Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Music: My Top 10 songs of 2012


(I’ve made the titles click through so you can listen to them on youtube :))
The first song I heard from the band, and it made me fall in love with them. It still gives me shivers and fuzzy feelings after hundreds of plays. It reminds me of driving over Yorkshire moors in the summer rain with the windows open.
I found this song when I was sad and I realised I’ll never find a song sadder ever again.
2012 has been a big year for discovering more about feminism and educating myself. This song has soundtracked that and made me feel like a badass bitch.
This year I discovered Bauhaus. This song broke my headphones and made me wear a lot of black. I covered this at the first gig as frontwoman of our reformed post-punk/noise pop inspired band and I’ve never had so much fun on stage ever before, prowling around in head to toe black with a glass of rosé.
Never have I ever consumed so much caffeine. Ever. “There’s too much caffeine in your bloodstream, and a lack of real spice in your life”.
I was walking back from college one day after consuming aforementioned ludicrous amounts of caffeine and Autumn was turning to Winter and the sky was clear and cold. I turned a corner and was hit with such a beautiful sunset as I wallowed in self pity in this song and I had to stop walking.
I spent a large portion of the year pretending I was in the sixties and dancing in my underwear a la Moonrise Kingdom. No song is more appropriate.
I watched Lucy play at a little venue in my hometown of Leicester on her summer tour and it was such a lovely night. We met her afterwards and I bought some tea from her. It is really, really good tea. This song reminds me of boys.
Lana is a babe from the Land of Babes. This year I got my first radio play (twice!). Lots and lots of victory singing of this song.
Watching Foo Fighters at Leeds was one of the best nights of my life. Screaming along to this song was more than incredible. Hearing it makes me feel elated.

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