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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 2:32:51 GMT 1
4. Lawmaker - 'People's Champ' "There's nothing to lose when there's nothing left"
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 2:27:38 GMT 1
5. Greenbrier Lane - 'Stupid Cupid' The one that could have been a multi-week #1 while my chart was still active, had it not become apparent that the song were from about 15 years earlier. However, any year it came out, this is an absolute pop-punk banger
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 2:21:54 GMT 1
6. Black Water County - 'The Painful Truth'
The band I looked forward to seeing all year, their Manchester gig having been postponed twice thanks to Covid. Was it worth the wait? Oh yes
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 2:15:42 GMT 1
7. The Whitmore Sisters - 'Big Heart Sick Mind'
"Why do I need to know why / so damn bad that I'm willing to die"
Just superb. There's Rachel Brooke, and then there's this...
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 2:12:30 GMT 1
10. Imperial Age - 'The Way is The Aim' 9. Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq. - 'I've No More F*cks To Give (Electric Timebomb Remix)' 8. The Manges - 'High on Stress'
I have to stop here because this Ramones cut has defined a large part of my year
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 2:08:00 GMT 1
15. The Dreadnoughts - 'Cider Holiday' 14. Marco Lupenero & The Loud Ones - 'The New Dark Ages' 13. Cock Sparrer - 'I Fit Central Heating (Working. Pt. 2)' 12. Chris Janson - 'We Did It Anyway' 11. Louis Dunford - 'Regretamine (Revisited)'
#11 How can this possibly only have 380 likes???
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:59:50 GMT 1
20. Funeral Dress - 'Let's Go Down The Pub' 19. Lawmaker - 'Tooth & Claw' 18. Tir Nan Og - 'I Sold My Soul' 17. Sabaton - 'The Unkillable Soldier' 16. Black Water County - 'Under Skies of Black and Blue'
They must be one of the most unfortunately-monickered bands of all time, but the Belgians of Funeral Dress came up with an unsung 2022 classic with Let's Go Down The Pub. Featuring at #20 here, it's the perfect follow-up to Sham 69's Hurry Up Harry
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:52:32 GMT 1
25. Brave the Sea - 'Rainbow In The Dark' 24. Ricky Rochelle - 'Don't Put the Chimp in Charge' 23. Cold Years - 'Kicking and Screaming' 22. Dirty Fences - 'Crazy' 21. Blyth Power - 'Junction Signal'
It was a Facebook conversation ahead of Rebellion 2022 that turned me on to this song. Another that dates well in advance of current year, #21 represents an enduring spirit that I hope, but don't expect, to be replicated
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:44:41 GMT 1
30. Powerwolf - 'Venom of Venus (The Monumental Mass)' 29. Sinful Maggie - 'Sh*tfaced' 28. Imperial Age - 'Legend of the Free' 27. Lawmaker - 'Flatline' 26. Silver Sun - 'Little Wonder'
The band more responsible for my renewed interest in metal than any other. They're Russian, but relocated to Turkey in response to the Ukraine war... #28
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:37:12 GMT 1
No video, but #33 speaks for itself
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:35:31 GMT 1
40. Booze & Glory - 'Raising The Roof' 39. Sean Tobin - 'Memorial Drive' 38. Blyth Power - 'A Tale of a Cock and a Bull' 37. Head Smashed - 'Inflame the Light' 36. Wheeler Walker Jr. - 'F*cked By A Country Boy' 35. The Apparents - 'The Price of Life' 34. Work Drugs - 'Amber Waves' 33. Mitch Rossell - 'Hard Work Sucks' 32. Michael Kane & The Morning Afters - 'Dark Nights' 31. The Royal Foundry - 'Little High Little Low'
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:26:01 GMT 1
50. Pulley - 'Golden Life' 49. Dropkick Murphys - 'The Dirty Glass' 48. Knife Club - 'The Tibby Tan Tiger' 47. Sitting on Stacy - 'Ellen' 46. Resistance 77 - 'True Punk and Oi!'
45. Nerf Herder - 'We All Got Covid (Except for Linus)' 44. Lumpen - 'Til The End' 43. Pluto Shervington - 'Dat' 42. The Rumjacks - 'Kicking Soles' 41. Lawmaker - 'You Cannot Stay'
Thanks to Popmaster, a song that has otherwise nothing whatsoever to do with 2022, at #43
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Post by Milliways on Dec 31, 2022 1:10:54 GMT 1
As a year in which I did not maintain a weekly chart throughout, as in 2015 I compiled a list of discoveries through the year some (most) but not all of which were first heard in the year in question...
