- Franz Ferdinand – Curious
- Coolio – C U When You Get There
- George Ezra – Blame It On Me
- Beck – Old Man
- Pixey – I’m So High
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THE SOUND OF 2021
It’s that time of year where people do End Of Year Lists and this blog is no different with the now traditional chart of the best songs of the year.
Nothing scientific, just a scroll through The Friday Fives and trying to put them in order of songs I love the most.
Enjoy, hope i’ve helped you discover something you’ve never heard before
- Maneskin – Zitti E Buoni
- Gaspard Auge – Force Majeure
- Alfie Templeman – Everybody’s Gonna Love Somebody
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – The Mighty Quinn
- Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under
- Wesley Gonzalez and Rose Elinor Dougall – Greater Expectations
- Tears For Fears – Tipping Point
- The Weeknd – Save Your Tears
- Lonelady – There Is No Logic
- Chvrches – Good Girls
- Rag n Bone Man – All You Ever Wanted
- Amy Montgomery – Anywhere
- Lorde – Solar Power
- Coldplay – Higher Power
- Laura Mvula – Got Me
- The Anxiety – Meet Me At Our Spot
- Griff – One Foot In Front Of The Other
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – We’re On Our Way Now
- Dermot Kennedy – Better Days
- Tom Grennan – Little Bit Of Love
- Taylor Swift – All Too Well (Taylor’s version)
- Sting – Rushing Water
- Holly Humberstone – The Walls Are Way Too Thin
- Marshmello and Jonas Brothers – Leave Before You Love Me
- Griff – One Night
- Royal Blood – Limbo
- The Alarm – The Red Wall Of Cymru
- Tears For Fears – No Small Thing
- Tix – Fallen Angel
- Chvrches – The Killing Moon
- Harry Styles – Treat People With Kindness
- The Roop – Discotheque
- Sigrid – Burning Bridges
- Baby Queen – Dover Beach
- Maisie Peters – John Hughes Movie
- Villagers – So Simpatico
- Alphabeat – Danmark’s Dynamite
- Jendrik – I Don’t Feel Hate
- Hooverphonic – The Wrong Place
- Jeangu Macrooy – Birth Of A New Age
- Andy Bell – Skywalker
- U2 – Your Song Saved My Life
- The Fratellis – Yes Sir I Can Boogie
- Olivia Rodrigo – Good 4 U
- Chvrches – He Said, She Said
- Mike Patton – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles
- Olivia Rodrigo – Deja Vu
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – We’re Gonna Get There In The End
- The Divine Comedy – The Best Mistakes
- Franz Ferdinand – Billy Goodbye
So congratulations to Maneskin. There isn’t a formal prize on offer, but you can still bask in the glory of coming top of this poll and joining the Hall Of Fame below.
2020 Tame Impala – Lost In Yesterday
2019 Vampire Weekend – Harmony Hill
2018 Lovelytheband – Broke
2017 Liam Gallagher – For What It’s Worth
2016 The Strumbellas – Spirits
2015 Blossoms – Charlamagne
2014 Jamie T – Zombie
2013 Haim – The Wire
2012 Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever 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 Daughter – Darling
2007 Feist – 1, 2, 3, 4
2006 Kasabian – Empire
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 12.11.2021
- Franz Ferdinand – Billy Goodbye
- Sting – Rushing Water
- U2 – Your Song Saved My Life
- Deco – Torn
- Stereophonics – Do Ya Feel My Love?
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 8.3.2019
1. Catfish and the Bottlemen – Longshot
2. Chvrches and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Miracle
3. KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See
4. The Prodigy – Firestarter
5. Rose Elinor Dougall – First Sign
Today, is International Women’s Day. As is now tradition on this blog, i’ll do some themed charts.
If you doing something or going to something, enjoy yourself.
If you’re not that bothered and it’s just another day to you, enjoy yourself.
Whatever you’re doing, just don’t be a dick about it. You know who I mean, the sort of person who sits in front of a computer screaming IT’S NOVEMBER 19TH!!!!!!
