• 16Nov 07

  My Top Records For The Twenty-O-Savage: Third Quarter

  22. Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
  Litmus Test: Teardrop
  Next Steps: Kill For Love, Down The Line, Fold.
  Deep Cuts: Cycling Trivilities, The Nest, In Our Nature.
  
  21. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
  Litmus Test: The Pretender
  Next Steps: Erase/Replace, Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running), Statues, Long Road To Ruin.
  Deep Cuts: But Honestly, Home, Summer's End, Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners.
  
  20. Figurines - When The Deer Wore Blue
  Limus Test: Hey Girl
  Next Steps: Bee Dee, Let's Head Out, Half Awake Half Aware.
  Deep Cuts: Cheap Place To Spend The Night, Angels Of The Bayou, Childhood Verse, Drunkard's Dream.
  
  19. The New Pornographers - Challengers
  Litmus Test: All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth
  Next Steps:Mutiny I Promise You,All The Old Showstoppers, My Rights Versus Yours.
  Deep Cuts: Adventures In Solitude, Entering White Cecilia, Go Places, Myriad Harbour.
  
  18. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
  Litmus Test: Take Me To The Riot
  Next Steps: The Beginning After The End, My Favourite Book, B*****s In Tokyo.
  Deep Cuts: Window Bird, Personal, Midnight Coward, Barricade.
  
  17. Office - A Night At The Ritz
  Litmus Test: Oh My
  Next Steps: Company Calls, Plus Minus Fairytale, Dominoes.
  Deep Cuts: If You Don't Know By Now, Wound Up, The Ritz.
  
  16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP
  Litmus Test: Down Boy
  Next Steps: Kiss Kiss, 10 x 10.
  
  15. Tegan and Sara - The Con
  Litmus Test: Burn Your Life Down
  Next Steps: Back In Your Head, Hop A Plane, The Con.
  Deep Cuts: Nineteen, Floorplan.
  
  14. KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
  Litmus Test: Suddenly I See
  Next Steps: I Don't Want You Now, Hopeless, Hold On, Someday Soon.
  Deep Cuts: Saving My Face, Funnyman, If Only, Little Favours.
  
  13. The Brunettes -Structure and Cosmetics
  Litmus Test: B-a-b-y
  Next Steps: Obligatory Road Song, Small Town Crew, Her Hairagami Set.
  Deep Cuts: If You Were An Alien, Wall Poster Star, Credit Card Mail Order.
  
  12. Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate
  Litmus Test: Harmonium
  Next Steps: I Can Die, Lullaby, Lake Michigan, Like I Needed.
  Deep Cuts: Missed, Own Your Own Home, Cheaper Than Therapy, Ghost.
  
  11. Athlete - Beyond The Neighbourhood
  Litmus Test: Hurricane
  Next Steps: Tokyo, In The Library, It's Not Your Fault, Second Hand Stores.
  Deep Cuts: Flying Over Bus Stops, Best Not To Think About It, This Is What I Sound Like, In Between 2 States.
  
  10. Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
  Litmus Test: Foundations
  Next Steps: Mouthwash, Pumpkin Soup, Skeleton Song.
  Deep Cuts: We Get On, Merry Happy, S**t Song, Birds.
  
  9. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
  Litmus Test: Tonight I Have To Leave It
  Next Steps: You Are Dreaming, South America, Hard Rain.
  Deep Cuts: Suit Yourself, Time Left For Love.
  
  8. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
  Litmus Test: Peacebone
  Next Steps: Unsolved Mysteries, Cuckoo, Winter Wonder Land.
  Deep Cuts: Number 1, Derek, Fireworks, For Reverend Green, Chores.
  
  7. Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd.
  Litmus Test: Let Me In
  Next Steps: Harmonicas and Tambourines, Give Up?, 5 Times Out Of 100.
  Deep Cuts: My Best Friend, Conversation, Happiness Ltd., Outta Heart.
  
  6. Interpol - Our Love To Admire
  Litmus Test: Heinrich Maneuver
  Next Steps: Rest My Chemistry, Who Do You Think,Pace Is The Trick.
  Deep Cuts: Mammoth, No I In Threesome, Wrecking Ball.
  
  5. Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
  Litmus Test: Tonight
  Next Steps: Television, Little Angel, Can't Get Along (Without You).
  Deep Cuts: Suburban Knights, I Shall Overcome, We Need Love, The King.
  
  4. St. Vincent - Marry Me
  Litmus Test: The Apocolypse Song
  Next Steps: We Put A Pearl In The Ground, All My Stars Alligned, Human Racing, Now Now.
  Deep Cuts: Jesus Saves I Spend, What Me Worry?, Land Mines, Marry Me.
  
  3. The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
  Litmus Test: The Wrath Of Marcie
  Next Steps: Doing It Right, Patricia's Moving Picture, My World.
  Deep Cuts: Grip Like A Vice, Keys To The City.
  
  2. Rooney - Calling The World
  Litmus Test: When Did Yor Heart Go Missing?
  Next Steps: Believe In Me, Don't Come Around Again, Calling The World.
  Deep Cuts: Love Me Or Leave Me, I Should've Been After You, Tell Me Soon.
  
  1. Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me
  Litmus Test: Calling All Cops
  Next Steps: Last Night, Antonia, Broken Heart.
  Deep Cuts: Can't Finish What You Started, Where I Belong, Hello Helicopter.
  • Posted Nov 16, 2007 1:31 am GMT
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• 25Oct 07

  My Top Records For The Twenty-O-Savage: Second Quarter

  13. 1900s - Cookies
  Litmus Test: See You At The Lights
  Next Steps: You Made Me Like It, Enjoying Myself, Pollokshields.
  Deep Cuts: You're Supposed To Be My Friend, Risque Pictures, Arcade Precinct.

  12. Noisettes - What's The Time Mr. Wolf?
  Litmus Test: Scratch Your Name
  Next Steps: Sister Rosetta (Capture The Spirit), Don't Give Up, Nothing To Dread.
  Deep Cuts: The Count Of Monte Christo, Bridge To Canada, Mind The Gap.

  11. Blonde Redhead - 23
  Litmus Test: 23
  Next Steps: Spring And By Summer Fall, Dr. Strangeluv, Silently.
  Deep Cuts: SW, Heroine, Publisher.

  10. Young Galaxy - Young Galaxy
  Litmus Test: Outside The City
  Next Steps: Searchlight, No Matter How Hard You Try, Come And See.
  Deep Cuts:The Alchemy Between Us, Embers, Lazy Religion, Wailing Wall.

  9. Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
  Litmus Test: Ragoo
  Next Steps: Fans, Arizona, Knocked Up.
  Deep Cuts: Camero, Black Thumbnail, True Love Way, On Call.

  8. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
  Litmus Test: Little Cream Soda
  Next Steps: Icky Thump, Conquest, I'm Slowly Turning Into You.
  Deep Cuts: 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues, Catch Hell Blues, You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told).

  7. The Thrills - Teenager
  Litmus Test: No More Empty Words
  Next Steps: The Midnight Choir, Nothing Changes Around Here, The End Of Innocence.
  Deep Cuts: Long Forgotten Song, There's Joy To Be Found / The Boy Who Caught All The Breaks, I Came All This Way.

  6. The Bravery - The Sun And The Moon
  Litmus Test: Believe
  Next Steps: Angelina, This Is Not The End, Time Won't Let Me Go.
  Deep Cuts: Every Word Is A Knife In My Ear, Split Me Wide Open, Above And Below, Fistful Of Sand.

  5. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightware
  Litmus Test: Fluorescent Adolescent
  Next Steps: Brianstorm, Old Yellow Bricks, Teddy Picker.
  Deep Cuts: 505,The Bad Thing, D Is For Dangerous, Only Ones Who Knew.

  4. Editors - And End Has A Start
  Litmus Test: Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
  Next Steps: The Weight Of The World, And End Has A Start, Push Your Head Towards The Air.
  Deep Cuts: The Racing Rats, Escape The Nest, Well Worn Hand.

  3. Feist - The Reminder
  Litmus Test: 1234
  Next Steps: My Moon My Man, How My Heart Behaves, Brandy Alexander.
  Deep Cuts: Sealion, Past In Present, Honey Honey, So Sorry.

  2. Mark Ronson - Version
  Litmus Test: God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
  Next Steps:Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse), Oh My God (feat. Lily Allen), LSF (feat. Kasabian).
  Deep Cuts: Diversion, Inversion, Outversion, Apply Some Pressure (feat. Paul Smith)

  1. Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
  Litmus Test: Our Velocity
  Next Steps: Girls Who Play Guitars, A Fortnight's Time, Parisian Skies.
  Deep Cuts: Russian Literature, By The Monument, Sandblasted And Set Free, Karaoke Plays.

  • Posted Oct 25, 2007 2:14 am GMT
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• 25Oct 07

  My Top Records For The Twenty-O-Savage: First Quarter

  19. Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
  Litmus Test: Nightjoy
  Next Steps: Taxi, Start As We Meant To, Method Acting.
  Deep Cuts: Hometown Strategies, Outwards, Roman Is Better.

  18. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
  Litmus Test: Dashboard
  Next Steps: Missed The Boat, Florida, We've Got Everything.
  Deep Cuts: Fire It Up, Little Motel, Parting Of The Sensory.

  17. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
  Litmus Test: Golden Skans
  Next Steps: Atlantis To Interzone, It's Not Over Yet, Two Recievers.
  Deep Cuts: Gravity's Rainbow, Magick, Totem On The Timeline.

  16. Joss Stone - Introducing Joss Stone
  Litmus Test: Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now
  Next Steps: Bruised But Not Broken, What Were We Thinking.
  Deep Cuts: Arms Of My Baby, Tell Me 'Bout It.

  15. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
  Litmus Test: We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafing
  Next Steps:Suffer For Fashion, Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger.
  Deep Cuts: Sink The Seine, She's A Rejecter.

  14. Let's Go Sailing - The Chaos In Order
  Litmus Test: Sideways
  Next Steps: Icicles, All I Want From You Is Love, Better Off.
  Deep Cuts: Come Home Safely, We Get Along, Too Many Stars,It's As Clear.

  13. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
  Litmus Test: Phantom Limb
  Next Steps: Sea Legs, Black Wave, Australia.
  Deep Cuts: A Comet Appears, Turn On Me.

  12. Norah Jones - Not Too Late
  Litmus Test: Thinking About You
  Next Steps: Until The End, Not Too Late, Rosie's Lullaby.
  Deep Cuts: The Sun Doesn't Like You, Wake Me Up.

  11. Albert Hammond, Jr. - Yours To Keep
  Litmus Test: In Transit
  Next Steps: 101, Cartoon Music For Superheroes, Everyone Gets A Star.
  Deep Cuts: Hard To Live In The City, Holiday, Well... All Right.

  10. The Little Ones - Sing Song EP
  Litmus Test: Lovers Who Uncover
  Next Steps: Cha Cha Cha
  Deep Cuts: Face The Facts, Heavy Hearts Brigade.

  9. Air - Pocket Symphony
  Litmus Test: Night Sight
  Next Steps: Mayfair Song, Space Maker, Mer Du Japon.
  Deep Cuts: Lost Message, Photograph, Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping.

  8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
  Litmus Test: Some Loud Thunder
  Next Steps: Satan Said Dance, Underwater (You And Me), Yankee Go Home.
  Deep Cuts: Mama Won't You Keep Them Castles In The Air And Burning?, Goodbye To Mother And The Cove.

  7. Jamie T - Panic Prevention
  Litmus Test: Clam Down Dearest
  Next Steps: Sheila, If You Got The Money, So Lonely Was The Ballad.
  Deep Cuts: Operation, Ike And Tina, Dry Off Your Cheeks.

  6. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
  Litmus Test: Ruby
  Next Steps: Heat Dies Down, Everything Is Average Nowadays, Learnt My Lesson Well.
  Deep Cuts: Love's Not A Competition (But I'm Winning), Try Your Best, Retirement.

  5. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
  Litmus Test: Tears Dry On Their Own
  Next Steps: Rehab, Love Is A Losing Game, You Know I'm No Good.
  Deep Cuts: He Can Only Hold Her, Back To Black.

  4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  Litmus Test: No Cars Go
  Next Steps: Keep The Car Running, Antichrist Television Blues, Intervention.
  Deep Cuts: The Well And The Lighthouse, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations.

  3. The Rakes - Ten New Messages
  Litmus Test: The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
  Next Steps: We Danced Together, Trouble, Suspicious Eyes.
  Deep Cuts: Little Superstitions, When Tom Cruise Cries.

  2. The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
  Litmus Test: Energy
  Next Steps: Same Old Drag, 7 Stars, Can You Feel It?
  Deep Cuts: Suundal Song, Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4, Skyway, Radiation.

  1. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
  Litmus Test: Waiting For The 7:18
  Next Steps: Sunday, Kreuzberg, The Prayer, I Still Remember.
  Deep Cuts: Song For Clay (Disappear Here), On, Hunting For Witches.

  • Posted Oct 25, 2007 2:05 am GMT
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