Monday, 11 January 2010

Flashes: Top Ten Music Lists 2009

It's that time of year again where I expend all my energy divulging the wonderous and not so wonderous sounds my ears have caught a token glimpse of in 2009....Happy listening, gig-ing and festival-ing in 2010.

Top Ten Albums:

1. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
2. Metric - Fantasies
3. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
4. Frank Turner- Poetry Of The Deed
5. Placebo - Battle For The Sun
6. The XX - XX
7. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
8. Twin Atlantic - Vivarium
9. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
10. The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile

Top Ten Singles:

1. Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
2. Sad Day For Puppets - Marble Gods
3. Exlovers - You Forget So Easily
4. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
5. Metric - Gimme Sympathy
6. Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
7. Placebo - For What It's Worth
8. New Rhodes - Joys Of Finding And Losing That Girl
9. Frank Turner - The Road
10. Metric - Sick Muse

Top Ten Performances:

1. Manic Street Preachers - HMV Forum, London
2. Manchester Orchestra - The Duchess, York
3. Rival Schools - Lock Up Tent, Leeds Festival
4. The Joy Formidable - Festival Republic Tent, Leeds Festival
5. Placebo - Bridlington Spa
6. Metric - NME Tent, Leeds Festival
7. Twin Atlantic - Fibbers, York
8. Jack Penate - NME Tent, Leeds Festival
9. Wintersleep - Fibbers, York
10. Silversun Pickups - Bridlington Spa

Just Say No...... To Snow Patrol - Top Ten Worst Singles:

1. Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes
2. Mika - We Are Golden
3. Preston - Dressed To Kill
4. Metro Station - Shake It
5. Fall Out Boy - America's Sweethearts
6. David Gray - Fugitive
7. The Big Pink - Dominos
8. Little Boots - New In Town
9. The Virgins - Rich Girls
10. Muse - United States of Eurasia

David Laley January 2010

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