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I am very aware of how anal creating a record of the year as voted for by oneself and for the consumption of - well - oneself but nevertheless I am doing because I miss the process of organising records that came with the Festive Fifty.

Previous winners of this not really an honour...

• 2008 Distortion - The Magnetic Fields
• 2007 Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
• 2006 This Hungry Life - Tanya Donelly
• 2005 Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
• 2004 Whiskey Tango Ghosts - Tanya Donelly
• 2003 Elephant - The White Stripest
• 2002 Beautysleep - Tanya Donelly
• 2001 White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
• 2000 The Hour of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
• 1999 Central Reservation - Beth Orton
• 1998 Up - R.E.M.
• 1997 Lovesongs For Underdogs - Tanya Donelly
• 1996 Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl
• 1995 King - Belly
• 1994 Vauxhall and I - Morrissey
• 1993 Bring it Down - Madder Rose
• 1992 Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
• 1991 Out of Time - R.E.M.
• 1990 Violator - Depeche Mode

The following were done retroactively in 1990.

• 1989 Cloudcookooland - The Lightning Seeds
• 1988 Green - R.E.M.
• 1987 Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
• 1986 The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
• 1985 Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Then I stopped and played out or something cause back then I thought that the love songs of Out Of Time were better than the bitter regret of Seamonsters.