So you’ll have seen the BBC’s much vaunted 2012 Introducing list then and have been suitably impressed/outraged/indifferent, yes?
Needless to say there’s not a lot on there to interest the Tidal Wave of Indifference and our own reaction was little more than shrug, snort and shake of the head.
We’ll not pore over the nominees, because to be perfectly honest, we haven’t heard of most of them.
And of those we have, we’re confident that they’re “not our thing” based on looks, press coverage and the thoughts of our peers. Even the only two ‘traditional’ guitar bands in there (Dry the River and Spector) sound mince.
Even our cat hadn't heard of Azaelia Banks - and she LOVES dreadful pop music
Yes, we most certainly are judging books by their covers, but isn’t that what being a music snob is all about. And the motto of this blog is of course, ‘Life’s Too Short to Listen to Shit Music’ We’re also far more prepared to trust the blogs than a bunch of so-called industry tastemakers, and that’s where Andy Von Pip of the Von Pip Musical Express comes in.
Von Pip has polled some of country’s best known and just generally ‘best’ blogs (and ourselves) about who the real sound of 2012 should be.
A longlist, which will be narrowed down in the New Year, is below and we’re delighted to see one of our nominees (we had to submit five) in here. Can you guess who?
We haven’t heard of all these but are willing to bet there’s a lot more musical invention, spirit and actual quality in here than what the Beeb have come up with:
Houdini Dax
French Wives
The Good Natured
Lianne La Havas
Theme Park
Alt J
The Jezabels
Lucy Rose
Bastille
Beth Jeans Houghton
Friends
Washington
Meursault
Daughter
Outfit
All acts have tracks streaming HERE.
The other participating blogs were: Breaking More Waves, My Band Is Better Than Your Band, God Is In the TV, Sweeping The Nation, The Von Pip Musical Express, The Recommender, Faded Glamour, Drunken Werewolf, Flying With Anna, Not Many Experts, Under-classed Idle Ideas, Sonic Masala, Mudkiss, The Ring Master, Both Bars On, Music From A Green Window, Dots And Dashes, The Daily Growl, And Everyone’s A DJ, Kowalskiy, Just Music I Like, Cruel Rhythm, The Blue Walrus, Music Fans Mic, 17 Seconds, Eaten By Monsters, Seven Sevens, Unpeeled, NuRave Brain Wave, Peenko, Music Liberation, Song, By Toad.
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[...] Last month we highlighted that some of the UK’s top blogs (and ourselves) had come together to dream up an alternative to the BBC’s increasingly poor ‘Sound of…’ lists. Auntie’s 2012 selection is looking particularly dire so we were happy to wade in with our views about who folk should be listening to this coming year. [...]