Here’s some charts
FIVE SONGS BY FEMALE VOCALISTS
1. Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever
2. Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back To Me
3. Madonna – Who’s That Girl?
4. Amy Studt – Misfit
5. Britney Spears – Boys
FIVE SONGS BY FEMALE FRONTED BANDS
1. Blondie – Heart Of Glass
2. Chvrches – Lies
3. Paramore – Hard Times
4. Altered Images – Don’t Talk To Me About Love
5. Garbage – Stupid Girl
FIVE SONGS BY GIRL GROUPS
1. Sugababes – Soul Sound
2. Alisha’s Attic – I Am I Feel
3. Bananarama – Love In The First Degree
4. Girls Aloud – Biology
5. Little Mix – Black Magic
FIVE SONGS WITH A GIRL’S NAME IN THE TITLE
1. The Killers – Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
2. Toto – Roseanna
3. Oasis – Lyla
4. Marillion – Kayleigh
5. Franz Ferdinand – Eleanor Put Your Boots On
FIVE SONGS WITH GIRL OR WOMAN IN THE TITLE
1. Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
2. White Town – Your Woman
3. Kate Bush – Rubberband Girl
4. Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry
5. Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
2018 IN PICTURES – MAY
May 2018 began for me by chasing Street Art, getting photos of Murals at Bankmore Square and Bank Square.
That was then followed by a trip to The Odyssey to see Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
The following weekend, I headed to Manchester to see United take on Watford, as well as getting some Street Art photos, both in the City Centre (mostly, Northern Quarter) and then Pomona Wharf.
On the Bank Holiday Weekend at the end of the month, I headed to Titanic Slipways for BBC’s Biggest Weekend where I saw Manic Street Preachers, Beck, Ash and Franz Ferdinand.
The end of the month was dominated by Street Art, going to check out Street Art on Bruce Street, and attending Wardrobe Jam.
Bankmore Square Street Art Photo Album
Bank Square Street Art Photo Album
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at The Odyssey
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at The Odyssey
Manchester Street Art Photo Album
Salford Quays Street Art Photo Album
Manchester United v Watford Photo Album
Manic Street Preachers live at Titanic Slipways
Manic Street Preachers live at Titanic Slipways Photo Album
Beck live at Titanic Slipways Photo Album
Ash live at Titanic Slipways Photo Album
Franz Ferdinand live at Titanic Slipways
Franz Ferdinand live at Titanic Slipways Photo Album
FRANZ FERDINAND – LIVE AT TITANIC SLIPWAYS (BIGGEST WEEKEND) 26.5.2018
It had been a while, but Franz Ferdinand were back in Belfast, performing at Biggest Weekend at Titanic Slipways.
I had seen Franz Ferdinand before. It was a while ago, back in 2005 at Tennent’s Vital in Botanic Gardens along side Scissor Sisters.
Frustratingly, their short-lived but superb supergroup with Sparks, FFS, were playing Edinburgh when I was there in August 2015, but I was unable to see them. I went to see Aisling Bea instead.
The band entered the stage with Alex Kapranos wearing a suit with trainers. It would soon become apparent why.
Franz Ferdinand have a sound and they don’t deviate from it. It’s a great sound, that’s why.
They do guitar music you can dance to, or is it dance music you can play guitar to?
Either way, the crowd, myself included, was toetapping along as they performed their biggest hits.
Alex Kapranos was doing more than toetapping, doing all sorts of dancing, pirouetting, and even managing a few Peter Schmeichel-esque starjumps while playing guitar.
If anyone from Strictly was watching, sign him up.
They began with Always Ascending, the title track from their current album, before following it up with No You Girls.
Then followed Matinee, one of the two major hits from their debut album that made me fall in love with them back in 2004.
Back then, we was on BBC 2 telling Terry Wogan how he made.
Sadly, of course, Terry Wogan isn’t on BBC 2, or any channel these days, so the lyrics were changed to simply say “So i’m on BBC 2, telling Terry how i’ve made it”.
It could be Terry Christian?
That was then followed by Do You Want To?, the lead single from their second album You Could Have Had It So Much Better, which spawned other fantastic singles such as The Fallen and Eleanor Put your Boots On.
Saving the best, they finished on Take Me Out (like a few couples have. No likey, no lighty)
And that, was my Biggest Weekend over. I didn’t bother hanging around for Underworld.I was already danced out anyway.
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 16.2.2018
1. Ryan Adams – Baby I Love You
2. Paramore – Rose Coloured Boy
3. Hunna – Flicking Your Hair
4. Franz Ferdinand – Shut Up Kiss Me
5. Tom Grennan – Sober
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 9.2.2018
1. Kylie Minogue – Dancing
2. Ash – Buzzkill
3. Desperate Journalist – It Gets Better
4. Shed Seven – The Heroes
5. Cast – Flying
Didn’t get tickets for U2 last week, so going to try again this morning. Wish me luck.
