Its all well and good Last.fm having a "top 40 artists this year" list, But how many of you agreed with it? How many of you even listened to half of the things on it? I believe there were only a rare few I could say I've spent much time over in the past year (Arcade Fire, Yeasayer, etc etc).

I'm known to be the musically difficult person in my group of friends, I tend to sway off in some obscure direction and stay there for a long time, very rarely listening to what I'm offered on…

1. Foals - Total Life Forever
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Minus The Bear - Omni
6. Sleigh Bells - Treats
7. Delphic - Acolyte
8. Kele - The Boxer
9. Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
10. Broken Bells - Broken Bells

1. Foals - Total Life Forever
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Minus The Bear - Omni
6. Sleigh Bells - Treats
7. Delphic - Acolyte
8. Kele - The Boxer
9. Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
10. Broken Bells - Broken Bells

Ok, everyone knows that taste changes over time, so its only natural that some music you used to like now grinds on your gears. I try to keep positive about bands that I had a liking for in the past, as they did have their importance to me in their time…however, its then questionable why I stopped liking them in the first place… So lets look into that..

Kings Of Leon -Probably a band you'd expect to see on this list. I remember the days when I used to listen to nothing but Youth & Young Manhood and Aha Shake…

1. Pearl Jam w/ Gomez - MEN Arena
2. Blur w/ Foals, Crystal Castles, Golden Silvers - Hyde Park
3. Smashing Pumpkins w/ The Twilight Sad - Glasgow Academy
4. Radiohead -Reading Festival
5. Pixies w/ Sons and Daughters - Glasgow SECC

Ok, lots of good stuff ive discovered over the past while, Some great, some amazingly great and some mind-numbingly masterful. Here's some artists I reccomend to ALL of you :

The Twilight Sad
The Antlers
Pull Tiger Tail
iLiKETRAiNS
Passion Pit
Baddies

All these bands bar iLiKETRAiNS have an album out this year plus other material. I hope you take my advice and check these out, as its some of the finest stuff I've ever heard (Twilight Sad's new album is my Album Of The Year so far (Forget The Night Ahead))

20. Dosed
19. This Velvet Glove
18. One Big Mob
17. True Men Dont Kill Coyotes
16. Stadium Arcadium
15. Easily
14. Minor Thing
13. Fight Like A Brave
12. Johnny Kick A Hole In The Sky
11. Shallow Be Thy Game
10. Venice Queen
09. Bunker Hill
08. Porcelain
07. Taste The Pain
06. Transcending
05. Knock Me Down
04. Sir Psycho Sexy
03. QuixoticElixir
02. Warped
01. I Could Have Lied

1. "Comforting Sounds"- Mew
2. "Cold Days From The Bird House" - Twilight Sad
3. "Mayonaise" - Smashing Pumpkins
4. "Black" - Pearl Jam
5. "Emotion Sickness" - Silverchair
6. " Rooster"- Alice In Chains
7. "Behold! The Nightmare" - Smashing Pumpkins
8. "I Could Have Lied" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
9. "Hoppipolla" -Sigur Ros
10. "Warped" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Mew- TOP 72 Songs

Number 1 Being best OBVIOUSLY.

72. How Things Turn Out To Be
71. Where Have All The Geysers Gone
70. Succubus
69. Owl
68. Life Is Not Distant
67. Pink Monster
66. Bones (Song For Albert)
65. Misplaced
64. Drown
63. Watch This Space
62. Quietly
61. Superfriends
60. City Voices
59. Killer
58. Start
57. Like Paper Cuts
56. Half The World Is Watching Me
55. Nothing Is Red
54. Safe As Houses
53. Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years
52. I Should Have Been A Tsin-Tsi (For You)
51. No Shadow Kick
50.…

-Blur- 10
-Foals- 7
-Crystal Castles- 5
-Golden Silvers- 5
-Hypnotic Brass Ensemble- 8

-Smashing Pumpkins- 10
-Twilight Sad- 7

-Radiohead- 10
-Bat For Lashes- 2

-Muse- 10
-My Chemical Romance- 2

-Red Hot Chili Peppers- 9
-Ash- 7
-N.E.R.D.- 7

-The Music- 9
-The Chemists- 6

-White Stripes- 8
-The Bees- 5
-Air- 7
-Queens Of The Stone Age- 8

-Bloc Party- 9
-Foals- 7
-The Cribs- 8

-Biffy Clyro- 8
-The Invisibles- 4

-Red Hot Chili Peppers- 7
-Reverend And The Makers- 3
-Biffy Clyro- 7

Leeds Festival
-Pigeon Detectives- 6
-Mindless Self Indulgence- 5
-Adam Green- 6…