Twenty Songs, 8 April 2007More in the mix and another week where it was, pretty much just the songs purchased that week we were listening to. As we say, this will return to its old eclectic best soon however, don't let that fool you into thinking this is by any means a slouch list. We were listening to these songs cuz they are shit hot. For actual ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 25 February 2007Another good selection of songs, helped immensely by the fact we went on a little jaunt and had lots of time to listen to lots of lovely, lovely music. Really, it was a blessing for the ears. In other news, we're bored and want to a) travel more (invite us to your town) and b) play records to people. We can almost ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 11 February 2007

Yep. Bit late but it was a busy week last week. We went to Newcastle to miss Blood Red Shoes and Manchester to miss an NME aftershow party. However, we didn't let that bring us down. Instead we got back on the surfboardhorseaphorism and rode. This is the result.

We kick off with the newie from The Maccabees after ( Read more... )

Have we made this point before? I dunno. However, we're getting really annoyed at record labels constantly sending out one track single promos. What's the point? For review purposes? We're not going to DJ them, we're not going to play them on a radio station. If you send out a gash CD it's probably best you hedge your bets and put a b-side on it. ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 14 January 2007

This week's Twenty isn't quite as hot shit, track for track, as last week's but it is still pretty damn fresh. There are some songs that've literally just dropped into the chart in the last twenty minutes, let alone the last week. There are songs in here so warm we're getting scorch marks on our fingers just writing ( Read more... )

05  Thomas Tantrum, Armchair.Again, a track partly so high because this isn't a Best Of The Past Few Months but mostly because it's just so good. It was an absolute surprise of a revelation when we got it from label d'amour Marquis Cha Cha a while back and it still sounds pretty as a summer day in purfume advert, without the unnecessary gloss. DIY ( Read more... )

It's such a good job some nice people at a record company sent me out The Longcut's album. It's a really nice album but we're on track four and we haven't encountered a song we don't already own. At the cost of a tenner in HMV this album would've been ten tracks long with seven being ones we already have. Vitamin C, A Quiet Life and Transition were ( Read more... )

In keeping with the tradition of search engines as we are here, we've set one up for our Twenty. So now you and your band can see how many times we've showered love over you and your inbred bunch of knuckle-draggers. Out in front at the moment seem to be This Et Al, somewhat unsurprisingly, with 26, followed by ¡Forward, Russia! with a similarly ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 21st May 2006Great. Windows Media Player has just hung on me, meaning I can't actually listen to any of the songs while talking about them. Well, no, I can, except I can only listen to the number one in the chart which is a bit pointless since I tend to go from bottom to top. However, it is a good, well compiled chart this week so I'm ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 14th May 2006I am genuinely less than impressed with how high the percent of indie music is in my charts at the moment. I blame a lack of money and the difficulty in finding leftfield and grime in convenient sources at decent prices. Mostly, though, to be honest, it's just the lack of money. How disappointing. However, don't let that ( Read more... )