Forgot to mention, Madness are playing Galway International Arts Festival. Always been looking for an excuse to visit Galway.
Some new additions to the Biggest Weekend line-up this week. Going to try and get tickets for both days.
FIVE SONGS BY ACTS PERFORMING AT BIGGEST WEEKEND BELFAST
1. The Breeders – Cannonball
2. Beck – Blue Moon
3. Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Ash – Oh Yeah
5. Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To?
Next Wednesday is Valentine’s Day, so if you’re feeling all loved up, here’s a chart for you.
FIVE SONGS WITH LOVE IN THE TITLE
1. Bananarama – Love In The First Degree
2. Erasure – I Love To Hate You
3. Oasis – She Is Love
4. The Feeling – Love It When You Call
5. Lulu – Love Loves to Love
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 27.10.2017
1. Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Fort Knox
3. OMD – Dreaming
4. Liam Gallagher – For What It’s Worth
5. Tiny Magnetic Pets – Girl In A White Dress
It seems that Belsonic announcements get earlier and earlier. There’s one this morning. It’ll probably be some shite DJ. If it is someone I like, i’ll probably end up begrudgingly going.
It’s become a joyless experience in recent years being surrounded by shitfaced 15 year old and spending the whole night having to hold your nose and cover your mouth due to a plague of smelly tramps who can go a few hours without a fag or a vape.
I remember when Belsonic used to be good.
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 4.3.2016
1. Lukas Graham – 7 Years
2. James – Nothing But Love
3. Coldplay – Hymn For The Weekend
4. Richard Ashcroft – This Is How It Feels
5. Nathaniel Rateliffe and the Bad Sweats – I Need Never Get Old
Firstly this week, an apology. Who to? The nation of Wales, all 3 million of them. Last Tuesday was St David’s Day and I forgot to do a Welsh Music Chart.
A bit belatedly, here is a Welsh Music Chart for St David’s Day.
FIVE SONGS BY WELSH ACTS
1. Stereophonics – Dakota
2. Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever
3. Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
4. Manic Street Preachers – Autumn Song
5. Lisa Scott-Lee – Electric
I could just about get away with offending the Welsh, but there’s one group of people you shouldn’t offend, and that’s Internet Feminists, which is why there was never any danger of me forgetting International Women’s Day next Tuesday.
So, to celebrate this event, here’s some related charts for you – Female acts and songs with female names and pronouns.
FIVE SONGS BY FEMALE SINGERS
1. Nina Nesbitt – He’s the One I’m Bringing Back
2. Jane Weidling – Rush Hour
3. Lisa Loeb – Stay
4. Sinead Lohan – Whatever It Takes
5. Brianna Corrigan – Love Me Now
FIVE SONGS BY GIRL GROUPS
1. Sugababes – Soul Sound
2. Little Mix – Black Magic
3. Girls Aloud – Biology
4. Madasun – Don’t You Worry
5. All Saints – Pure shores
FIVE SONGS BY FEMALE FRONTED BANDS
1. Chvrches – Leave A Trace
2. Blondie – Heart Of Glass
3. Texas – Black Eyed Boy
4. Hole – Celebrity Skin
5. Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me
FIVE SONGS WITH FEMALE NAMES IN THE TITLE
1. The Killers – Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
2. Oasis – Lyla
3. Jon Bon Jovi – Janey Don’t You Take Your Love To Town
4. Glasvegas – Geraldine
5. Franz Ferdinand – Eleanor Put Your Puts On
FIVE SONGS WITH WOMAN/GIRL/SHE/ HER IN THE TITLE
1. The Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way
2. White Town – Your Woman
3. Ash – Girl From Mars
4. Neil Finn – She Will Have Her Way
5. Kate Bush – Rubberband Girl
Of course, when International Men’s Day comes around, there’ll be similar charts for the menfolk.
If you don’t know when International Men’s Day is, just go on Twitter on Tuesday and you’ll have smug and self righteous comedians (looking at you Richard Herring) and journalists pointing it out to you in a patronising manner.
It’s on November 19th, if you want to save yourself the effort of being spoken down to by patronising wankers (looking at you Richard Herring) desperate to boost their own personal brand.
That’s eight months away. Until then, you have St Patrick’s Day, St George’s Day, Euro 2016 and International Yorkshire Day charts to listen to.
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