Lest auld acquaintance not be forgot and all that.

So, that's the end of another year. Time to move on and time to look back. Once again, this year has thrown up some amazing music, some of it covered by magazines, radio and TV here in the UK, some of it not. A lot of it has come through my general oracle and undisputed greatest radio station in the known universe, BBC 6Music. Earlier on this year, we thought we were going to lose it, but due to an amazing public response and some good decision making by those that are in charge, 6Music was saved from the chopping block and it continues to grow and grow. I would like to thank all at 6Music for a great year, but especially Marc Riley, Gideon Coe, Tom Ravenscroft, Huey Morgan, Jarvis Cocker, Tom Robinson and Cerys Matthews who continue to inspire me week after week. Long may it continue.

The last month to 6 weeks or so have been taken up breaking this one down from the 95 tracks that have appeared previously, so I haven't really had the chance to listen to much new stuff. I'm looking forward to starting again in the New Year. I've got a whole month to catch up on. January is normally a quiet month, so I should get some respite.

It's been quite an international lineup with the UK, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, Sweden, France, Finland, Holland and Australia covered this year. Australia has 4 tracks in this Best of compilation, so there's obviously a lot going on down there at the moment. Hopefully there's more to come in 2011.

So, as promised, here's my Top 25 tracks of 2010.

25 Magnetic Warrior - Archie Bronson Outfit
24 All Fall - The Chapman Family
23 From A Tower - LoveLikeFire
22 Maguro - Bo Ningen
21 (Angela)Surf City - The Walkmen
20 WOR - Django Django
19 Your Hands (Together) - The New Pornographers
18 Svalbard - I'm Kingfisher
17 It Carved Your Name Into The Ground - The Mariner's Children
16 Kipling - Magenta Skycode
15 Flickering Lights - The Strange Death Of Liberal England
14 Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
13 The Answer (Featuring Big In Japan - U.N.K.L.E.
12 One By One From Dorney Reach - Wolf People
11 Say Goodbye To What - Bullion
10 Marching Off To War - Morningbell
9 Dead Nationale - Parades
8 Marina - Sleepy Sun
7 Broken Heart - Goodluck Jonathan
6 Bellringer Blues - Grinderman
5 Blood - The Middle East
4 Gold Canary - Cloud Control
3 I Can Change - LCD Soundsystem
2 This Orient - Foals
1 Woo Song - Khottal

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I've also made a bonus podcast that's made up of tracks that were hanging round the playlist but for whatever reason, didn't make it into any of the previous episodes. I'll have that one ready early next week along with a list of my favourite 20 albums of the year.

As usual, your comments and track recommendations are always welcome, so please keep them coming, I really do listen to everything I'm sent a link to.

Finally, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two or even go and see them live. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice.

Until the next time, have a happy and peaceful New Year.

Thanks for listening.
It's good to listen.

Rob
xxx

Walking in a winter wonderland.......

So, last year I set myself a task to get four podcasts done, one for every quarter of the year and by jove, I have achieved just that a whole month ahead of schedule! In fact, I now know that there are actually going to be six as I have another playlist ready that contains tracks that for whatever reason - time or they just didn't fit in with the other podcasts - didn't make it onto previous episodes; and a final one that will be what I consider to be the best 25 tracks of the year. I should have these done in between Christmas and New Year.

This time round, I've also managed to learn something about chaptering up he podcasts so that you can skip tracks if you don't like what you are hearing. You should also get an image of the track that's playing as well. Hope it works. Thanks to Wicksy for the pointers :)I know it works OK on iPod, iPhone and iTunes, but I'd be interested to know if it doesn't work for your particular player. I've also changed the encoding from mp3 to mp4, so hope this doesn't cause a problem for you. If mp4 doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll bung up an mp3 version.

Next year, my plan is to do at least 6 hour long podcasts, with voiceover, eventually turning it into an hour long, monthly podcast by 2012.

That's the dream, anyway :)

Thanks for all the support this year, your input and feedback has been more than valuable during this learning process.

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Tracklist

0:00:00 - 0:03.37 Strangers - The Fling
0:03.37 - 0:06.49 Surf City - The Walkmen
0:06.49 - 0:10.49 Insects - Woodsman
0:10.49 - 0:16.27 Television Father - Francisco The Man
0:16.27 - 0:20.37 Colours - Grouplove
0:20.37 - 0:25.52 Our Names - Colour Revolt
0:25.52 - 0:28.41 Wires - Cowlick
0:28.41 - 0:31.00 Make A Deal With The City - Hurricane Bells
0:31.00 - 0:33.28 Lay Down - John Vanderslice
0:33.28 - 0:36.17 Svalbard - I'm Kingfisher
0:36.17 - 0:39.08 On Trees And Birds And Fire - I Am Oak
0:39.08 - 0:43.30 Black Doe - Mary Epworth & The Jubliee Band
0:43.30 - 0:47.32 Hotel Room - Smoke Fairies
0:47.32 - 0:51.11 Into The Wild - Sparrow And The Workshop
0:51.11 - 0:56.09 It Carved Your Name Into The Ground - The Mariner's Children
0:56.09 - 0:58.50 Little Brown Haired Girls - Frankie Rose and the Outs
0:58.50 - 1:02.27 New York City Hotel Blues - Margot & The Nuclear So And Sos
1:02.27 - 1:06.11 Light Pollution - Delay Trees
1:06.11 - 1:09.10 Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh - Say Hi
1:09.10 - 1:14.18 Kipling - Magenta Skycode
1:14.18 - 1:17.36 Get Some - Lykke Li
1:17.36 - 1:20.51 Glorious Aftermath - The Lines
1:20.51 - 1:23.28 All Fall - The Chapman Family
1:23.28 - 1:25.55 Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
1:25.55 - 1:29.05 Maguro - Bo Ningen


As usual, your comments and track recommendations are always welcome, so please keep them coming, I really do listen to everything I'm sent.

Finally, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please support the artists by buying a track or two. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done.

Until the next one(s), have a peaceful and festive time.
I'm off to find more music.

Thanks for listening.
It's good to listen.

Rob
xxx