I published 12 singles round ups for 2022, one per month (OK, so maybe some were slightly delayed…) which amount to a rough total of 350 – 400 songs in total. The fact that I featured the songs meant I liked all the songs in each list, so when I thought – I’ll do a Festive 50 like John Peel used to do, I failed miserably, so here is my Effervescent Eighty, first off, my top 15, then the rest in no particular order…
- Monica Queen – Where is Home?
- Water Machine -Hot Real Estate
- Pizza Crunch – Wilting Youth
- Horsegirl – Anti Glory
- Junk Pups – Miss Behave
- Sacred Noise – Part of Me
- Jemma Freeman and the Cosmic Something – Easy Peelers
- Brontes – First Hand Arrogance
- His Lordship – All Cranked Up
- Keeley – Shadows on the Hill
- Collars – Baby I’m Bored
- The Bobby Lees – Monkey Mind
- Syvdoh – As I Lay Dying
- Dream Wife -Leech
- Dumb Poets – Magic Happens
The rest (in no particular order)
- Sloan Brothers – Songs Like This
- Wife Guys of Reddit – Pig Fat
- Dead Pony – Bullet Farm
- Bikini Bottoms – The Game
- Port Sulphur – Kone Trips
- pMad – Broken
- Gentle Sinners – Face to Fire (After Nyman)
- Earl of Hell – Hang ’em High
- The Kaplans – Get Inside It
- Jill Lorean – Black Dog
- Run into the Night – Common Stream of Consciousness
- Panic Shack – Mannequin Man
- Savage Cut – The Debt
- Sister John – Young at Heart/The Bluebells – Glasgow is a Rainbow
- Trashcan Sinatras – Lay of the Land
- Bunkhouse – RIP ie
- Katherine Aly – Hype Up
- Tallies – Special
- Spyres – Honestly
- Butcher Boy – So Far So What
- HiFi Sean and David McAlmont – The Skin I’m In
- Dead Thatchers – Nae Pasaran
- Jo Jo and the Teeth – Don’t Get Too Heavy
- London Plane – Come Out of the Dark
- bdrmm – Three
- Marianne Dissard – When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful
- The Best Bad Influence – Boomstick
- Vulture Party – Bad Wolf Moon
- The Courettes – Daydream
- Deux Furieuses – Bring Down the Government
- Cloth – Lucid
- Simon Bromide – Not That Type
- Scorpio Leisure – Give Us Our Space
- The Claudettes – Exposure
- Suede -15 Again
- Pete Astor- Fine and Dandy
- Girls in Synthesis – Watch with Mother
- Lloyds House – Heather
- Tina Sandwich – Fast Cars (and Movie Stars)
- Simon Love – L.O.T.H.A.R.I.O.
