SINGLES

girls' generation - oh!
best song and video of the year already. no point anyone else making any more songs 'till next year

thumbs up

kara - lupin
not bad, not great but probably their best song yet. catchy chorus for sure, nearly thumbs up just for that

thumbs down

BoA - lazer
ditto the last song really except not as good. asia's most overrated idol

thumbs down

ke$ha - your love is my drug
well, it's not a single yet but it will be surely. great effort again from her producers to create another great tune for this talentless tramp

thumbs up


ALBUMS

HNC - cult
i have no idea why anyone would change their name from hazel nuts chocolate (one of al's nemeses) to HNC. what an idiot. made the music worse too

thumbs down


and that concludes the worst blog entry ever.

in fact, wait. WATCH THIS NOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dr1W_vq4g

ALBUMS


Yeasayer - Odd Blood
Sounds like Klaxons fucking and murdering Liars and there's sperm everywhere.
thumbs down


Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow
Good tempos, nice variation, pretty good. But now they're dead.
thumbs up


These New Puritans - Hidden
Brilliant stuff, even if they are pretty smug about it.
thumbs up


Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
"I know who we should sound like! Bon Jovi - they're great!"
No.
thumbs down


The Knife - Tomorrow in a Year
YES.
thumbs up

Celebrity Deaths

Here's our review of the most recent celebrity deaths within the music world.

Jack Rose - December 5th 2009 - Heart Attack
At 38 Rose had already made shit loads of albums - and he receives bonus points for a posthumous release, which I always take to mean an afterlife ejaculation. He still had some good tastes in music and a two-syllable name which I'm always a fan of.
thumbs up

Vic Chesnutt - December 25th 2009 - Muscle Relaxant Overdose
Best way to die ever? Muscle relaxant overdose on Christmas Day! Although he was halfway dead after being paralysed in the eighties, he did well to push it to 45. Fair fucks.
thumbs up

Rowland S. Howard - December 30th 2009 - Liver Cancer
'Liver cancer' is Scientologist for 'Party animal', and the guy was in Birthday Party so he's going to have had a better life than any of you. Plus points for also being the oldest death on this list at 50, minus points for the fucking retarded spelling of Roland.
thumbs up

Jay Reatard - January 13th 2009 - Unknown as of now
Youngest death on the list at 29, and an unknown death (probably caused by an addiction to release records). Blood Visions is fucking great though, hopefully he died of something really fun and drugged up like, I don't know, swallowing an entire helium balloon filled with food colourings.
thumbs up

Special mention to Vic Chesnutt's wheelchair buddy Teddy Pendergrass (thumbs up), my dream mother Brittany Murphy (thumbs up) and Daily Mail-enemy, AIDS-producing, all-round venomous Irishman Stephen Gately (thumbs down).

Review of 2009 - Albums and Songs Top 20s.

Songs of 2009:

20. YACHT - Psychic City (Voodoo City)
19. Male Bonding - Pumpkin
18. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone -Tom Justice, The Choir Boy Robber, Apprehended at Ace Hardware in Libertyville, IL
17. Sleigh Bells - Ring Ring
16. Wavves - So Bored
15. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
14. Alphabeat - The Spell
13. Dan Deacon - Snookered
12. Fever Ray - Seven
11. Röyksopp ft. Robyn - The Girl and the Robot
10. Suckers - Beach Queen
09. Japandroids - Crazy/Forever
08. Desire - Mirror Mirror
07. jj - ectasy
06. Nisennenmondai - Mirrorball
05. HEALTH - Die Slow
04. Pens - Freddie
03. Dinosaur Jr - Over It
02. Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Rmx)
01. Animal Collective - What Do I Want? Sky




Albums of 2009:

20. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
19. Dan Deacon - Bromst
18. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Vs. Children
17. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
16. Annie - Don't Stop
15. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
13. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
12. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
11. HEALTH - Get Color
10. The xx - xx
09. jj - jj n°2
08. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
07. Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo
06. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
05. Thee Oh Sees - Help
04. Desire - II
03. Blank Dogs - Under and Under
02. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
01. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

best of 2009. i am predator

no one will agree with this. no one will even read this. here we go...


10. animal collective - merriweather post pavillion
psychedelic pop


9. jay-z - the blueprint 3
rap


8. vivian girls - everything goes wrong
lo-fi indie


7. every time i die - new junk aesthetic
metalcore


6. mastodon - crack the skye
metal


5. she - orion
electro


4. lady gaga - the fame monster
pop


3. brand new - daisy
indie


2. maudlin of the well - part the second
progressive


1. perfume - ⊿
j-pop