Thursday, November 12, 2009

Top Tunes 2009



  1. Animal Collective - My Girls
  2. Clean - In The Dream life You Need A Rubber Soul
  3. Wild Beasts - All the Kings Men
  4. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
  5. Faunts - Hurts Me All The Time
  6. Field Music – Measure
  7. Big Pink - Too Young Love
  8. Kings Of Convenience – Boat Behind
  9. Wilco - Wilco (The Song)
  10. Ian Brown – Stellify
  11. Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill
  12. Wave Machines - The Greatest Escape We Ever Made
  13. Drums – I Felt Stupid
  14. Ben Kweller – Fight
  15. Here We Go Magic – Fangela
  16. Pearl Jam – The Fixer
  17. Memory Tapes – Bicycle
  18. Pj Harvey & John Parish - Black Hearted Love
  19. Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
  20. St Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
  21. Graham Coxon - Sorrows Army
  22. Passion Pit – Reeling
  23. Phoenix – 1901
  24. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
  25. Fiery Furnaces - Charmaine Champagne
  26. Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
  27. Black Ghosts - Full Moon
  28. Flaming Lips – Convinced of the Hex
  29. Elizabeth & The Catapult - Taller Children
  30. Dan Auerback - I Want Some More
  31. Pissed Jeans – False Jesii Part 2
  32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
  33. Joakim – Love & Romance & A Special Person
  34. Akron Family - Everyone Is Guilty
  35. Devendra Banhart - 16th & Valencia
  36. The Very Best – Warm Heart Of Africa
  37. Dirty Projectors and David Burn - Knotty Pine
  38. Throw Me A Statue - Hi-fi Goon
  39. Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
  40. Wojtek Godzisz - Rosette Nebula
  41. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
  42. Telekinesis! - Coast of Carolina
  43. The Dodos – This Is A Business
  44. Leader Cheetah – Bloodlines
  45. Conor Oberst and the mystic valley band – Nikorette
  46. Alela Diane - Whiet As Diamonds
  47. Apostle Of Hustle - Soul Unwind
  48. Bruce Peninsula – 2nd 4th World War
  49. Foreign Born - Vacationing People
  50. Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home
  51. Bibio - Jealous Of Roses
  52. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix
  53. Girls - Summer time
  54. Rock Plaza Central - Handsome Men
  55. Atlas Sound – Shelia
  56. Young Galaxy – Long Live the Fallen world
  57. Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
  58. Malcolm Middleton - Red Travellin Socks
  59. Jay Retard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
  60. Bob Mould - City Lights
  61. Yo La Tengo – Nothing to Hide
  62. Thermals - Now We can See
  63. De Rosa - Nocturne for an Absentee
  64. Lou Barlow – Sharing
  65. Built To Spill – Aisle 13
  66. Nite Jewel - Artificial Intelligence
  67. Morrisey - Thats How People Grow Up
  68. Julian Plenti - Fun That We Have
  69. Mark Eitzel – I Miss You
  70. Taken By Trees - Watch The Waves
  71. Rain Machine - Give Blood
  72. Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense Of Things
  73. Jeffrey Lewis - Whistle past the graveyard
  74. Joe Gideon and the Shark – DOL
  75. Telepathe - So Fine
  76. Karl Blau - Apology To Pollinateurs
  77. CFCF - You Hear Colours
  78. Cursive – In The Now
  79. David Bazan - Bless This Mess
  80. Volcano Choir – Island IS
  81. Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
  82. Kurt Vile - Beach on The Moon
  83. Vampire Weekend – Horchata
  84. Cassettes won't Listen - Into The Hillside
  85. Manicure - Another girl
  86. Prefuse 73 - Preparations Kids Choir
  87. Under Electric Light - Night Out
  88. Cotton Jones - Gotta Cheer Up
  89. Dent May - You can't Force A Dance Party
  90. Dinosaur Jr - I Want You To Know
  91. Extra Golden – Anyango
  92. Fools Gold – Surprise Hotel
  93. I Was A King - Norman Bleik
  94. Lake – Madagascar
  95. Lotus Plaza – What Grows?
  96. Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
  97. Weird Tapes – Tv Romance
  98. The Whigs – In the Dark
  99. White Denim - Mirrored in Reverse
  100. Karren O - All Is Love

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Contrast Podcast



I was having a converstion with my mate Tim and mentioned that i am doing a bike ride for The Briish Heart Foundation from Richmond to Windsor next week. So he kindly suggested that we do this weeks CP about Bicycles, i'm hoping this might drum up some more sponsors for my bike ride. So if any of you internet people have any spare pennies do pop over here and sponsor me. Would be much appreciated, good cause and all that :)

Listen to the podcast here.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Mark Eric



Been listening to alot of 60s stuff at the moment, thought i'd bring this to your attention. Mark Erics album "A Midsummer's Day Dream" is a great Beach Boys inspired record, that makes me wanna buy a Cadillac and drive through the sunny hills of California with my beautiful wifey...you get my drift. Check here or here for more info.

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT "BLIND VIDEO DAYS"

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Friday, May 08, 2009

Charity Shops



My love for charity shops is ridiculous. My wife and I love nothing more than to have a mosey round, shifting thru the tonnes of records and cds / random things that get handed into these places.

People at my work think I’m crazy because when I’m bored at lunch time, I like to put the cds and records in order of goodness and I just can’t stop myself from making them look tidy on the shelves…maybe I have ocd? But on my recent lunch break excursion to the local charity shop they had an add in the window asking for someone to sort out all there vinyl they had out back…when I saw the sign I ran into the shop and said, yes yes yes to the manager..i can do this for you…….so for the last few weeks on my lunch break I’ve been going in there and indulging my enthusiasm for records and cds..and oh man…they had so much crap…about 1000000 records and loads of tapes / cds etc….there was a lot of crap…but I managed to sort them all out…and price them etc…and since then they have sold shit loads..so I feel quite happy about it.

And why is it that every charity shop always has an owl section…for some reason, loads of owl related stuff gets handed in and I’m pretty sure this is the same for every charity shop in London or even the world.

Anyway, the point of this post is just to tell you music heads to visit your local charity store; you’d be surprised what stuff gets handed in !!!

Charity Shops

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Contrast Podcast: Sirens



This weeks theme of SIRENS on Contrast podcast was chosen by myself, so get your ass over here and listen to dem tunes blaze up your mind !!!! Next weeks theme is 1963, what a wonderful year for music !!!

I chose Chemical Bros - Song to the Siren...but i found this on my ipod and just remembered how good UK rappers Gunshot were back in the way...old skool East London rap...pretty good !!


Saturday, May 02, 2009

Chet Baker: Deep In A Dream

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Sometimes Music Can Say Things Better Than Words

Just read about this guy (Giuseppi Logan) over at wfmu