It’s time to rank the year’s best bangers! What were your favourite tracks of 2024?
“A collection of profound and epic album reviews and musical articles by former astronaut and brain surgeon, Alasdair Kennedy. Reaching levels of poetry that rival Keats and Blake, the following reviews affirm Alasdair to be a prodigy, a genius and a god whose opinion is always objectively right. He is also without a doubt the most modest man in the universe.” - Alasdair Kennedy
Saturday, 21 December 2024
Thursday, 12 December 2024
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Every UK Number One Single From The 1960s Ranked
From ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy’ to ‘Yellow Submarine’, I rank every British chart-topper from the swinging sixties.
Monday, 22 April 2024
Monday, 15 January 2024
Thursday, 21 December 2023
My Top 20 Favourite Tracks of 2023
2023 seemed like a pretty mediocre year for music on the surface. But looking back, it actually had its fair share of bops.
Monday, 18 December 2023
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Thursday, 22 December 2022
My Top 20 Favourite Tracks Of 2022
I’ve already shared my least favourite songs of 2022. Now it’s time to celebrate the best songs of the year (always a much more enjoyable list to make!).
Thursday, 8 December 2022
The 10 Worst Songs of 2022
2022 gave us an array of awful viral TikTok songs, horrible soundtracks and unnecessary covers. I’ve rounded up the 10 worst examples I could find here.
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Albums I Never Got Round To Reviewing In 2021: Abba, Silk Sonic, Adele and more...
I catch up on the latest albums from Abba, Silk Sonic, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Alice Phoebe Lou, James Blake, The Armed, Mastodon, Young Thug, Injury Reserve, JPEGMAFIA, Lone and BADBADNOTGOOD.
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
My Top 20 Favourite Albums of 2021
Here it is! My favourite albums of 2021 (fashionably late as always). This was such a hard list to narrow down. The amount of stellar albums that dropped last year is insane (and I feel like I still haven’t listened to half the records from the year that I wanted to). If you like lists don’t forget to check out my favourite tracks of 2021 and my least favourite tracks of 2021 too.
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
My Top 20 Favourite Tracks of 2021
There was sooooo much good music to choose from this year. It was pretty hard condensing this list down to just 20 tracks, but I decided to stick with it, otherwise there would be too many embedded YouTube videos and this page would take three hours to load.
Monday, 13 December 2021
The 10 Worst Songs of 2021
♫ He's making his end-of-year lists. He’s checking them twice. He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. ♫ As usual, I'm planning on rounding up my favourite tracks, but we’ll get the ‘naughty list’ out of the way first. Here are my picks for the worst songs of 2021. Which songs did I miss?
Friday, 1 October 2021
Every James Bond Theme, Ranked Worst To Best
I’ve always been a huge James Bond fan. With the new Bond movie No Time To Die out in cinemas, I thought I’d take on the challenge of ranking every Bond theme ever made. All 24 of them.
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Monday, 11 January 2021
My Top 20 Favourite Albums of 2020
2020 was an unusual year for album releases. While some musicians chose to hold back releases due to the pandemic (e.g. Kanye & Adele), others took the chance to write and release multiple records (e.g. Taylor Swift – but don’t expect her in this list). I was personally astounded by some of the albums released this year. In fact, the quality was much higher than in 2019 or even 2018. Below are just some of my favourite albums from the year.
Monday, 21 December 2020
My Top 20 Favourite Tracks Of 2020
Killer virus and political mayhem aside, 2020 wasn’t all that bad. There was some phenomenal music released this year. In fact, whittling this list down to just 20 tracks was a real challenge. Below are some of the tracks that I kept returning to this year.
(P.S. Don’t forget to also check out my worst songs of 2020 if you like lists. If you're a hardcore listophile, feel free to also check out my favourite songs from '19, '18, '17 and '16.)
Monday, 14 December 2020
The 10 Worst Songs of 2020
IT’S LIST TIME!!! I’ve already started working on my favourite tracks and favourite albums lists. But before we embrace the best of 2020, let’s remind ourselves of some of the most terrible songs from this terrible year. Compared to my previous lists, this year's annual music horror show is particularly ghastly. In fact, it's so ghastly that 6ix9ine didn’t even make the cut. Proceed at your own risk...