Knees Up Mother Brown, Knees Up Mother Brown, under the table, oh it's the sodding Killers and the bleedin' Arctic Monkeys, oh dear
For the second year running I ran a poll on www.kumb.com (West Ham fansite) to vote on the singles and albums of the year. The top 10s were as follows:
SINGLES
1. Killers - When You Were Young 2. Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger 3. Amy Winehouse - Rehab 4. Razorlight - America 5. Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down 6. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 7. Kasabian - Empire 8. Strokes - You Only Live Once 9. View - Wasted Little DJs 10. Automatic - Monster
ALBUMS
1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2. Killers - Sam's Town 3. Rifles - No Love Lost 4. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations 5. Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out 6. Razorlight - Razorlight 7. Fratellis - Costello Music 8. Kasabian - Empire 9. Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men 10. Feeling - Twelve Stops And Home
A lot of the names are perhaps quite predictable but I think the winners of "Punching Above Their Weight" are the Rifles - there's a disproportionate amount of fans among the West Ham faithful. I saw them on the second stage at V and there was a mere scattering of people watching them, but they clearly have a lot of support. Good to see the Young Knives' album up high too, it's one of the genuinely innovative records of the year imho.
And how can a song with Chelsea in the title get so many votes from West Ham fans? I look forward to the Fratellis' next single, a rendition of "Stick Your Blue Flag ..."
Here are the other albums and singles voted for. Some very interesting choices in each top 30 ....
Singles
11. New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream 12. Rifles - Peace and Quiet 13. Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag 14. Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song 15. Hot Chip – Over and Over 16. Midlake - Roscoe 17. Larrikin Love - Happy As Annie 18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California 19. Primal Scream - Country Girl 20. Nelly Furtado - Promiscous Girl 21. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole 22. Muse - Starlight 23. Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir 24. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh) 25. Kasabian - Shoot The Runner 26. Shakira - Hips Don't Lie 27. Band of Horses - The Funeral 28. Broken Social Scene - It’s All Gonna Break 29. Concretes - Chosen One 30. David Ford - State Of The Union 31. Dears - Gang of Losers 32. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead 33. Jack Penate - Second, Minute Or Hour 34. Jarvis - From Auschwitz To Ipswich 35. Kooks - Naïve 36. Lil Chris - Checkin' It Out 37. Milburn - What You Could Have Won 38. Pigeon Detectives - I Found Out 39. Young Knives - The Decision 40. Lily Allen - LDN 41. Editors - All Sparks 42. Howling Bells - Setting Sun 43. Josh Rouse - Quiet Town 44. Killers - Sam's Town 45. Matisyahu – King Without a Crown 46. Metric - Poster Of A Girl 47. Morrissey - You Have Killed Me 48. Strokes - Electricityscape 49. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves EP 50. Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 51. Battle - Demons 52. Bromhead's Jacket - Trip To The Golden Arches 53. Guillemots - We're Here 54. Hot Chip - Boys From School 55. Kanye West - Gold Digger 56. Keane - Crystal Ball 57. Killers - Exitlude 58. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow 59. Mary J Blige - Be With You 60. Rifles - Local Boy 61. Silver Jews - Tennessee 62. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion 63. Young Knives - Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) 64. Wolfmother – Dimension 65. Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On 66. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance 67. Beirut - Postcards from Italy 68. Chris Cornell - You Know My Name 69. Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down 70. Razorlight – In The Morning 71. Tokyo Police Club - A lesson in Crime EP 72. Angels & Airwaves – The Adventure 73. Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation 74. Johnny Cash – God’s Gonna Cut You Down 75. Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup 76. Maccabees - X Ray 77. Muse - Knights Of Cydonia 78. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - I Am Warm and Powerful 79. Take That - Patience 80. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Warrior 81. Young Knives - She's Attracted To 82. 50 Cent & Mary J Blige - Hate It or Love It (G-Unit remix) 83. Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum 84. Brakes - Cease and Desist 85. Charlatans - Blackened Blue Eyes 86. Holloways - Generator 87. Jarvis Cocker - Cunts Are Running The World 88. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me 89. Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day 90. Long Blondes - Once and Never Again 91. Lostprophets - Can't Catch Tomorrow 92. Pendulum – Slam 93. Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes 94. Rakes - All Too Human 95. Snow Patrol/Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar 96. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dudley 97. Zutons - Valerie 98. Adequate 7 – Gotta Stay Focused 99. Arctic Monkeys - The View From the Afternoon 100. Automatic – Recover 101. Cansei De Ser Sexy - Music is My Hot Sex 102. Hot Puppies - The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful 103. Jet - Bring It On Back 104. Kasabian - Me Plus One 105. Killers - Bones 106. Sunshine Underground - Commercial Breakdown 107. Wolfmother - Love Train 108. Cansei De Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above 109. Clearlake - No Kind Of Life 110. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes 111. Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit 112. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager Part One 113. Guillemots - Made-Up Lovesong 43 114. Guillemots - Trains to Brazil 115. James Dean Bradfield - An English Gentleman 116. Future Of The Left – When Fingers Become Thumbs 117. Jarvis - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time 118. Kooks - Ooh La 119. Lemonheads - Become the Enemy 120. Lostprophets – Rooftops 121. Maccabees - First Love 122. MJ Hibbett and the Validators - The Lesson Of The Smiths 123. Primal Scream - Country Girl
Albums
