Halfway To The End Of The Day

Ok, so it's the 28th June - that's almost halfway through the year! So as with desperation to do this early I'm gonna run down what has been my favourite stuffs of this year so far. Do I care?

Nahh.

Top 20 Albums of the Year (cos The Kooks were no.21 - sorry. Plus I haven't heard The Subways, Laura Marling or Paul Weller yet or enough - can't qualify):

20: Foals - Antidotes
19: R.E.M - Accelerate
18: Feeder - Silent Cry
17: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
16: Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
15: Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
14: Sigur Rós - Med Sud Í Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
13: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
12: The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
11: Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
10: N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds
9: Guillemots - Red
8: Boy Kill Boy - Stars And The Sea
7: Pendulum - In Silico
6: Mystery Jets - Twenty One
5: MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
4: The Futureheads - This Is Not The World
3: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Searching For The Hows And Whys
2: Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords
1: We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery

Mainly cos We Are Scientists have ruled this year. I LOVE THAT album. Flight Of The Conchords are on that list cos it's another great album, espeially for a comedy album. It's all about visuals. The Futureheads returned to form, MGMT surprised and is this years innovative answer to what Enter Shikari did last year for me. Mystery Jets put a smile back on everyone's faces. Pendulum were fun, Guillemots disappointed by creating a very off-their-track album but wasn't TOO bad I guess. Further down, Coldplay changed but solidly (is that a word?), another band to disappoint me this week especially were Sigur Rós, who chose to bring in a producer on album number 5 and changed everything (incuding dropping the bands signature reverb sound). Lightspeed Champion started off the year with what I thought to be one of the best albums, until everything else came along. Even Feeder made their best album since Echo Park!

Now, Top 35 tracks of the year (cos I couldn't wittle it down to 20)?

35: We Are Scientists - Ghouls
34: Sigur Rós - Vid Spilum Endalaust
33: Pendulum - Mutiny
32: We Are Scientists - Lethal Enforcer
31: Portishead - Machine Gun
30: The Young Knives - Up All Night
29: Crystal Castles - Xxzxcuzx Me
28: The Last Shadow Puppets - In My Room
27: Does It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
26: Be Your Own Pet - Super Soaked
25: We Are Scientists - After Hours
24: The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be
23: Sigur Rós - Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
22: Mystery Jets - Hideaway
21: N.E.R.D - Anti Matter
20: Guillemots - Clarion
19: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Waiting For The Monster To Drown
18: The Futureheads - Everything's Changing Today
17: Lightspeed Champion - Midnight Surprise
16: MGMT - Kids
15: MGMT - Time To Pretend
14: Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming
13: Flight Of The Conchords - Foux Da Fafa
12: The Raconteurs - Consoler Of The Lonely
11: We Are Scientists - That's What Counts
10: Boy Kill Boy - Rosie's On Fire
9: Pendulum - Showdown
8: Late Of The Pier - Focker
7: The Subways - Girls And Boys
6: The Futureheads - Sale Of The Century
5: Coldplay - Violet Hill
4: Boy Kill Boy - Promises
3: Pendulum - Propane Nightmares
2: Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down
1: We Are Scientists - Chick Lit

Two songs owned this half of the year so far - We Are Scientists continued their streak of great consistant track and pulled Chick Lit out of the bag, and Mystery Jets made the upbeat wonder that put the cherry on the top of Twenty One. Late Of The Pier made two of the best dance-indie-trip-over-hop ever, Pendulum changed, but it worked, Coldplay's beautiful Violet Hill has some of Martin's best lyrics since Parachutes, and The Subways went where even they hadn't expected to go until 'the split' - darker. And you really do need to applaud The Kooks - that track was brillllliant!

Best TV Shows this year (mostly comedy):

8: Family Guy
7: Gordon Ramsay's F Word
6: Have I Got News For You
5: Gavin And Stacey
4: Top Gear
3: The Inbetweeners
2: Peep Show
1: The Office: And American Workplace

Gotta love the awkward comedy :)

So That's it. Oh best film? I dunno, what's been funny this year?

Can't honestly remember :/

much love xx