2020 LISTS
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HEADLINE OF 2020
Biden wins.
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BEST ALBUMS OF 2020
Halsey – Manic
Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
Brandon Dodd – A Good Way To Die
Secret Sisters – Saturn Return
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
Noah Gunderson – A Raven And A Dove – Acoustic Selections From Lover
Fanny Lumsden – Fallow
Brian Fallon – Local Honey
Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels
Ashley McBryde – Never Will
Steve Earle – Ghosts of West Virginia
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions
Gretchen Peters – The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury
Ian Moss – Live
Miiesha – Nyaaringu
Gordi – Our Two Skins
Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom
Alex The Astronaut – The Theory of Absolutely Nothing
Keith Urban – The Speed of Now Part 1
Stephen Grady – Wonder
Fleet Foxes – Shore
Sa-Roc – The Sharecropper’s Daughter
Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You
Ball Park Music – S\T
Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
Something For Kate – The Modern Medieval
Dan Challis – No Lonely Road
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BEST ALBUM TITLE OF 2020
Alex The Astronaut – The Theory of Absolutely Nothing
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BEST REDISCOVERED ALBUM OF 2020
Candi Stanton – I’m Just A Prisoner
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BEST ALBUM RE-ISSUES OF 2020
Tom Petty – Wildflowers & All the Rest Deluxe Edition
Lou Reed – New York: Deluxe Edition
The Go-Betweens – G Stands For Go-Betweens Volume 2
Nina Simone – Fodder on My Wings
Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2
The Staple Singers – Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection
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THE BEST SONGS OF 2020
Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
Like A Diamond – Brandon Dodd feat. Kasey Chambers
Gaslighter – The Chicks
Halsey – Graveyard
Ball Park Music – Day & Age
Miiesha – Drowning
Midnight Oil – Gadigal Land Gadigal Land (ft. Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs & Bunna Lawrie)
Spacey Jane – Booster Seat
Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald – Hungry Heart
Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
Bruce Springsteen – If I Was The Priest
Tyler Del Pino – The End
Lachlan Edwards – Little Too Late
Ian Moss & Phil Stack – Shipbuilding
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BEST SONG LYRICS OF 2020
“The night she’s long and lanky
And she speaks in a mother tongue
She lullabies the refugees with amplifier’s hum” – Song For Orphans, Bruce Springsteen.
“Well, we burned through the one light towns like a scalded dog” – Arkansas, Chris Stapleton
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BEST SHOWS / PERFORMANCES OF 2020
Cold Chisel, Scully Park, Tamworth, January 19
The Concert for Joy, TRECC, Tamworth, January 22
Cold Chisel, Sirromet Winery, Brisbane, February 9
Moments – Bliss n Eso, Kate Ceberano, Vince Harder – Music From The Homefront, April 25
When The War Is Over, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Mahalia Barnes – Music From The Homefront, April 25
I Am Woman Tribute to Helen Reddy, 2020 ARIA Awards, November 26
Delivered Live
Isol-Aide!
And to anyone who got online to live-stream anything to help keep our industry alive. Thank you
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BEST TV SHOWS OF 2020
Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer – Netflix *
The Morning Show – Apple TV *
The Movies – National Geographic
The Outsider – HBO
Truth Be Told – Apple TV
The English Game – Netflix
Godfather of Harlem – Stan
The Innocence Files – Netflix
The Last Dance – Netflix
I Know This Much Is True – HBO
After Life Season 2 – Netflix
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia – Netflix
The Comedy Store – Stan
Yellowstone – Season 3 – Stan
Ted Lasso – Apple TV
Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story – 10
Ozark – Season 3 – Netflix
Challenger: The Final Flight – Netflix
The Crown – Series 4 – Netflix
The Queen’s Gambit – Netflix
Your Honor – Stan
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WORST TV SHOWS OF 2020
2020 ARIA Awards – Ch 9
Tiger King – Netflix
The Goop Lab – Netflix
Hoops – Netflix
SAS: Who Dares Wins – Ch 7
Hollywood – Netflix
I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Married at First Sight – Ch 9
Ratched – Netflix
Space Force – Netflix
The Voice – Ch 9
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WORST SCRIPTED SHOW OF 2020
2020 ARIA Awards
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BEST AWARDS SPEECH OF 2020
Rebel Wilson, BAFTAS. Honest, real & hilariously funny.
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BEST FILMS OF 2020
Just Mercy
The Gentlemen
Richard Jewell
Lost Girls
True History of the Kelly Gang
The Banker – Apple TV
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Netflix
Unhinged
The Invisible Man
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind – Showcase
Bad Education – HBO
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WORST FILMS OF 2020
The Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson: This film is so shit it makes Showgirls look good.
Midway: The proof that when Hollywood gets it wrong, they really fuck it up.
Bill & Ted Face the Music: Described as a Comedy/Sci-fi. Just complete shit would be a better description.
Bad Boys For Life: 1 was ok, 2 was better, 3 was like let’s give Will Smith & Martin Lawrence a fuckload of money and see if they can provide CPR to one of the worst scripts in movie history. They couldn’t.
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DUMBEST PERSON ON TWITTER
Donald Trump – The gift that truly keeps on giving. See the complete list at twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
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PEOPLE YOU JUST WANTED TO PUNCH IN THE FUCKING HEAD IN 2020
Donald Trump
Jeremy Clarkson
Rudy Giuliani
Every single selfish fuckhead who thought doing the right and responsible thing due to Covid-19 was above them.
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BIGGEST “CONSULT A PUBLICIST BEFORE OPENING YOUR MOUTH OR DOING ANYTHING” MOMENTS OF 2020
1. Scott Morrison forcing a young lady to shake his hand and when she says “I’ll only shake your hand if you give more funding to our RFS” he walks away. Need I remind you this is our PM.
2. Rudy Giuliani on anything he has said.
3. Donald Trump on anything he has said.
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DUMBEST QUOTE OF 2020
” Plainly, God is embarrassed. Because he’s decided to set fire to it.” Jeremy Clarkson writing about the Australian Bushfires in The Sun.
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KNOB OF 2020:
See above. This award was run and won early in the year.
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THINGS I NEVER WANT TO SEE AGAIN
Cardboard cutouts at a football ground are not a substitution for a crowd.
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SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME
The movie, or trainwreck, that was’ Bill & Ted Face the Music’
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THANK YOU & FAREWELL
Pierina Crestani (Nonna)
Kenny Rogers
Bill Withers
John Prine
David Woodward
Justin Townes Earle
Ennio Morricone
Chadwick Boseman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Helen Reddy
Whitey Ford
Sean Connery
Charley Pride
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* Released \seen after 2019 list published
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