Now 2010 is just about finished, I thought I'd put together a list of my top songs of the year.
Not all of these were actually released this year (quite a few weren't in fact), but they've been new to me or rediscovered over the last few months.
These are my favourites out of what I've been listening to. So now you can listen to them too and pretend you're inside my brain. Or else just scoff at my poor taste.
25. Jumps The Fence - The BPA
I've no idea what this is all about
24. Try This At Home - Frank Turner
Earnest guilty pleasure
23. Abdul Abulbul Amir - Frank Crumit
This was one of Lynn Barber's Desert Island Discs
22. California Gurls - Katy Perry
I can't help it. Sorry. I even like Snoop's rubbish rap. The video is horrible though
21. Pop A Cap In Yo Ass - Ben Watt, Estelle
Much better than the title implies
20. Once - Diana Vickers
I think Cathy Dennis wrote this. Deserves more recognition. I am not in the slightest bit cool.
19. Romance is Boring - Los Campesinos
Indie indie indie.
18. Stepfather Factory - El P
Can't decide if this is genius or very naff. Possibly a bit of both.
17. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour - Lonnie Donegan
It's Jeff's fault I've been listening to this
16. 16 Tonnes - Tennesse Ernie Ford
This too.
15. Let's Go Swimming - 'Allo Darlin'
Just the right side of too twee
14. Pass Out - Tinie Tempah
I've also been to Southampton and not Scunthorpe, so I identify
13. Let's Go Surfing - The Drums
I've really got no desire to go surfing. I went on a stag do once where the "activity" was that we were all supposed to go surfing. I boycotted it and went to a jumble sale on my own instead. Then we went clubbing in Newquay. Newquay's an awful place.
12. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
This reminds me of Eye of the Tiger, but possibly even better
11. Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
It's a grower.
10. Younger Us - Japandroids
Not quite the best Japandroids song, but the one I've listened to most this year. Contains my favourite recent couplet: "Remember that night you were already in bed/Said fuck it got up and drank with me instead." Yes. Yes I do remember that.
9. Undertow - Warpaint
This is great, but sadly the rest of their songs turned out to be a bit boring
8. Ageless Beauty - The Most Serence Republic
I know nothing about this. Can't even remember where I heard it. It's rather jolly though.
7. Scribble - Underworld
Apparently the new album wasn't that good, but you wouldn't know going by this
6. Smells Like Content - The Books
The sound of going for a walk at 5 in the morning when you've been awake all night.
5. Daydream - Beach Fossils
I heard this song and thought it was good
4. Lisztomania - Phoenix
I nearly went off this when I found out the guy from Phoenix is going out with Sofia Coppola, which makes me a shallow and terrible person
3. Bang Bang Bang - Mark Ronson
Infinitely better than all that Amy Winehouse 60s Zutons nonsense he was messing around with.
2. Swoon - The Chemical Brothers
I don't even particularly like Chemical Brothers.
1. MTFU - Napoleon IIIrd
Whoosh.
