January R.I.P.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, that was January and here's what we jawed about (double size "also includes December" edition):

Pop and Sex - is modern pop a bit too saucy?
Records we aren't sure about
At long last it's the MANICS CANON
The compleat guide to mid-00s indie two-hit wonders aka
The ultimate Xmas artist?
Poptasticuk predicts the 08 hype
What makes a good pop star?
The things kids say! aka BBC Sound of 08 horror poll
A brief history of the recessive vocal
What we dug in 2007
Is Hannah Montana a bad thing?
Who are Scouting For Girls and can we eat them?
Nursery rhyme canon: the blackbirds died the weasel died
What is the secret of MUSIC X (featuring graphs)
Capital Creep and its discontents
Do try and keep up!

Let us now look to the future specifically TOMORROW NIGHT when it is POPTIMISM at the Cross Kings in Kings Cross. It will be very good.

Ordinarily at this point I would do a poll saying - what's the best thing you've heard all month? But this time I thought I'd ask you to tell me that in the comments. So, yeah, what's the best thing you've heard this month?

Comments

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor

Goldfrapp - A&E (and the other two tracks I've heard from the new album, which I am now getting very excited about)

Miranda Lambert - Famous in a small town (part of my 2007 catch-up process after reading all the polls)

Robyn - Be Mine (Wasted Youth Mix) - has made me fall back in love with rthe song again, 3 years after i first played it to death

Estelle ft Kanye West - American Boy

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Was "Clowns" one of the other Goldfrapp tracks you heard? That is pretty amazing yes. Not sure about "A&E" though.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

No, have heard 'Caravan Girl' and 'Cologne Cerrone Houdini'

I thought A&E was REALLY disappointing on first listen, it's just gradually crept up on me after hearing it on the radio a few times (which is the main reason i still love listening to the radio - somehow some songs sound different in a radio context) and now I adore it.

[koganbot]

Have you heard the Miranda Lambert album? It's very good. I'd rank "Famous" as only the 7th-best track on it. (And my all-time favorite of hers is "Kerosene," title track on her previous album.)