Chorizo’s favourite things of 2022: Part 2

If you haven’t done so already, then have a read of my round-up of the 36 gigs I went to this year. You can also hear us play and discuss 24 of my favourite songs of 2022 in this podcast right here.

So to conclude my end-of-year summary, I present to you a list of my favourite things that have entered into my ears and eyes.

Top 3 favourite albums

In no particular order beacuse I really can’t choose a favourite from these! Please support musicians by using the links below to buy their music if you like it.

Giant Palm – Naima Bock
Love Sex & Death Etc – Simon Love (look out for our exclusive interview with Simon coming soon!)
Big Love Blanket – Personal Trainer

Other favourite albums (in no particular order)

Garbage Island – The Burning Hell
Sod’s Toastie – The Cool Greenhouse
Ghost Woman – Ghost Woman
Excess – Automatic
All Of Us Flames – Ezra Furman
I Love You Jennifer B – Jockstrap
Process – Pinch Points
Songbook – The Lazy Eyes
When The Purple Emperor Spreads Its Wings – The Wave Pictures
Levitation Sessions – Mint Field
Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning
One Stop Shop – Twen
The Disappearing Act – The Invisible Hats (cover not shown in collage below)
The Hedge Maze And Spade – Trick Mist
Tresor – Gwenno
Maine Coon – Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?
Scrolling Home – Gavin Osborn & The Comment Section (cover not shown in collage below)
Şatellites – Şatellites
The Voltarol Years – Half Man Half Biscuit
At The Hotspot – Warmduscher
Happiness Not Included – Soft Cell
Shake Your Faith – Good Grief
All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out – Luke Haines & Peter Buck
Green Dream In F# – The Bug Club
Hope Is All We Have – Gintis
Space Fruit Vineyard / Space Fruit Vineyard Remixed – Japanese Television
The Overload – Yard Act
What Nothing – Touching Box (cover not shown in collage below)
Bamanan – Rokia Kone
Heart Under – Just Mustard
Monorail – Percy
Please Don’t Take Me Back – Martha
When It Comes – Dana Gavanski
Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C.
Bits n Bobs – Pixy Jones
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Leave The Light On – Pillow Queens
Night Drives – Kathryn Williams

Favourite instrumental albums (almost entirely instrumental anyway!)

Let The Festivities Begin – Los Bitchos
An Crann – Damian O’Neill (cover not shown in collage below)

Favourite EPs

Such As This – Mewn
BTTB Cyfres / Series 1 – Worldcub
Diamond Horsetail – Deep Tan
Trapped In The Big Room – For Breakfast
Pterodactyl – Me Rex

Favourite series of singles

The “24 Songs” project by The Wedding Present. So many great songs, looking forward to hearing them live in 2023!

Favourite covers

Octopussy – Lande Hekt (originally by The Wedding Present)
Word On A Wing – Dana Gavanski (originally by David Bowie)

Favourite re-issues

Too Rye Ay (As It Should Have Sounded) – Dexys Midnight Runners
Let It Bee (Deluxe Edition) – Voice Of The Beehive
Know Your Enemy (Remastered) – Manic Street Preachers
B-Sides, Demos & Rarities – PJ Harvey

Favourite fiction books

The Supernatural Elements – Edgar Cantero
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Complicity – Iain Banks
Slade House – David Mitchell (not the Peep Show one)
All My Colors – David Quantick
The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

Favourite music books

Good Pop Bad Pop – Jarvis Cocker
Tales From The Wedding Present Volume 2: Something And Nothing – Lee Thacker / Terry De Castro / David Gedge
Rememberings – Sinead O’Connor
There Will Be Rainbows: A Biography of Rufus Wainwright – Kirk Lake
In My Life: A Music Memoir – Alan Johnson
Bad Vibes – Luke Haines (audiobook version read by the author available on streaming services)

Favourite other non-fiction books

Fight! – Harry Hill
Humankind – Rutger Bregman
Ramblebook – Adam Buxton
50 Memorable And Unusual QPR Matches – Ray Eaton
Once Upon A Time In Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone – Christopher Frayling

Favourite films (not necessarily released this year, but I watched them in 2022)

Best film I’ve seen this year is Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes, a brilliant Japanese time travel story.

Others I’ve really enjoyed…

The Decline
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Martian
The Forgotten Battle
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
Midsommar
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Get Duked!

Favourite TV

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities (Netflix) – an anthology series of 8 horror stories, each by a different director. Each episode has no relation to the others so you can watch them in any order. I especially recommend episodes 1 2 3 4 7 and 8.
Moon Knight (Marvel/Disney+) – my son & I are in agreement that this is our favourite Marvel TV series so far
The North Water (BBC) – Colin Farrell, Stephen Graham and their shipmates sail off into the Arctic to kill a few whales. A bit like The Terror but better.

Favourite music documentaries

Long Hot Summers: The Story Of The Style Council
The Jam: About The Young Idea
Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis
Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche
Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan
Basically Johnny Moped
Bunch of Kunst: A Film About Sleaford Mods
David Byrne’s American Utopia
2 Tone: The Sound Of Coventry

Favourite non-music documentaries

Finding Jack Charlton
14 Peaks
I Believe In Miracles
Gods Of Snooker

Favourite podcasts / radio shows

Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot (BBC Sounds) – This series tells the story of the biggest drugs bust ever made, the same one The Clash were singing about in Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad.
Year of the Stevie – podcast telling the life story of Stevie Wonder, made by BDWPS who also did the brilliant Year of the Joni
A Life In Music (BBC Sounds) – Music writer Jude Rogers talks to musicians and scientists about the intense impact music can make at different ages
Quiet Part Loud (Spotify) – a cracking horror / sci-fi story about a radio shock jock and creepy goings-on in Staten Island