Posted April 10, 201510 yr http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/banner_1.png Welcome to Tony's Top 50 Tracks of the decayed. Over the next while I shall be running down my favourite 40 tracks from the years 2010 to 2014. Stuff from this year has been avoided as it hasn't had time to mature in my tastes yet. As always predictions are welcome. Questions to get social media in a tizzy about the upcoming chart. How many Marina songs will make the chart? Will old favourites Tori Amos and Manic Street Preachers appear? Will he actually commit the social suicide of having Black Eyed Peas - Rock that Body in the chart? Any million sellers in the list? Will anyone even comment? I will supply more details relating to years/genre/official number 1s/etc over the weekend. Till then, my children - as you were. ____________________________________________________ Somehow I managed to have two number 25s and now I have 51 songs in my Top 50. :D 1 James Blake – Retrograde 2 M83 feat Suzanne – Oblivion 3 Antlers – No Widows 4 Marina – Oh No 5 Yeaysayer – Madder Red 6 Will Young – Come On 7 Orbital – Never 8 Delphic – Acolyte 9 Coldplay – Midnight 10 The Irrepressibles – Two Men in Love 11 Hozier – Take me to Church 12 Bat for Lashes – All Your Gold 13 Active Child – High Priestess 14 SOHN – Oscillate 15 Jai Paul – Jasmine 16 Underworld – And I Will Kiss 17 Yeaysayer – Fingers Never Bleed 18 Lana Del Rey – Born to Die 19 Muse – Big Freeze 20 Battles – Futura 21 Lady Gaga - Scheiße 22 The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt 23 Imogen Heap - Run-Time 24 Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith - La La La 25 Damon Albarn - The Selfish Giant 26 Chequerboard - The Sorrow Bird 27 Skrillex - First Of The Year (Equinox) 28 The Weeknd - High For This 29 Crystal Castles - Vietnam 30 The National - Conversation 16 31 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne - Rather Be 32 Lady Gaga - Marry The Night 33 Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know 34 Pallers - The Kiss 35 Rihanna - Diamonds 36 Antony and the Johnsons - Cut the World 37 Azelia Banks ft Lazy Jay - 212 38 Burial - Come Down To Us 39 Philter - Revolver 40 Nicki Minaj - Starships 41 Rudimental ft. John Newman - Feel The Love 42 Adele - Rolling in the Deep 43 Editors - You Don't Know Love 44 PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill 45 Joanna Newsom - '81 46 Marina and the Diamonds - Mowgli's Road 47 Daft Punk - Derezzed 48 Sia feat. The Weeknd & Diplo - Elastic Heart 49 Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith - Not In Love 50 Regina Spektor - All the Row-boats 51 Radiohead - Codex Edited June 7, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe
April 10, 201510 yr Author From the picture I can recognise only 2 singers + Is it Pet Shop Boys under word "The" ? At last there is Marina for me, most possible even with my second favourite song from her. My top 3 : 1. Bubblegum Bitch 2. ??? (believe in top 40) 3. Seventeen I try to comment, but it will be very hard, based on my zero knowledge of current mainstream (and especially indie) music. It's not the Pet Shop Boys. :(
April 11, 201510 yr I spot James Blake and Crystal Castles. Yay! I expect a high entry for “Starships” and apart from that song quite a crossover as we have quite similar tastes in music. For reference my Top 100 (which I counted down in September/October 2013) is here - I probably won't do another one until December 2019 tho. :P Excited!
April 11, 201510 yr Interested to see Nicki in your banner, whether that's just a trick to get people to pay attention or not, as I wouldn't expect her here. I'll try and keep an eye on this!
April 11, 201510 yr Author Didn't heard "Froot". Is it a good album in compare with "Family Jewels" and "Electra Heart" ? My opinion is that it is not quite as good as The Family Jewels but much better than Electra Heart.
April 11, 201510 yr Author Just had a look through your list Doctor, and while we have many artists in common, I've gone for different tracks. Plus, you reminded me of one that I had no considered so I have to re-jig my list now :(
April 11, 201510 yr Just had a look through your list Doctor, and while we have many artists in common, I've gone for different tracks. Plus, you reminded me of one that I had no considered so I have to re-jig my list now :( Ooh, which track did you overlook?
April 11, 201510 yr Author About 10 artists in my chart appear in yours, Doctor. As I said, I have some re-jigging to do.
April 12, 201510 yr Author (o5c9w6uWBOI 50 Radiohead - Codex 2011 In their tradition of releasing poignant ballads based mostly on piano and Thom Yourke's wounded choirboy vocals (see also Pyramid Song, Sail to the Moon) - Codex was easily the stand out track on King of Limbs for me. And better than anything on In Rainbows (an unpopular opinion). This would make you want to slit your wrists in the most beautiful way possible. An album full of these, please.
April 12, 201510 yr Author 2CZ8ossU4pc 49 Regina Spektor - All the Rowboats 2012 I've never been a fan of Regina's - despite all the right ingredients being used. This didn't change much when I heard All the Rowboats but it at last gave me a song that I could like. The gothic drama and insistent piano playing and nimble flourishes are straight from early 90s Tori territory - also known as the best possible sound for a piano player to have. Ballad of a Politician is also good from the album.
April 12, 201510 yr Author 32udqal_lyQ 48 Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith - Not In Love 2010 So glad they chose Robert Smith to the vocals here. It makes the song much more accessible. The fact that the original by Platinum Blonde could easily have been vintage The Cure makes it possibly an obvious choice. It's such a great tune in an indie club. Not the last of CC in his chart. Edited April 12, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe
April 12, 201510 yr Author cKCfs4gRKaY 47 Sia feat. The Weeknd & Diplo - Elastic Heart 2013 It needs to be noted that the version with The Weeknd is an appreciably better rendition. He does amazing things with his voice, and with a song from Sia at the top of her game he has solid gold to work with. I can't really cope with a whole album of Sia but she writes distinctively unusual songs. Long me she continue. Edited April 12, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe
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