So now I'm going to attempt to do a top 5 of 2009, both songs and albums.
So lets start with the albums shall we........
5. Toddla T - 'Skanky Skanky' The more electro choice in this list which serves as a great alternative to the gee-tar based albums. Not only is this a great album with great 'rydams', it's also got some funny skits in there. RECESSION
4. Golden Silvers - 'True romance' Seeing a band 6 times in a year, 3 of which were in the same weekend means they must be good. Maybe Golden Silvers haven't achieved the mainstream success they deserved but they released a corker
r of a debut this year to justify some of the earlier hype.
3. Bombay Bicycle Club - 'I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose' Another band who were around for a while before releasing their debut. In this writers opinion, if you can call me that, this is what indie should all be about.
2. The Horrors - 'Primary Colours' How do you make the haters all sit up and take notice? You make an album so epic everyone's forgotten why they hate you. Could have been my number one but its not.
1. The Maccabbees - ' Wall of Arms' Before this album was released I'd admit I wasn't a huge fan of The Maccabbees I liked them but not to the stages I do now, post wall of Arms. This is what made me fall in love with these lads from the see, especially that Felix. and long my it continue.
Special Mentions - Miike Snow, Passion Pit, The Pains of being Pure at Heart, The Xx
Songs of 2009
This takes much of a similar shame to the above section, as some of the same bands feature. But I'm going to do it anyway.
5. La Roux - In for the Kill (Skream vs Foamo) - for me the original was such a massive tune at the beginning of the year, with it also hitting number two a few months later. But the skream remix blew up from nowhere. (Id love to see that video of me and Jonny Silcock dancing in the studio to it) it shot dubstep into the mainstream and probably give me my first proper taste of the wobble. Anyway I picked the foamo re-edit of the skream remix, purely on the basis that this one was a bit bigger and got me dancing more.
4. Lady Gaga - Poker Face laugh if you like, I don't care one of the biggest tunes of the year from the biggest performer of the year. Tore it down on the Other Stage at Glastonbury, turning me into a massive fan. And she continues to get bigger. Come on the Gaga!
3. Miike Snow - Animal A far cry from Britney Spears, who's hit 'toxic' was produced by this Swedo - American trio. This tune is pretty genius, it got the remix treatments by many bit im sticking with the original.
2. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea 8 minutes of pure craftsman ship, when the video aired all them months ago it made people sit up and take notice, whilst throwing their opinions of the Horrors out the window. Awesome tune.
1. The Maccabees - Can You Give it I could of picked about 3 other tunes off this album and been happy with them being number. But I went for this one, maybe on the basis of the video.
Special Mentions - The Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone, Kasabian - Underdog, Mumford and Sons - White Blank Page, Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers, Deadmau5 - I remember (caspa remix)
I've probably missed out loads but ah well, any qualms then post your top tunes. Easy.
