TOP TENS 2009

[Pete]

It's that time of year again where, we really, really need YOUR participation to compile your Top Tens of 2009. Just post on the Boards before midnight on 31st Dec (before Christmas would be nice if poss) please.

It's quick(?) it's simple ... just a few categories and just a couple of guidelines.

-Albums must be of original material and released for the first time in 2009
-If you don't have a top ten, do a top 5 or a top 3 etc
-Gig and festival performances .. again if you have only been to a few gigs just rate those. If you have been to festivals and gigs then, go for the 'Full House'

Most importantly, no rush, have fun and please do take part!!

Categories

Top Ten Albums 2009
Top Re-Issue or Back catolgue release
Top Ten (non festival) Gigs 09
Top Festival Gigs 09
Best Song 09
Best Movie 09

You can still send in your Top ten's of the Decade as well !!

Thanks
Pete

[jp_eley]

Top Ten Albums
1. Bombay Bicycle Club- I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Off
2. Forest Fire- Survival
3. Leisure Society- Sleeper
4. MSTRKRFT- Fist of God
5. FLorence & The Machine- Lungs
6. The Low Anthem- Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
7. The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die
8. White Lies- To Lose My Life
9. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
10. The Boxer Rebellion- Union

Top Ten Gigs
1. U2- Wembley Stadium
2. Girls ALoud- O2 Arena
3. Arctic Monkeys- Brixton Academy
4. Friendly Fires- Alban Arena
5. Paramore- Islington Academy
6. Laura Marling & Friends- Royal Festival Hall
7. Muse- O2 Arena
8. The Leisure Society- Sleeper
9. Limp Bizkit- Forum
10. The Decemberists- Forum

Top 5 Festival Performances
Only went to Glastonbury & Reading this year so only done a top 5 for this one.
1. Blur- Glastonbury
2. Radiohead- Reading
3. The Prodigy- Reading
4. Neil Young- Glastonbury
5. The Joy Formidable- Reading

Best Song
The Darkest Place I Know- The Leisure Society

Best Movie
The Hangover


Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year everyone.

Joe x

[Jon]

I would love to berate you for the Girls Aloud gig....but I'm actually very jealous....

[Pete]

ALBUMS

1 The Leisure Society - The Sleeper
2 Low Anthem - Oh my God, Charlie Darwin
3 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Ocra
5 The Horrors -Primary Colours
6 The Decemberists -The Hazzards of Love
7 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions- Through The Devil Softly
8 Fever Ray- Fever Ray
9 Wilco- The Album
10 Sophia- There are no Goodbyes

GIGS

1 The National- Royal Festival Hall
2 Neil Young -Nottingham Arena
3 Grizzly Bear / LSO - St. Vincent - Barbican
4 Mott the Hoople- Hammersmith Apollo
5 Arctic Monkeys / Them Crooked Vultures- Brixton Academy
6 The Leisure Society- St. Giles Church
7 The Decemberists- Forum
8 Laura Marling & Friends- Royal Festival Hall
9 NIN / Janes Addiction -O2 Arena
10 New York Dolls- Junction

Festival Performances

1 Neil Young -Glasto
2 Blur- Glasto
3 Wilco- Green Man
4 Dirty Projectors- End of the Road
5 The Pretenders- Latitude
6 Steve Earle- End of the Road
7 Thom Yorke- Latitude
8 Gaslight Anthem/Bruce Springsteen- Glasto
9 Dead Weather- Glasto
10 Imelda May- Cambridge Folk Festival

Top Re-issue / Back Catalogue Archives Vol 1 Neil Young
Best Song Two Weeks Grizzly Bear
Best Movie The Hurt Locker

Happy Christmas!

Pete

[Russell]

I've nearly finished my list, but I've got 3 more gigs to go to before Christmas so I'm going to hold on in case any of them make my top 10.

[Simon]

At last, my Top Tens for 2009 (elevens and twelves in some cases !)

Top Ten Albums 2009

1. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
2. Mew - No More Stories
3. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
4. The Boxer Rebellion - Union
5. The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
6. Richard Hawley - Trulove's Gutter
7. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being At Heart
8. Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin
9. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
10 = Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
10 = Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands


Top Re-Issue or Back Catalogue release
Daniel Johnstone - Best Of

Top Ten (non festival) Gigs 09

Absolutely best live moment was Get Cape and Skint & Demoralised at our wedding party but aside from that:

1. Mew, Shepherds Bush
2. Idlewild, Portsmouth Wedge
3. Mumford & Sons, Southampton Talking Heads
4. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Astoria (closing down gig)
5. British Sea Power, Regents Park Open Air Theatre
6. The Boxer Rebellion, Southampton Joiners
7. Idlewild, Camden Dingwalls (Remote Part album performance)
8. The Rifles - Portsmouth Wedge
9. Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard Band, Southampton Hamptons
10= Daniel Johnstone, Bloomsbury Ballroom
10= Maps, Southampton Joiners


