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Of course! Sorry for the delay in the Top 20! Will be coming up later...

01 (03) Happy Idiot - TV on the Radio (29-05-03-01) 02 (01) Zombie - Jamie T (38-18-08-11-03-02-01-02) 03 (02) Pretzelbodylogic - Prince (21-02-03) 04 (10) Pistols at Dawn - Seinabo Sey (19-10-04) 05 (04) No Dog - Esben and the Witch (25-05-01-01-04-05) 06 (20) Ride On, Molina - Rivulets (20-06) 07 (08) War On The East Coast - The New Pornographers (20-11-08-07) 08 (ne) Long Way Down - Zola Jesus (08) 09 (05) I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up) - School of Seven Bells (31-05-09) 10 (06) Sadiowitch - Electric Wizard (06-06-10) 11 (ne) Hollow - Zola Jesus (11) 12 (07) Smooth Sailing - Queens of the Stone Age (04-02-02-04-10-07-03-07-12) 13 (09) Nocturn - Kate Bush (07-01-01-02-04-09-13) 14 (12) Carmella (Four Tet remix) - Beth Orton (37-07-09-09-12-14) 15 (16) Death To Fascism - The Radio Dept. (19-15-16-15) 16 (11) The Best Day - Thurston Moore (40-23-14-09-11-07-11-16) 17 (ne) New Dorp, New York - SBTRKT (17) 18 (ne) Froot - Marina and the Diamonds (18) 19 (13) Speech Coma - Blood Red Shoes (10-03-03-10-16-15-06-08-13-19) 20 (14) Dreamy Bruises - Sylvan Esso (28-22-14-20) 21 (18) Bumblebeee - Kasabian (22-03-05-12-18-21) 22 (15) Somewhere In Between - Kate Bush (03-02-02-04-10-15-22) 23 (17) Matamoros - The Afghan Whigs (14-12-07-01-01-06-07-14-15-13-17-23) 24 (21) Petals - The Primitives (38-30-21-24) 25 (19) Joanni - Kate Bush (39-06-08-14-19-25) 26 (22) Figure It Out - Royal Blood (22-10-09-11-10-08-08-12-12-10-16-22-26) 27 (24) Aerial - Kate Bush (01-03-04-12-17-24-27) 28 (ne) I'm No Gold - Liars (28) 29 (ne) Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde (29) 30 (33) For The Feel - Bleached (33-30) 31 (36) Princess Hervor - Merely (36-31) 32 (ne) Should I - KaitO (32) 33 (23) Black Sabbeth - Gonga (24-23-33) 34 (25) Experience - Kacy Hill (35-32-25-34) 35 (28) Break The Rules - Charli XCX (35-06-08-13-18-28-35) 36 (26) Gunshot - Lykke Li (06-04-03-04-06-06-15-21-28-32-26-17-16-16-24-34-31-37-28-21-20-17-20-26-36) 37 (31) A Brain in a Bottle - Thom Yorke (31-37) 38 (27) Pi - Kate Bush (40-31-35-27-38) 39 (40) Colours - Laleh (40-39) 40 (29) Lily - Kate Bush (19-10-17-14-25-29)

Absolutely love happy idiot so really looking forward to hearing this

Reservation please John

Harve my review was based on my reaction to each track and I really didn't like any of it that much. That is why I said someone else should review it and do it justice. Nobody should ever be sorry about their musical taste. I'm not and a lot of it certainly doesn't coincide with a lot of other people on here. As for The Radio Dept I have listened to them a total of 21 times, 16 of which was for the same track. The other five tracks I only listened to once then never again because I didn't like them back in 2005 and 2010. Why would I recognize a track I listened to once four years ago? I stand by my review as you stand by the music you like. As it should be. I am totally shocked by that Iberia track. God I hate (most) remixes. Stripped away the glorious drums and turned it into a run of the mill dance track by the end.

Erm no not really. I rate every track out of a hundred for UP. BJSC and Nuggets and I regularly give out points to tracks that score quite low for me. It's all relative you see.

