End of year lists

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Best Singles of the Year

 

1. Maximo Park – Graffiti

2. The Rakes – Retreat

3. Sons and Daughters – Dance Me In

4. Arctic Monkeys – I bet you look good on the dancefloor

5. Maximo Park – Apply some pressure

6. Clor – Making you all mine

7. Art Brut – Good Weekend

8. Helen Love – Debbie Loves Joey

9. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (lies)

10. Cribs – Hey Scenester

11. The Lodger – Many thanks for your honest opinion

12. Art Brut – Emily Kane

13. Pipettes – School Uniform

14. The Brakes – All night disco party

15. Maximo Park – Going Missing

16. The Chalets – Feel the machine

17. The Rakes – 22 Grand Job

18. The Levellers – Make u happy

19. Kaiser Chiefs – Everyday I love you less and less

20. Girls Aloud – Long hot summer

21. The Bees – Chicken Payback

22. The Knife – Pass it along

23. Le Tigre – TKO

24. Happy Monday – Playground Superstar

25. Duke Spirit - Love is a unfamiliar name

26. The Rakes – Work Work Work

27. The Subways – Oh Yeah

28. Hard Fi – Hard to beat

29. Interpol – Evil

30. Magic Numbers – Forever Lost

31. The Editors – Bullets

32. Video Club – Teenage Disco

33. Clor – Love and Pain

34. The Chalets – Nightrocker EP

35. We Are Scientists – Great Escape

36. The Others – William

37. The Doves – Black and White Town

38. Jimbob – Dumb and Dumber

39. Louie – Trees

40. Lady Sovereign – 9 to 5

41. Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood

42. Futureheads – Hounds of Love

43. Go! Team – Bottle Rocket

44. Do Me Bad Things – Whats Hideous?

45. Kaiser Chiefs – Oh My God

46. El Presidente – Without You

47. Stereophonics - Dakota

48. Charlotte Hatherley – Bastardo

49. Abdoujaparov – Pop Pop Pop

50. The Bravery – An honest mistake

 

Now I haven’t brought a great deal of albums, I’m more a singles man and the one’s I have brought I tend to lob on my MP3 player and wait for them to arrive on random, these are 10 in no order that I seem to recall liking this year, but this isn’t a definite list, they are in alphabetical order rather than order of favourite

 

Arcade Fire

Art Brut

Bees

Bloc Party

Clor

Doves

Kaiser Chiefs

Le Tigre

Rakes

Video Club

 

Top 20 Gigs as far as I can remember:

 

1. Jimbob’s 3 days at The Water Rats (Jims Super Stereoworld being gig of the year)

2. Get Loaded in the Park (Happy Mondays / The Farm / Fatboy Slim / Flowered Up)

3. Pop Will Eat Itself – Shepards Bush Empire

4. Art Brut in St. Albans

5. Kasabian – Astoria

6. Video Club / Ciccone / Jimbob and Abdou at The Windmill

7. The Farm / Happy Mondays – Brixton Academy

8. Art Brut – Purple Turtle

9. Jimbob’s Christmas Concert

10. Pixies at Alexander Palace

11. TDK Music Festival, Kings X (The Bees / Magic Numbers / The Others / Goldfrapp)

12. The Waiting Room in Shepards Bush walkabout

13. The Rakes – Camden Barfly

14. Maximo Park – Leeds Festival

15. Flowered Up – Turnmills

16. Pipettes / Louie – Borderline

17. Wedding Present – Camden Crawl (whole of Camden Crawl actually – The Research / The Chalets and Art Brut)

18. XFM Big Night Out – Brixton Academy (Hard Fi and Do Me Bad Things)

19. El Presidente – Turnmills

20. Bloc Party – Barfly, Camden