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Post by Milliways on Dec 16, 2022 14:35:31 GMT 1
Ah oops, just realised it was specific to Xmas #1s. I’ll try again later ::facepalm::
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Post by Milliways on Dec 16, 2022 14:19:11 GMT 1
Anybody else find it weird that they've used a song that was about helping to feed people dying in their millions due to famine in Africa, to about putting food into a foodbank in the UK? Yes
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Post by Milliways on Nov 19, 2022 19:36:16 GMT 1
I guess I'd better get Xmasvision set up, not really thought about it up to now tbh
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Post by Milliways on Nov 1, 2022 0:30:53 GMT 1
60. GOLDEN BLOOM - Civil EngineeringA band called 'The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library'. A song called 'Civil Engineering'. A pop-punk cover. Result: a song with staying power as far as I'm concerned. After entering at #12 in 2014, this one was a top 25 mainstay up to and including 2020, dropping back a little this time around59. NOI!SE - Pawn In The GameSuper-melodic street punk with a cracking chorus. In contrast to the last, this one has mounted a steady climb since entering at #196 in 2018. Check out the Donkey Kong influenced video.58. POG - Friday Night RoutineFirst heard live at Glastonwick 2010, this on-site CD purchase sleeper hit features in its third top 100 running57. BEACHY HEAD - FeensongEasyworld before they adopted that name. An ever-present since 2003, a top 5 hit for five years running from 2004 through 2008. If a song can be 'spectacular', this is it. Why weren't they huge?56. BARENAKED LADIES - Lookin' Up (Acoustic)More often than not, the bracketed 'Acoustic' in a song title is a signal for me to give it a miss. For whatever reason I didn't when this popped up in a new releases playlist in January 2020. Am I glad I didn't! I returned to this time and again through that year and the following one when I needed a lift, and it never disappointed. A resulting well-deserved high new entry in this year's countdown55. DEAR LANDLORD - Last Time I CheckedQuite the contrast to the previous entry, some full-throttle American pop-punk. By one second it's not quite the shortest song in this countdown54. VAMPIRE MONEY - Outcast Club"Don't stop me now, I'm on a roll". Song of the year 2021, by some margin my most-played song of that year. Something about this stream-of-consciousness pop-punk flow I couldn't get enough of, from 0:18 through to 1:3353. STOP! WAIT.. GO! - Keep WalkingAfter #62, the second former #1 in this countdown. This fairly obscure Scandinavian discovery came out top of the lot in 2016, its nervy, restless sense of determination just right for where I was at that time. It has fallen back over time, but not by much - this is its fourth successive appearance in the top 10052. THE STANFIELDS - DesperationBoth song and video of the year in 2018. Unlike 'Outcast Club', this one takes a while to reach its peak – it's absolutely worth the wait. Video below.51. EVERCLEAR - Everything to EveryoneThe song that began my first full top 200 countdown, back in 1999. It's had a varied run since then, disappearing the following year, re-appearing at #38 in 2004, then having another prolonged absence before returning in 2018. Now, it spends another year just outside the top 50.
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Post by Milliways on Oct 24, 2022 23:25:05 GMT 1
70. BLAGGARDS - Big Strong Man (Yakety Sax)This is a thoroughly daft delight. Celtic folk-punk with lyrics dating from the first couple of decades of the 20th century, and that Benny Hill theme you've heard on so many videos of farcical goings-on. A real guilty pleasure69. VOLBEAT - Sad Man's TongueFull-throttle Johnny Cash tribute from a Danish hard rock-n-roll band, making its third appearance running in the Top 10068. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Birdhouse In Your SoulOne of only a handful of songs to have appeared in my first Top 200, compiled in 1999. It took the #7 position that year, and has featured in all but two of the subsequent countdowns. Quirky, geeky, and wonderful - an all-time classic67. ROBB JOHHSON & THE IRREGULARS - Saturday Night In AlbionPolitical folk singer from West London who has appeared a few times in the past with songs like 'Up The Workers' and 'Spirit of '45'. This social comment track from his 'Love & Death & Politics' is his only entry this year, its position reflecting the regard I hold it in66. ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER - The Blandford ForumMore politics. A mid-90s punk poem set to music, this has some superb lyrics and could perhaps be said to be topical once again. Peaked at #10 in 201065. THE ENDS - Black Hole GirlEver-present since its entry in 2016. Not quite pop-punk or indie-rock, a unique hybrid that might well pull you in and not let you go64. AUTOHEART - LentNew entry. And, this position does not reflect the impact this song has had since I discovered it thanks to Jordan entering it to Havenvision 12. Indeed, such was the impression it made that I bent my usual Top 200 rules, allowing it into consideration despite having already begun compiling. The video (below) and song are both among the best I've seen/heard in many years63. MEAN JEANS - Stuck In A HeadBig climber, for a discovery from frag 's 2019 end-year chart (hopefully I've got that right). Straightforward pop-punk perfection62. ALANIS MORISSETTE - ForgivenThe #1 in that 1999 countdown I mention. I was a 16-year-old completing GCSEs at a Catholic secondary school back then -- this quiet-loud album track from 'Jagged Little Pill' came along at exactly the right time. It has featured consistently other than in 2009, in the top 100 from 2010 onwards61. THE VACCINES - Teenage IconNot even probably, this is the catchiest indie-pop song ever recorded. Choruses don't get much stronger than this
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Post by Milliways on Oct 20, 2022 23:58:04 GMT 1
80. NOI!SE - Idle Action Street punk band from Washington state who caught my ear a few years back. I'm excited to see these live, hopefully not too long away now...
