1. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Wandering Star
2. Bloxx – Go Out With You
3. Chvrches – Death Stranding
4. Blossoms – The Keeper
5. Rews – Birdsong
Tag Archives: Blossoms
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 26.7.2019
1. Sigrid – Mine Right Now
2. Kygo ft Whitney Houston – Higher Love
3. Katy Perry – Never Really Over
4. Blossoms – Your Girlfriend
5. Jade Bird – Lottery
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 5.7.2019
1. Bastille – Joy
2. Mark Ronson ft King Princess – Pieces Of Us
3. Blossoms – Your Girlfriend
4. Liam Gallagher – The River
5. Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missiles
Been catching up with Glastonbury highlights all week. Tame Impala are a bit decent, aren’t they?
Apologies, I forgot that it was Canada Day last Monday. So, to make up for it, here’s a chart.
FIVE SONGS BY CANADIAN ACTS
1. Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back To Me
2. K’naan – Wavin Flag
3. Nelly Furtado – All Good Things
4. Carly Rae Jepsen – Run Away With Me
5. Arcade Fire – Everything Now
And apologies to the Muricans, as I forgot that it was Independence Day yesterday.
FIVE SONGS BY AMERICAN ACTS
1. Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire
2. Tom Petty – Freefallin
3. Prince – Gold
4. Madonna – The Power Of Goodbye
5. Hall and Oates – Family Man
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 28.6.2019
1. Blossoms – Your Girlfriend
2. Liam Gallagher – The River
3. Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missiles
4. Kaiser Chiefs – People Know How To Love One Another
5. Of Monsters And Men – Alligator
Liam Gallagher’s tour in November doesn’t include Belfast. I really hope it’s not because he’s being lined up for Belsonic 2020. Flip sake.
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 8.2.2019
1. Foals – Exits
2. Richard Ashcroft – That’s When I Feel It
3. Lovelytheband – Broken
4. Blossoms – How Long Will This Last?
5. Ten Tonnes – Better Than Me
THE SOUND OF 2018
Better late than never, I decided to wait until the first day of 2019 to post my favourite songs of 2018.
It would have been a shame not to continue the tradition of this award* (*Disclaimer, no actual trophy) that goes all the way back to 2006.
I cobbled this up after browsing through my Friday Fives from 2018 with absolutely no scientific methodology whatsoever. So, here it is, the Top 50 Songs Of 2018.
1. Loveleytheband – Broken
2. Alice Merton – No Roots
3. Kyle Falconer – Family Tree
4. Rasmussen – Higher Ground
5. AJR ft Rivers Cuomo – Sober Up
6. Mumford and Sons – Guiding Light
7. Pale Waves – Eighteen
8. Jade Bird – Uh Huh
9. Kyle Falconer – Poor Me
10. Richard Ashcroft – That’s When I Feel It
11. George Ezra – Shotgun
12. Kylie Minogue – Dancing
13. Tom Grennan- Sober
14. Chvrches – Graffiti
15. Kyle Falconer – Kelly
16. Rudimental – These Days
17. Manic Street Preachers – Hold Me Like A Heaven
18. The Coral – Reaching Out For A Friend
19. Portugal, The Man – Feel It Still
20. Snow Patrol – Don’t Give In
21. Sam Fender – That Sound
22. Madame Monsieur – Mercy
23. James – Coming Home (Part II)
24. Manic Street Preachers – Distant Colours
25. Blossoms – I Can’t Stand It
26. Christine and the Queens – Girlfriend
27. Kylie Minogue – Stop Me From Falling
28. Snow Patrol – Empress
29. Dennis Lloyd – Nevermind
30. The Kooks – Four Leaf Clover
31. Blossoms – There’s A Reason Why
32. APRE – All Yours
33. Ash – Annabel
34. Pound Shop Boys – Fireman Sam
35. Editors – Cold
36. Vampire Weekend ft Danielle Haim – Sone Of A Preacher Man
37. Weezer – Africa
38. Natalie Prass – Short Court Style
39. Hozier – Nina Cried Power
40. Sleeper – Look AtYou Now
41. Turin Brakes – Lifeforms
42. Arctic Monkeys – Four Out Of Five
43. Yonaka – Creature
44. Florence and the Machine – Hunger
45. Courtney Barrett – Nameless Faceless
46. Weezer – Roseanna
47. Ten Tonnes – G.I.V.E
48. Razorlight – Carry Yourself
49. Ash – Confessions In ThePool
50. Aurora – Queendom
So, congratulations to Loveleytheband on winning this year’s poll.
If you haven’t heard it, the video is below.
They join an illustrious list of former winners, listed below.
2017 Liam Gallagher – For What It’s Worth
2016 The Strumbellas – Spirits
2015 Blossoms – Charlemagne
2014 Jamie T – Zombie
2013 Haim – The Wire
2012 Taylor Swift – We Are Never Getting Back Together
2011 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – AKA … What A Life
2010 Marina and the Diamonds – Shampain
2009 Little Boots – New In Town
2008 Sons and Daughters – Darling
2007 Feist – 1, 2, 3, 4
2006 Kasabian – Empire
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 12.10.2018
1. Chvrches – Graffiti
2. Blossoms – How Long Will It Last?
3. Soak – Everybody Loves You
4. Pale Waves – Eighteen
5. Kyle Falconer – Kelly
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 31.8.2018
1. Kyle Falconer – Poor Me
2. KT Tunstall – The River
3. Lacuna Bloome – I Am
4. Blossoms – La Isla Bonita
5. The Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 24.8.2018
1. Kyle Falconer – Family Tree
2. Blossoms – How Long Will It Last?
3. The Kooks – Chicken Bone
4. Travis – Side
5. Kasabian – Eez-Eh
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 20.4.2018
1. Blossoms – There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls)
2. Natalie Prass – Short Court Style
3. Tim Burgess- Clutching Insignificance
4. James – Busted
5. Tom Cochrane – Life Is A Highway
This Monday, is St George’s Day. As with all Saints Days, this blog will do a chart. In fact two charts. Enjoy.
FIVE SONGS BY ENGLISH ACTS
1. Marillion – Cover My Eyes
2. Duran Duran – Ordinary World
3. Oasis – Don’t Go Away
4. The Human League – Don’t You Want Me?
5. The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
FIVE SONGS BY BANDS FEATURING A GEORGE OR SINGERS CALLED GEORGE
1. Wham! – Freedom
2. One Night Only – Say You Don’t Want It
3. The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag
5. George Ezra – Budapest
