May RIP

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Summer is officially here (and it's raining)! Here's a few threads you might have missed over the last month:

Wonky pop versus landfill indie
Miserable music
Ashlee's album dissected in full
Seth Godin's Passion-Pop curve
Where are our summer jams?
How often should your favourite record change?
Transferable poptimism
Eurovision post-mortem
Ting Tings take over the charts

[Poll #1198489]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We didn't do an April RIP so feel free to tell us about stuff you heard in April too!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the first half of Santogold!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Ditto. It's like she ran out of songs halfway through.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Lights Out" and "I'm A Lady" are good but otherwise yes, all the rub ones are on side two.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

don't feel anything but that first track. listened more to sam sparro!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Clearly 'Creator' is SO GOOD that anything afterwards is going to have trouble living up to it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Actually I like 'Unstoppable' too, but it's not as good as Estelle's 'Magnificent', which has the same number of syllables.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

April - Stereolab's new song PWNed all obv, but it was an exceptionally strong month. The Lil Mama LP came out right at the end of the month and it's now my favourite LP of the year, so far.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

May songs as opposed to albums: "Elevator", "Thirsty", "That's Not My Name", "Closer", Elnur & Samir - "Day After Day", Cut Copy - "So Haunted", Guillemots – "Falling Out Of Reach", Emit Bloch - "Lost Dogs (Have More Fun)", Dolly Parton - "Better Get to Livin'"... and OK OK some of the tracks on the new Scooter LP are quite good fun. The "greatest hits" disc is just painful to sit through though.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

really like 'so haunted' that much?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Put it this way, it's the only track on the LP that moves me at all.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

gpwm. it is quite meh, all in all.

greatest hits scooter roxor. shake that! move your ass! nessaja! ramp! (etc!) !

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

favourite Lil' Mama trax I hadn't heard before: 'Swim' and 'Make It Hot'.

Still don't care for 'G-Slide (Tour Bus)' though.

[koganbot]

May new stuff:
Santogold "L.E.S. Artistes"
Lindsay Lohan "Bossy"

May new to me but not to the world:
The Oskar & Psycholovers "How To Find Bin Laden"
Mélissa Mars "Apocalips"
Matia Bazar "Ti Sento"

April new stuff:
Mariah Carey f. Young Jeezy "Side Effects" (analyzed by me and Lex two-thirds of the way down the Ashlee thread because MARIAH COMPARES HERSELF TO A CHANDELIER)
Lil Mama "L.I.F.E."
Teenagers In Tokyo "Very Vampyr"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

talking of Young Jeezy - forgot to mention here, but 'Put On' with Kanye West is quite something.