After a comment yesterday saying Londonist was a bit biased towards being maybe too cool for school and rock focused with their top choices of the year, I say HOLD YOUR HORSES.
It’s time for me. I'm sparkly, shiny and hate Coldplay, Keane, and the dreary sleep inducing song writers of 2005. No doubt I will get lots of comments telling me that most of my likes aren't proper music. Bite me.Top Ten Singles
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
Amerie – 1 Thing
Rachel Stevens - Negotiate with Love
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Kelly Osbourne – One Word
John Legend – Ordinary People
Charlotte Hatherley - Bastardo
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Rachel Stevens - So Good
Girls Aloud – Biology
Top Ten Albums
Rachel Stevens - Come & Get It
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Sons & Daughters - The Repulsion Box
Ladytron - The Witching Hour
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Girls Aloud - Chemistry
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Top Ten Gigs
Sons & Daughters – Kings College – 21 November
Kaiser Chiefs – Ibiza Rocks – 2 September
Ladytron - Popstarz, The Scala - 23 September
Garbage - Exit Festival, Serbia - 8 July
Le Tigre - Barfly - 10 March
Fischerspooner - The Scala, 17 June
McFly - Wembley Pavillion - 30 September
Arcade Fire - ULU - 17 March
The Pipettes - 100 Club - 20 January
Maximo Park - Reading Festival - 30 August
And for 2006? Will it, like 2005, be the year of some brilliant pop songs being ignored? Let's hope not. Whether they get big or not, I'll be looking forward to the 3rd Rachel Stevens album, the 1st album from The Modern, the re-release of Ladytron's Destroy Everything You Touch, an album from The Long Blondes, finding out more about Be Your Own Pet, hearing Amelle sing, the Sarah Nixey album and of course seeing Take That live. Hooray!