Best Breakthrough Single By A Band Who Turned Out To Be Rubbish:
The Feeling 'Sewn' (from Twelve Stops And Home
)Worst Single From A Band Who Are Usually Really Good:
The Charlatans 'NYC (There's No Need To Stop)' (from the otherwise not at all bad Simpatico
)Most Underrated Hit Single:
Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar
' (from Eyes Open)Best Single That Probably Shouldn't Have Been Released Because There Had Already Been So Many From The Album:
Maximo Park 'I Want You To Stay' (from A Certain Trigger
) Most Pointless Bonus DVD:
Snow Patrol Eyes Open
Most Idiosyncratic Pronunciation Of The Word "Obviously":
Paolo Nutini 'Jenny Don't Be Hasty' (from These Streets
)Best Single That Mentions A Monkey:
Hot Chip 'Over & Over' (from The Warning
)Band I Most Wanted To Like But Haven't Quite Convinced Myself About Yet:
Guillemots (album: Through The Windowpane
)Worst Editing:
Gene John Peel Sessions
Most Interesting Juvenilia:
Pulp's 1981 John Peel Session (released on The Peel Sessions
Best Compilation That I Couldn't Justify Buying Because I Already Had Most Of It:
The Wedding Present Search For Paradise: Singles 2004-2005
Best Compilation I Was Glad I Didn't Already Have All Of:
Andy Partrige Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Box
Best Compilation That Features A Member Of My Family:
Various Artists Cd86
Best 7" package:
Graham Coxon 'I Can't Look At Your Skin'/'What's He Got?' (double single)
Best B-side:
Graham Coxon 'Livin'' (from 'Standing On My Own Again')
Overall Achievement Graham Coxon
Sadly Missed:
Grant McLennan (The Go-Betweens
)And slightly more seriously, here are ten of my actual favourite singles, but in alphabetical order:
Arctic Monkeys 'When The Sun Goes Down' (from Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Belle And Sebastian ''Funny Little Frog'
(from The Life Pursuit)Franz Ferdinand 'The Fallen
' (reworked from You Could Have It So Much Better)Gnarls Barkley 'Crazy' (from St. Elsewhere
)Richard Hawley 'Just Like The Rain
' (reworked from Coles Corner)McAlmont & Butler 'Speed' (digital and 7" only).
Massive Attack 'Live With Me' (from Collected
)Peter, Bjorn and John 'Young Folks' (from Writer's Block
)The Raconteurs 'Steady, As She Goes' (from <Broken Boy Soldiers
)Thom Yorke 'Harrowdown Hill' (from The Eraser
)The Hit Parade reserves the right to change any or all of the above. We're like that sometimes.
