making patterns of colour on the tissue paper page

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I very much like this song at the minute, it's a bit like (BEAR WITH ME, HERE) 'Idiotheque' by Radiohead being covered by Cut Copy. It was hidden down the back of the Kitsune Maison compilation that I downloaded so I could deafen myself with 'Want U' by Lo Fi Fnk four hundred times a morning and came up on shuffle t'other day, to my sudden, revelatory joy and my fellow commuters' probable despair, given how leaky my earphones are.

See? Jolly nice. I am a particular sucker for those kind of flicky-beat synth noises but I'd hypothesise that it'd take a heart even colder and blacker than mine to not quite like that.

On a flicky-beat note, there's also the really-quite-extraordinary 'Lions, Tigers and Bears' by Jazmine Sullivan, which is a sort of baroque'n'b MASSIVE BALLAD BLOWOUT with a huge Mercury Rev (NO COME BACK) bit in the last third-or-so that takes it all to a new and even more epic level. Go here and listen to it now. (I can't remember if we've talked about that before, tbh but it bears repeating)

Heard any good music recently, poptimists? I mean aside from all the REALLY AMAZING MUSIC you're going to all hear at POPTIMISM IN THE HORSE BAR, WESTMINSTER 7-12 TONITE WITH FREE ENTRY & TASTY BEER, obv.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Lions/Tigers/Bears = in my top 5 of 2009 so far, DEFINITELY. I am sad that it is currently unavailable to legally purchase anywhere I have looked :(

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're releasing it in the US only ATM due to the fact they don't actually want to make any money by selling copies of songs or something. :(

It is bloody amazing. I was a bit "oh for god's sake this is going to be well boring I can't be bothered to review it" then listened to it yesterday and was immediately won over.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Ooh might pick that up next time am in CD retailer. Assuming there are any left, etc.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

You mean... go into a shop???

:-O

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

erm where have you looked? 'Lions, Tigers & Bears' - and indeed the entire Jazmine album - is on itunes, 7digital and in all actual shops, and has been since about September...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Er yes, I am an idiot, move along nothing to see here etc

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

God, 'In For The Kill' by La Roux isn't very good, is it? Certainly no 'Quicksand' anyway.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Btw I am vaguely compiling my 2009 list for the first quarter and it is looking kinda sparse dudes...

In no particular order:

Jazmine Sullivan - Lions, Tigers & Bears
Lily Allen - The Fear
Metronomy - Thing For Me*
Pussycat Dolls - Whatcha Think About That**
Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
Rex The Dog - Bubblicious**
That Eric Prydz song that I dlled off Beatport and can't even remember the name of but it is good honest
Shystie ft DJ Deekline - New Style
Enrique & Ciara - Taking Back My Love
(tempted to include Keri H & Lil Wayne but only heard it for the first time this morning innit)

*I don't even LIKE this songs very much but I have been singing it for the last two weeks or so. The fact that this is in the list is symbolic of how crappy this year has been so far :(
**Out last year rly so by my own reckoning wouldn't normally count.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

WORD on the sparseness. Am sure SOMEONE must be releasing SOME KIND of good music SOMEWHERE but it's not anywhere near me.

Mine thus far would probably include something along the following lines-
Jaz Sul- Zootiems
Kelly Clarkson- All I Ever Wanted
Enrique & Ciara- Taking Back My Love
Lady Sovereign- Jigsaw (what is this 'title track of album being the best one' BSNS?)
ERRR.
Oh, 'The Czar' by Mastodon
'Everyone's At It' by Lily Allen
'Warriors Dance' by The Prodge
T.I. & JT- Dead & Gone
Probs something off new Isis if ever bloody get to listen to it
Err that one Lex sent to me the other week that's quite good.
Oh and T-Shirt by Shontelle I sup-fucking-pose.

URGH THERE MUST BE OTHER MUSIC. I've given things five-star ratings this year, I'm sure. What the hell did I review last week?

O. The Saturdays. Christ.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well there is other music out there but it all comes at a price. For example this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StnGeN9ueY8) is good in a goth-folk-y sort of way BUT she is Adrian Edmonson & Jennifer Saunders' DAUGHTER yikes.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I am actually FRIGHTENED by the speed with which the phrase "goth-folk-y sort of way" made me click that link.

You are right tho. Not quite actual list material tho is it? I mean nice strings and everything but... no ok I would probably put this in a list.

[koganbot]

The Jazmine Sullivan alb is good, though there's always a mismatch between her grand wallop of a voice and the delicate effects she's going for. "Lions, Tigers & Bears" is maybe the tenth best on the album (fave faves are "Need You Bad," "Call Me Guilty," "One Night Stand," "After The Hurricane" and "Dream Big," only the first of which was a single, except that - according to Wiki - "Dream Big" charted Top 20 in Turkey).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

2009 started out awesomely, really fast outta the blocks for a change, with some cracking new songs & albums in January. Feb/March has been quieter. Or (much) more likely I've been too busy doing WERK STUFF to notice what's been happening :(

(posted from the office) >:-((

[koganbot]

I keep waiting in vain for poptimists to run a "So what songs did you like most in February (and holy fuck, March is a month too)?" poll, seeing as I found my song of the year from Kat's post in the January poll.

So anyway, this is what I've been liking recently:

Shystie f. DJ Deekline "New Style"
Jim Jones f. Ryan Leslie "Precious"
Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow"
The Dream "Love Vs. Money" and "Kelly's 12-Play"
MC Lars f. Gabe Saporta and Brett Anderson "Hey There Ophelia"
Paleface f. Kyla "Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Remix)"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll" and "Dull Life"
Ron Browz "Pop Champagne"
Kelly Clarkson "If I Can't Have You" and "My Life Would Suck Without You"
Mavado "So Special"
Love And Theft "Runaway"
Enrique Iglesias f. Ciara "Takin' Back My Love"
Ryan Leslie "How It Was Supposed To Be"
GS Boyz "Stanky Legg"
Chipmunk "Chip Diddy Chip"

And then there's old stuff that's new to me:
Pussycat Dolls "Halo"
Teedra Moses "So Kool"
DJ Assault "We Get Freaky" and "Ectomorph" and "Burn Funky Bitch"
The Poppy Family "That's Where I Went Wrong"
Revels "Church Key"
Buck Owens & Susan Raye "Love Is Strange"
Revels "Church Key"
Nervous Norvus "Transfusion"
Serge Gainsbourg "L'Homme A Tête De Chou"
Billy Stewart "Summertime"

[koganbot]

Songs on my singles list Top 20 that weren't listed above owing to my having heard them before February 1:

Rich Boy "Drop"
Jamey Johnson "High Cost Of Living"
Nicki Minaj "Beam Me Up Scotty"
Lily Allen "The Fear"
Britney Spears "If U Seek Amy"

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I haven't consulted the other mods about it but tbh I am fairly keen on dropping those polls; they've been getting fewer and fewer responses & I feel it's a format we need to rethink or something.

Really must download The Dream's album.

[too tired to reply properly, will do so in morning]

[koganbot]

Well, we got twenty respondents (which isn't a lot) and 45 comments (which is) to the last one, which is the first we'd done in about six months.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have a vague idea for a re-format, but 0 idea if it would actually work.