Only think of the bands that didn’t make the Top 20. Inevitably, really. Ten years of music is a lot of songs and a lot of bands. But, still, many regrets that there was no place for…
LCD Soundsystem, Half Man Half Biscuit, Idles, Belle and Sebastian, Ought, Parquet Courts, Car Seat Headrest, Real Estate, Slowdive, Beck, Grimes, Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, St Etienne, Sonic Youth, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Purple Mountains, Bill Callahan, Big Thief, Bon Iver, Boards of Canada, Snail Mail, Eleanor Friedberger, Low, Yo La Tengo and on and on and on ...
John Peel once said he’d prefer to air the songs that came in at 51-100 in his own annual Festive 50. Maybe in the future there could be an episode where we get to hear some choice outtakes.
Meantime, however, here’s the Sombrero Fallout Top 10 for the 2010s.
Tracklist:-
10. Desire Lines, Deerhunter
9. Keep on lying, Tame Impala
8. New York, St Vincent
7. You let my tyres down, Tropical Fuck Storm
6. Seaweed, Mount Eerie
5. Two thousand and seventeen, Four Tet
4. Ben’s my friend, Sun Kil Moon
3. Bury Parts 1 & 3, The Fall
2. Walk in the park, Beach House
1. Party in the dark, Mogwai