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.
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Date: 2008-08-29 01:48 pm (UTC)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.