Top Ten Festival Gigs 09

1. Doves (White Air Extreme Festival)
2. Baddies (Bestival)
3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Dot To Dot)
4. Bombay Bicycle Club (Latitude)
5. Bombay Bicycle Club, acoustic (Camden Crawl)
6. Elbow (Bestival)
7. British Sea Power (Eastleigh festival)
8. Temper Trap (Latitude)
9. Skint & Demoralised (Latitude)
10= The Adventurists (Bestival)
10= Tommy Reilly (Dot To Dot)


Best Song 09

1. Soldier On, The Temper Trap
2. Soldier On, Richard Hawley
3. We Share The Same Skies, Cribs
4. Tourist, Julian Casablancas
5. Russian Roulette, Ed Harcourt
6. To Ohio, Low Anthem
7. Sea Within A Sea, the Horrors
8. Aurora, a Silent Film
9. Tenure Itch, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
10. Misplaced, The Boxer Rebellion

Best Movie
Man of Arran

Simon

[Pete]

Top 3 Gigs from Carole: My top 3 gigs of the year in no particular order were probably the National in South Bank, Wilco in The Troxy, Bruce Springsteen in Giants Stadium.

[Matt]

Albums
1 Felice brothers- Yonder is the Clock
2 Madness- The Liberty of Norton Folgate
3 The Low Anthem- Oh my god Charlie Darwin!
4 Doves-Kingdom of Rust
5 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
6 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
7 Broken Family Band - Please and Thank You
8 Dinosaur Jr - Farm
9 Animal Kingdom - Wonders and Signs
10 Vetiver - Tight knit

Gigs
1 Felice Brothers-Shepherds Bush 22.10.09
2 Damien Dempsey- Luminaire 19.10.09
3 James Yorkston and the Athletes- Luminaire 21.12.09
4 Horse Feathers playing in a power cut - Hoxton Bar & Grill 7.12.09
5 Chapterhouse - ICA 26.11.09
6 Doves- Brixton 1.05.09
7 Broken Family Band-Garage 21.10.09
8 Neds Atomic Dustbin-Shepherds Bush 19.12.09
9 Horse Feathers- Luminaire 2.3.09
10 Carter USM - Brixton 14.11.09

Track
Madness- The Liberty of Norton Folgate

Festivals
I only went to two, so I've stuck to a top 5
1 Jon Boden & the Remnant Kings- Cambridge
2 Pete Molinari-Cambridge
3 Spiritualized-Latitude
4 Animal Kingdom- Latitude
5 Hayes Carll- Cambridge

Film
Let the Right One In
(was maybe officially released in 2008, but it was in cinemas beginning of this year)

This is my first post, so hello to everyone, and Merry Christmas!

[Jon]

Hey Matt, welcome to the boards!

Merry Xmas!

[Russell]

Albums
1. Mumford & Sons - Sign No More
2. The Horrors - Primary Colours
3. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
4. Noah & The Whale - The First Days of Spring
5. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
6. Jamie T - Kings and Queens
7. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
8. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
9. Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains
10. Mike Bones - A Fool For Everyone

Gigs
1. Blur - Southend Cliffs Pavilion
2. Glasvegas / Friendly Fires / White Lies / Florence & The Machine - London Brixton Academy
3. Elbow / The Acorn - Southend Cliffs Pavilion
4. Spiritualized - London Royal Festival Hall
5. U2 / Elbow - London Wembley Stadium
6. Pet Shop Boys / Bad Lieutenant - London O2
7. Jarvis Cocker / The Horrors - London The Troxy
8. Manic Street Preachers / New Young Pony Club / Adem - London Forum
9. Them Crooked Vultures - London Hammersmith Apollo
10. The Acorn - London Bush Hall

Festival Performances
1. The Specials - V
2. Neil Young - Hard Rock Calling
3. 2manyDJs - V
4. Blur - Hyde Park
5. Wild Beasts - Offset
6. Elbow - V
7. Fleet Foxes - Hard Rock Calling
8. Calvin Harris - V
9. Methodist Centre - Offset
10. The King Blues - V

Re-issue / Boxset
1. Various Artists - Warp 20
2. Kraftwerk - Catalogue
3. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Film: Telstar

Tracks
1. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
2. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
3. Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone
4. Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page
5. Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time (Best Title of the Year!)
6. The Big Pink - Dominos
7. The Horrors - Who Can Say
8. Jamie T - Emily's Heart
9. Noah and The Whale - Blue Skies
10. The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
11. Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues
12. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
13. Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
14. Duck Sauce - Anyway
15. Thom Yorke - All For The Best
16. Ida Maria - Oh My God
17. Lily Allen - The Fear
18. Emmy The Great - First Love
19. Frank Turner - Reasons Not To Be An Idiot
20. The Streets - Trust Me