Saturday, December 31, 2022

The best of everything in 2022

Recovered from the failed newsletter...


Top 50 Albums Of 2022


50 Green/Blue - Paper Thin
49 Kamikaze Nurse - Stimuloso
48 Indigo Sparke - Hysteria
47 Breakup Haircut - Punk Dancing For Self Defence
46 Blue Amber - Rockland's Workshop
45 Jeremy Warmsley - American Daydream
44 Marlowe - Marlowe 3
43 Gordon McIntyre - Even With The Support Of Others
42 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Empty Rooms
41 Daphni - Cherry
40 Sophie Jamieson - Choosing
39 Andrew Bird - Inside Problems
38 Animal Collective - Time Skiffs
37 Modern Studies - We Are There
36 TVAM - High Art Lite
35 Kristine Leschper - The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door
34 Attia Taylor - Space Ghost
33 Angel Olsen - Big Time
32 The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
31 Samantha Savage Smith - Fake Nice
30 Widowspeak - The Jacket
29 Sister Wives - Y Gawres
28 Dana Gavanski - When It Comes
27 Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something - Miffed
26 Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
25 Keeley Forsyth - Limbs
24 Naomi Alligator - Double Knot
23 Beach House - Once Twice Melody
22 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
21 Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
20 Harkin - Honeymoon Suite
19 Daniel Rossen - You Belong There
18 Bill Callahan - YTILAER
17 Julia Jacklin - PRE PLEASURE
16 Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
15 Holodrum - Holodrum
14 Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector
13 Stella Donnelly - Flood
12 Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
11 Yr Poetry - Ruin Music
(which you don't appear to be able to actually download from anywhere, but here's the Spotify stream)
10 Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
9 Wet Leg - Wet Leg
8 Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS
7 Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
6 Gwenno - Tresor
5 Martha - Please Don't Take Me Back
4 Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
3 Peaness - World Full Of Worry
2 Bjork - Fossora
1 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You



100 Tracks Of 2022


Now, you can go through our YouTube playlist, or work your way through the Spotify playlist...



...or just read A GREAT BIG TEXT LIST.

