The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Mark Neilsen

Top Ten Albums
1.  Lights & Motion  -  Reanimation
2.  High Tension  -  Death Beat
3.  Violent Soho  -  Hungry Ghost
4.  Stonefield  -  Stonefield
5.  Adalita  -  All Day Venus
6.  Pond  -  Hobo Rocket
7.  The Bronx  -  The Bronx IV
8.  Alice In Chains  -  The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
9.  Sigur Ros  -  Kveikur
10.  The Polyphonic Spree  -  Yes, It's True

Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
1.  You Am I  -  Hi Fi Way (Superunreal edition)
2.  Various  -  Sound City - Real To Real
3.  Paul Dempsey  -  Shotgun Karaoke

Top Five Songs
1.  Kvelertak  -  Bruane Brenn
2.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  -  Jubilee Street
3.  The Naked & Famous  -  In Rolling Waves
4.  The Bronx  -  Youth Wasted
5.  Paramore  -  Daydreaming

Artist Of The Year
1.  Adalita
2.  Neil Finn
3.  Tame Impala
4.  Lorde
5.  Flume

Best Five International Artist Performances  
1.  The Bronx
2.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3.  Metallica
4.  Of Monsters & Men
5.  Band Of Horses

Best Five Australian Artist Performances  
1.  Something For Kate
2.  Bad//Dreems
3.  You Am I
4.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5.  Dead Can Dance

Top Five TV Shows   
1.  In The Flesh
2.  Vikings
3.  The Walking Dead
4.  Game Of Thrones
5.  Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Top Five Films
1.  Silver Linings Playbook
2.  Zero Dark Thirty
3.  A Good Day To Die Hard
4.  West Of Memphis
5.  The World's End

 Top Five Websites
1.  TheMusic.com.au
2.  Cricinfo
3.  Bureau Of Meteorology
4.  Terrible real estate agent photographs
5.  Quickflix

The Highlight Of 2013
My children laughing together

Prediction For 2014
Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.