Best of 2010

[RCOH]

Post your favourite anything of the year...now that it is almost over

Best Concerts:
Mastodon@Roundhouse
GasLampKiller@GoodGod

best songs I heard:
Fukpig - Sadism in The Name of God
Bad Religion - Only Rain
Blinded By The lights - the Streets (nero remix)
Rhianna - Rude Boy (krispy remix)
Chitty Bang - Opposite of Adults
Immortal - Antarctica

Best Album:
Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man
Propaghandi - Supporting Caste (2009 I know, but I only heard it this year)
Gaslight Anthem - American Slang


Best Websites:
Soundcloud
The Drum - ABC
Iview

Best blogs/tumblers:
Kicktokill
YimmyYayo
Bikesnobnyc
WellReadHead
TomSelleckWaterfallSandwich
MetalBastard

Best things I read:
Short history of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga
Fatal Distraction - The Wshington Post

Bike I rode the most:
Road bike.

Best Coffee & Muffins:
Remy & Lees, Surry Hills

Best Race I entered:
Shitty to Surf 20km sprint

Best Beer I had
White Rabbit Dark
Little Creatures Bright
Schofferhofer Weisbeir/Krystal

Best Cider:
Monteiths Crushed Pear

Best day of 2010:
july 12, the day my daughter was born

 

[S.]

Stealing your template and adding/removing a couple of things...


Best Concerts:
Damage Inc @ GLC, mainly cos a mate who is pretty much the most gentlemanly guy in the world put some other guy's head into a speaker from about 25 feet away in the mosh pit. I had whiplash for about a week afterwards.

best songs I heard:
Raunchy - Shake Your Grave
Bloody Beetroots/Aoki - Warp 1.9. Yes it's cheesy, yes I love it.
Justice - Waters of Nazareth


Best Album:
Raunchy - A Discord Electric
Justice - + (though it's actually a 2008 album I think)

Best Websites:
Dirt.mpora.com


Best things I read:
The Man In The White Suit - Ben Collins

Bike I rode the most:
DH bike. Nothing but love for that thing.

Best Race I entered:
Canadian Open DH @ Crankworx

Best Beer I had
Revelstoke U-Brew Winterfest

Best night out:
A night in Banff with an Aussie mate... who would have guessed that two people could cause that much havoc.

Best day of 2010:
Too many to mention. May 12th - the day the Whistler Bike Park opened was right up there.

Best trails of 2010:
Khyber Pass to Babylon By Bike (Whistler)
19th Hole (Squamish)

Best year so far? I think so!

 

[Hew]

Best Concerts:
Defqon.1, Utopia. Both were pretty good. Godspeed was mental as well, never had so much fun at a rave before.

Best songs I heard:
Dubside of the moon - Money
Borgore - Ice cream
Wasted Penguinz - Din Mama
Wasted Penguins - Resistance
Unexist - Attack (Mad Dog remix)
Unexist - Anarchy in the UK


Best Album:
Unexist - Traxtorm 2010 release
Borgore ruined dubstep


Best Websites:
Probably livestream. Finally figured out how to stereo mix, so I've been broadcasting heaps of shit.


Best thing I read:
The emails of a man trying to pay an overdue bill with a drawing of a spider.

Bike I rode the most:
DH bike. Haven't ridden nearly enough this year.

Best alcoholic beverage I had
Agwa bombs at Sublime in Sydney, great stuff.

Best night out:
Probably my birthday, 3 days of bliss.

Best day of 2010:
Probably last weekend, had an absolute blast. Fun in the sun.

Best game:
Just Cause 2.

If you haven't got it or played it, I advise you to, it is of epic proportions.

Favourite quote
"Double drink. Double durry. And always; double fuckin' drop."

 

[sam705]

Best things I read:
Fatal Distraction - The Wshington Post

That really is an interesting read, thanks!
Lyn Balfour seems like such a strong character.


Jeez, this could be endless. I'll stick to mainly music for now.

