It was never as good as it tasted.

A quick note about music this year.

Contrary to what many end of year lists seem to say (and don't they always), i think this year has been a bit on the poor side for music. Don't get me wrong, it's not been downright terrible, but it's not lived up to many recent years. I'm stuggling to pick enough REALLY good albums to make up a top 10, and there hasn't been as many singles that have really managed to grab me as usual. On the plus side, I've been to some great gigs, but often they've been bands who are still touring albums from last year.

Anyway, to prove my point, you just need to look at how many polls LCD Soundsystem are topping. Surely in a great year for music every different critics list would argue for a different album, but this it seems like it's a fact: Sound of Silver was the best album, and All My Friends was the best single. I'd go as far as to say, any polls that say otherwise seem so massively out of touch they border on irrelevant.