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
     

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.

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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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

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 !!

Chet Baker: Deep In A Dream

Sometimes Music Can Say Things Better Than Words

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