Best of 2025: Top 40 Singles
My Top 40 singles of 2025 including Self Esteem, JADE, Lady Gaga, Bon Iver and Fred again..
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Best of 2011: Best Single 20-11
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
Best of 2011: Best Single 30-21
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
Best of 2011: Best Single 40-31
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: Best Game
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 YouTube Video #5-1
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 Youtube Video #10-6
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)
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)
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
Everything Changes But The Music (Part 5)
Kanye West – Flashing Lights (Feat. Dwele) – 2007 I have always liked Kanye West, his first 3 albums featured a strong set of singles that impacted the Pop side of the charts enough for me to know them. That said I was still of the mindset that Rap had a time and place in … Continue reading
Everything Changes But The Music (Part 4)
Rihanna – Umbrella (Feat. Jay-Z) – 2007 Oh Na Na, Ella Ella Ella Eh Eh Eh, Bom Bom Be Dum Bom Bom Be Dom Dom Na Na Na Na Na Come On, La La La La. They don’t work too well written down, but when heard on a record, you know exactly who you’re dealing … Continue reading
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