March RIP

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Some highlights from the last month (which was quiet - some good content but not that many big threads outside the weekly chart ones):

We all learn about frum rock.
Kat likes Westlife!
"Feministic" (like Lex I had Chanelle and Chantelle confused)
Listening FOR v listening TO
Sad Songs and their limits
Lex and Estelle start fires

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Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

March was generally great - loving the Portishead and Badu albums. My favourite track at the mo is probably still Little Boots 'Stuck On Repeat' from last month tho, plus that Santogold remix.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

awesome u love erykah! that album is still blowing my mind.

little boots = dead disco chica + hot chip dude, yeah? am def feeling that song.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yeah the badu is totally instant wowz - no wilfulness on my part as didn't know quite what to expect - only issue is that i didn't bother with her last 2 albums but will be checking them out now

'dead disco chica + hot chip dude, yeah?' yep - certainly better than anything on 'Made In The Dark' altho i finally gave that a listen last week and i do like half of it

[koganbot]

New to the world:
María Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser "Duri Duri"
María Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser "Dame Más"
The Knux "Cappuccino"
Booka Shade "Control Me"
Vein f. Pitbull "Get Up Stand Up"
Brooke White "Love Is A Battlefield"
Alexandra Ashley Dupré "What We Want"
Danity Kane "Pretty Boy"
Danity Kane f. Missy Elliott "Bad Girl"
Paula DeAnda "Marching"
Wiley "Wearing My Rolex"
Heidi Montag "No More"
TOKIO "Dakishimete Tonight"

New to me:
Nicole Richie "Dandelion"
Stereotyp & Al Haca "Blaze N' Cook (Kruder's Jiggy Remix)"
Grupa Zeris "Ta, Da, Tako Je"
Amy Grant "Breath Of Heaven (Mary's Song)"
Grup Hepsi "Ask Sakizi"
Toshihiko Tahara "Dakishimete Tonight"

The Danity Kane album looks like a winner, the María Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser album has as many or more great songs but a lot of it struggles with María's continual tendencies to go punky and shouty at the expense of the melody, and a lot of it struggles with the rhythm's tendency to go fast and punky at the expense of swing. Both of these tendencies are virtues in "Duri Duri" where they're just a tinge that makes their redo of an Italodisco classic extra exciting, and are virtues in "Dame Más" which is a controlled eruption. Maybe the tunefulness of the rest will ultimately overcome the shoutiness as I give this more listens, but a lot reminds me of Cansei De Ser Sexy shooting itself in the foot.

Still haven't heard the Erykah Badu. How do you guys think she stacks up against classic Teena Marie? (And this; Lex, I'm going to keep posting these until you listen to them.)