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.

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[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]

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.

[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"