Feeling fed up with other people’s best of 2010 lists bearing no resemblance to the reality of what was the pick of last year? Then fret no longer! BBC 6 Music are asking for votes for their top 40 songs of 2010, with their shortlisted nominations including:
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Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
Badly Drawn Boy – Too Many Miracles
I Am Kloot – Northern Skies
Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
Blur – Fool’s Day
Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
Broken Records – A Darkness Rises Up
Midlake – Fortune
Voting closes at 1900 on 20 December. Steve Lamacq will count down the top 40 as chosen by you during a special show on New Year’s Eve.
This rather awesome video for Sparrow and the Workshop’s “Black to Red” has been picked as Nemone’s video of the week over at BBC 6Music. And quite right too.
According to the band, “The video is a take on the original 1950′s 3D effect – blue and red with a brown blur in the middle!” Alas, I haven’t got a pair of ancient 3D glasses to see if they’d work with the band’s rather more physical version of the effect. But it’s still a great video though.
“Black to Red” was Sparrow and the Workshop’s latest single, and it came out on Nov. 1st. The song doesn’t feature on Sparrow and the Workshop’s latest LP Crystals Fall, but it is available on iTunes.
Broken Records stopped by Vic Galloway’s show on BBC Radio Scotland last week to play some of the new songs from 2nd LP Let Me Come Home; and the beeb have seen fit to share this video from the session of “A Darkness Rises Up” (UK only, sorry!)
As a teenager, without fail on a Sunday night I would be sitting beside my cassette recorder listening to Radio 1’s regular In Concert series. And, most likely, if it was a band I liked, then I’d be taping it (for archival purposes only, of course). One of my very favourite gigs was Blur’s 1999 performance of songs from their album 13.
