Fair Trade, Control Arms, Amnesty International, Oxfam and similarly good organisations, saving the world, music, films, writing about music and films, walking around tasteless pound shops with my friends, grammar nazism, really awful horror films, general tomfoolery.
Albums Of The Year since 2000
2000
1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
3. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
4. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
5. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
6. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
7. Coldplay - Parachutes
8. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
9. The Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit
10. The Sea And Cake - Oui
2001
1. Radiohead - Amnesiac
2. Ryan Adams - Gold
3. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
4. of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
5. The Microphones - The Glow Pt.2
6. Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
7. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
8. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
9. Elbow - Asleep In The Back
10. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
11. Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
12. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
13. Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
14. Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities
15. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
2002
1. The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. The Decemberists - Castaways And Cutouts
4. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
5. Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
6. Brendan Benson - Lapalco
7. Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
8. Sigur Ros - ()
9. The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
10. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
11. The Electric Soft Parade - Holes In The Wall
12. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
13. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
14. Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things
15. Beck - Sea Change
2003
1. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2. Nada Surf - Let Go
3. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. The Notwist - Neon Golden
5. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
6. The Postal Service - Give Up
7. Four Tet - Rounds
8. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
9. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power
10. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
11. Stars - Heart
12. Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
13. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell Pt.1
14. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
15. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
16. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
17. American Analog Set - Promise Of Love
18. The Rapture - Echoes
19. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
20. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
2004
1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
3. Ed Harcourt - Strangers
4. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
5. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
6. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
7. Adem - Homesongs
8. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike!
9. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
10. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
11. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
12. Hope Of The States - The Lost Riots
13. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
14. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
15. The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
16. The Faint - Wet From Birth
17. Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
18. The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
19. 65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
20. Freezepop - Fancy Ultra-Fresh
2005
1. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. The Decemberists - Picaresque
4. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
5. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
6. Animal Collective - Feels
7. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
8. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
9. Brakes - Give Blood
10. My Morning Jacket - Z
11. of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
12. The National - Alligator
13. Sigur Ros - Takk...
14. Explosions In The Sky - The Rescue
15. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultues
16. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
17. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
18. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
19. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
20. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
2006
1. Islands - Return To The Sea
2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. Oh No! Oh My! - Oh No! Oh My!
4. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
5. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
6. My Latest Novel - Wolves
7. Hot Chip - The Warning
8. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
9. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
10. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art Of Fiction
11. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
12. Fionn Regan - The End Of History
13. M. Ward - Post-War
14. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
15. The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
16. Adem - Love And Other Planets
17. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
18. Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block
19. volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
20. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
2007
1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
2. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
3. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
4. Feist - The Reminder
5. The New Pornographers - Challengers
6. Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
7. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
8. Menomena - Friend And Foe
9. The National - Boxer
10. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
As you can probably tell by that, I am a compulsive reviewer and list-maker. Have a look at my Amazon page for some of my 'work'. You can also see my CD wishlist there. Hint hint.
Almost Famous, American Beauty, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, City Of God, Dodgeball, Donnie Darko, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Good Bye Lenin, Goodfellas, Lord Of The Rings, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Rushmore, Shaun Of The Dead, South Park: Bigger Longer And Uncut, Taxi Driver, Team America: World Police, The Edukators, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Station Agent, Toy Story, movies about snakes on planes
The Mighty Boosh, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, Black Books, South Park, Spaced, Monkey Dust, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Knowing Me Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, Peep Show, Nathan Barley, Little Britain, Father Ted, Look Around You, The Young Ones, The Office, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Sealab 2021, 120 Minutes on MTV2, Jimmy Hill's Sunday Supplement, anything on Challenge TV in the daytime.
Radio: When I'm at university I present Jumping Fences on BURST Radio . Back this October!
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