Best
Album
Pink Shiny Ultrablast –
Everything Else Matters
PSB - Race for Space
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I
Just Sit and Think...
Beirut – No No No
Father John Misty – I Love You
Honeybear
Best Song
Blossoms – Blown Rose
Kagoule – Made of Concrete
Mbongwana Star - Malukayi
Maccabees – Marks to Prove It
Matthew E White – Rock and Roll
is Cold
Best
Musical Re-discovery
Lots of Eno – but especially Apollo
Dylan – Blood on The Tracks
Mark Knopfler – Music from Local Hero
The Elastica album
Mogwai in general
Best
Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff
New Order
FFS
Gaz Coombes
Belle and Sebastian
Suede
Best Film
Grown-Up: While We’re Young
Kids: Penguins of Madagascar
Best Book
The Girl on the Landing – Paul
Torday
Best Gig/Event
Lancs vs Surrey LV County
Championship Div II
Best TV
Programme
At either ends of the
could-I-watch-with-my-mum? comedy spectrum: Detectorists and Catastrophe
Best
Radio Programme
Leaving aside all the obvious 6 Music/Radio 4 recommends:
Pick of the Pops with Tony Blackburn
Best
Website
swimtag.net
Best
Sporting Moment
Jessica Ennis-Hill – and setting
various alarms throughout the night to watch it.
Revelation
Liking Dylan a lot more than I
thought. An age thing, I suspect.
Worst
Purchase / Disappointment
That Robbie Williams’ cover of
Creep wasn’t all I’d hoped.
(and that I didn’t like The Magic
Whip as much as I wanted to)
Best
Child-Related Thing
That they can get their own breakfast on a weekend
morning
Best
Lifestyle Change
Occasional babysitters
Sort
Julie Dray (Miss Blondel/Cradle
to Grave)
Person,
People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves
George Osbourne – smug, evil and
lucky. Clearly in a satanic pact.
The
Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do
Pink Shiny Ultrablast or either
TV choice
Stream of Consciousness feedback: Will have to Spotify Pink and Beirut...World Music?!.....Matthew E Shite....Newcastle United runnning onto the pitch....bad year for Sport...ADP>>>>>>>>>>>>SMP.
ReplyDeleteHeh. Apart from really liking that Mbongwana Star song, my chief motivation was to get a reaction from you.
DeleteNot sure I can listen to a band called Pink Shiny Ultrablast. Do I recall an interview with them on 6 Music (Laverne I think). And the lead singer basically sounded like the girl from Frank Zappa's 'Valley Girl'? Have Barnett scheduled as a wifely Xmas gift, so will definitely have a listen to that...
ReplyDeleteJust been in Piccadilly Records and invested in some Matthew E White...
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