Top Ten Bands/Artists of the Week

W/C 01/03/2011

Here's my top ten for the week, although it may be slightly skewed due to problems scrobbling from my iPhone.  All sorted now though.

1. Elbow

2. Cage the Elephant

3. PJ Harvey

4. Anti-Flag

5. Arcade Fire

6. Gil Scott-Heron

7. LCD Soundsystem

8. R.E.M.

9. Tim Armstrong

10. Art Brut

A bit different from last week.  I'd never even conciously listened to Elbow before but thought I'd give them a try due to my current lack of options listed for Glastonbury and the fact that they have a new hyped up album out.  I wasn't overly impressed first listen through but it looks like it's a grower.  I took some advice and listened to 'The Seldom Seen Kid' album and I've definitely pencilled them in to watch at G.

Cage the Elephant, another band with a new album, really liked their last one but grew out of it eventually.  The new one, 'Thank You, Happy Birthday' has a very different sound and is a fantastic album.  The song 'Shake Me Down,' (single from the new album) is quite possibly the best song I have ever heard.  I'm praying for a Glastonbury performance.

PJ Harvey I explained last week and still can;t get enough of the album.

Anti-Flag are my protest song/noisy punk band that I listen to when I'm feeling energetic.  I also seem to favour them in the summer for some reason so todays nice weather is probably behind them being in my top ten.

Arcade Fire are still keeping me entertained with Suburbs, I would love to be going to one of the gigs but perhaps foolishly decided to rely on festivals.

Gil Scott-Heron is quite frequently heard from my iPod since discovering him only last year through a phantom Glastonbury TBC on eFestivals.

LCD Soundsystem are another fine weather band for me, think we had some nice weather a few days back where I played them loudly from the car.

R.E.M. New album, not at all impressed, might give it another go though.

Tim Armstrong quite often gets a few plays as a bit of a mood lifter, a very happy sound with music from The Aggrolites.

Art Brut, listening to them after reading a thread on eFestivals speculating whether they'd play the G.  One of my fave peformances of G2008.

Here's a spotify playlist with a random song from each Artist/Band where available (No Arcade Fire) -----> LINK