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

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I find Basement Jaxx hideously overrated for the most part. Really only "Romeo", "Good Luck" and "Plug It In" are obvious ticks, although a few others are OK, quite good, sort of thing, but those highs tower so stupidly highly over everything else the idea of them being some kind of uberconsistent geniuses seems far-fetched to me. "Kish Kash" is as a whole fairly good, though.

The Chemical Brothers, well, my five picks were all bunched around the middle and everything recent is k-rub.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

You get this sort of indifference re Basement Jaxx from both the pop devotee with casual dance music interest on the side AND purists quite often, which is a risk of occupying that middle ground I guess.

At least they managed to avoid working with indie vocalists all this time though.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say I'm indifferent - I actively despise "Where's Your Head At" and quite dislike a few of their singles, and think the rest is merely OK-to-good.