I'm guessing all these artists are Swedish in origin judging from each track having the artist tag of Scandimazing. What follows is my personal reaction to the songs on this CD. It is not meant as a personal slur as I'm sure many of you would love the music here. Ett A jaunty number that's pleasant enough but that's as far as it goes. Jaunty is not a word I normally associate with memorable music and this doesn't break the rule. 4/10 Tva More jaunty guitar and a sub-New Order synth line that make for another unexciting song. 3/10 Tre Slightly funky guitar this time and stell drums make this another forgettable track. Sounded really dated too. 2/10 Fyra Starts off with a sample about capitalism destroying youth culture. This CD would do it just as well. Yet more drivelly sub-80s dirge (early 90s if I'm being generous) I'm sorry I'm sure the maker of this CD had a lovely time putting this together but this really isn't hitting the mark for me. 1/10 Fem Decent bass line kicks this off but then some really wet singer starts droning and I've lost it again. I loved twee indie pop back in the 80s. But they had tunes. This is all getting very monotonous. 2/10 Sex Intro is more interesting in this one. Dreamy female vocals drift in on a layer of echo and once again it's all very pleasant. Best track so far but then what competition does it have? 5/10 Sju More insistant beat with this at the start but this soon turns into a 4/4 with no light or shade. Is this old or is it just really dated? This isn't even pleasant. Did Silas take part in this again coz I have got a slight feeling of deja-vu here. 1/10 Atta Toms start this off with a skittering underbeat but then we get more sub 80s synth. Some whispered vocals and some synth-trumpet make this a track that Jean Michel Jarre may well have rejected in 1982. And the singing is out of tune. 0/10 Nio This is getting ever so slightly stale for me now. This Cd is very one dimensional and barely strays off the theme here. A lot of the tracks could interchange singers and sound exactly the same. More exceedingly wet (I guess they're meant to be sensitive) vocals in a style that was done infinitely better by The Lotus Eaters in 1981. 2/10 Tio Tinkly piano drifts in mixed with some faint bird song. Dreamy female vocals start followed by some (for this cd anyway) big beats. So far so dreary. I guess a lot of people would say this is probably best listened to at the height of summer not on a wet Sunday night in Devon but this is starting to get very boring. One or two of these tracks would have been fine in a mix of other more varied sounds but I would rather listen to someone like Silje doing twenty times 2/10 Right a quick break to listen to some Electric Wizard or something else that sounds equally nasty and then back for the second half. Elva Slightly better start to the second half. All very dreamy again though after a strong start. Back to business as usual then. 5/10 Tolv More meandering. This just means nothing to me. 1/10 Tretton Slightly eastern opening to this one. Moaning female humming over synth and then it all goes nowhere for the longest time. This builds and builds until finally it turns into a bog standard euro banger. Really not my favourite genre of music. 0/10 Fjorton Anthemic synths and beats then we get a Swedish(?) rapper. This is just abysmal. He makes me long for Einar from The Sugarcubes to start burbling and that is no mean feat. 0/10 Femton I would give up on listening to anything Scandinavian again if this was the first Scandinavian music I had ever been exposed to but I know there is so much better stuff out there. And if I hear that rhythm piano line again I don't know what I'll do. Is that a herd of elephants that pparps in half way through. 0/10 Another quick break and then I'm on the home straight. Sexton Awful vocals repeating the same thing over and over again. Oh hold on he says something else after about two minutes but I really am giving up the will to go on with this. 0/10 Sjuton Here I am longing for the first half of this mix again and this just increases as this track kicks in. Then someone who sounds vaguely remiscent of Peter Gabriel starts singing and at least that sounds a little interesting. More interesting than the rest of this song. 2/10 Arton I really wish something would happen during this track apart from some heavily reverbed female vocals and some parpy synths over a mid tempo beat. 0/10 Nitton Martial drumbeat promises more but the vocal immediately dispels that. Wonky synth line and some slightly (whiny) soulful vocals over synth washes just make me long even more for the end of this mix. It does go more uptempo by the end but it really doesn't help much. 0/10 Tjugo A lot of the intros on the second half of this promise much more than they deliver and this is the case here. Hang on I recognise this. Is this a cover or a remix? This is not that bad compared to the rest of the second half. 4/10 So as the last synth fades into the distance I pack myself off for a snifter of something bracing and get back to my usual listening habits. Thanks for the CD and please someone else listen to this and do the songs justice.

