LadyTaTa Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Ah, the papers have been stuffed with 2010 Top Ten lists for the last few days.I would like to take the highbrow approach and castigate such shameless subjective, lazy journalism - but actually I secretly adore it (along with my other guilty pleasure of reading reviews of really bad restaurants).Today The Guardian is weighing in with its TV Top 10 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/dec/12/tv-2010-review-phil-hoganHere's mine (I'm the only person I know who didn't like the new Sherlock Holmes):1) Mad Men2) Ashes to Ashes - the finale in particular3) Misfits4) True Blood5) Masterchef (I know... I'm so ashamed)6) Downtown Abbey7) Lost (I still can't forgive the ending, otherwise it would be higher)8) The Trip9) The Inbetweeners10) Any Human Heart - slow start but then pretty goodSo if you're bored... please join me.Edited because I screwed up by leaving an errant Misfit. I'm not well so put it down to that :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Misfits at 3 and 7? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Not sure about the order, wanted to put Mongrels higher, but didn't see all of them.1. Misfits2. Inbetweeners3. Ashes to Ashes4. True Blood5. Mongrels6. Pillars of the earth (based on the first couple of episodes, I thought this would be higher, but it faded towards the end)7. ApprenticeChrist, I can't think of any more, don't think I've really watched anything else...Erm...8. Match of the day9. I'm a celebrity (because Shaun Ryder was fun)10. X Factor (because it'#s the only other thing I've watched).Planning to get box sets of Mad Men, as we missed out on it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 My top ten months of 2010 are (in order of appearance):februarymarchaprilmayjunejulyseptemberoctobernovemberdecember Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 So you don't enjoy August then? Kids off school and all that. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Too hot and kids everywhere. Too expensive to go on holiday and drunk people on the streets. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJKillaQueen Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Top ten things to do on the forum:1. My ladies footy group drinks nights out2. My ladies footy on Sundays3. Troll4. Dulwich Hamlet home games5. Poker ar Bar Boho6. EDF Drinks (although never been to one but seems popular)7. Goose is Out (ditto never having been to one but can't argue with 'sold out')8. Pull the Other one at the Ivy House.9. Sell stuff10. Post:)-D Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyTaTa Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 Looks like I should give Mongrels a go. On a completely separate note, I do think HP Saucey has the best forum name.Maybe it's time I top up my paracetemol. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee quinnie Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Hey what about.........This is England 86andThe Art of Germany?Like Keef, I would really struggle to get 10 tv shows - I really feel like there has been nowt on telly all year. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Totally forgot This hq England 86. That can slot in to my list at number 4. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Good shouts wee quinnieThought Ancient Worlds was pretty good too.Elsewhere (added to some of those above, inbetweeners and mongrels being notable examples) How Not To Live Your Life.The Street was earlier this year wasn't it? Very good. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Ooh, Mark Gatiss' History of Horror was lovely too. Amazed there was no Shining, and he didn't get to the current crop of creepy horror, such as Cronos, Japanese etc (thhou there was a brief nod to them) but he did stipulate it was a very personal exploration ofnthe genre.But I digress.Right top ten albums next..... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Top ten holidays of 2010? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Looks like I should give Mongrels a go.Don't do it if you're easily offended! It's so so wrong, on several levels, but absolutely hilaious! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 My TV List for 2010;1. Mongrels2. half of one bit of Late Review I managed to catch one Friday3. X-FactorSeries, Jesus, you people have time: Post on Forum and watch television. (Unless, of course, you do it both at the same time) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-391920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyTaTa Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 I tend to watch TV & surf the internet at the same time - neither on their own are sufficient to engage my full interest. Apparently it's called 'media-stacking' - which I read in Schott's Almanac (which was completey engrossing). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-392073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Countryfile Gardener's WorldDownton AbbeyThe only other thing I watched was Cbeebies and the X-Factor Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-392883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapjackdavey Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 doctor whoshamelessthird & birder...doctor who shameless ... etc Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-393705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Albums, not ordered:belle & sebastian - write about love. Possibly their best album yet and a return to form after a few efforts they appeared to sleepwalk their way through.arcade fire - the suburbs.Part of me wanted not to like it so much just because it'll doubtless grace evy blimmin top ten in the sycophantic press (see also everything radio head do), but it really is very good, and full of the joy and charm of their debut.avi buffalo - avi buffalo.I still can't believe these guys are all in their teens, it's so poised and mature, some excellent song writing and quality tunes.crystal castles - II.I don't really do much electronic these days, but this album actually demands something from the listener. Missus mockney doesn't allow it in the car as it does her head in and that's usually a pretty good sign.deerhunter - halcyon digest.Again something of a grower, but mellower than their more experimental early stuff and with a wonderful pop sensibility woven throughout.fight like apes - the body of christ and the legs of tina turner.It's very FLA, full of acerbic observations and angry break ups, but it just oozes into you after a few listens. Great fun and long may they continue, though from the tenor of a couple of songs I think they may be considering letting go some of their more disturbing tendencies.the national - high violet.Another return to form album, achingly beautiful yet despite the dark tones, curiously optimistic.vampire weekend - contra.Yeah it's short, it's a bit like graceland, it's great fun and catchy.frightened rabbit - winter of mixed drinks.Builds on their debut, offering up another grim, yet poetically stirring slice of glasweigan life.zola jesus - stridulum II.Falling somewhere between Siouxsie and the banshees and Florence and the machine, a great solo effort from Nika Danilova. Well worth checking out.Honourable mentions:caribou - swimsufjan stevens - age of adzjoanna newsom - have one on me (too scattershot to get under your skin, but some lovely songs amongst the filler)hold steady - heaven is whenever (eel, forgot about this one. Springs teen with a sense of humour, can I have a top. 11 please?) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-394077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyTaTa Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Thanks Mockney - I was looking for some musical inspiration. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-394082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Aaah bugger, forgot She & Him - Volume Two.Probably a bit twee for many tastes, but I loved it. (it's Zooey deschanel and m. Ward just in case anyone was wondering) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-394134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 ....aaaaaand forgot Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record.It'd frankly top the otherwise unordered top ten, but there's something about BSS that manages quality across an ecelctically diverse range of styles so effortlessly, that it's a bit like including a Pro Evo game in your top ten games. It just sort of goes without saying so why bother.But for those who haven't stumbled upon this Canadian collective, then you are missing out. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14792-tis-the-season-top-10s/#findComment-394154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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