George's Albums of the Year - 2010

1. The Coral - Butterfly House

Must Listen: More Than a Lover, Sandhills, Green Is The Colour

2. Mystery Jets - Serotonin

Must Listen: Serotonin, Waiting On A Mircale, Lorna Doone

 

3. James - The Morning After

Must Listen: Dust Motes, Kaleidoscope, Make For The City

 

4. James - The Night Before

Must Listen: Crazy, Shine, Ten Below

 

5. Ash - A - Z Series Vol. 1

Must Listen: Joy Kicks Darkness, Pripyat, War With Me

 

6. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation

Must Listen: No Tears Left To Cry, Wake Up The Nation, Find The Torch Burn The Plans

 

7. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man

Must Listen: Some Kind Of Nothingness, A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun, I Think I've Found It

 

8. The Courteeners - Falcon

Must Listen: You Over Did It Doll, Lullaby, Cameo Brooch

 

9. Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels

Must Listen: Obsessions, Hollywood, Mowgli's Road

 

10. The National - High Violet

Must Listen: Bloodbuzz Ohio, Sorrow, Anyone's Ghost

 

11. Basement Birds - Basement Birds

Must Listen: Holly, Skin Of The Sky

 

12. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Must Listen: She Loves You, The Queen Of Lower Chelsea

 

13. Ash - A-Z Vol. 2

Must Listen: Carnal Love, Spellbound

 

14. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever

Must Listen: We Can Get Together, The Weekenders

 

15. Sia - We Are Born

Must Listen: Clap Your Hands, Be Good To Me

 

16. Little Red - Midnight Remember

Must Listen: Little Bit Of Something, Chelsworth

 

17. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tatoo

Must Listen: The Toll, Aya

 

18. Cloud Control - Bliss Release

Must Listen: Gold Canary, Meditation Song #2 (Why, Oh Why)

 

19. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Must Listen: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), Deep Blue

 

20. The Bees - Every Step's A Yes

Must Listen: I Really Need Love, Winter Rose

George's Albums of the Year - 2009

George's Top 20 Albums of '09

1. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers

Must Listen: This Joke Sport Severed, All Is Vanity, Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

2. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Must Listen: Fast Fuse, Where Did All The Love Go?, Happiness 

3. The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
Must Listen: Cheat On Me, We Were Aborted, Victim of Mass Production 

4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

Must Listen: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Runaway

5. La Roux - La Roux

Must Listen: Bulletproof, As If By Magic, Cover My Eyes 

6. Gin Wigmore - Holy Smoke
Must Listen: Too Late For Lovers, Mr Freakshow, Hey Ho

7. Jamie T - Kings & Queens

Must Listen: 368, Sticks And Stones, British Intelligence 

8. The View - Which Bitch?

Must Listen: Double Yellow Lines, One Off Pretender, Glass Smash

9. Future of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another

Must Listen: Yin/Post Yin, That Damned Fly, Throwing Bricks At Trains 

10. Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty


Must Listen: Obscene Queen Bee #2, Holy, Holy, Holy Moses, What Fun 

11. Muse - The Resistance
Must Listen: The Resistance, Undisclosed Desires

12. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Must Listen: Ulysses, Live Alone

13. The Veils - Sun Gangs

Must Listen: Sit Down By The Fire, The Letter

14. Silversun Pickups - Swoon

Must Listen: It's Nice To Know You Work Alone, Panic Switch

15. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young

Must Listen: Out Of The Blue, 11th Dimension

16. Doves - Kingdom of Rust

Must Listen: Kingdom of Rust, Lifeline

17. Brakes - Touchdown

Must Listen: Don't Take Me To Space (Man), Worry About It Later

18. Oh Mercy - Privileged Woes

Must Listen: Get You Back, Astrid, No

19. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms

Must Listen: No Kind Words, Love You Better

20. Metric - Fantasies

Must Listen: Sick Muse, Help I'm Alive