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I have to listen to I more. Never got into it at the time although listened to II this afternoon and still sounds great.

It's only been out for about 4 hours!!!! Anyway I really like it. Sounds almost more sophisticated than either of her first two albums. Just bought a copy of Family Jewels for my dad. I never realised he liked Marina before!

30-21 21 Crystal Castles - Plague (233) 22 No Doubt - Push and Shove (229) 23 The Irrepressibles - Two Men in Love (228) 24 Santigold - The Keepers (227) 25 Blood Diamonds ft. Grimes - Phone Sex (222) 26 Grizzly Bear - Yet Again (220) 27 Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt (218) 28 MS MR - Hurricane (216) 29 Charli XCX - You're The One (212) 29 AlunaGeorge - Your Drums Your Love (212) Top tracks for me here include Crystal Castles (sad news this week :() and The Irrepressibles. Glad Jake Bugg goes out here. He just grates on me now.

01 (02) Zombie - Jamie T (38-18-08-11-03-02-01) 02 (21) Pretzelbodylogic - Prince (21-02) 03 (05) Happy Idiot - TV on the Radio (29-05-03) 04 (01) No Dog - Esben and the Witch (25-05-01-01-04) 05 (31) I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up) - School of Seven Bells (31-05) 06 (06) Sadiowitch - Electric Wizard (06-06) 07 (03) Smooth Sailing - Queens of the Stone Age (04-02-02-04-10-07-03-07) 08 (11) War On The East Coast - The New Pornographers (20-11-08) 09 (04) Nocturn - Kate Bush (07-01-01-02-04-09) 10 (19) Pistols at Dawn - Seinabo Sey (19-10) 11 (07) The Best Day - Thurston Moore (40-23-14-09-11-07-11) 12 (09) Carmella (Four Tet remix) - Beth Orton (37-07-09-09-12) 13 (08) Speech Coma - Blood Red Shoes (10-03-03-10-16-15-06-08-13) 14 (22) Dreamy Bruises - Sylvan Esso (28-22-14) 15 (10) Somewhere In Between - Kate Bush (03-02-02-04-10-15) 16 (15) Death To Fascism - The Radio Dept. (19-15-16) 17 (13) Matamoros - The Afghan Whigs (14-12-07-01-01-06-07-14-15-13-17) 18 (12) Bumblebeee - Kasabian (22-03-05-12-18) 19 (14) Joanni - Kate Bush (39-06-08-14-19) 20 (ne) Ride On, Molina - Rivulets (20) 21 (30) Petals - The Primitives (38-30-21) 22 (16) Figure It Out - Royal Blood (22-10-09-11-10-08-08-12-12-10-16-22) 23 (24) Black Sabbeth - Gonga (24-23) 24 (17) Aerial - Kate Bush (01-03-04-12-17-24) 25 (32) Experience - Kacy Hill (35-32-25) 26 (20) Gunshot - Lykke Li (06-04-03-04-06-06-15-21-28-32-26-17-16-16-24-34-31-37-28-21-20-17-20-26) 27 (35) Pi - Kate Bush (40-31-35-27) 28 (18) Break The Rules - Charli XCX (35-06-08-13-18-28) 29 (25) Lily - Kate Bush (19-10-17-14-25-29) 30 (23) Two Weeks - FKA Twigs (32-24-27-16-29-31-28-21-23-30) 31 (ne) A Brain in a Bottle - Thom Yorke (31) 32 (27) Sunset - Kate Bush (05-09-16-18-27-32) 33 (ne) For The Feel - Bleached (33) 34 (33) Top of the City - Kate Bush (09-11-21-30-33-34) 35 (28) Javelin Unlanding - Bill Callahan (36-31-36-24-27-23-28-35) 36 (ne) Princess Hervor - Merely (36) 37 (34) King of the Mountain - Kate Bush (11-13-19-24-34-37) 38 (29) Let's Go To War - Manic Street Preachers (32-08-04-05-06-12-17-18-22-29-38) 39 (26) The Love You Have In You - Asbjørn (09-05-04-05-13-16-26-39) 40 (ne) Colours - Laleh (40)

Until it has been decided otherwise this should be in indie.

