End of Year List Bonanza
Righty-ho, readers of Toad, here’s your chance to get stuck in and tell me what a clueless phillistine I am even more vociferously than you normally do in the comments section.
For the end of the year I will be making a few lists of my own: a Top Twenty list of albums, and a Festive Fifty of individual songs. However, it would be nice to have reader lists as well, so I reckon everyone should email a list of the following:
1. Top ten albums,
2. Top ten songs,
3. Top five gigs,
4. Surprise hit of the year,
5. Biggest disappointment of the year,
6. Publication of the year (blog, magazine, whatever – just not this one),
7. Best major label release,
8. Top tip for 2009.
And the Toad ones:
1. Favourite Toad thread this year,
2. Features you’d like to see introduced,
3. Best band you wouldn’t know about if you didn’t read this.
Email me your responses (email address can be found from the ‘Contact’ link above).
Secondly, I will be writing an end of year summary post, and it would be really nice if any of you wanted to do the same. Email me a couple of mp3s that you want to represent your ‘year in music’ and write a bit about anything you want, really, just something kind of suitable for an end of year roundup. I’ll try and get a couple of musicky types to contribute as well, if I can, just to add a little bit of flavour.
For now, though, my Festive 50 list stands at about seventy songs, and my shortlist for the album of the year is this: Barton Carroll, Bombadil, Langhorne Slim, Felice Brothers, Meursault, Devotchka, Elbow, Pale Young Gentlemen, The Low Lows, Aidan John Moffat, The Cave Singers, The Pictish Trail, Dodos, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta, Donny Hue & the Colors, Micah P. Hinson, Ghostkeeper, Honeytrap, Johnny Flynn and Shearwater. I’ll whittle it all down over the next couple of days.
So until then, I leave you with something rather nice I happened across recently: a young lady called Hafdis Huld, from Iceland. She sounds so incredibly Waiting Room friendly that I assume DC must have played her before – not a million miles away from Soko or Hello Saferide, for example. She’s someone I intend to listen to more in the coming year, so see what you make of these two.
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