A Year In Pop: 33

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Crikey, I almost forgot!

[Poll #1042782]

Is it just me or does it seem to anyone else that the Pigeon Detectives are releasing a single a month??

Comments

CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha I had no idea that the Gym Class Heroes

i. are proper awful rappers like in the good old days
ii. have CUNNINGLY CHANGED THE WORDS to "We don't have to take our clothes off." to "We DO have to take our clothes off".

The old romantics!

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile how come HARD HITTING Hard-Fi's video isn't just a grey screen saying "EXPENSIVE HIGH-CONCEPT VIDEO" or something? They're song's OK mind you - they could do with dubbing it up more and using less words. I might tick this.

They should also cover ONE IN TEN.

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no Ordinary Boys should do One In Ten surely.

Hard Fi can do SHACK UP

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

THEY'RE - christ tom get 1x grip.

KT Tunstall - she almost gets a tick, her song's alright.

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ben's Brother - WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? It's the new Wet Wet Wet, oh good. Also worst band name since Pigeon Detectives.

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Even wetter than the Wets - their album is called 'Beta Male Fairytales'.

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

They remind me of the Fun Lovin' Criminals: NEGATIVE TICK.

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah they're not actually getting a tick - they make me want to drink some cherry wine hear Jermaine Stewart rly.

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

I know I've mentioned this here before but the Gym Class Heroes album is really good fun! The awesomeness of track 3 (New Friend Request) sucked me in and the remaining 12 tracks could do no wrong.

If there is a point to this it's that whilst they sound like they should be a singles band, I don't think they are - all the songs sound better when accompanied by the rest of the (cough *concept* cough) album.

Bob's parents aren't back for another six hours

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

If there is a point to this it's that whilst they sound like they should be a singles band, I don't think they are - all the songs sound better when accompanied by the rest of the (cough *concept* cough) album.

This = true. Have you heard their first album (The Papercut Chronicles) too? It is very very good, if a little serious and they haven't quite got the hang of how to deal with themselves yet so the song about teenage suicide re: being gay comes out a bit vitriolic but otherwise it is full of equal delight to 'As Cruel As Schoolchildren.'

My favourite song by them is 'It's OK, but just this once!' Cus it takes the sum of all the others and makes a mess of it.

ex oh ex oh dash bracken

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

I've not heard The Papercut Chronicles, but if it's good I'll certainly investigate! Actually hadn't heard of it until the weekend when I did the crash course in BEING A REAL FAN. ;)

I think my favourite is still New Friend Request. That deadpan signoff makes me grin like a loon wherever I happen to be (trains and work, generally).

Re: ex oh ex oh dash bracken

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of my friend John's description of an auto-reader for the blind internet user experiencing Lloyd Grossman's myspace: 'LOLOLOLOL PAGE DOWN PAGE DOWN' (ie: it is brilliant)

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[cocainepeaches.livejournal.com]

I've been kind of afraid of giving it a try because I kind of can't see them going anywhere without the factor of the guest vocals and the 80s sampling. I sorta want to give it a listen now, you've got me curious!

Re: CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Yes, do give it a try! My expectations were so low but the songs do work without the sampling and the guest vocals - the lyrics on the album are much better than those in the singles, if that's going to be a factor for you. I just can't stop playing the album, really, I'm having to make myself so I don't play it endlessly and then get sick of it in about a month.