherwise we wouldn’t be releasing it. But nevertheless, picking a song or album by one band on the label over one by another would seem rather unkind.
Oh well in *that* case…
No, sticking to my 5 all the same : ) It’s just a personal sensibility rather than an attempt to follow rules that aren’t there. (In anonymous polls, just show me where to click, though : p)
You should make them mud-wrestle for your votes Matthew.
What do you think’s happening tomorrow, Baggins?
Tom Waits – Bad as Me
PJ Harvey – England
St Vincent – Chloe in the Afternoon
Colin Stetson – Judges
tUnE-yArDs – Bizness (I copied the ridiculous case choice from Amazon)
and a bonus one to piss you off: Bon Iver – Holocene
1. Toddla T and Roots Manuva ‘Watch Me Dance’ Andrew Weatherall Remix
2. Soft Rocks ‘We Hunt Buffalo Now’ Andrew Weatherall Remix
3. The People’s Temple ‘Sons of Stone’
4. Free School ‘Lemon’ Time and Space Remix
5. Arctic Monkeys ‘That’s Where You’re Wrong’
I think, at the moment. Also like Lykki Li, Cults, Warm Digits, Moon Duo and several other Weatherall remixes but this 5 ‘ll do for now.
King Post Kitsch – Don’t touch my fucking honeytone
Frank Turner – Glory hallelujah
Slow Club – Two Cousins
Scroobius Pip – The Struggle
Pete and the Pirates – Can’t Fish
But mainly the PAWS session and the Meursault Cardiff session
I really fucking loathe listing things but here goes;
1. A Lull – Weapons for War
2. Akron/Family – Another Sky
3. Adam Stafford – Shot Down You Summer Wannabes
4. When Saints Go Machine – Kelly
5. Wavves – Bug
*cowers*
So happy Rob is doing well. If I didn’t think it a bit wank to do so, I would have Sargasso Sea right up there.
2011 is definitely my ‘pop year’. Whoda thought?
Hello! I am living off the cultural radar here in CT. It’s now 18 months since I went to a gig and this my top five looks like something the guardian might write. Eurgh. I am looking forward to checking out a bazillion of the things mentioned above.
Slow Club – Two Cousins
Wild Beasts – Albatross
The Antlers – I Don’t Want Love
M83 – Midnight City
Ladytron – Ambulances
I miss Edinburgh. I could get to Glasgow and back almost two times in the time it takes me just to get to Brooklyn. Bah.
Christ, just about added all these up now!
My god, whatever you’re playing now is not good. I will not be restarting my music listening career with that.
PJ Harvey – The words that maketh murder
Rob St John – Domino
Metronomy – The Look (I think it’s this one – its the only really good track on the whole album)
Josh T Pearson – Woman when i’ve rasied hell
Pete and the Pirates – Cold Black Kitty
I think mention should go to My Tiny Robots for two great singles out this year. I look forward to more in the new year
So far, Sargasso Sea is in the lead, followed by Bats in the Attic and The Copper Top.
Adam Stafford is suffering from having too many songs people like.
Tied behind that lot are Woman When I’ve Raised Hell, John Taylor’s Month Away, Snakes in the Grass, Sick and Albatross.
Dead Boy Robotics – Gatherer on the Threshold
Arms and Sleepers – Tusk
Rob St John – Sargasso Sea
James Blake – The one Feist got no credit for
Matthew can choose my fifth, because I’m such a lovely person.
Should there be a category for artist-with-the-most-songs-folk-like?
Well they’ll definitely get an honourable mention at the very least, because Adam Stafford, KC/JH, BW/AM and PJ Harvey are all suffering a bit from being too popular.
Matthew, your fifth song is… um…
John Knox Sex Club – Above Us the Waves
Top five songs of the year.
This year I have been mostly enjoying music from my cd collection that I had previously dismissed or not been aware of.
1 Life Without buildings ; the one with the “if I lose you bit at the start”
2. John Martyn, sweet little mystery
3. Ron Sexsmith , The less I know
4. Ballboy, travelling on trains around Europe. ( unbelievable tune)
5. The Inspector Tapehead song from Deskjob. The highpoint of a very good compilation.
mon the copper top! Was just going to vote for this x 5 but thought i should try to make an effort. And hurrah for another liz green vote! In other news, just almost died walking into path of santa train on princes st – would have been an embarrassing way to go!
Yes it would, although I like Princes Street being pedestrianised actually.
1. Roy Moller – Byres Road Saturday
2. Found – Machine Age Dancing
3. Timber Timbre – Woman
4. Bill Callahan – Drover
5. Jonny – Goldmine
I just can’t choose one particular song from the King Creosote and Jon Hopkins album, though they are in the end the songs I’ve listened most to this year.
I was thinking that last week! Princess st is a lot less of a nightmare when you can actually walk around without fear of a trampling!
I’m compiling a Spotify playlist of my favourite songs of the year and there are WAY more than 5 but here’s the required handful:
1. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bubble
2. Aidan John Moffat & Bill Wells – The Copper Top
3. Metronomy – The Look
4. PS I Love You – Subtle and Majestic *
5. Found – Johnny I Can’t Walk the Line
Closely followed by
6. Wild Beasts – Loop the Loop
7. Jonnie Common – Summer is for Going Places
* I think this song originally came out a couple of years ago as a b-side but was released on an album this year. Feel free to swop for one of the other two if this breaches house rules…
P.S. Kammerspiel is one if those albums that it’s hard to single out a specific track…
shit! Stood watching the john knox sex club their new cd and in particular the 1st song is awsome
Machine Age Dancing! Yessss, that’s in my Festive Fifty too!
Los Campesinos! – Life is a Long Time
Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells – The Copper Top
Mogwai – Death Rays
St. Vincent – Cheerleader
PS I Love You – Facelove
Actually, can I change my PS I Love You one to
The Twilight Sad – Sick.
Done!
Bright Eyes – Shell Games
Yuck – The Wall
St Vincent – Cheerleader
Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks (wee bit embarrassed about this one!)
Metronomy – The Bay
I can never do this with certainty so I will try to use Last.fm stats to tell me what I listened to most as that means best…last I checked.
The Deep Dark Woods – Marys Gone
Frederick Squire – All Things Past Serve To Guide You On Your Way
Bon Iver – Holocene*
Jeffrey Foucault – Goners Most
Conrad Plymouth – Circle Drive
* = Sorry Matthew
Handsome Furs – When I Get Back
Nathaniel Rateliff – We Never Win
BOAT – Forever In Armitron
South of Lincoln – 18th & H
Tyler Butler – Plover
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BETTING ENDS!
I think it’s fair to call it a day with that one, thanks for voting!