1 Silver Sun (57)
Prompted by them being mentioned in a thread on here a few days back and by a few PMs with that man Kingsley (again). There are so many amazing b-sides from the singles off the first album (Gossip, Changing, Trickle Down, Streets Are Paved With Tarmac, Captain, Top Trumps) - certainly enough to secure their place in the upper-echelons of UK power-pop bands. Ironically, the songs they're best known for - Golden Skin, Julia, (esp) that horrible covers EP - are among their worst.
2 AC/DC (31)
Kind of falls into the 'no explanations necessary' category, but stirred up by an overwhelming feeling of Angus and Malcolm Young love after the recent announcement that they're back, back, back. For preference, I favour the Powerage album and other tunes of that period - but I rate their last comeback single 'Stiff Upper Lip' as one of their finest singles. One of the best rock intros ever, I'm saying.
3 The Last Shadow Puppets (24)
A couple of runs through to see if it lives up to the hype. It sort of doesn't, but it's by no means bad, either, so I'm sure I'll put it on again in the future. Maybe one for the 'feeling guilty' thread, but I like a surprisingly high number of Alex Turner's compositions (Fake Tales Of San Francisco, Bigger Boys & Stolen Sweethearts, Riot Van, Mardy Bum, A Certain Romance, Flourescent Adolescent, 505, to be precise) and get the feeling that he's so far ahead of his contemporaries and immediate forebears that it's not even funny. I like him more than Jarvis Cocker.