I’ve enjoyed the ‘24 Songs’ project of 12 singles this year, 30 years after ‘The Hit Parade.’
And this, another Wedding Present Christmas song for the collection, is a highlight. Love when the guitars kick in.
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I’ll be posting my fave albums of the year today and I nearly sneaked in Too-Rye-Ay (As It Should Have Sounded). It doesn’t really qualify though so it gets a post of its own.
I love the ‘new’ feel to what was already a classic.
Happy New Year for 2022. My favourite albums of last year:
50-41:
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Kitten - Personal Hotspots
Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Me Not You - Do You Feel The Same?
Japanese Breakfast - Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
Lil Nas X - MONTERO
IDestroy - We Are Girls
Demi Lovato - Dancing With The Devil…The Art Of Starting Over
Pom Poko - Cheater
Kississippi - Mood Ring
40-31:
Slothrust - Parallel Timeline
Thirty Pounds of Bone - whence, the
Liz Phair - Soberish
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
Pale Waves - Who Am I?
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos
Eliza Shaddad - The Woman You Want
Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
30-21:
Adna - Black Water
The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part One
Colleen Green - Cool
Goat Girl - On All Fours
Julia Stone - Sixty Summers
Natalie Imbruglia - Firebird
Lorde - Solar Power
ABBA - Voyage
Middle Kids - Today We’re The Greatest
Elaine Mai - Home
20-11:
Madi Diaz - History of a Feeling
Dave - We’re All Alone In This Together
Billy Bragg - The Million Things That Never Happened
Black Honey - Written & Directed
MARINA - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
Kylie V - Big Blue
Allie Crow Buckley - Moonlit and Devious
The War On Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
10 TORRES - Thirstier
9 Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!
8 Juliana Hatfield - Blood
7 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
6 The Weather Station - Ignorance
5 Linn Koch-Emmery - Being the girl
4 Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
An absolute revelation for me. Appearing at Latitude as a last minute replacement in an early afternoon slot, Rebecca and her dancers stole the show, despite not having fully rehearsed. No surprise this album has dominated end of year polls. She put everything into this.
3 Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
A festival discovery. Loved hearing these songs at Latitude and ordered the LP as soon as I got home. A brilliant debut that gets better with each listen.
2 Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
In many other years this would have topped my list. Simbi’s always been excellent, but this album is something else. Huge and ambitious.
1 Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
“Be Sweet” is my favourite song of the year. I smile every time I hear the first note on the radio.
“Posing For Cars” is a very close second fave. The perfect album closer. The acoustic version is beautiful, and the album’s big electric guitar outro version is everything.
I haven’t loved an album this much since Art Angels.
My annual list of my favourite albums from the preceding year:
50-41:
Phoebe Ryan - How It Used to Feel
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
Lane 8 - Brightest Lights
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers
Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
Best Coast - Always Tomorrow
Such Small Hands - Carousel
The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do
40-31:
Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
Mourn - Self Worth
Margaret Glaspy - Devotion
Swamp Dogg - Sorry You Couldn’t Make It
Harkin - Harkin
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Indian Queens - God Is A Woman
30-21:
Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Thurston Moore - By The Fire
Lady Gaga - Chromatica
Juanita Stein - Snapshot
beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers
Torres - Silver Tongue
Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
Another Sky - I Slept On The Floor
Georgia - Seeking Thrills
20-11:
Charli XCX - how i’m feeling now
Nana Adjoa - Big Dreaming Ants
Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
Sophie Hunger - Halluzinationen
Denai Moore - Modern Dread
Samia - The Baby
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
POLIÇA - When We Stay Alive
Halsey - Manic
Taylor Swift - folklore
10 Taylor Swift - evermore
9 Bruce Hornsby - Non-Secure Connection
My Resolve - YouTube
