#21

 

Melissa Auf Der Mauer -- Meet Me On The Darkside

 

The 2nd single from the album Out Of Our Minds by former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist. She has quietly been creating some excellent stuff out of the limelight. An Autumn favourite for me.

50. Alkaline Trio – This Addiction

49. Stone Sour – Mission Statement

48. Muse – Neutron Star Collision

47. The Drums – Best Friend

46. Arcade Fire – Month Of May

45. Band Of Skulls – I Know What I Am

44. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

43. Zola Jesus – Night

42. Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love

41. Strange Boys - Be Brave

 

40. Mystery Jets - Dreaming Of Another World

39. Die So Fluid - Mercury

38. Chromeo - Don't Turn The Lights On

37. Stone Sour - Say You'll Haunt Me

36. Fever Ray - Mercy Street

35. Hole - Skinny Little Bitch

34. Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up

33. The New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar

32. Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait

31. Biffy Clyro - God & Satan

 

30. In This Moment - The Gun Show

29. The Ting Tings - Hands

28. Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up

27. Senser - End Of The World Show

26. Goldfrapp - Rocket

25. Cee Lo Green - f*** You

24. Creature Feature - Grave Robber At Large

23. Zola Jesus - Poor Animal

22. Vampire Weekend - Holiday

21. Melissa Auf Der Mauer - Meet Me On The Darkside

 

 

 

#20

 

Biffy Clyro -- Many Of Horror

 

Yep, even Matt Cardle couldn't ruin this for me despite a valiant effort. Featuring a wonderfully valiant and fragile vocal this is my 2nd favourite track by them and their best for me this year.

#19

 

Futureheads -- Heartbeat Song

 

A band who are slowly turning into one of my favourite singles acts. Despite a promising first album and awful second they seem to have finally found their niche. One day they may just make a classic album in the vein of Buzzcocks or The Wedding Present.

#18

 

Interpol -- Barricade

 

Not a strong lead single for them by any means but after the initial disappointment this really grew on me to become a favourite from this year. The album still leaves me a tad cold though.

#17

 

Manic Street Preachers -- Some Kind Of Nothingness

 

I guess their presence here was inevitable really. After the horror that was It's Not War (Just the End Of Love) and the hugely disappointing album Postcards From A young Man I thought I was done with the Manics but this crept on me. Something that appears to have happened a lot this year. It's a decent tune and far from their best but it's Ian McCulloch who really brings this track alive such is my love of his voice. Still haven't bought the album though.

#16

 

The Jim Jones Revue -- High Horse

 

Heard this first on 6music and my ears pricked up immediately. Very much in the style of John Spencer Blues Explosion meets Jerry lee Lewis. Gold old fashioned Garage Rock N Roll that you just don't get much these days. Didn't make the connection with Thee Hypnotics for ages but I saw them live in 1990 and they were great.

#19

 

A band who are slowly turning into one of my favourite singles acts. Despite a promising first album and awful second they seem to have finally found their niche. One day they may just make a classic album in the vein of Buzzcocks or The Wedding Present.

 

brilliant band, although i disagree on the singles thing, i think their non-singles from The Chaos are better, and same with TINTW. speaking of which, I just brought tickets to see them for the 5th time.

 

Some fantastic stuff in here, great to see Cee-Lo, the Futureheads, Vampire Weekend and Blood Red Shoes featuring. Zola Jesus is good too, downloaded her album last week and I do like it. I found 'Barricade' to be quite disappointing though, a great shame as I've always loved Interpol. :(

Thanks for the comments guys. Maybe I should give The Chaos another listen.

I found Barricade disappointing at first but it won me round in the end and I was rsther surprised by that.

#15

 

The Vaccines -- Wreckin' Bar (Ra, Ra, Ra)

 

One of the acts to look out for in 2011. n fact new singkle Post Break-Up Sex is already being adored in my house. Very Ramones influenced and for me that's never good. They've also been compared to The Strokes but I'm not so convinced by that. Although hopefully they can inspire an Indie resurgence.

#14

 

Band Of Skulls -- Fires

 

Technically a re-release but it was my first time for this and possibly my favourite video of the year. I'm surprised this band hasn't done much better and remain overlooked by the wider public

#13

 

The Cribs -- Housewife

 

This standalone singkle sneaked out via iTunes earlier in the year and quickly became one of my favourites of theirs. Another band who release consistently good singles and this is no exception. Great video too

#12

 

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Conscience Killer

 

Back with a vengeance and back on form these guys delivered their best album since Howl and this was a highlight for me. The 2nd single from the album it sounded once again in debt to the Jesus And Mary Chain but that's their signature sound really

#11

 

The Vaselines -- Sex With An X

 

20 years ago they split up and finally after years of rumours they returned sounding exactly the same as they did back then. One of Kurt Cobain's favourite bands (they wrote Molly's Lips) and a very welcome return.

Wasnt very keen on Housewife by The Cribs, probaly my least favourite single of theres. wasnt keen on the whole last album either tbh.

Wasnt very keen on Housewife by The Cribs, probaly my least favourite single of theres. wasnt keen on the whole last album either tbh.

Whatever they do they'll never top You're Gonna Lose Us for me

Zola Jesus! :o :wub:

 

Will we be getting an update on this? (I can say this now I've finally continued mine a bit :D )