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

[koganbot]

None of these except maybe the Lil Mama are new this month (or even last month), but they're all new discoveries (well, new for Columbus; the natives knew about these all along).

--Taylor Swift "Lose Yourself" (live) (blue dress version and violet dress version, and yes, it's that "Lose Yourself")
--Girls Aloud "Theme To St. Trinians"
--Solomun & Stimming "Feuervogel"
--The Naked Brothers Band "Could It Be"
--Tori Amos "Smokey Joe"
--Thomas Wittenbecher "Schultze Ballade" (from Schultze Gets The Blues soundtrack)
--Lil Mama f. T-Pain "Shawty Get Loose"
--Black Angel "I'll Never Get Over You" (the version on O' Santa Barbara, not the older one that's up on their MySpace)
--Rihanna "Lemme Get That"
--Switches "Drama Queen" (my token indie song for 2007)
--The Hood Internet "Freaky Chameleon (The Pack vs. Glass Candy)"
--Sarah Buxton "Stupid Boy"
--Keith Urban "Faster Car"
--Cassie "In Love With U"
--LeAnn Rimes "Family"
--LeAnn Rimes "Upper Hand"
--Paula Cole "Comin' Down"
--Estroe "Driven"

If I had to pick only one, it would be "Lose Yourself"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I've got you into mnml! Hurrah for Solomun & Stimming and Estroe. And 'Smokey Joe', too.

Is 'In Love With U' different to 'In Love With The DJ'? I must hear it...

[koganbot]

"In Love With U" apparently an outtake from her first album.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's great! Like, her dark minimal club persona singing a song meant for her cute bubblegum teenpop persona.