adults - tfl has a lot to answer for
Algiers feat. Zack De La Rocha - Irreversible Damage
Alice Low - Show Business
Andrew Broder feat. Moor Mother & billy woods - Sleeping Car Porters
Angel Olsen - All The Good Times
Animal Collective - Cherokee
Anna B Savage - in|FLUX
Aoife Nessa Frances - Emptiness Follows
Arlo Parks - Softly
Attia Taylor - Space Ghost
Beach House - The Bells
Belle and Sebastian - If They’re Shooting At You
The Beths - Knees Deep
Big Joanie - Sainted
Bill Callahan - Natural Information
Björk - Ancestress
black midi - Welcome To Hell
Blue Amber - The Great British Sitcom (For Jozef Raczka)
Breakup Haircut - Out Of My Way (I'm Not Getting On The Nightbus)
Cate Le Bon - Remembering Me
Cheekface - Pledge Drive
Chemtrails - Eternal Shame
Chorusgirl - In The Business Of Dreams
Daphni - Cherry
deep tan - rudy ya ya ya
Dry Cleaning - Anna Calls From The Arctic
Elanor Moss - Cosmic Memory
English Teacher - Polyawkward
Ex-Vöid - Weekend
Fazerdaze - Thick of the Honey
Firestations - Swim Under The Winter
Fleur - Besoin de Personne
Gemma Cullingford - Tongue Tied
Girls of the Internet - In Love Again
The Go! Team - Divebomb
Gordon McIntyre - Tiny Marks
Greentea Peng - Look To Him
Gwenno - An Stevel Nowydh
Haiku Salut - Carousel
Harkin - A New Day
Holodrum - No Dither
Hurray For The Riff Raff - SAGA
Jane Weaver - Oblique Fantasy
Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something - Big Bread
Jen Cloher - Being Human
Jesca Hoop - Hatred Has A Mother
Jesse Tabish - Castro
Jockstrap - Greatest Hits
John Cale feat. Weyes Blood - STORY OF BLOOD
Julia Jacklin - Love, Try Not To Let Go
Katrina Ford - Peace Out
Keg - Kids
Ladytron - Faces
Lambchop - Police Dog Blues
Laundromat Chicks - You're On The Line
Let's Eat Grandma - Watching You Go
Little Simz - Silhouette
Live, Do Nothing - Oso Jugoso
Lucinda Chua - Golden
LUNGE - Off With Their Heads
Lynks - Hey Joe (Relax)
LYR - Addison Drifts
Maria Uzor - Over This
Marlody - Summer
Marlowe - My People
Martha - Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?
Melin Melyn - Hold The Line
Melody's Echo Chamber - Looking Backward
Naomi Alligator - Don't Get It
Nilüfer Yanya - midnight sun
Nuha Ruby Ra - My Voice
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Edge Of The Edge
Panic Shack - Mannequin Man
Peaness - How I'm Feeling
Prima Queen - Butter Knife
Regressive Left - The Wrong Side Of History
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Way It Shatters
Samantha Savage Smith - Fake Nice
Seraphina Simone - Milk Teeth
Sharon Van Etten - Headspace
SIPHO. - I DON'T GET IT
Sister Wives - Greater Place
Slug - Casual Cruelty
Soccer Mommy - Shotgun
Squiggles - We Only Came Here For Your Hearts
Stella Donnelly - How Was Your Day?
Sudan Archives - NBPQ (Topless)
Sun's Signature - Golden Air
Sunflower Bean - Who Put You Up To This?
Thank - Dread
Trust Fund feat. Radiant Heart - capital
TVAM - Double Lucifer
The WAEVE - Can I Call You
Walt Disco - How Cool Are You?
Wet Leg - Angelica
Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
Widowspeak - Everything Is Simple
Yard Act - Tall Poppies
Young Fathers - I Saw
Yr Poetry - Damn the Man (won't somebody think of the kids in bands)

Thursday, December 01, 2022

The Christmas charts

For the last few years we've been collating the playlists of daytime Radios 1 and 2 for the whole build-up to Christmas, which the Beeb has now decided officially begins today. We post them on Twitter, the tweet gets three likes and we realise we've wasted good hours of the best part of a month.

Still, at least we have the data. So, in case you ever wondered - what are the most played Christmas songs on daytime Radio 1 between December 1st and 24th over the last three years?

19= Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas/John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (21 plays)
18 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (22)
17 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (24)
14= Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me/Katy Perry - Cozy Little Christmas/The Pogues feat. Kirsty Maccoll - Fairytale Of New York (25)
12= Coldplay - Christmas Lights/The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping (26)
9= Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?/Elton John - Step Into Christmas/Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (28)
7= The Darkness - Christmas Time(Don't Let The Bells End)/Destiny's Child - 8 Days Of Christmas (31)
5= Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone/Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (34)
3= Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree/Wham! - Last Christmas (37)
2 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (51)
1 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (55)


And what about the same for Radio 2, which plays much more of it all round?

30 Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas (16 plays)
29 Keith Urban - I'll Be Your Santa Tonight (17)
28 Carrie Underwood - Favourite Time Of Year (18)
27 The Crystals - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (19)
25= Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year/Gwen Stefani feat. Blake Shelton - You Make It Feel Like Christmas (20)
24 Fairytale Of New York (21)
23 Christmas Wrapping (22)
21= The Crystals - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (25)
20 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (28)
19 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (29)
17= Christmas Lights/Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (32)
16 Do They Know It's Christmas? (33)
15 Gabriella Cilmi - Warm This Winter (34)
14 Wonderful Christmastime (35)
13 The Pretenders - 2000 Miles (36)
12 Underneath The Tree (37)
9= Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas/Merry Christmas Everyone/I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (41)
7= Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)/Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry (45)
5= One More Sleep/ Step Into Christmas (46)
4 Merry Xmas Everybody (49)
3 Driving Home For Christmas (54)
2 Last Christmas (55)
1 All I Want For Christmas Is You (58)