79. BLYTH POWER - Animal Farm Second entry in a row that entered for the first time two years ago, this one climbs from #99 this year. Folk-punk with strings, lyrics harking back to the early 1990s, and a mega-catchy chorus
78. JOSEPH GEORGE - Wonder Bye One-of-a-kind. This pop-rock showstopper made an instant impression on me on its release in 2014, just missing out on that year's countdown. It debuted at #7 in this countdown in 2016 and featured in the top 15 of the following two, before dropping back some way this year
77. OK GO - Get Over It This, on the other hand, has had a stop-start run that fits with the song's quiet-loud sound. Peaking on its first appearance in 2003 at #27, it then failed to appear for six years before returning in 2010. Their debut hit, this hits some sublime heights with a seldom-bettered synth line
76. YOUNG DUBLINERS - Waxies Dargle 100mph folk-punk twist on a traditional folk-punk song that has been recorded by the Pogues among others, this is making its third consecutive appearance
75. FRANK TURNER - Photosynthesis My introduction to Turner, and another one that made an immediate impression on me, debuting at #10 in 2008. It's featured in the top 100 without fail since, with a peak at #6 in 2011. He appeared at #82 with 'Four Simple Words', and he'll be back...
74. SILVER SUN - Hi Scorpia New entry. Discovered in the wake of the tragic early death of James Broad, Silver Sun's frontman and songwriter. Hidden away on their 2006 album 'Dad's Weird Dream', this wonderful song showcases their effervescent, joyful best. 'Video' below
73. INDIGO GIRLS - Galileo Introspective, reflective. Not words associated with many of the entries in this countdown, but this song has managed to buck the trend and stick around. It's been in the top 100 in every countdown since 2006, peaking at #6 in 2010
72. FRESHMEN - You've Never Heard Anything Like It Back at #115, by the Would Be's, I mentioned John Peel's 'Peelenium'. That was 1990, this is 1979. An Irish 'showband' with a truly remarkable track in a year with some very stiff competition
71. TILT - Sterile Heaven Buzzsaw female-fronted punk band with entirely topical lyrics despite the album featuring this song (and #95) having been released in 1998
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Post by Milliways on Oct 16, 2022 0:17:50 GMT 1
90. BLYTH POWER - Summer Song They're not from Northumberland. They're named after a railway locomotive and the band's drummer is also the vocalist, their main songwriter and is a trainspotter. However, their songs are surprisingly catchy (this being a case in point). Blyth Power are one of a kind, nowadays one of the bands I look forward most to seeing live, and this is their second of multiple entries in this countdown
89. THE INTERRUPTERS - Take Back The Power Fist-pumping anthem that featured in the top 40 of the prior 3 instances of this countdown
88. PAUL HEATON & JACQUI ABBOTT - D.I.Y Heaton and Abbott's fifth post-Beautiful South album N.K-Pop entered the UK Album Chart at #1 this week. They've still got it, and they certainly did when they put out this jolly, wry debut single as a duo back in 2014. Just like the previous entry it is making its fourth consecutive appearance here
87. THE FRIDAY PROPHETS - Biased By Mood It's pop-punk, but not as we know it. From its Biblical spoken-word intro, through some of the most complex lyrics I've ever encountered in the genre, this stands apart. Another datapoint in favour of my theory that anything from Sweden is worth checking out (on that, more to come)
86. LAURIE WRIGHT - F.Y.D Only new entry in this section. This tribute song (F.Y.D stands for F*ck Your Dimension) is a slow-burner, but a little patience with this doesn't half pay off. It builds and builds over its five minute plus duration, one of the longest songs here. The last minute or so is spectacular, a whirlwind of catharsis
85. DEL AMITRI - Nothing Ever Happens Sometimes, while compiling this countdown, as well as ranking the songs as best I can in order of preference and level of enjoyment over the past couple of years I look for sequencing joys. A case in point is the counterpoint between this song and the one that immediately preceded it. Unlike that one, a brand new entry, this is a classic that has featured eleven times, debuting at #27 in 2001 and peaking at #18 in 2018. Some wonderful lyrics here: "Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs / while Angry from Manchester writes to complain about all the repeats on TV"
84. EPIDEMICS - I Don't Get It "Too much information must have damaged my brain / I don't get it" What was I saying about Sweden? Energetic female-fronted pop-punk from the north of that country here. Bewilderment and frustration about the state of the world and why nothing seems to make sense? This could be the song for you...
83. SKATEGANG - Critical Girl Sweden again? Nope. France. This one took me a little while to truly 'get'. First heard in late 2014, in that year's year-end chart I put it well outside of the top 100. Rediscovered sometime before 2018, I placed it inside that year's top 100 and there it has remained ever since. "Up and down like a medicine gumball" go the lyrics, and pogoing just like that is what's called for here
82. FRANK TURNER - Four Simple Words There's 'quiet-loud', and then there's this. Eighty-plus seconds of build-up, a drum-roll and then all hell breaks loose. Just tremendous live. I wasn't at the festival in the video below, but I wish I was...
81. THE BLUETONES - Carry Me Home The song that gave me my only Hidden Indie Treasures win. From 2010, and their album 'A New Athens', what a comeback! The video is a work of art too
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