It's that time of year again for meaningless music list's. I am really struggling to get a top 5 albums list been a bit of a poor musical year to be frank.
Top 5 Album
Foals - Total Life Forever
Yeasayer - Oddblood
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Skream - Outside the Box
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Top 5 songs
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
Magnetic Man - Perfect Stranger
Kele - Everthing You Wanted
Yeasayer - O.N.E
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean/ Foals - Blue Blood
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The National - High Violet
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
Foals - Total Life Forever
Delphic - Acolyte
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Top 5 songs
Delphic - Halcyon
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
Yeasayer - O.N.E
Robyn - Dancing on my own
Two door cinema club - I can talk (Got rereleased!)
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - The Logic of Chance
Foals - Total Life Forever
Delphic - Acolyte
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Eminem - Recovery
Songs
Spanish Sahara - Foals
Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club
Chase & Status - Let You Go
Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Sick Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SDP7M4ljE
Becoming A Jackal - Villagers
I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling
I And Love And You - The Avett Brothers
Crystal Castles (II) - Crystal Castles
Belle & Sebastian Write About Love - Belle & Sebastian
Songs
That Day - Villagers
Devil's Spoke -Laura Marling
I And Love And You - The Avett Brothers
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John - Belle & Sebastian (feat. Norah Jones)
I'm Not In Love - Crystal Castles (feat. Robert Smith)
subs (both categories): Beach House, LCD Soundsystem, The National
1 - Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2 - Interpol - Interpol
3 - Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
4 - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
5 - Fear Factory - Mechanize
Songs
1 - Deftones - This Place Is Death
2 - Deftones - You've Seen The Butcher
3 - Interpol - The Undoing
4 - Fear Factory - Christploitation
5 - Interpol - Always Malaise (The Man I Am)
The XX does that count? Quite good. A bit like 'Faith' by The Cure. I'm struggling, though.
If John Peel were still alive, he'd know.
I agree - you would have been his Festive Fifty!
PS XX album was out autumn last year
2 Admiral Fell Promises - Sun Kil Moon
3 Grinderman 2 - Grinderman
4 Have one on me - Joanna Newsom
5 broken record - Lloyd Cole
1. Matthew Dear - Black City
2. Buck 65 - 20 Odd Years
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
2010 Top 5 Songs
1. Buck 65 - Paper Airplanes
2. Prince Fatty - Insane In The Brain
3. Matthew Dear - Soil To Seed
4. Mux Mool - Goblin Town
5. Miike Snow - Animal ( Mark Ronson Remix )
1. Spanish Sahara - Foals
2. The Cave - Mumford & Sons
3. We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire
4. Crystalised - The xx
5. Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
6. Northern Skies - I Am Kloot
7. bad song not worth mentioning!
8. Rinse Me Down - Bombay Bicycle Club
9. Radar Detector - Darwin Deez
10. Paper Romance - Groove Armada
time for this year's lists. Unlike Curbey I thought last year was a good one for albums, better than this year - there were two great albums I didn't hear till this year - by I Am Kloot and by Caitlin Rose.
2011 Top 5 Albums
What Did You Expect From .... The Vaccines
The Cults - The Cults
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Smoke Ring For My Halo - Kurt Vile
Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now
2011 Top 5 Songs
Sadness Is A Blessing - Lykke Li
Rolling In The Deep - Adele
Apartment - Young The Giant
The Cults - Go Outside
Under Cover of Darkness - The Strokes
Hey Salad, how about setting up a seperate thread for 2011's songs and albums of the year?