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium 12. Bob Dylan - Modern Times 13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 14. Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home 15. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time 16. Audioslave - Revelations 17. Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors 18. Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around 19. Joanna Newsom - Ys 20. Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth 21. Towers Of London - Blood, Sweat And Towers 22. Islands - Return To The Sea 23. Keane - Under the Iron Sea 24. Wolfmother - Wolfmother 25. Larrikin Love - The Freedom Spark 26. Racontuers - Broken Boy Soldiers 27. Jarvis - Jarvis 28. Milburn - Well, Well, Well 29. Thom Yorke - The Eraser 30. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam 31. Hot Chip - The Warning 32. Decemberists - The Crane Wife 33. Beatles - Love 34. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me 35. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther 36. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided 37. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon 38. Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics 39. Lambchop - Damaged 40. Primal Scream - Riot City Blues 41. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death 42. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit 43. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager 44. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas 45. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open 46. Guillemots - Through The Window Pane 47. Jet - Shine On 48. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain 49. Brakes - Beatific Visions 50. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist 51. Placebo - Meds 52. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 53. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar 54. Bel Auburn - Lullabies in A&C 55. Bloodhag - Hell Bent for Letters 56. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 57. Bromheads Jacket - Dits To The Communter Belt 58. Bullets And Octane - In The Mouth Of The Young 59. Dirty Rig - Rock Did It 60. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike 61. Johnny Cash – Personal File 62. Layo & Bushwacka - Feels Closer 63. Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking 64. Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission 65. M Ward - Post War 66. Mastodon - Blood Mountain 67. Mono - You Are There 68. Paul Simon - Surprise 69. Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block 70. Sloan - Never Here the End Of It 71. Tool - 10,000 Days 72. Adequate 7 – Here On Earth 73. Astral Doors - Astralism 74. Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere 75. DJ Shadow - The Outsider 76. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere 77. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House 78. Holloways - So, This Is Great Britain? 79. James Dean Bradfield - The Great Western 80. Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell - Ballad Of The Broken Seas 81. Metric - Live it Out 82. Mogwai - Mr Beast 83. Neil Young - Living with War 84. Pendulum – Hold Your Colour 85. Rum Rebellion - The Ultimate Grog 86. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge 87. Six Organs of Admittance - Sun Awakens 88. Thermals - The Body The Blood The Machine 89. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass 90. Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere 91. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Etiquette 92. Couse and the Impossible - The World Should Know 93. Hellshock - Shadows of the Afterworld 94. Infadels - We Are Not the Infadels 95. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye 96. Knife - Deep Cuts 97. McClusky – McCluskyism 98. Nebula - Apollo 99. Poisonblack - Lust Stained Despair 100. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh 101. Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done 102. Stiff Little Fingers - Guitar and Drum 103. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards 104. Albert Hammond Jr - Yours to Keep 105. Boy Kill Boy - Civilian 106. Cat Power - The Greatest 107. Jewdriver - Hail the Jew Dawn! 108. Jolls Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Moving Out To The Country 109. MJ Hibbett and the Validators - We Validate! 110. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped 111. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet 112. White Rose Movement - Kick 113. Corinne Bailey Rae 114. Damien Rice - 9 115. Divine Comedy - Victory For The Common Muse 116. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 117. Godsmack - IV 118. J Dilla - Donuts 119. Johnny Cash – One Hundred Highways 120. Mogwai - Zidane Soundtrack 121. My Chemical Romace - Welcome To The Black Parade 122. Oh No! Oh My! - Oh No! Oh My! 123. Riot Cop - s/t 124. Trivium - The Crusade 125. Blood Of Christian Children - s/t 126. Brakes - Bad Blood 127. Charlatans - Simpatico 128. Czars - Sorry I Made You Cry 129. Delays - You See Colours 130. Helmet - Monochrome 131. Open - Statues 132. Orson - Bright Idea 133. Scott Matthews- Passing Stranger 134. Seth Lakeman - Freedom Fields 135. Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus 136. Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang 137. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio 138. Bert Jansch - Black Swan 139. Chumbawamba - UNchumbawamba 140. Kill Hannah - Until There's Nothing Left Of Us 141. Mohair - Small Talk 142. Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 143. Others - Inward Parts 144. Slayer - Christ Illusion 145. Sunshine Underground - Raise the Alarm 146. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden 147. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage 148. Easy Star All Stars - Radiodread 149. Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control 150. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo 151. Kanye West - Late Registration 152. Mystery Jets - Making Dens 153. Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator - Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails 154. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior 155. Criminal Damage - s/t 156. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side 157. Incubus – Light Grenades 158. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor 159. Mark Kozelek - Little Drummer Boy (live) 160. Max Richter - Songs From Before 161. NOFX – Wolves in Wolves' Clothing 162. Ooberman - Carried Away 163. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner 164. Bright Eyes - Noise Floor 165. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country 166. Embrace - This New Day 167. Ginger - Valor Del Corazon 168. Hot Puppies - Under The Crooked Moon 169. Howling Bells - Howling Bells 170. Malory - Not Here, Not Now 171. Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes 172. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
