TOP 5's

talking of recent compilations you should all check this out - it'S fucking great. i was tempted to give it 5 stars on RYM...



BASEMENT BEEHIVE - THE GIRL GROUP UNDERGROUND

Cheers, this is the time of year I like to give comps a go.

yeah for some reason i dont often bother with compilations but trying to listen to a few more lately. slowly want to work my way through the soul jazz records ones. the stuff ive listened to so far has some real good afrobeat stuff and also some hidden gems from the studio one archives.

80% of the time I see a comp on EXY that I decide to download it's by souljazz.

slider better than ziggy stardust.

i'll do 72 too...

1, david bowie - the rise and fall of ziggy stardust...
2, nick drake - pink moon
3, lou reed - transformer
4, neil young - harvest
5, sachiko kanenobu - misora

clearly a great year with albums like big star's #1 record, exile on main st etc not even making the list.

Shit, 1972 what a year!

Top 5 albums from 1972 not already picked by Karl or JP.

1. Can - Ege Bamyasi
2. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
3. Neu! - Neu!
4. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
5. Al Green - Let's Stay Together

top 5 performances at VFESTIVALS ive been to...

1, stone roses @ v2012
2, sonic youth @ v2005
3, beck @ v2006
4, pixies @v2004
5, the verve @ v2008

top 5 performances at field(s) days i've been to...

1, pixies @ field day 2014
2, ride @ field day 2015
3, mogwai @ field day 2009
4, pj harvey @ field day 2016
5, thurston moore @ field day 2016

top 5 performances at latitudes i've been to...

1, nick cave and the bad seeds @ latitude 2009
2, liam gallagher @ latitude 2018
3, joanna newsom @ latitude 2008
4, damon albarn @ latitude 2014
5, new order @ latitude 2016

top 5 bands i've seen before they got BIG

1, the libertines @ norwich arts centre 2002
2, kasabian supporting cooper temple clause @ norwich uea 2003
3, editors when they were unsigned and called snowfield supporting jesse malin @ norwich arts centre 2004
4, the killers really low down on the 2nd stage @ v2004
5,father john misty supporting fleet foxes @ norwich waterfront 2008

top 5 POP stars i've seen live

1, taylor swift
2, girls aloud
3, natalie imbruglia
4, ed sheeran
5, rita ora TWICE

Top five artists I've seen before they got BIG

- Arctic Monkeys, playing some boozer in Edinburgh in May 2005

- Sleaford Mods playing Glasgow Broadcast in late 2014

- James Blunt playing a tiny record shop in Edinburgh, c2005. Rod insisted that we go.

- Kaiser Chiefs playing bottom of a three band bill in support of The Ordinary Boys at the Edinburgh Venue in early 2004. They were terrible, but I include them because they were at one point very fucking big. God knows why.

- Kasabian playing the Liquid Room in support of their second single, must have been early 2004. I met them beforehand and they were proper gents tbh. Despite how bad they've become, I've always had a soft spot for the debut album.

That must be the first time since 2004 you've referenced that Ordinary Boys gig without boasting about (unsuccessfully) half-inching Ricky Wilson's tambourine.

I saw the Hokum Clones before they became popular!

oh wait

Top 5 interactions with music icons...

1, Getting told to fuck off by Ian Brown outside Derby Assembly Rooms

2, Being sung happy birthday to by Pete Doherty whilst sharing a kebab.

3, Asking Jarvis Cocker if I could touch him on the first of 3 meetings with him. He looked scared but let me fondle his hand.

4, 3 nights out on the piss with Ryley Walker.

5, Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods actually being a really nice guy off stage.

top 5 incredible achievements I've witnessed live by popular forum members

SuperJohnny scares the shit out of Action Bronson
Rocks_Man slides across the Barfly floor and wipes out the table of drinks I'd just purchased
Benoît Assou-Ekotto starts giving the "5 time!" Booker .T gesture to a big bouncer stood by the Appleton sisters at BDI
Krburg out of the blue jumps up on stage with the Go! team
JP is a total cunt during Bearsuit

top 5 failed mahoney ideas

1, around the world with mahoney
2, daily pollard
3, 500 films in a year
4, countless blogs
5, that time he was going to get his haircut streamed live on the masterplan

The Wynd's top 5 moments

- The time our agreed support act pulled out with hours to go. The sound engineer volunteered to do a set of Sinatra covers instead. By himself. He was brilliant.

- The time a drunk guy insisted, loudly, from the crowd that 'we would never make it'. To which I replied: 'You're bald m8'

- The time we played a gig to about 6 people, one of whom was Ray LaMontagne

- The time a random music blogger from England called FruitbatWalton, who we had never met, suddenly became our biggest fan

- The time AndrewBarryNZ played us on his NZ radio station

Top five albums that aren’t necessarily shit, but represent the beginning of a decline in an band/artist’s oeuvre.

1. Weezer - Green Album
2. The Coral - Roots & Echoes
3. Eels - End Times
4. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
5. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory.

Top 5 musicians who will never turn down a chance to appear as a talking head in a BBC4 music doc relating to a musical scene they were/are tenuously linked too.

1. Nile Rogers
2. Johnny Marr
3. Nile Rogers
4. Johnny Marr
5. N/A

Top 5 Mark E Smith slights on Marc Riley:

1. “This boy is like a tape loop, and he has soft mitts” (Middle Mass)
2. “But he's the last domain, of a very black, back room brain” (Middle Mass)
3. “He learned a word today, the word's misanthropy” (Middle Mass)
4. “He reads books, of the list book club” (C.R.E.E.P)
5. “He is a scum-egg, a horrid trendy wretch” (C.R.E.E.P)