Yet another year in pop, Week 6

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Hopefully Kat or anyone isn't doing this simultaneously, needed something to do whilst waiting to go to job centre. Might be a bit off because the official charts company hasn't updated yet so had to comb through the bbc chart instead.

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Possibly I should have added this as a secondary poll question but when, if ever, did you last listen to the Chart Show, poptimists? I heard half of it last night, which is the most in about four years.

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[koganbot]

Grim week, as Merriweather and Coldplay reach for Meaning while Eminem barely tries.

Eminem "Crack A Bottle": Sigh. So he's singing. In the old days, when he played ringmaster it'd be a riff on the idea of his becoming a spectacle and would actually be funny. This is just trying to be a party and not succeeding. "'Cause when I spit the verse the shit gets worse than worcestershire sauce." How uninspired can you get? Beat and tune are catchy enough, however, though just barely. Best line I heard was from Dre, "I'm a niche that they can't scratch," though unfortunately that's probably a mishearing. BORDERLINE TICK.

Daniel Merriweather f. Wale "Change": Impassioned singer singing about whatever he's singing about. I kinda like the sound. Wale is no great splash of light, but "Get higher than the background singers singing" is wittier than anything in the Em song. BORDERLINE TICK.

Coldplay "Life In Technicolor 2": Remember when meaning meant something, or something? Not altogether unpleasant in its soaring blah. A very poor man's U2. But no need to listen twice to this vapidity. NONTICK.

N-Dubz "Strong Again": The guy-voice is dogged, sorta OK, and the woman singing "Never ever ever ever" pushes the wall a few millimeters. BORDERLINE TICK (unless it isn't; guess I've got another week to decide).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Paleface & Kyla's 'Do You Mind'? Was expecting it to be here this week but it's fallen to 55, so...probably won't be hitting the top 40 :(



(Only the radio edit is on Youtube, sadly...)

[koganbot]

Well, I've somehow managed to hear the full-length version recently anyway.

I like her dreamy, impassioned pale vulnerability, reminds me of the fetching Sadie Ama. I think a bassline version would be even better, since I fall for the whole contrast between bass aggression and a singer's drifting poignancy.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

When I interviewed Crazy Cousinz at their studio, I bumped into Sadie Ama's sister Shola outside, who was waiting for Sadie to finish recording some vox for them.

Anyway the original 'Do You Mind' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YuIAB48oKI) WAS a bassline track - the Crazy Cousinz mix was the one that blew up though, and I way prefer it. (Paleface is one half of Crazy Cousinz, and by himself I think he's done more bassline stuff; his younger cousin Flukes did the remix, and together as CC they do funky house.)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh i thought that had been out last year. it is jolly good, anyway, although i agree with koganbot in the sense that it would probably not be unflattered by a jamie duggan remix.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

as per above - the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YuIAB48oKI) was a bassline track in the first place...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh, that explains why i had such a vivid mental image of what it would sound like bassline-d up. i think i in fact have that on some kind of bassline compilation, now i think about it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(and yeah, it was out last year - its big commercial release wasn't until last week though.)