Thursday 24 December 2009

Tracks of 2009


20 - Bell x1 - The Ribs of A Broken Umbrella
"A Heart warming song with a metaphor at it's heart... Ah"

19 - Friendly Fires - Kiss of Life
"Dance Punk Classic, betters the debut"

18 - Answering Machine - Cliffer
"Dance Dance Dance, the new sound of Manchester"

17 - My Tiger Timing - This is Not The Fire
"Dance Fantastic, Catchy and scratchy Like an itch you can't get rid"

16 - Ash - Various
"Impossible to pick, so much and so many great singles, Arcadia stands out"

15 - Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc
"Simply Brilliant..........etc"

14 - Broken Records - If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It
"The New Hope, the death of a England, Do You not like trains, in their own accord wondrous"

13 - Johnny Foreigner - Feels Like Summer
"A song for all seasons, even in the snow"

12 - Jamie T - Chaka Demus Ep
"Creativity overload, risk taking which sadly lacked in the finished LP"

11 - Duckworth Lewis Method - Meeting Mr Miandad
"Interesting fact Javed Miandad holds the record for the Number of Half centuries in One Day Cricket........The song is a Century off 50 balls (Ps: That's Good scoring)

10 - Metric - Gimme Sympathy
"Spit on rock Hierarchy, we don't need no Beatles or Rolling Stones..........."

09 - Fryars - Visitors
"Dark, Mono and moody, even Dave Gahan is drawn in"

08 - Two Door Cinema - Standing On Ghosts
"The great music hope of 2010, delivered delightfully in 2009"

07 - Northwestern - Ghostrock EP
"Darker, Rougher and more sarcastically biting than anything that went before, through the troubles and back to brilliance"

06 - Marmaduke Duke - Rubber Love
"Friction Fantastic"

05 - Eugene McGuiness - Fonz
"Happy Days............ Terrible Puns, as spiky and startlingly as The Fonz's hair"

04 - Pet Lions - Roman History
"Catchy American College Rock, Fuck You Weezer, Fuck You Rooney.... Fuck Yeah Pet Lions"

03 - Los Campesinos - The Sea is A Good Place To Think About The Future
"A tale so chilling, a delivery so sad, a hope springs from the vocals, crushed by the words"

02 - Thomas J Speight - This House EP
"Speight is a star, This House is his first step, the British Ryan Adams? Well that would mean he's copy, when he's actually unique"

01 - Alphabeat - The Spell
"They've upped the anti, swinging into the 80's full on catchyness without the shoulder pads and big hair, Gene Hunt would be proud"

Having heard the Alphabeat late in the year inspired this chart of 20 singles, My love has not diminished and the year of Alphabeat could be 2010.

Look out for the Decade's Top 10 in the next week, and also Books of 2009

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