December 23, 20168 yr Author #3 I’m In Love Teenage Fanclub FDOLKSp2AWU Album: Here We're always going to love anything that comes out of the minds of Teenage Fanclub, and "I'm In Love", their first single in six years, was no exception. Like most of their post "Songs From Northern Britain" material, it's a lot less noisy and more subdued, yet still has all those qualities that make us love the band - the sunkissed harmonies, the jangly guitars, and that unbridled optimism that shines through. Previous chart positions: 2010 Baby Lee - #4
December 23, 20168 yr Author #2 Spirits The Strumbellas F9kXstb9FF4 Album: Hope And the song that narrowly misses out on our top spot is "Spirits" by Canadian band The Strumbellas. This was another song that we were absolutely sure would become a massive hit in 2016, although despite millions of YouTube streams, high placings on specialist radio in the United States, and playlisting on Radio X over here, it never really took off like it should have done. Still, "Spirits" is a spectacularly poppy indie-folk tune with a rousing chorus that you just cannot help but sing along to.
December 23, 20168 yr Author My #1 track of 2016 to follow later this evening. Any predictions as to what it's going to be?
December 23, 20168 yr Author And so, my favourite song of 2016 is... #1 Auld Wives Bear’s Den U2tdBAcxbBA Album: Red Earth & Pouring Rain And so, my favourite song of 2016 is "Auld Wives", by London based duo Bear's Den. "Auld Wives" takes its name from a group of rocks found in Scotland (funnily enough, quite close to the town of Bearsden), and lyrically the song is about band member Andrew Davie's grandfather, who suffered from Alzheimer's. Musically, the song combines the modern folk style that marked the band's debut album with a surprising 80s style synth-pop sound, and despite the genres being quite disparate, it works incredible effectively on this track.
December 23, 20168 yr Author And here's the full top 50 - 1. Bear's Den - Auld Wives 2. The Strumbellas - Spirits 3. Teenage Fanclub - I'm In Love 4. Meilyr Jones - How to Recognise a Work of Art 5. Draper, Prides - Break Over You 6. Ciaran Lavery - Return to Form 7. Turin Brakes - Keep Me Around 8. INHEAVEN- Baby's Alright 9. Anteros - Breakfast 10. Town of Saints - Short Circuit Breakdown 11. Suede - What I'm Trying To Tell You 12. M83 feat. Mai Lan - Go! 13. Ten Fé - Elodie 14. The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra 15. Walking On Cars - Speeding Cars 16. The Divine Comedy - Catherine The Great 17. Starwalker - Holidays 18. The Wood Burning Savages - We Love You 19. SOULS - Bad Girl 20. Catholic Action - L.U.V 21. Lucius - Born Again Teen 22. Courtney Barnett - Three Packs a Day 23. A Northern Light - Paranoia 24. Rukhsana Merrise - Money 25. Flowers - Pull My Arm 26. Half Japanese Half Muscle - Loose Fitting Girls 27. Porter Robinson ft Madeon - Shelter 28. Helen Love - A Boy from Wales Called Gareth Bale 29. Bob Mould - Voices in My Head 30. Radiohead - Burn the Witch 31. James - Nothing But Love 32. Jagwar Ma - O B 1 33. Enigma ft Aquilo - Amen 34. RADWIMPS - Zenzenzense 35. Paul Simon - Wristband 36. Nada Surf - Cold To See Clear 37. Wild Beasts - Get My Bang 38. Stop the wheel - Shape Up 39. The Zolas - Swooner 40. Hello Bear - We Held Hands Once, But Then She Got Embarrassed 41. Ward Thomas - Guilty Flowers 42. BABYMETAL - KARATE 43. Biffy Clyro - Re-arrange 44. Christine and the Queens - Tilted 45. Glass Animals - Life Itself 46. Darren Hayman - I've Been a Bad Bad Boy 47. Yakima - Burn 48. Brash Isaac - In The Dark 49. Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold 50. David Bowie - Lazarus
December 23, 20168 yr Pretty good #1, I've been fairly appreciative of what Bears' Den have had recently. Also I've remembered through this I really enjoyed discovering Short Circuit Breakdown in the Nuggets comp it was in, really nice banging track.
December 23, 20168 yr I have to say it's amazing to see Spirits so high up! :cheer: It just passed my by at first, then I began to find myself singing along to it and now it's one of my favourites!
December 23, 20168 yr LOVE Auld Wives, great choice of number 1 :heart: Heard it on radio 1 one morning and it really stuck with me. I should definitely check out more of this top 10 if that's the standard at number 1.
December 31, 20168 yr Author I've put together the top 50 as a Spotify playlist if you'd like to duck in and out of what's on the list.
December 31, 20168 yr Pretty good #1, plus also nice to see Go!, Life Itself, Frankie Sinatra and Speeding Cars do well :wub: Happy New Year! ^_^
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