AYIP Supplement July 2008: Here Before the Next One!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Apologies for the delay, and for making you wait so long for so little. In July, only 11 new tracks entered the Top 75 without subsequently reaching the Top 40. YouTube links are included, and the question is as always...

[Poll #1249820]

So, few discs this month, and and also no disqs.

From June, only Rihanna currently touches the 50% mark with "Disturbia", with almost twice as many votes as Kat DeLuna and N*E*R*D. The 1004 aggregated results (half of 2008 DYS) will be around at the weekend – in the meantime, you could always follow the ayips tag and vote in any polls you haven't.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that NERD song was never a hit! I mean, I hate it and think it's a new low for Pharrell, but he's still a big name here and I've heard the song out and about enough.

I think Annie is my only tick here. I'm sure I must like 'Caravan Girl', as I remember that the only song off Seventh Tree I didn't like was 'Happiness', but I can't remember it for the life of me. It's not as if I've gone back to that album at all anyway.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh and Ladyhawke are exactly as crap as I'd expect of an act I first read about on Popjustice.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Do you not like the Jay Sean?

Honey Honey

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Not that it'll make much difference to the votes I'd imagine, but that's the wrong version (from the Broadway show). The version that charted was the film version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P3SWl0EAAs

Her accent is really, really annoying on this.

Re: Honey Honey

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Heh yes feared that might happen, but took "original cast recording" at face value. W/evs.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

I love this version of 'Honey Honey', not sure why.

[koganbot]

I ticked six but they were all borderline. These are the six, with a lot of "buts" in my writeups:

Elliot Minor "Time After Time": Q: What would the Jonas Brothers sound like if they had a good melody? A: They'd still sound like bleating goats - but at least they'd have a good melody.

Buy Now! "Body Crash": I suppose there's a name for this style that you all know and I don't. Anyway, Italodisco and techno disrupting each other. So, in running into each other do the respective styles augment their strengths or get undercut? I'd say undercut more than augment, but I at least like the parts.

Ladyhawke "Paris Is Burning": The "Cars" part is total tedium, but the chorus that follows is melodic and poignant, though would be more poignant still if it had a singer who was willing to put something into her singing rather than sound oh so detached.

Primal Scream "Can't Go Back": Now here's a guy who'll put everything into his singing if he only had a voice. But melodies and beats and fuzzes and propulsion make this an actual cheery experience.

Annie "I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me": I hate you too, 'cause you sound like a coy indifferent simulation of a bitch. But you've got something: beats, coyness. (Greatly prefer "Songs Remind Me Of You," however, which reminds me of why I originally liked her.)

The Cure "Sleep When I'm Dead": Pretentious doofus, but there's a good hard rock song buried in here beneath the phase-shifted fuzziness and the mannered singing, and some of the mannerisms have force anyway.