Wednesday, 27 December 2017

2017

My annual end-of-year list blog post...

My favourite songs that came out this year:
1. Don't Delete The Kisses - Wolf Alice
2. Hard Times - Paramore
3. On Hold - The xx
4. Love - Lana Del Rey
5. Rose-Coloured Boy - Paramore
6. Green Light - Lorde
7. Told You So - Paramore
8. Passionfruit - Drake
9. Idle Worship - Paramore
10. Beautifully Unconventional - Wolf Alice
11. Lust For Life - Lana Del Rey & The Weeknd
12. Sign Of The Times - Harry Styles
13. Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind - Lana Del Rey
14. After The Zero Hour - Wolf Alice
15. Fake Happy - Paramore
16. Revolution - Rat Boy
17. Kill For Candy - Dreamcar
18. Sadboy - Wolf Alice
19. Right Now - HAIM
20. Going Backwards - Depeche Mode


My favourite albums of the year:
1. After Laughter - Paramore
2. Visions Of A Life - Wolf Alice
3. Lust For Life - Lana Del Rey
4. Material Control - Glassjaw
5. AFI (The Blood Album) - AFI
6. Dreamcar - Dreamcar
7. More Life - Drake
8. I See You - The xx



Concerts I went to this year:
1. TRNSMT Festival: Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, Kasabian, Catfish & The Bottlemen,  The Kooks,  George Ezra, Stormzy, Biffy Clyro, The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club
2. Depeche Mode
3. Paramore/Bleached
4. AFI/Deftones
5. Lana Del Rey
6. The Smyths (The Smiths tribute)
7. Room 29 (Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales)
8. Cloudbusting (Kate Bush tribute)
9. Taking Back Sunday




New films I saw this year:
1. Baby Driver
2. T2: Trainspotting
3. The Killing of the Sacred Deer
4. La La Land
5. Wonder Woman
6. Loving Vincent





Favourite old films I saw for the first time this year:


1. Trainspotting
2. The Doom Generation
3. Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
4. Kill Bill: Vol 1
5. Kill Your Friends
6. Sing Street
7. The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
8. Depeche Mode: 101
9. Purple Rain
10. Chéri


Books I read this year:
1. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
2. Porno - Irvine Welsh
3. Skagboys - Irvine Welsh
4.Kill Your Friends - John Niven
5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
6. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
7. Talk To The Snail - Stephen Clarke
8. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
9. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
10. The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy, & Other Stories - Tim Burton
11. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
12. Top Gear Skin - Richard Allen
13. Geek Girl - Holly Smale
14. Weekend In Paris - Robyn Sisman
15. The Gift - Vladimir Nabokov



Top 5 most listened songs of the year according to last.fm...
1. Hotline Bling - Drake
2. Neon Angels On The Road To Ruin - The Runaways
3. Moaning Lisa Smile - Wolf Alice
4. True Trans Soul Rebel - Against Me!
5. Disco 2000 - Pulp

...and Spotify:
1. Born Slippy (Nuxx) - Underworld
2. Dads Best Friend - Rubberbandits
3. Silk - Wolf Alice
4. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
5. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash




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