Prepare to Get Voting
 It’s tough to do this kind of thing off the top of your head, so I thought I should probably warn you about the Song, by Toad readers’ Best Of votes this year, so you can have a wee think before the spotlight falls upon you and you have to make a choice.
This Friday: Top 5 Songs On the Friday Fives this week, instead of the usual nonsense, I will be asking you to list your five favourite songs of the year. Then I will add them up, and on Sunday afternoon I will announce the winners. Simple.
Next Friday: Top 5 Albums Next Friday we’ll be doing much the same thing, but with our five favourite albums this time. I think the concept of an album can be treated pretty loosely, so if something’s a mini-album or a longish EP then I reckon it can pretty much count. No point being a fussy fucker about this kind of thing.
I will be counting the votes of course, but I won’t actually be voting myself. That’s because I will as usual be publishing my own top twenty albums of the year, as well as my favourite fifty songs, but that will all be coming a bit later and I don’t want to ruin the (unbearable) suspense.
And finally, as a salute to the absolute fucking genius who decided to describe the storms hitting Scotland today as ‘Hurricane Bawbag’, I thought I’d include some Bob Dylan. Being English I can’t even pronounce bawbag properly, but that’s still the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.
Bob Dylan – Shelter From the Storm
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Baws, I have my albums pretty much sorted, but haven’t even though about songs yet. I might die in Hurricane Bawbag tonight though, so no point worrying.
Hurricane Bawbag seems little more than an over-enthusiastic breeze so far. Although I suppose I could come to regret being so blase in a couple of hours.
It’s not quite as bad as made out in Paisley, but I’m going into Glasgow where there’s TRANSPORT CHAOS apparently, so I might end up dead in a tree.
But your bunny ears will live forever…
“No point being a fussy fucker about this kind of thing.”
Fave sentence I have read all week.
Hurricane Bawbag hasn’t seemed that bad compared to ‘the day it was windy’ back in the summer. And if the authorities weren’t shiteing themselves over looking unprepared ala last years snow then they wouldn’t have done anything.
That said Bawbag and variations there of is a marvellous word!
If yr going Dylan how about Hurricane or better yet Idiot Wind
Lach, I really wasn’t putting that much thought into it, I have to confess. I do that a lot around here actually.
CMGrigg, yeah apparently the West coast was a bit bad, but it never really got worse than ‘quite windy’ over here, as far as I can tell.
Yeah I realized that i’d done that terrible thing of thinking what was happening in perth was what was happening else where. It’s taken 14 years but I’ve got a horrible feeling that I’ve become a local!