Best Album:
Youngbloods, Glory Days - The Amity Affliction
(2009) Stand Up And Scremm - Asking Alexandria
Six Years Under - Hopes Die Last
Life Of The Party - Heroes For Hire
This Is War - 30 Seconds To Mars

Best Song:
Circles - Birds Of Tokyo
Written In The Stars - Tinie Tempah


Best Newfound Bands:
Saosin
We The Kings


Best Concert
The Amity Affliction with August Burns Red @ i forgot. Melbourne somewhere!



Best Website:
Shockmansion
4WD Action

 

[Fatman]

Best Concerts:
The Pixies @ The Hordern back in March

best songs I heard:
Lots of old stuff, I haven't been impressed with anything new at all really. meh

Best Album:
Interpol - Interpol
and again lots of old stuff

Best Websites:
smodcast.com
iView on abc
this one of course

Best things I read:
I didn't have a great deal of time for fiction this year, loads of technical reviews and documents and reports. I finally read American Psycho and it was one of the best and worst things I've read. Currently re reading Gunship by Henry Zeybel, I should have left it back when I was 13.

Bike I rode the most:
GT Zaskar 20th Anniversary Re-Issue. I'm trying to keep it for special occasions but it's just too good to leave at home.

Best Race I entered:
Not a chance, keeping this figure takes effort although I did race a mate to the pub, does that count?

Best Beer I had:
Too hard, I could start a new thread with the good and several with the bad.
For a taste though;
Brewdog, Tokyo
Brewdog, Tactical Nuclear Penguin
Brouwerij de Molen, Bloed Zweet and Tranen Bruichladdich edition
Southern Tier 2XIPA
Grand Ridge Mirboo Madness Red Ale
Weihenstephaner Korbinian
Happy Goblin Stout, Strong, Vintage and Pale

and many many more

Best night out:
A large group of mates starting at 11am at Redoak for breakfast followed by, The Pumphouse, James Squire Brewhouse, Lord Nelson, The Australian, Hart's, The Fortune of War, The Local Taphouse followed by the Absinthe Salon and still managing to get home without being arrested or divorced.

Best day of 2010:
Probably as per previous, although now I have a baby daughter some of the things she does make some days pretty amazing, the day she called me dad for the first time probably gets the gong.


Best trails of 2010:
Sparrow Hill, the only thing that can get me to go to Canberra by choice.
Ourimbah XC
Manly Dam


Where the f#%k did this year go?

 

[Joy]

Best Concerts:
Iron Maiden- Madison Square Garden NYC

Best Album:
Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man
The Magician's Birthday- Uriah Heep (ancient but only heard it this year)
No Guts No Glory- Airbourne

Best Websites:
catchoftheday

Bike I rode the most:
VP Free.

Best Coffee & Muffins:
Ciao Bella- Macarthur Centre, Bris City

Best Race I entered:
Mario Kart 64 tournament

Best Beer I had
Sunshine Coast Rauch Bier

Best day of 2010:
Finding out Judas Priest are doing a world tour (also sad because it will be their last)

Worst day of 2010:
Hit in the head with a glass bottle. Stupid big scar on my head for life now.

 

[Purt]

WikiLeaks.

 

[Hew]

WikiLeaks.

Furthermore the only thing he's being charged with is sex without a condom.

 

[stringbean]

Snow in japan was deffinatley the highlight of the year

Best Concerts:
parkway drive @ riverstage was pretty intense

best songs I heard:
way to many, i love finding new music

Best Album:
as above

Best Websites:
facebook
shockmansion
transworldmx
vitalmx
vitalmtb

Best blogs/tumblers:
dont follow em

Best things I read:
cant remember tha name of the book, was a good book though hah

Bike I rode the most:
dh bike

Best Coffee & Muffins:
the red robbin (not the shops name but always left a 20 short)

Best Race I entered:
think it would have been the kworth chainless if it didnt get rained out

Best Beer I had
not a beer drinker

Best day of 2010:
every saturday and sunday

 

[sockman]

Best Moment

Opening weekend of Oktoberfest in Munich. Sitting in the Hoffbrau tent, right in front of the keg that the Mayor tapped to officially start the beer drinking. Full table of my mates. Skulled the first Stein. Brilli-fuckin-ant

Edit: PRetty much just Europe...

