Show 26. Thats 6 months of putting out a show each week, so it's time for a new format. My selections have been getting less and less diverse too, so I think for 2006 I shall do a longer electro show, released fortnightly.

(00:00) 1. Metric - Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix[bootleg])
(05:13) 2. Gene Serene and John Downfall - I Can Do Anything
(08:25) 3. Hot Chip - Just Like We (Breakdown)(DFA Remix)
(16:37) 4. The Presets - Girl and the Sea (Cut Copy Mix)
(22:57) 5. Jeans Team & MJ Lan - Keine Melodien (Extended Mix)
(28:22) 6. Sexual Harrasment - If I Gave You A Party
(33:18) 7. Fujiya & Miyagi - Conductor 71
(37:21) 8. The Bravery - Fearless (Richard X Radio Edit)
(40:58) 9. Girls On Top - I Wanna Dance With Numbers
(45:30) 10. Coldplay - Square One (Rub n Tug Remix)

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HO HO HO

(00:00) 1. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
(04:21) 2. The Long Blondes - Christmas is Cancelled
(08:43) 3. St Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas Day
(11:31) 4. DJ Sid - Santa Baby (feat. Sylvie Fleury)
(16:57) 5. Can - Silent Night
(19:55) 6. Toots & the Maytals - Happy Christmas
(23:23) 7. Nathan Fake - Silent Night
(28:28) 8. Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland
(31:13) 9. Clyde Lasley and the Cadillac Baby Specials - Santa Came Home Drunk
(34:08) 10. James Brown - Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year

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I don't make year end lists, but I've decided to go back over the last five years, and pick my top five favourite records for each year (as I thought at the time!)

2005

1= Arcade Fire - Funeral
1= Robyn - Robyn
3 Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
4 Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
5 Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It

2004

1 Annie - Anniemal
2 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3 Razorlight - Up All Night
4 The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
5 !!! - Louden Up Now

2003

1 The Rapture - Echoes
2 The Notwist - Neon Golden
3 Lomax - A Symbol of Modern Living
4 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
5 Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

2002

1 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2 Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
3 The Libertines - Up The Bracket
4 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5 Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

2001

1 The Strokes - Is This It?
2 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
3 Jay Z - The Blueprint
4 N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
5 Bjork - Vespertine

I went to this gig the other day, an XFM presentation and a fundraiser, featuring a bunch of popular British rock bands from the last year. I was totally un-moved by the parade of similar mediocre boys-with-guitars rot. Even their moves were poor. Did I ever really enjoy that stuff? Today I wonder if I were faking my affection for the style. As if I felt obliged to like this music because once I had liked some of it and in doing so I was tied to an very insular view of what "good" music is: as recommended by, well, the momentum of the rock canon. Thank goodness I found intelligent discourse about pop music.

(00:00) 1. Madonna - Hung Up
(05:14) 2. Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Edition)
(10:06) 3. Ark - Punkadelik (Mr Oizo Remix)
(13:42) 4. TV on the Radio vs Afrika Bambaataa - Staring at the Sun
(16:39) 5. Add N to (X) - Murray's Space Shoes (Plug Me In Disco Mix)
(21:07) 6. The Go! Team - Ladyflash (Hot Chip Remix)
(25:19) 7. Laura Veirs - Galaxies
(28:48) 8. The Long Blondes - Seperated By Motorways
(30:49) 9. Wolf and Cub - Thousand Cuts (Phones Slasher Remix)
(36:44) 10. Rolling Stones - Rain Fall Down (Heavy Disco Vocal re-edit)

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I'm too tired to write anything

(00:00) 1. The Dead 60s - Riot Radio
(02:13) 2. Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love is Blind (TS Radio Edit)
(06:03) 3. Ladytron - International Dateline (Symian Mobile Disco Remix)
(10:53) 4. Hot Chip - Over and Over
(16:10) 5. Tiefschwartz feat. Matty Safer - Warning Siren (Cass & Mangan Remix)
(23:39) 6. Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl (Diplo Remix)
(26:44) 7. Revlon 9 - Someone Like You
(30:25) 8. The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
(35:23) 9. Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation Who Bought More Shoes and You Will Get What You Deserve
(38:24) 10. Verlaines - Death and the Maiden

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Now, I enjoy list making and discussing others lists as long as the debate goes beyond "how could [insert whingers favourite band here] only be number 32?!??!!?". But to think that the lists published in magazines, magazines owned by huge media conglomerates, might not reflect the actual selections of the staff? A damaging accusation to be sure, since they do suggest that the list is from staff selections, but if you're interested in authenticity and integrity the NME isn't really the place to find it.

http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/11/scoop_nme_album.php

(Actually, if you're looking for authenticity and integrity pop music isn't the place to find it)


*UPDATE* The story has been taken down, heres a Guardian article if you're still interested... http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1656637,00.html