Friday, July 14, 2006

Anniversary weekend celebrations

To mark this weekends 26th anniversary celebrations, I bring you what could well be an annual event.

Counting down the Top 50 all time tracks according to Andrew

50 Belle and Sebastian Sleep the Clock Around
49 Badly Drawn Boy Once Around the Block
48 Ryan Adams Harder Now that its Over
47 Beta Band Dry the Rain
46 Elastica Stutter
45 Ocean Colour Scene Travellers Tune
44 Morcheeba Part of the Process
43 Ben Harper By My Side
42 Flaming Lips Do you Realise
41 Radiohead High and Dry

40 Oasis Do you know what I mean?
39 Arctic Monkeys A Certain Romance
38 Smashing Pumpkins 1979
37 Mazzy Star Fade into You
36 Radiohead Climbing up the Walls
35 Ryan Adams Touch Feel Lose
34 Belle and Sebastian Boy with the Arab Strap
33 Oasis Songbird
32 Beck Lost Cause
31 Ocean Colour Scene The Day we Caught the Train

30 Ben Harper Where Could I Go
29 Aimee Mann Save Me
28 The Beatles Sexy Sadie
27 Morcheeba Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
26 Johnny Cash Hurt
25 The Beatles Here Comes the Sun
24 Skunk Anansie Hedonism
23 Ben Harper Forgiven
22 Fleetwood Mac Landslide
21 Ocean Colour Scene You've Got it Bad

20 Pulp Common People
19 Blondie Atomic
18 The Beatles Blackbird
17 Radiohead Street Spirit
16 Ben Harper Waiting on an Angel
15 Marvin Gaye Lets Get it On
14 Radiohead Airbag
13 Oasis Live Forever
12 Nirvana All Apologies
11 Radiohead Creep

10 The Byrds Ballad of Easy Rider
9 Badly Drawn Boy A Minor Incident
8 Oasis Cigaretes and Alcohol
7 Marvin Gaye Whats Goin' On
6 The Beatles Two of Us
5 The Byrds Eight Miles High
4 Aimee Mann Wise Up
3 Radiohead Pyramid Song
2 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
1 Oasis Supersonic

Thats a rock solid top 10 if you ask me - but then I would say that! I imagine some of the calls will raise eyebrows - namely Aimee Mann sneaking into the top 5, but hey thats the standings this year.

Originally I was going to do a top 32 list - Nick Hornby style, but considering my shortlist blew out to 83, I thought culling it to a top 50 wasn't bad going!

4 comments:

gus said...

I'm impressed Andrew. Being able to order 50 songs is a huge feat!! I blew out and did my top then then remaining 40 but unordered.

Oh, and speaking of your 26th Birthday. I actually have it in my diary and was going to send you an email today (since we are away all weekend) to wish you happy birthday and that I havent forgotten this year. Only thing is that last night Bebo did a useful thing for once and sent me a bday reminder.. for your birthday on the 16th, not 17th as I had written in my diary!! Why do I always think its the 17th? You really should just change the date I think!!

So anyway, to get to the point HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY for Sunday!!! I hope you have a fantastic day.

beetlebum said...

Thanks very much. It was quite an effort to order them, I did it aby grouping them into groups of like 15-20 then ordered those. The worts part was culling.- Im afraid Mr Bowie we're gonna have to let you go.

karen said...

what?.... no coldplay?

beetlebum said...

No this is a top 50.