Young Writers Society

Another year about to go! My favourites from the last year are:

Best Music

Best Albums: A Certain Trigger By Maximo Park, Silent Alarm by Bloc Party, For Screening Purposes Only by Test Icicles, Funeral by Arcade Fire.

Best New Bands (Or Best Bands I Discovered This Year): Arctic Monkeys, DARTZ!, !Forward, Russia!, Kubichek!, Test Icicles

Best Songs: Tarred and Feathered By Dogs, Apply Some Pressure by Maximo Park, Fix You by Coldplay

Best Films

Kung Fu Hustle, Team America: World Police, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

Best Literature

I don't exactly always read new books from each year but my favourite was probably Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling. Otherwise it would by The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell but I think that was late 2004.


Feel free to add your own!

Best Music

Album - Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day
Best ban i discovered this year - Kaiser Cheifs
Best Song - Velvet Train - Status Quo

Best Films

Wallace and Gromit!!
40yr Old Virgin
Pride and Prejudice

Best Literature

Harry Potter
Valley of Secrets - Charmian Hussey
Shaman's crossing - Robin Hobb (even though my copy had a few typo's in it)

Best Music:
Metric - Live It Out
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Best Literature:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Best Films:
1. Head-On
2. 2046
3. A History of Violence
4. Oldboy/Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
5. Munich
6. 3-Iron
7. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
8. My Summer of Love
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. Capote

Honorable Mentions: Last Days, Mysterious Skin, Wolf Creek, The Devil's Rejects, Sin City, Tropical Malady, Kairo, Me and You and Everyone We Know

Best Music

*When i'm Gone-Eminem
*Sugar we're going down-Fallout Boy
*Numb vs Encore-Likin Park & Jay Z
*Numb-Linkin Park
*Shook me all night long remix-loads of rock bands
*All the Small Things-Blink 182
*Always-Blink 182
*Basket Case-Green Day

Best new Bands

*Some Kind of Dwellers
*The Bravery

Best Films

*Gladiator
*Reign of Fire
*Jurrstic Park
*Shrek 1/2

Favourite Literature

Fav Poem

*The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God

Fav Books

Harry Potter series
The view from the Mirror saga

Albums:

Silent Alarm- Bloc Party
Origin of Symmetry- Muse (Not as good as Absolution, but it was this year )
American Idiot- Green Day (Okay, late 2004. Still counts.)
You Could Have It So Much Better- Franz Ferdinand

Best Bands *I* Discovered This Year:

Green Day (Shocking, yes? It's been almost a year now)
She Wants Revenge
The Offspring
Arctic Monkeys
Muse
The Shins
Cake

Best Songs (from this year):

New Born- Muse
Homecoming- Green Day
Helicopter- Bloc Party
These Things- She Wants Revenge
You're The Reason I'm Leaving- Franz Ferdinand

Best Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Vanity Fair (STILL trying to figure it out )

Best Album (yes, album. This one wins hands down for me)
Beauty from Pain - Superchic[k]

Best new bands (or bands that I have discovered)
Sanctus Real
Switchfoot
Nickelback

Best Songs
Wishes - Superchic[k]
Company Car - Sanctus Real
Beauty From Pain - Superchic[k] (title song from the best album)
Behind these Hazel Eyes - Kelly Clarkson (sue me)
Collapsed - Aly and AJ (sue me twice)
Tomorrow - Avril Lavigne
Helena - My Chemical Romance
Photograph - Nickelback

Best Films
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Phantom of the Opera
Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Best Album: MAE - The Everglow

Best New Bands (or bands that I have discovered):
NEVERTHELESS
ACCEPTANCE


Best Songs:
COLDPLAY – Speed Of Sound
NICKELBACK – Photograph
GAVIN DEGRAW – Chariot
SUPERCHICK - Beauty from Pain
DAPHNE LOVES DERBY - Hammers and Hearts

Best Films:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Best Album:
Alaska - BTBAM

Best 'New' Bands I Discovered:
BTBAM, Silverstein, Children of Bodom, Black Sabbath, Aiden

Best Songs:
All Bodies- BTBAM
Fist Wrapped in Blood - Silverstein
Knife Blood Nightmare - Aiden [I swear, I'm not violent...]

