22 Wild Beasts: Boy King

Next time you’re at an Aerosmith concert- which is the type of humanatarian atrocity you often commit because you have the same laughable sense of taste in music as Homer Simpson and literally every artist you like is music that you’ve forgotten that you initially got into ironically- look out at the back of the crowd for a paunchy man in leather trousers and a faded ‘Toys in the Attic’ tour t-shirt and the kind of haircut that men only grow when they’re either unwilling or unable to accept that they’re bald. He’ll be disgusted that the band aren’t playing cheap Rolling Stones pastiches- a band that, lest we forget, are fucking shit in the first place- about a teenage girl having electric vaginal spasms, or whatever

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they’ll be muttering to themselves

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24 Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid

Words are brilliant, aren’t they? Without them, we would never be able to identify things as the things that they, in fact, are

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Almost every human civilisation on Earth uses words, apart from the D’Hobriest Knark tribe of Southern Peru, who have developed the ability to communicate solely by charades, Blink Murder and Blind Man’s Bluff, as they hark back to a pre-bronze age time when humans used to talk exclusively through parlour games

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I know loads of words. How many words do you know?

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Like, you don’t have to totally accurate, we’re all friends here

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so I’ll accept a disparity of four or five either way, I understand that there are those painfully bland words like ‘cinder’, ‘lands’ or ‘sesquipedalian’ that everyone is likely to forget, so just get it in the ballpark

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26 A Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service

We love it when old people can still do stuff, don’t we?

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Roughly seven times every day local news recommends that we celebrate the fact that a 98 year old man still has his job as Tesco’s, inviting us to applaud open mouthed in marvel that an old person is still able to stack shelves for 8 hours a week without frequently shitting himself

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Not frequently

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My Gran is a real inspiration, as she’s 94 yet still walks up to two miles a day to post dog excrement through the letter box of immigrant families’ houses

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27 David Bowie: Blackstar

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Aw, dude, so many people died in 2016, yeah??

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I mean, how many fatalities were there in Haiti because of Hurricaine Mathew? At least 500, but some people put the death rate at closer to 1000!

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Aw man, and the Syrian civil war, yeah?! About 470’000 people have died in that! 2016 was, like, such a bad year for deaths!

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Aw, dude, and the illegal Saudi Arabian intervention in Yemen! Which Britain is partly funding and yet barely reporting on it at all! The UN reports that there’s been over 10’000 deaths there, including 3’799 civilians! Man, 2016 sucked!!

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29 Rihanna: Anti

No artist currently working has as amazing a back catalogue of hit singles as Ri-Ri

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Don’t agree? Diamonds? Umbrella? We Found Love? Only Girl? Take a Bow? Rude Boy? Disturbia? SOS? Shut Up and Drive? Don’t Stop the Music? Rehab? California King Bed? Banger, banger, banger, banger, fucking banger!!

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If you take away the terrible singles from great singles, I’d put Paul McCartney at about -57, whereas Ri-Ri has barely any stinkers blemishing her record

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London, up your speed, Manchester, up your speed Milton Keynes, up your speed, Bristol, change gear Birmingham, up your speed, Nottingham, up your speed

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OK, no more messing about now. Put that foam finger down, pull that foam finger out: no more banter, OK? We’ve had a lot of fun so far, but now it’s time to get serious. The list so far has been a little spurious in places, and a lot of things have been over or underrated, but from this point on it’s exclusively masterpieces, OK? Any of the following sonic Sistine Chapels of artistic brilliance could feasibly be called your album of the year and you wouldn’t sound too weird

We’re going up a gear, fasten your boot straps

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-YA!!