The Wednesday Canon: DANCE DOUBLE HEADER!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A special double edition of the Wednesday Canon spotlighting those two titans of what top dance journo Ronan calls "album dance" - Basement Jaxx, and the Chemical Bros. Both blokey duos, both shifting plenty of units to the non clubbing inclined, both with a penchant for using guest vocalists from the worlds of pop, rap and Nindie. Let us see which of their hits rate, and which are RANK. You get FIVE per artist.




[Poll #717339]


And what of New Order, eh? Here's the official real actual canon:


1. Blue Monday (33 votes)
2. True Faith (31)
3=. Love Will Tear Us Apart (26)
3=. Regret (26)
5. Temptation (23)
6. Atmosphere (22)
7. World In Motion (16)
8=. Ceremony (15)
8=. Thieves Like Us (15)

And the best member is, obviously, Gilliang.

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

agreed. even when i'm not feeling what he's feeling i can understand and appreciate why someone else would (my anti-minimalhousebobbins rants permitted).

'Good Luck' for me does do everything people say it does. On the 'legendary' Kish Kash ILm thread I expressed annoyance at Reynolds seemingly flippany complaint that the whole thing was over-egged. I just can't see how Jaxx's attention-to-detail and 'kitchen sink' approach could end up actually spoiling things by being 'too much' (but then I might also say this about 'Intro Inspection' and obv. I am not a musician and might expect one to say this). In addition Basement Jaxx are largely responsible for dtermining the staunch maximalist approach I continue to champion.

All this said though, I don't think there will be a real 'big beat revival' - it's difficult to see people going back to slower beats with resonance - it WOULD seem retrogressive.