Scouring the interweb for the best tunes, videos and links dug from the online crates of the blogosphere.

Saturday 27 January 2018

Best of 2017 1-10


1.  THE MOONLANDINGZ ft. YOKO ONO & FRIENDZ - This Cities Undone


2.  KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Open Water


3.  JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - The Gospel According To The Selfish Gene


4 . DOPE LEMON - Home Soon


5.  RENALDO & THE LOAF - A Convivial Ode


6.  YOUNG FATHERS ft. THE LEITH CONGREGATIONAL CHOIR - Only God Knows


7.  JANE WEAVER - H>A>K
https://open.spotify.com/track/6n3HId3Ce5E7yQ82YsoaCe

8.  SAVOY MOTEL - Sorry People


9.  MOGWAI - Party In The Dark


10. JAPANESE BREAKFAST - Road Head



 

Best of 2017 11-20


11.  CABBAGE - A Network Betrayal


12.  PAUL ROONEY - Lost High Street


13.  RICHARD DAWSON - Soldier


14.  PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - They Gave Me A Lamp


15.  SLEAFORD MODS - B.H.S.


16.  THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Dropping Bombs On The Sun


17.  LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Call The Police


18.  ELBOW ft. JOHN GRANT - Kindling (Fickle Flame)


19.  SHABAZZ PALACES ft. THADDILLAC - Shine A Light


20.  THE COMET IS COMING - Start Running

 

Best of 2017 21-30


21.  ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL ft. MAXINE PEAKE - There's A War On People Going On
https://soundcloud.com/the_e_r_c/theres-a-war-on-people-going-on-eccentronic-research-council-ft-maxine-peake

22.  BENIN CITY - All Smoke, No Fire


23.  SPACEHEADS - The Revolution Sashays Up The Mall


24.  PNAU - Chameleon


25.  COLLAPSED LUNG - New Song, Old Band


26.  HELENE GREENWOOD - Flat Roof House


27.  COLOR FILM - Even If It Did Exist


28.  THE PEEP TEMPEL - Big Fish


29.  HELICON - Seraph


30.  clipping ft. SICKNESS - Body For The Pile


 

Wednesday 24 January 2018

Best of 2017 31-40


31.  GUERILLA TOSS - Skull Pop


32.  CONFIDENCE MAN - Boyfriend (Repeat)


33.  LAST QUOKKA - Nazi Scum


34.  PAPA CHANGO - First Contact


35.  THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM - Satori


36.  FIELD HARMONICS - Girls


37.  INTASTELLA ft. THE MEMBRANES & JAH WOBBLE - Rock and Roll Crime


38.  TIM COHEN - John Hughes


39.  FLOWERS MUST DIE - Hit


40.  L'ORANGE - Counting Breaths




 

Monday 22 January 2018

Best of 2017 41-50


41.  SNAPPED ANKLES - Johnny Guitar Calling Gosta Berlin


42.  THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - Rain In Soho


43.  WU-TANG CLAN - People Say (ft. Redman)


44.  WHYTE HORSES -  She Owns The World (ft. St. Bart's Choir)


45.  PREGNANT WHALE PAIN - Blank Long Nights Kill Romance Vengefully


46.  EXPLODED VIEW - Orlando


47.  BERNARD NTONE - Mussoloki


48.  62 MILES FROM SPACE - Time Shifts


49.  THE SEVEN HEADS OF GOG MAGOG - Seven


50.  TODD TERJE - Maskindans


 


 

