Best Record: Funeral by Arcade Fire. The debut by the most important band of the decade, just wonderful, soaring, emotional music on a grand scale. From Canada.
Song: Do You Realise by The Flaming Lips. The song of the state of Oklahoma, who cold argue with that? And who else could write a song about the fragility of life and sound so wonderful?
Film: A tie, all three of The Lord of the Rings movies. Who would have thought that the book could have been filmed so well, and be this good?
TV show. For the first six years of the decade I was a TV addict, and then I went to sea and did not miss it at all; so, in recognition of that fact I'm gonna choose the Radio, as it's what we use the Sky box for most of all.
Radio show. At the moment it's the Radcliffe and Maconie show, but earlier in the decade it could have been The Phil Jupitus Show, the Andrew Collins Show, or any number of 6 Music's shows, but then they began to employ crap comedians and 'personalities as DJs and it all went to shit.
Book: The best book I read was The Star of the Sea by Patrick O'Conner, Sinead's bother. A wonderful book which enthralled and entertained. Subsequent books repeated the formula, and lessened it. But for that book, brilliant.
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I won't pretend that I know what the best of anything is, but my favorite record of the decade is Kid A by Radiohead....Favorite song? Impossible to choose. Favorite film....No Country For Old Men. Favorite book....Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
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