 

[Johnson!]

Best Concerts:
Baroness @ The Zoo (bris)

best songs I heard:
die ignorant - all pigs must die

Best Album:
i exist: I

Best blogs/tumblers:
fuck-cunts.blogspot

Best things I read:
blood meridian

Bike I rode the most:
Road bike.

Best Race I entered:
fixie gc 1st alleycat

 

[donthucktoflat]

Best Concerts:
Funkoars & Ash Grunwald @ the station jindabyne
all of foreshore
bliss and eso at thredbo

best songs I heard:
C2C's set on essential mix
Hip Hop - Hocus Pocus
As We Enter - Nas & Damian marley
The club song - M-Phazes ft pex and 360

Best Album:
M-Phazes - Good Gracious
Horrorshow - Inside story
All Day - Girl Talk
and not new but new to me:
73 touches - Hocus Pocus
Alive till i'm dead - professor green



Best Websites:
Soundcloud
The Drum - ABC
Iview

Best blogs/tumblers:
speedhunters
nori yaro (till it died)
buildthreads.com

Bike I rode the most:
street bike

Best Coffee & Muffins:
My own coffee, 2010 was a disappointing year for muffins


Best Beer I had
Dalgety Porter. its a sensation

Best Cider:
Monteiths Crushed Pear (this)

Best day of 2010:
august 25th. epic pow pow day at thredbo (did a day trip from perisher) followed by big air and bliss and eso (getting into the vip tent free drinks epicness woo!)


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[PINT of Stella. mate!]

Best Concerts:
Shite, have just realised how woeful my social life has become. No gigs other than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Festival Hall (Dec 29th so technically last year) and Harry Manx in some tiny South Gippsland town

best songs I heard:
Major Lazer 'Hold the Line'
Underworld 'Diamond Jigsaw'


Best Album:
Underworld 'Barking'
Maximum Balloon 'Maximum Balloon'

Best Websites:
Rotorburn, BBC, Cracked.com,

Best books I read:
Jackie Stewart 'Winning isn't everything'
Keith Richards 'Life'
Justin Cronin 'The Dark Passage'

Best films seen
Machete
Kick-Ass
Predators

Best TV watched
The Walking Dead
Louie
Justified
Treme


Bike I rode the most:
Close call between my single-speed dirt jumper, my roadie and Lara Bingle


Best Race I entered:
The Dutch

Best Beer I had:
Brewdog Tactical Nuclear Penguin
Nøgne Ø God Jul
Storm IPA/Golden Ale/Tropical Ale

Best night out:
Can't remember.


Best day of 2010:
Probably a Thursday


Best trails of 2010:
Mt Agung in Bali for novelty value, sheer exhaustion and perfect finish line (involves a white-sand beach and cold beer) or the Youies because of the amount of work put in since I last dragged my arse out there

 

[Matt H]

Best Concerts:

Tame Impala @ the tivoli
The Medics & Gypsy and the Cat @ the globe (gypsy and the cat sucked, but I got drunk and heckled the shit out of the lead singer)
Children Collide @ the zoo
Karnivool @ the hifi deserves a mention as well

Best Album:

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Foals - Total Life Forever
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

Best Beer I had
Fat Yak Pale Ale

Best Websites

Still rotorburn and facebook...

Best night out:

Celebrating end of exams this semester. Went into the valley with the girlfriend and some mates, got very very loose, danced at Woodlands for hours, met some rad people and a group of us caught a maxi at about 4 in the morning back to the college I was living at (which was run by the uniting church). We then put a plastic bag over the smoke alarm and proceeded to sit around in a circle.