So, Justin bored me in the end.  I couldn’t work out the best way to eliminate him with blunt household items and ended up smashing my ipod into a snowman in frustration.  Water a way to go.  I found a list on his blog.  I copied it out below.  Apparently they’re what his good friends in Paris are listening to.  YEAH RIGHT JUSTIN. HALF OF THIS STUFF ISNT EVEN FRENCH AND I DOUBT YOU EVEN KNOW WHERE FRANCE IS YOU PRE-JACK AUTOMATON

1 Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Avalanche/Lemonade, Boys Noize – 10″10″/Yeah
2 Errors – Come Down With Me
3 Foals - Total Life Forever
4 Noisia – Split the Atomt
5 Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude / Sit Down, Man
6 65daysofstatic  – We Were Exploding Anyway
7 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
8 LCD Soundsystem  – This Is Happening
9 Fourtet  - There Is Love In You
10 Digitalism – Blitz EP

Arrogance.  Most of my favourite things this year have been EPs and single tracks, but I listen to (1) as a mini album so figure I can get away with two becoming one.  If you disagree, don’t?

FUCKING MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?  This list is the only one that matters, other than my list of favourite tracks which also matters of course.  This list is the definitive one though.  All the best albums of the year, which happen to number ten. Of course we didn’t release an album this year, else the list would just be Neon Highwire – Omlette Potatoes over and over again as no other album would be worth listening to and I would learn not to name albums on an empty stomach again.  Here’s my lizst:

Menomena – Mines
Liars – Sisterworld
Crystal Castles – II
Errors – Come Down With Me
Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude / Sit Down, Man
Of Montreal – False Priest
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Nedry – Condors
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself

BOOM! Crimminy wah wah!  How could I beat that list?!  I don’t think it’s possible.  Best plough on regardless, in spite of having been shamed into insignificance by Bieber and his wank-biscuits.

So, you’ve seen the ultimo A-list of tracks, now it’s album o’clock.  I found this a bit tougher, as there’ve been a lot of choice EPs to listen to this year (Gallops, Three Trapped Tigers, Les Petits Pilous, etc. etc.), but I got there eventually.  Here goes…

Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles II

Chromeo – Business Casual

Pulled Apart By Horses – Pulled Apart By Horses

65DaysOfStatic – We Were Exploding Anyway

Noisia – Split the Atom

Nedry – Condors

Errors – Come Down with Me

Four Tet – There Is Love In You

Foals – Total Life Forever

Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History

BOOM!  Who would’ve thought that Susan Boyle didn’t make it in there?  Maybe next year big Suzy – keep on truckin’.

Merry Christmas everyone!  I’m off to dress up as a mountie in diamonte jeggings for the remainder of the weekend.  Why not? Exactly.

MATE!  I’ve been embracing the pop this year, like John Pemberton but less dead.  My list speaks volumes about the direction I’ve been going in musically this year and rather than muddy its impact with too long a preamble, here is the baddest boy of them all…

Justin Bieber – Baby
Susan Boyle – Hallelujah
Lil Wayne – Paradice
Christina Aguilera – The Beautiful People
Black Eyed Peas – The Time (Dirty Bit)
Usher – OMG
Nickelback – This Afternoon
Scouting For Girls – Little Miss Naughty
Neil Morrissey – England’s On The Way (The lion sleeps tonight)
James Corden & Dizzee Rascal – Shout

Don’t knock it until you’ve heard every gem on that list.  YESH!

If I could live my life using alliterated vocabulary alone… I wouldn’t.  It would be a stupid idea.  Really stupid.  Wow, I can’t believe you actually thought I was going to say I would!  That’s crazy talk!

As it’s the end of the year and I’m stuffed on caviar and getting tired of the taste of Cristal, I figured I’d also make a list of ten tracks which are blowing people’s minds throughout the nation within a one foot radius of my nose.

Health – USA Boys

Errors – Supertribe

Beach House – Zebra

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Bottled In Cork

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Household Goods

Das Racist – You Oughta Know

Ratatat – Drugs

Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em

Of Montreal – Enemy Gene

Gallops – Miami Spider

I can’t wait to see Jim’s tracks tomorrow.  I hope we’re in for a surprise.

Well, in case you are massively retarded and haven’t noticed, it’s nearly the end of the year. OMFG! Really?! Yes. Deal with it.

Let’s face it. We are interesting people. Damn it, we’re important people! Our opinions matter to literally handfuls of people and we want to share those opinions with you, because it’s the end of the year. THAT’S A REAL REASON. YOU DON’T KNOW! YOU WATCHED RAIN MAN AND THOUGHT IT WAS A COMEDY ABOUT PEOPLE WHO CAN’T TALK PROPERLY.

Anyway, in the spirit of dragging things out for way longer than is arguably necessary, over the next 6 days we will be bringing you our individual Top 10 tracks and albums of 2010. I have the best list so am going first. Putting Steve’s list up would ensure nobody ever came back to this site ever again in disgust. Today it’s the turn of my fave TRACKS.   I’ve even put Spotify links in there for you, so you know what the tits I’m harping on about.  Here goes (in no particular order)…

Fake Blood – I think I like it

Les Petits Pilous – Goog

Gallops – Miami Spider

Three Trapped Tigers – 11

Noisia – Red Heat

Chromeo – Night By Night

Errors – A rumour in Africa

Foals – Spanish Sahara

Boys Noize & Errol Alkan – Lemonade

Djedjotronic – Gum Attack

That’s it! What an amazing list, huh? Yep, it’s time to crack out those festive jeggings and get bouncing!
Wow, I’m good. More tomorrow, you lucky people…

Bit late with this one, but you can read it here.

“When I really pondered the name Neon Highwire for a band, it was simple. The band certainly grabs your attention with their songs, much like a neon street sign and they are high wired through their music style of techno-electronic rock/ alternative. Take a listen to them on myspace, they’ll get you hyped up! http://myspace.com/neonhighwire“