Top 40 Singles Of 2006 Pol #7: July

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

August is now with us so let's not mess about - time to judge July's pop virtues by rating the Top 40 hits of yestermonth...

[Poll #783050]

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I just don't know too many of these to feel it fair to comment. Although I will happily slate RHCP without needing to hear the song. (How wonderful that that album has been out for awhile now and I haven't consciously heard a single song!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i just spent 10 mins on itunes store listening to all the ones i didn't know. i actually found two or three i felt deserved a tick for NOT making me want to throw the monitor out of the window.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

As ever, I shall do a bit of youtubery tonight, then probably tick a few more.

Didn't Wolfmother go Top 40 in July?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

as usual everyhit seems to ignore a few songs released in the last week of July. i should've remembered to check elsewhere. they'll be in the next one anyway.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Goddammit Jeff beat me to the jam joke.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ooh er, creepy mind meld on the flavour as well

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But that is clearly the best jam.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you hate the Rihanna, it's ludicrously soap opera! "I MIGHT AS WELL TAKE A GUN AND PUT IT TO HIS HEAD, GET IT OVER WITH"!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My main beef is the bit in the middle where it all stops and you can hear her hearbeating.

BOTHERD

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

omg that's not on the album version, it sounds INCREDIBLE.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

It's only in the video I think.

[celentari.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing, only not as a joke, I thought that was the question.

/thick

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Oh man, EVERYONE beat me to it :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Looks like this might be a close one!

Even tho I am still broadly pro Lily A. I am sick of "Smile"

For the sake of fair play

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Discounting my default vote for Ms Allen my next favourite is Xtina.

Muse

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was sorely disappointed when I heard the Muse song - far from the full on rock mentalism I'd been promised. Let's face it, it's no O-HUM.

Re: Muse

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

As I have said elsewhere, the Muse love is like the 'Dakota' love. Wilful contrarianism. Because not only are both rubbish, they are both rubbish in EXACTLY the same way as before, ie nothing has changed, ie if you say you like nu-Muse but not old-Muse, or if you like 'Dakota' but not other Stereophonics, that is 1x BIG LIE.

Re: Muse

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

nah

Re: Muse

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I can't remember hearing any older Muse either! But I don't get why "Supermassive Black Hole" is meant to be any better than average.

Re: Muse

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

It's thankfully a little lighter on the emo wailing than most Muse songs. And unlike all Muse singles before it it actually sounds relatively 'fun' for them. Still over-rated tho i agree (but i ticked it anyway!)

Re: Muse

[celentari.livejournal.com]

It's also a lot gayer than even Muse normally manage, which is a Good Thing.

Re: Muse

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It doesn't sound as gay as the Rogue Traders!

Re: Muse

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Sure, but anything featuring the word "trader" is automatically yellow brick streets ahead in the gaystakes.

Re: Muse

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I quite like Muse and I couldn't work that out either. I actually think it's one of the weakest songs on the album, which have lots of very camp indeed bits. They really come into their own live, where Matt Bellamy appears to be channeling the spirit of Freddie Mercury.

Loosen up my buttonz babe

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love this Pussycat Dolls song so much - they were rubbish on the inventive, individual 'Don't Cha' but utterly triumphant on generic Scott Storch eastern-strings 'Buttonz'. The video is incredible, they kind of stride towards the camera like a sixteen-legged, dead-eyed sex zombie.

Official credit is to Pussycat Dolls ft Big Snoop Dogg, btw!

Why are they trailing Muse and the sodding Pipettes :(

Re: Loosen up my buttonz babe

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Yes, they finally justified their existence with this song.

Re: Loosen up my buttonz babe

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

> a sixteen-legged, dead-eyed sex zombie.

This is possibly the truest thing you have ever said, The Lex!

Re: Loosen up my buttonz babe

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

It sounds like they are sing "hoosen" instead of "loosen", that's why I like it.

Chris Brown

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

TWINK R&B! "Just turned 16"!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I promise I'm not just copying lockedintheatti... it's just complete coincidence that we both think Justice vs Simian is the ACES and Red Hot Chili Peppers have declined so far that they're now less acceptable than even Razorshite or Fall Out Boy.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: WHY the continued critical adulation of RHCP?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

where? you mean in Q, Mojo etc.?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yeah (but I'd expect it of them) but also XFM, Radio 1, Observer, Guardian. And often not just "we like them" (which I'd expect as they are outlets that are favourable to rock and indie) but quite extreme superlatives, which I really cannot understand. And that's me speaking as a poptimist who also listens to quite a bit of indie & rock too.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

the justice v simian track is called "Never be alone" FACT

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it was retitled for this re-release for those people who live in caves and never heard til now!

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Is it a cover of "Calling Occupants of Interplanetery Craft"? That has a refrain of "We are your friends"

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I've never heard it!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it would have been a strong rival for my Best Song choice but, y'know, SEVERAL MILLENNIA OLD!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

new Radio Slave rmx of it is ace though.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

I forgot Summer Breeze. How can I forget Summer Breeze?

I ticked Sexy Love only because it really amuses me. You're not going to pay the rent by sitting at home moping, Ne-Yo! Go and learn a trade!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I'm going to come back from being an internetless hermit for three months with the statement that I Don't Think Lily Allen Is All She's Cracked Up To Be. In fact, her songs make me want to throw things at people with their acuely bland yet critically acclaimed rubbishness.

I may yet be proved wrong about this but those are my initial thoughts on the matter.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I of course mean acutely, not acuely, which is probably something arcane. Whoops.