Best Video Game:
Silent Hill 3 [actually that was in 2003, but I played it this year]

Best Literature:
Ender's Game [again, not this year, but I read it this year]

And, you know I have to add this...
Best Website
www.youngwriterssociety.com

BEST NEW ALBUMS-

'The Best Secrets are Kept'- Louis XIV
'Plans'- Death Cab for Cutie
'You Could Have It So Much Better'- Franz Ferdinand
'Guero'- Beck
'X/Y'- Coldplay
'In Between Dreams'- Jack Johnson
'Hot Fuss'- Killers
'Make Believe'- Weezer

BEST NEW BANDS-

Louis XIV
Franz Ferdinand
The Shins
Violent Femmes
Kaiser Chiefs
Beck
Killers

BEST SONGS-
'Sitting, Waiting, Wishing'- Jack Johnson
'Beverly Hills'- Weezer
'Feel Good Inc.'- Gorillaz
'Do You Want To'- Franz Ferdinand
'Fix You'- Coldplay
'Girl'- Beck

BEST MOVIES-

Napoleon Dynamite
Syriana
Saw II
King Kong
Lords of Dog Town

BEST BOOKS-

Bushwacked
Unsually Stupid Americans
Enigma

Best Movies:

Rent
Chronicles of Narnia
Phantom of the Opera
Motorcycle Diaries

Best Books:
Motorcycle Diaries
A peoples history of the united states

Best New bands:
H.I.M

Best Songs:
Rip out the wings of a butterfly by HIM
Wake me up when september ends by greenday
La Vie Boheme from RENT

Best Album: Tea & Sympathy- Bernard Fanning

Best Movies:
King Kong
Serenity
Wolfcreek
Saw 2
Chronicles of Narnia
Charlie and the chocolate factory

Best literature:
Knife of Dreams--Robert Jordan
The warrior prophet--Scott.rr. Bakker
Rose of the World--Jude Fisher
Drowned Wednesday--Garth Nix
"insert title"--the final installment in Bartimaeus Trilogy
Traitors knot--Janny Wurts
Camelot's Honour--Sarah Zettel
Flight of the nighthawks--Raymond. e. Feist

theres more but i cant think of them right now

Best Films
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia-The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Best Books
Artemis Fowl
Angel Sanctuary series (its a manga series)

Best Games
Katamari Damacy
Soul Calibur 3

Best Bands
H.I.M
L`Arc~en~Ciel

H.I.M aren't a new band..and Origin of Symmetry was released in like 1999 XD

best albums..
'Guero'- Beck
'X/Y'- Coldplay
'In Between Dreams'- Jack Johnson
'Demon Days'- Gorillaz
'Eye to the telescope'- KT Tunstall


bands!
Anthony and the Johnsons
Gorillaz...but i guess they're not that new..
KT Tunstall...even though she's not technically a band..
The Arcade Fire
Maximo Park


Best songs!
'Sitting, Waiting, Wishing'- Jack Johnson
'Feel Good Inc.'- Gorillaz
'Hope there's someone'- Anthony and the Johnsons (everyone should hear this song...even if you dont like the type of music )
'Another place to fall' - KT tunstall
'Apply some pressure' Maximo park

Movies!
Star wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith
King Kong
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wallace and Gromit! Awesome

It was?

Darn iPod...it liiiiiies...

I'm going to have to add more albums-

Summer in Abbadon- Pinback
Get Behind Me Satan- The White Stripes
Guero- Beck

Good stuff.

EDIT: No, wait...I wasn't seeing things...it's you British people! Origin of Symmetry came out in the US in 2005. That's why it says that.

really? how strange. *chuckles* its my favourite one! its awesome...