The Top 10 Things I Heard In 2014

I started on my top 10 things I heard in 2015 list last night and I realised that I never published my 2014 edition, so here goes...

10. Metronomy - Boy Racers



9. Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky



8. Rustie - Attak (feat. Danny Brown)



7. DVBBS - Tsunami @ Belgian Halftime



6. Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite



5. SOPHIE - Lemonade



4. Gruff Rhys - 100 Unread Messages



3. The Soronprfbs - I Love You All



2. Dornik - Rebound



1. Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary



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This Modern Rib-Eye

As I was cooking a frankly superb rib-eye steak this evening, 6 Music played a live version of Bloc Party's This Modern Love and I was reminded of what a great song it is and quickly went to grab Silent Alarm.

Thing is though that the best live version of This Modern Love I've got is a slightly ropey yet highly charming version by Smoosh (now known as Chaos Chaos)...



[Right-click and "Download Document" for a mp3 of This Modern Love (Live in San Francisco) by Smoosh]

Glad All Over

What links my granddad's side Crystal Palace, my new favourite Scottish football team Partick Thistle (sorry Kilmarnock but they've got a David Shrigley mascot) and former Welsh rugby powerhouse Pontypridd?

They all use - according to Wikipedia, anyway - Glad All Over by The Dave Clark Five as celebration music.

And what a stomper it is...

Eyesdown, Listen Up

Coldcut were recently on Essential Mix duty to celebrate 25 years of Ninja Tune and it goes without saying that it was some top, top listening.

The mix is on the BBC iPlayer for a couple of more weeks and I have to say it's been great that the Beeb have extended the time that you can catch up on radio shows from a week to a month.

One of the highlights of the mix was 30 minutes in when they dropped Machinedrum's roller of a remix of Eyesdown by Bonobo...

Music For Misfits

Nice if slightly hagiographic, Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie, started last night on BBC4.

The first in a three part series, it's shaping up to be a  rather good documentary strand and I've got the YouView on it.

Anyway, episode one kicked off with Joy Division's Disorder, the opener of Unknown Pleasures, and I don't need to be asked twice to share this track.