Just to Keep Cakes Happy

Lifted from the brilliant KRS:


Every year, the listeners to Irish pirate radio station Raidio Siamsa (89.8 FM) vote for their favourite indie tunes of the year. This year’s selection was delayed, mostly because of the bad weather, but it would probably have been better off lost altogether. There’s a definite retro feel to this year’s chart, but not in a good way. It’s as if the generation brought up worshipping the Sultans of Ping F.C. and Half Man Half Biscuit had somehow spawned a febrile idiot child incapable of original thought. The once-strong possibility that the indie scene might break out of the student ghetto has never been more of a chimera than today: Three of the bands in this list are from the Royal Irish College of Surgeons, though not necessarily the ones you’d think. For better or worse (and let’s hope 2008 is better), here’s the chart:

10: “Betty’s Gone Bald (But Her Sex Life Goes On),” by Plasma and the Leukocytes (Quondam Records)

9: “Can You Feel the Plus Fours?,” by Milky Tipp (Brillig & Slíthe)

8: “(Are You Still) Mispronouncing Nee-Chee?,” by Werther von Goethe (Ledge Records)

7: “I Want It Now,” by The Stamps (Petulant)

6: “Charlie Cake Park,” by Sweet T (Millionaire)

5: “Weebles Wobble But Bebo’s Bobbins,” by the Baubles (Spent Records)

4: “Rathmines Is Rathyours,” by The Sketchlies (Puma Sick)

3: “Put It Back In Yourself,” by The Matrons (St. Vincent’s Sounds)

2: “Cooking with Rachel,” by Dermot O’Muirithe (Merengue)

and

1: “The People Have Spoken (The Bastards),” by Adolf Twat (Deaf Music)

Happy now, Cakes?!