Best of 2017 51-60


51.  ARROWS OF LOVE - Beast


52.  DEF!CIT - I Don't Know


53.  TRICKY - When We Die


54.  GIRL RAY - Don't Go Back At Ten


55.  P.O.S. - Thieves/Kings


56.  AK/DK - Morphology


57.  CHROMATICS - Shadow


58.  THE HELIOCENTRICS - The Wake


59.  OH SEES - Night Expo


60.  LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Oh Baby



Best of 2017 61-70

61.  NO ZU - Ui Yia Uia


62.  HOLY MOTORS - Sleeprydr


63.  ARIEL PINK - Time To Live


64.  TRAAMS - A House On Fire


65.  LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE - The Sound Of All Things


66.  MARTHA - St Paul's (Westerberg Comprehensive)


67.  SOFI TUKKER - Drinkee


68.  YELLOW DAYS - Gap In The Clouds


69.  VERNON JANE - F*ck Me


70.  ART FEYNMAN - Slow Down



Saturday 20 January 2018

Best of 2017 71-80


71.  FINDLAY - Forgotten Pleasures


72.  ADAM BETTS - Hero Shit


73.  CHERRY GLAZERR - Told You I'd Be With The Guys


74.  KOKOKO! - Tokoliana


75.  JULIE'S HAIRCUT - Deluge


76.  CRUMBLING GHOST - Are You Going To Leave Me?


77.  ORBITAL - Copenhagen


78.  NICE LEGS - Mighty Three


79.  MADONNATRON - Headless Children


80.  SUPERGOD - Egor

 

Tuesday 16 January 2018

Best of 2017 81-90 


81.  THE GOON SAX - Up To Anything


82.  LANDO CHILL - Babel


83.  JANE WEAVER - The Architect


84.  ARCADE FIRE - Creature Comfort


85.  ISHMAEL ENSEMBLE - Kito's Theme


86.  SMOOVE & TURRELL - You Could've Been A Lady


87.  MIJA - Time Stops When I'm With U


88.  JOHN MAUS - The Combine


89.  ORO AZORO - No No No


90.  SUPERORGANISM - Something For Your M.I.N.D.

 

Monday 15 January 2018

Best of 2017 91-100


An abundance of great music (if nothing else) in 2017 meant that I reluctantly had to omit the following bands from my 100 favourites (and no doubt I'll change my mind by the end of the week): 
5 Billion in Diamonds, Acid Ghost, Allison Cruthfield, Babe Punch, Blank Square, Brix & the Extricated, Bummers Eve, Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2, CLUSTERSUN, Courtney Barnett, Cult Of Dom Keller, David Douglas, Deerhoof, DiCaprio, Fazerdaze, Frankie Rose, Georgia, Goat Girl, Graphs, Grimace Federation, Grimes ft. Janelle MonĂ¡e, Heather Trost, Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut, Here Lies Man, Hey Charlie, Ibibio Sound Machine, Imaginary Tricks, Ist Ist, Jakuzi, James Chance & The Contortions, Kane Strang, Kate Tempest, Katiya Falcone, Kelly Lee Owens, L-SEDITION, Linda Guilala, Lush Purr, Malik Abdul Rahmaan, Molly Nilsson, Moderate Rebels, Moon Duo, Msafiri Zawose, Mystic Djim & The Spirits, Not Waving, Offa Rex, Pama International, Pattern Language, Pink Kink, Pixies, Popsysze, POW!, Rainbrother, Ride, Secret Shine, Sir Robert Orange Peel, SLOSH, Slowdive, Strange U, System Corporation, The Blind Shake, The Dean Ween Group, The Fall, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Magnetic North, The Orielles, The Veldt, Tim Darcy, Tom Hickox, Wet Socks, W.H. Lung, Yak, Year Of Birds .... and many more.
Furthermore, a number of the tracks which made the cut will have been released in 2016 but I'll only have stumbled upon them last year because I'm slow on the uptake.  


91. PORTUGAL THE MAN -  Feel It Still


92. KOOL KEITH - Super Hero (feat. MF DOOM) [L'Orange Remix]


93. THE COMO MAMAS - Move Upstairs


94. INTASTELLA ft. JAH WOBBLE - The Rise and Fall of a Northern Dubstar


95. THE MOONLANDINGZ ft. REBECCA LUCY TAYLOR - The Strangle of Anna 


96. DOPE LEMON - HoneyBones


97. ORCHESTRAL MANOUVRES IN THE DARK - The Punishment of Luxury


98. THE FLAMING LIPS - We A Family (ft. Miley Cyrus)


99. KARL HYDE & MATTHEW HERBERT - We All Hurt


100.CRAZYGNOME - Don't Tell Me Not To Be Down You Uppity Cock Scab