I wouldn't worry about it (I know you won't ;)) Not as though you do that shabbily at these things anyway.

Loving Long Way Down and Hollow.

40-31 31 The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling (207) 32 Major Lazer - Get Free (206) 33 Beach House - Myth (195) 34 Florence + The Machine - Never Let Me Go (187) 34 Alt-J - Tessellate (187) 36 iamamiwhoami - play (186) 37 Orbital / Lady Leshurr - Wonky (185) 38 First Aid Kit - Emmylou (184) 39 Django Django - Default (174) 40 Underworld - Caliban's Dream (172) Sorry Lew, here's Wonky and just one iamamiwhoami track left in.

I feel like that about Semi-final 2.

I wanted Taro and Comeback Kid to come higher. Slightly mystified at the low showing from all 3 Alt-J tracks.

50-41 41 Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (167) 42 Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Sound (165) 43 Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms (163) 44 Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws (160) 45 Crystal Castles - Wrath Of God (159) 46 Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid (157) 47 Blur - Under The Westway (150) 48 Burial - Kindred (149) 48 Twin Shadow - Five Seconds (149) 50 Alt-J - Taro (144) Of Monsters and Men make their first appearance here Blur make a slightly surprising appearance just outside the Top 40.

60-51 51 iamamiwhoami - drops (142) 52 iamamiwhoami - idle talk (139) 52 Muse - Panic Station (139) 54 Japandroids: - The House That Heaven Built (138) 55 Muse - Madness (137) 56 Beach House - Lazuli (133) 56 Jessie Ware - Sweet Talk (133) 58 Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire (130) 59 iamamiwhoami - kill (129) 59 Crystal Castles - Sad Eyes (129) So coming up to half way, three out of the five iamamiwhoami tracks make an appearance. Also in this batch are both Muse tracks and the first Crystal Castles track. Sadly also Spitfire is in this lot.

I really like her new one. Sounds like a bit of a Bond theme to me. I'm not the only one going by the lyric video. h8clUPBid0k

Whichever you prefer to be honest. We're all quite approachable.

70-61 61 Passion Pit - Take a Walk (128) 62 Reverend & The Makers - Bassline (123) 63 Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa (feat. Julianna Barwick) (Elite Gymnastics Remix) (122) 64 The Shins - Simple Song (117) 65 Underworld - And I Will Kiss (115) 66 Bat For Lashes - All Your Gold (114) 67 Holy Other - Held (109) 68 John Talabot ft. Pional - Destiny (107) 69 Atoms For Peace - Default (106) 70 Diiv - Doused (104) Not so many shocks here as we get into the mid range.

71-80 71 Regina Spektor - All the Rowboats (102) 72 Susanne Sundfør - White Foxes (95) 73 The Vaccines - No Hope (94) 74 Ben Howard - Oats in the Water (93) 75 Purity Ring - Belispeak (92) 76 Man Without Country - Puppets (91) 77 How To Dress Well - And It Was U (90) 78 Chad Valley - Fall 4 U (89) 79 Bloc Party - Octopus (88) 80 Yeasayer - Fingers Never Bleed (85) The next batch bring the first of the Purity Ring tracks and the quite wonderful All The Rowboats. Bloc Party and Ben Howard might be considered as being surprisingly low.

81-90 81 Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone (84 pts) 81 Alt-J - Fitzpleasure (84 pts) 83 Amanda Mair - Sense (78 pts) 84 Public Service Broadcasting - Everest (75 pts) 84 Cat Power - Ruin (75 pts) 86 Kyla La Grange - Walk Through Walls (69 pts) 87 SOHN - Oscillate (68 pts) 88 The Macabees - Unknow (65 pts) 89 Sin Cos Tan - Trust (64 pts) 90 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Everybody's On The Run (63 pts) The second PSB track makes it appearance here - another minor surprise? Fitzpleasure also makes a low appearance despite it actually finishing 2nd in a UP contest that year. Otherwise not too many surprises.