17 seconds’ Festive Fifty 2009
…so here it is.
1. Peter Parker ‘Swallow the Rocket.’ *Video*
2. The Big Pink ‘Velvet.’ *Video*
3. Mono ‘Everlasting Light.’
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Zero.’ *Video*
5. Telefon Tel Aviv ‘The Birds.’
6. The Very Best featuring Ezra Koenig ‘Warm Heart Of Africa.’
7. St. Vincent ‘Actor Out Of Work.’
8. The Gothenburg Address ‘A Lesser Coming Home.’
9. Animal Collective ‘Summertime Clothes.’
10. Broken Records ‘Nearly Home.’
11. Sonic Youth ‘Sacred Trickster.’
12. Super Furry Animals ‘Inaugural Trams.’
13. The Horrors ‘Who Can Say.’
14. The Phantom Band ‘Folksong Oblivion.’
15. Bon Iver ‘Blood Bank.’
16. Franz Ferdinand ‘No You Girls.’
17. Horace Andy/Ashley Beedle ‘Babylon You Lose.’
18. Unicorn Kid ‘Lion Hat.’
19. Luke Haines ’21st Century Man.’ *video*
20. The Horrors ‘Sea Within A Sea.’
21. The Very Best featuring M.I.A. ‘Rain Dance.’
22. TV21 ‘Forever 22.’
23. Speech Debelle featuring Wiley ‘Better Days.’
24. White ‘Build A Link’
25. White Heath ‘Election Day’
26. Six Organs Of Admittance ‘Ursa Minor’
27. 1990s ‘The Box.’
28. Animal Collective ‘My Girls.’
29. The Big Pink ‘Dominos’
30. Broken Records ‘Until The Earth Begins To Part.’ *Video*
31. Frightened Rabbit ‘Swim Until You Can’t See Land.’ *Video*
32. Fuck Buttons ‘The Lisbon Maru.’
33. Meursault ‘Nothing Broke.’
34. Future Of the Left ‘The Hope That House Built.’
35. Girls ‘Lust for Life’ *video*
36. Jesus H. Foxx ‘Trying To Be Good.’
37. King Creosote ‘No-one Had It Better.’
38. Meursault ‘Red Candle Bulb.’
39. Mitchell Museum ‘Tiger Heartbeat.’
40. Mos Def ‘Casa Bey.’
41. Morrissey ‘Something Is Squeezing My Skull.’
42. Jay-Z featuring kanye West and Rihanna ‘Run This Town.’
43. Paper Planes ‘Doris Day.’ *Video*
44. Joy Orbison ‘Hyph Mngo.’
45. Little Boots ‘Stuck On Repeat.’
46. Yo La Tengo ‘Periodically Double Or Triple.’
47. Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern ‘Our Favourite Motorway.’
48. Jarvis Cocker ‘Angela.’
49. Cuddly Shark ‘Bowl Of Cherries.’
50. Le Reno Amps ‘Outlaws.’
Some mp3 links and video links here -if you can’t find a link, go and buy it!
Feedback welcome, as ever…watch the disagreements pour in!
Trying to put together a festive fifty is a nightmare for me, so I didn’t even try.
Some right good calls in there though, and Peter Parker’s song is still as magic as it was when I first heard it. Nice to see Cuddly Shark in there too, as well as others I’ve loved this year.
Just being nosey now, did you buy the Luke Haines CD or download? I plumped for the CD, it had a whole extra CD
Peel would be proud of you, Eduardo. That’s just going by the names. I’ve not heard a single one of these, but I will make it my personal pilgrimage to listen to them all. Somehow. Take care, mate.
Jim - glad you like it. Got sent the album for review; but might try and buy it to get the extra CD
Hi Steve -still hanging on in there, glad you like the look, let me know how you get on!
Following on from this, Ed, the link at no. 21 is showing up as forbidden. DMCA in the house? I bloody hope not.
…and number 6…theme gradually emerging…
It’s ok…had put http:// in twice!
D’oh…
ED
I’m shocked!!! And happily so, to see so much of what I have absolutely no idea about at the top of your list. You are no sheep, sir!!!
I think that you’re just too cool for school. And you make me feel very old today, haha! But good on you, it’s your job, being the teacher and all.
More than anything, your list shows me what sheer volume of music is out there to be had. I seriously didn’t even know or had completely forgotten that Super Furry Animals even had a record this year.
xoxo
Don’t worry, I seem to be the only blogger who hasn’t heard the XX (or whatever they’re called!)
Glad you like it!
I’ve heard of The xx, but seem to be one of the few that was entirely unimpressed by their album!
You’ve inspired me to cobble together my own 50, if just to prove I’m not getting old!
Also, look out for Ed’s selection in the FiS Blogger’s choice Festive 50 some time towards the end of the month.
Jim -thanks to the advent of Spotify, might check it out there rather than buying it.
Adam - thank you; don’t forget to check out Matthew’s over at Song, By Toad, who has been doing something similar, I think…
Ed, you’re being too modest by not including The Dirty Cuts.
With an act like that on the label, you should be proud
Craig
I took the decision that I wasn’t going to put in any of the 17 Seconds acts on here, as it might cause offence if I put some above others, and I genuinely wouldn’t want to do that.
Glad you like them, and hopefully that single will be out early next year.
Ed