8 Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
On - YouTube
7 Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler - In Memory Of My Feelings
Sabotage - YouTube
6 Låpsley - Through Water
Womxn - YouTube
5 Bryde - The Volume Of Things
4 Dream Nails - Dream Nails
Kiss My Fist - YouTube
3 Dream Wife - So When You Gonna…
2 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
1 Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
Happy New Year! My favourite albums of 2019:
50-41:
Idlewild - Interview Music
Van Morrison - Three Chords and The Truth
Salad - The Salad Way
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
Anna Of The North - Dream Girl
Sigrid - Sucker Punch
Joris Voorn - Four
Better Oblivion Community Centre - Better Oblivion Community Centre
W.H.Lung - Incidental Music
Taylor Swift - Lover
40-31:
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Heather Woods Broderick - Invitation
Solange - When I Get Home
The Highwomen - The Highwomen
Woman’s Hour - Ephyra
Sir Babygirl - Crush On Me
Hælos - Any Random Kindness
FONTAINES D.C. - Dogrel
Ariana Grande - thank you, next
Laura Jean Anderson - Lonesome No More
30-21:
Bon Iver - i,i
Mavis Staples - We Get By
Sarah Bethe Nelson - Weird Glow
Stormzy - Heavy Is The Head
Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Tamaryn - Dreaming In The Dark
Broods - Don’t Feed The Pop Monster
Pom Pom Squad - Ow
Bat for Lashes - Lost Girls
20-11:
MARINA - Love + Fear
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
Desperate Journalist - In Search of The Miraculous
Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
The Soft Cavalry - The Soft Cavalry
Sleeper - The Modern Age
Clairo - Immunity
Juliana Hatfield - Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police
Juliana Hatfield - Weird
10 MUNA - Saves The World
9 Shura - forevher
8 Charly Bliss - Young Enough
7 Black Belt Eagle Scout - At The Party With My Brown Friends
6 Billie Eilish- WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
5 Tegan & Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You
4 Bruce Hornsby - Absolute Zero
3 Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
2 Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
1 Hatchie - Keepsake
The list is back! A lot of my new music listening in 2018 came via Spotify’s Discover Weekly, and probably skewed this list even more towards white / female vocal / guitar than my default taste.
I ran out of time this year so there are no notes about the top ones but it’s very important to get this posted on January 1 in accordance with tradition :)
50 Wax Idols - Happy Ending
49 The Carters - Everything Is Love
48 KT Tunstall - WAX
47 The Orielles - Silver Dollar Moment
46 Martha Ffion - Sunday Best
45 Lucy Dacus - Historian
44 Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain
43 Roma di Luna - We Were Made To Forgive
42 Dragon Inn 3 - Double Line
41 Skating Polly - The Make It All Show
40 Black Honey - Black Honey
39 She Drew The Gun - Revolution Of The Mind
38 Weakened Friends - Common Blah
37 Belly - Dove
36 Black Belt Eagle Scout - Mother Of My Children
35 Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco
34 Liza Anne - Fine But Dying
33 Middle Kids - Lost Friends
32 Metric - Art of Doubt
31 Mastersystem - Dance Music
30 Anna Calvi - Hunter
29 Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
28 Snail Mail - Lush
27 CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead
26 Jon Hopkins - Singularity
25 Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals
24 Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
23 Le Galaxie - Pleasure
22 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
21 Hinds - I Don’t Run
20 Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
So Right - YouTube
19 Goat Girl - Goat Girl
The Man - YouTube
18 Lykke Li - so sad so sexy
utopia - YouTube
17 Kate Nash - Yesterday Was Forever
Twisted Up - YouTube
16 Christine and the Queens - Chris
Girlfriend - YouTube
15 Eliza Shaddad - Future
My Body - YouTube
14 Brandi Carlile - By The Way, I Forgive You
The Joke - YouTube
13 She Makes War - Brace For Impact
Devastate Me - YouTube
12 Charlotte Hatherley - True Love
11 Exitmusic - The Recognitions
Iowa - YouTube
10 Our Girl - Stranger Today
Our Girl - YouTube
9 Juliana Hatfield - Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John
8 Sophie Hunger - Molecules
7 Mitski - Be The Cowboy
6 Poliça & s t a r g a z e - Music For The Long Emergency
5 Buffalo Tom - Quiet and Peace
4 Juanita Stein - Until The Lights Fade
3 Bryde - Like An Island
2 Dream Wife - Dream Wife
1 Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance