Sunday, 13 December 2009

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!

This year has been an incredible year for music, the best of the decade, by far!!
My top twenty best albums of 2009:
1. Florence and the Machine- Lungs
2. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s- It’s Blitz!
3. The XX- The XX
4. Regina Spektor- Far
5. White Lies- To lose my life
6. Paloma Faith- Do you want the truth or something beautiful?
7. Jack Penate-Everything is New
8. Golden Silvers- True Romance
9. The Big Pink- A Brief History of Love
10. Slow Club- Yeah, so
11. The Horrors- Primary Colours
12. Little Boots-Hands
13. Jamie T- Kings and Queens
14. Friendly Fires- Friendly Fires
15. The Maccabees- Wall of arms
16. Passion Pit- Manners
17. Lily Allen- It’s not me, it’s you
18. Mumford and Sons-Sigh no more
19. Bombay Bycicle Club- I had the blues and I shook them loose
20. Lady Gaga- The Fame



Predictions for 2010!:
1. Marina and the Diamonds
2. Ellie Goulding
3. Frightened Rabbit
4. Laura Marling (whatever her second album will be called)
5. Los Campesinos! (Romance is Boring)
6. Lightspeed Champion (life is sweet! Nice to meet you)
7. Late of the Pier
8. Frankie & the Heartstrings (youtube’Fragile’, it’s lovely)
9. The drums (Heading on the NME Shockwaves tour in February, I have my ticket!)
10. Everything Everything (I’ve already sung their praises!)
11. Duchess says
12. Delphic (see Leeds Festival Blog)
13. Dimbleby and Capper
14. Sparky Deathcap (he is amazing and I have great expectations for this man, he writes beautiful songs and recently supported Los Campesinos! On their tour)
15. Joy Orbison (critically acclaimed already by the bbc, currently being played by Huw Stephens, Nick Grimshaw and Zane Lowe)
16. Gold Panda (they know how to make people dance!)
17. Chew Lips
18. Ghostcat
19. Wetdog
20. Ou est le swimming pool?


My favourite xmas songs:
Paloma Faith and Josh Weller- It’s Christmas (and I hate you)



Frightened Rabbit- It’s Christmas so we’ll stop



The Yeah Yeah Yeahs- All I want for Christmas


Slow Club- Christmas (baby please come home)

Listen to it here: http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/12/03/exclusive_new_download_slow_club_christmas_baby_please_come_home_


The Pogues- Fairytale of New York




Have a great 2010 everybody! Comment up this blog with your opinions on my favourite albums for 2009 and your predictions for 2010!I want to know what you think!

Katie x

6 comments:

Manoj Sharma said...

your blog have great videos related to Christmas. Christmas is coming and we are all getting ready for the holiday season! This year it's a bit more complicated: world economics goes down, people loose jobs and there seems to be nothing to be happy about. what you say?.......
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Katie's blog said...

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Ellie said...

sounds about right :) maybe alex roots too?

Katie's blog said...

:) and oo, I'll check him out!! Not heard him!

Ellie said...

it's a her ;)
but yeah, unisex name :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlzI-zAQw-Q
:D

Katie's blog said...

Oooo, I like! She's like a mixture of Little Boots and Katy Perry..