Wednesday, 20 December 2017

"Sam" Barts 2017

Best Album
Th’Horrors
Baxter Dury
War on Drugs
Father John Misty

Best Song
Four Tet – 2017
Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Alt J - Pleader
Algiers – Underside of Power
Barnett/Vile – Over Everything

Best Musical Re-discovery
Gary Numan

Best Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff
Ride
Mogwai
Thurston Moore
Slowdive
The National

Best Film
Presumably once I see it over Christmas, The Last Jedi

Best Book
Richard Ford – The Lay of the Land. (As good as all the other Frank Bascombe books)

Best Gig/Event
Sugar Hill Gang/Furious Five

Best TV Programme
Detectorists

Best Radio Programme
Apart from the obvious contenders: Cerys Matthews’ Sunday morning show

Best Website
Not a website, but linking lots of e-mail accounts to my Outlook saves a LOT of time.

Best Sporting Moment
Moeen’s hat trick to seal the 100th Oval Test. Seems a long time ago now.

Revelation
I won’t find much support here, but I really like that Noel Gallagher song

Worst Purchase / Disappointment
Morrissey’s warped world view

Best Child-Related Thing
Got them into card/board games beyond just Monopoly.

Best Lifestyle Change
Determination to – and action on – seeing more live music.

Sort
Hayley Attwell

Person, People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves
Obvious, but Johnson/Gove/Davis/Fox. The Peter Principle in full and horrifying effect.
And Steve Lamacq for similar reasons.

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

Horrors (and back catalogue)/Richard Ford (and back catalogue).

2 comments:

  1. I'm already familiar with the Horrors (and back catalogue) AND have gone for a very utilitarian hair cut of late so I'll have to order a Richard Ford from t'library then it's over to Raymond for my 'follow the main recommendations' policy.

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