"Andrew" BARTs

Best Album

The Horrors – V

Everything Everything – A Fever Dream

Radiohead – OknotOk Disk 2

Metronomy – Summer 2008*

*released and purchased in 2016 but too late to consider for last year so it’s going in

Best Song

Radiohead – Lift

Four Tet – Two Thousand And Seventeen

Bicep – Glue

Granddaddy – Evermore

Ryan Adams – To Be Without You

Best Musical Re-discovery

Not sure how to categorise that Radiohead album. Recorded 20 years ago so I guess it goes above and here, not below. Spent much of autumn listening to the first two Suede LPs. Also bought the 2011 Metronomy album The English Riviera which is excellent.

Best Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking – Stuff

That Grandaddy single

Best Film

Full Metal Jacket....maybe La La Land.

Best Book

Finally finished The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy. Excellent, but you’ll need to go in about 6 books earlier if you’re interested.

Best Gig/Event

2 gigs this year, both very good. Everything Everything at the Trades Club and St Etienne at the Titz.

Best TV Programme

Manhunter, Fleabag, The Crown, Twin Peaks – The Revival, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Game Face, Trip to Spain, Stranger Things 2. This list may well be edited i.e. added to.

Best Radio Programme

RadMac

Best Website

Pitchfork album review section

Best Sporting Moment

United wining two trophies.

Revelation
n/a

Worst Purchase / Disappointment

Morrissey continuing his late life rapid descent into wankerdom, and his album not even being a small reason to like him like they used to be.

Best Child-Related Thing

They will now get up, feed, dress and entertain themselves for quite a while on weekend mornings.

Best Lifestyle Change

Haven’t really had one this year, a nice status quo from previous changes.

Sort

To try and bring some variety to this category I’ll go for Mila Kunis specifically in the Jim Beam ads http://portfolioone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Jim-Beam-3-1023x680.png Funny name Kunis, neither one thing or the other..

Person, People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves

Too many to choose from these days but let’s go another year for Jacob Rees-Mogg for combining being a Brexit mentalist with revealing just how much he’s a God bothering mentalist.

The Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do

The Horrors album/Netflix