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Author Archives: Sam Atkins

Best of 2011
Best of 2011

Best of 2011

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

Top 25 Albums of 2011: 25-11 Top 25 Albums of 2011: 10-1 Top 40 Singles of 2011: 40-31 Top 40 Singles of 2011: 30-21 Top 40 Singles of 2011: 20-11 Top 40 Singles of 2011: 10-1 Best TV Show Best Game Best YouTube Video: 10-6 Best YouTube Video: 5-1 Continue reading →

808s / Best of 2011

Best of 2011: Best Single 10-1

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

10) Chase and Status – Blind Faith (Feat. Liam Bailey) Kicking off the top 10 we have the Bass song of the year. It has been a brilliant year for Chase and Status and this is their crowning achievement. Expansive dub production with a vocal as massive in scale, this is a grand achievement in … Continue reading →

808s / Best of 2011

Best of 2011: Best Single 20-11

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

20) Jay-Z and Kanye West – Otis (Feat. Otis Redding) Otis is the sound of two of the industry’s best rappers messing around in the studio over an Otis Redding sample. The fun these guys are having is so infectious you can’t help but want to join in with your own verse. Watch their faces … Continue reading →

808s / Best of 2011

Best of 2011: Best Single 30-21

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

30) Björk – Crystalline It may not be one of the singer’s standout hits, and may have failed to set the chart alight, but the last minute or so of Crystalline remains one of my favourite moments of 2011. The drum fill before everything explodes into crazy drum and bass at the end makes me go … Continue reading →

808s / Best of 2011

Best of 2011: Best Single 40-31

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

Here we are at my biggest list of the year as Christmas arrives. Prepare for some big surprises from the off, with some songs placing much higher or much lower than  most people would expect. I’m going to have a small writeup for every song in the list this year, so let’s kick things off … Continue reading →

Best of 2011 / Gaming

Best of 2011: Best Game

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

10) LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3) With 2009’s LittleBigPlanet Sony found themselves a new poster child for their latest console, and scored another exclusive IP appealing to critics and players alike. 2 years on, a sequel to the first ‘Play, Create, Share’ from developers Media Molecule arrived. Complaints over whether a sequel was necessary were soon proven … Continue reading →

Best of 2011

Best of 2011: Best YouTube Video #5-1

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

5) What’s My Name – GloZell1 A video that came out just 2 days into 2011, I probably sing Banana along to What’s My Name as much as I do Oh Na Na! 4) Nicki Minaj Super Bass Cover – SophiaGraceBrownlee A Viral Hit no one could avoid, Sophia Grace showed that her ‘hype girl’ … Continue reading →

Best of 2011

Best of 2011: Best Youtube Video #10-6

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

Kicking things off on my end of year roundup is a list of my favourite Viral Video hits of the year. Music Videos don’t count, but pretty much anything else on YouTube does. 10) asdfmovie4 – TomSka This video makes the list for a 3 second section that happens 30 seconds in. I laugh uncontrollably … Continue reading →

Everything Changes But The Music (Part 7)
808s / Everything Changes But The Music

Everything Changes But The Music (Part 7)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

    Robyn – Dancing On My Own  – 2010 So here we are, the seventh and final part of a blog series that should have been one post long. I have thouroughly enjoyed looking back on the songs that have appeared thus far, and the stories I remember related to each. To close things … Continue reading →

Everything Changes But The Music (Part 6)
808s / Everything Changes But The Music

Everything Changes But The Music (Part 6)

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Sam Atkins • Leave a comment

Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind (Feat. Alicia Keys) – 2009 Last night I was sat down with the very two people Part 6 of this series is about. No, not Jay-Z and Alicia Keys! Sat with my Mum and Dad in the dining room, we were listening to my playlist of the 7 songs … Continue reading →

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