Two thousand and great

This year I was totally corrupted by pop music. My friend Robbie did his top 10 and i thoroughly agree with half of his final 10, and have yet to discover the other half. I'm ashamed to admit i bought the Sons and Daughters album on vinyl but haven't listened to it yet! HOW EMBARRESSING!

A friend wrote me a note on Last fm asking what my top 10 of 2008 was, and i took up quite a bit of his page trying to answer. So i thought i would rephrase my comment in an exciting blog post!

One of the highlights of this year for me was REX THE DOG. I thought I didn't know who Rex was, but he was known as JX in the 90's and actually produced alot of 90's hits. Seriously, go to Youtube and look up JX and get your 90's dance on. This guy kept Long Wave Atlantic 252 running, for serious (DO YOU REMEMBER LISTENING TO LONG WAVE ATLANTIC 252????)

{Will this work? I'll post a hype machine search for each song or maybe a video.}

I can see you, can you see me? (hypem search) Seems to be alot of remixes for that one..

Kylie - In My Arms (hypem search) - dance or don't bother breathing in my direction

One time i decided to go to sweden for a holiday, to see the Shout Out Louds play in Stockholm. One marracas concussion and a year later i returned there to Gothenburg to see Lykke Li play a festival. My mouth was literally watering at the thought of seeing her live, I'd actually heard one of her songs while waiting for the Shout out Louds to come on that first time in Sweden. the dj was playing 7 inches and when this eerie beautiful song came on I ran over to ask him who it was and even though he pointed to the name and said it in my ear a few times i didn't have a fucking clue how i could remember it, and promptly forgot. In Swedish her name is pronounced like "luckily". Good, because saying "licky lee" is just GROCE and WRONG people! (I sincerely hope I'm right about the pronunciation..)

After seeing her live, I can assure you that all that spit was not in vain. Goddamn this girl, she has the wierdest singing voice, she is fierce on stage, she writes heartbreaking songs and SHE CAN RAP.

The video for "I'm good I'm gone" features SWEDISH MUSICAL ROYALTY including Lykke Li herself, plus Robyn, some guys from Shout out Louds, the Concretes and god knows who else is drinking the tap water (It is the tap water, have you tasted it?)



Friendly Fires are winners on several levels. Their front man who wears high waisted tight pants and sparkly jumpers can dance like a fool and sing beautifully and the overall effect is rather smashing.

Friendly Fires - Jump in the pool



Magic Wands - Teenage Love
If im djing i love to play this song at the start of the night when nobody is on the dancefloor yet.



If Ladyhawke hadn't set the world on fire I would have died a little inside (not because of her, because of the bad, bad world). THANK GOODNESS FOR LADYHAWKE! Have you seen the artwork on the album? Up close? Cats dressed up as ghosts in white sheets with holes for the eyes! it's the best ever.


Ladyhawke - My Delerium



You should definitely who La Roux is:

La Roux - Fascination (hypem search)


True beauty sung by bearded men - White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes (hypem search)


Anoraak - Talking in your sleep. (hypem search) A most excellent cover version. Relish it, or the original by the Romantics:



I'll go out on a good one. Metronomy - Thing for me. AND it's a karaoke theme video (keep watching past the first 20 seconds, it's not just a pretend karaoke video!)



Not mentioned: Britney, Leona Lewis, that "It's too late to apologise" song and other embarressing titles.