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I spent a lot of this year thinking the album output was quite crap, but actually 2018 came good in the end, didn’t it? Comparing it to last year, anyway. For reference, here are the albums I’ve put at the top of these year-end slogs in the past: 2010: Lights – Ellie Goulding 2011: 21 … Continue reading Top 25 albums of 2018

This is my tenth – TENTH!!! – year-end singles blog (eleventh if you include 2008, but that was more of a straightforward list on a Facebook note(!)). And goddammit I will continue until the bitter end!! Loads of the blogs aren’t online anymore because they were on websites I forgot to renew (woops), but the … Continue reading Top 50 singles of 2018

Right it’s nearly the end of LISTMAS for another year, but I wanna put in a quick shout-out to my favourite TV shows of 2017 before we limp over the finish line into another sodding January. Unlike last year, I’ve kept it purely to scripted shows – mainly because I didn’t actually see much unscripted … Continue reading Top 15 TV shows of 2017

Last year I made sure I saw a hell of a lot of theatre, and while I dropped the ball a tad on that front in 2017, I did make up for it in movies. My goal is to be that smug bastard in Oscars season who has ALL THE OPINIONS because he’s seen, like, … Continue reading The 39 new movies I saw in 2017, ranked

For the last couple of years I’ve #SHUNNED a conventional “Top X albums…” list in favour of a straightforward ranking of each and every one I listened to. I heard 50 in 2017 and started typing out a ranked thing, but honestly this has been such a shrug-worthy year for full-length records that I got … Continue reading Top 25 albums of 2017

This is my TENTH ONE OF THESE LISTS, guys, I’m getting so old – and my extra-ness is not diminishing with age! How about that?!?!?!1?! These are the past winners of these annual slogs: 2008: Sweet About Me – Gabriella Cilmi 2009: Battlefield – Jordin Sparks 2010: Teenage Dream – Katy Perry 2011: Till The … Continue reading Top 50 singles of 2017