April/May round-up

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

How on earth is it JUNE already?

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As usual, 'new' is open to interpretation. Feel free to put your top 10s in the comments etc.

Poll update: Nominations now CLOSED for the best song of 2000. I promise to go back and check all 13493 comments on the original post AGAIN in case I missed anything :-)

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

COMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Does ciara rly have a song called like a surgeon?

The-Dream running tings in 09

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it is ALL ABOUT these two albums




if you haven't heard them, you 100% need to.

[koganbot]

Stuff that's new to me and relatively new to the world, as well:
The Lonely Island "I'm On A Boat" (is several months old, but I took a while to realize how good it is)
Das Racist "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper remix)"
Röyksopp f. Robyn "The Girl And The Robot"
Hilary Duff "Any Other Day"
Adam Lambert "Mad World"
Champion DJ "Baako" (don't know what year it's from)
Jim Jones "Na Na Nana Na Na"
Sarah Buxton "Space" (like "I'm On A Boat," "Space" is a few months old but took a while to hit me)
3OH!3 "Don't Trust Me"
Nikki Awesome "You Say (It Was Supposed To Be)"
Sean Kingston "Fire Burning"
K'naan f. Chubb Rock "ABC's"
Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles "Do It For Free"
Marie Serneholt "Disconnect Me"
Alexander Rybak "Fairytale"
Tommy Sparks "She's Got Me Dancing"
Veronica Maggio "Stopp"
Rascal Flatts "Summer Nights"
Electrik Red "Electrik City"

Stuff that's old to some of the world but new to me:
Bill Withers "Who Is He And What Is He To You?"
Michael Jackson "Ain't No Sunshine"
Lexxus "Let Those Monkeys Out"
Lexxus "Ring Me Cellie"
Lexxus "Yuh Nah"
Strings "Yeh Hai Meri Kahani"

Song Of The Year So Far (released):
Shystie f. DJ Deekline "New Style"

Song Of The Year So Far (leaked):
Cassie "Summer Charm"

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

My top 20 singles as right this very second (including several that actually existed in some version or other prior to January 1, 2009, but what the heck):

1. Jamey Johnson – “High Cost Of Living”
2. Love and Theft – “Runaway”
3. Nicki Minaj – “Beam Me Up Scotty”
4. Das Racist – “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)”
5. Rascal Flatts – “Summer Nights”
6. Timberlee feat. Tosh – “Heels”
7. Chuck Brown feat. DJ Kool – “Block Party”
8. John Rich – “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”
9. Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”
10. Floyd Taylor --- “Southern Soul Party”
11. Florence and the Machine – “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)”
12. The Lonely Island feat. T-Pain – “I’m On A Boat”
13. Cauldron – “Chained Up In Chains”
14. Charlie Wilson – “There Goes My Baby”
15. The Flatlanders – “Homeland Refugee”
16. Kenny Chesney – “Out Last Night”
17. Caitlin & Will – “Even Now”
18. Clipse feat. Kanye West – “Kinda Like A Big Deal”
19. Shystie feat. DJ Deekline – “New Style”
20. Lady Gaga – “Pokerface”

My Top 20 albums as of right now (including lots of music that existed long before January 1 in some form or other):

1. Benny – Amigo Charly Brown: Die Hits Von Gestern Und Auch Heut (Alaska reissue)
2. (Various Artists) – The Chiswick Story, Part 1 (Ace reissue)
3. (Various Artists) – Ze Records 1979 – 2009 (Strut reissue)
4. (Various Artists) – Fly Girls!: B-Boys Beware: Revenge Of The Super Female Rappers! (Soul Jazz reissue)
5. Richard Thompson – Walking On A Wire Discs One And Two (Shout! Factory promo reissue)
6. The Scene Is Now – Tonight We Ride (Lexicon Devil reissue)
7. Collin Raye – Never Going Back (Time Life)
8. Uz Jsme Doma – Cod-Liver Oil (Skoda)
9. Sigh – Imaginary Soundscape (The End reissue)
10. Mighty Kong – All I Wanna Do Is Rock (Aztec Music reissue)
11. K’Naan – Troubador (A&M)
12. Lady GaGa – The Fame (Streamline/Interscope/Kohnlive/Cherrytree)
13. The Last Vegas – Whatever Gets You Off (Eleven Seven)
14. Jono El Grande – Neo Dada (Rune Grammofon)
15. Death – …For The Whole World To See (Drag City reissue)
16. Zero Boys – Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian reissue)
17. Faust – C’est Com…Com…Complique (Bureau)
18. Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond (Fabric)
19. Pat Green – What I’m For (BNA)
20. Dirty Little Rabbits – Simon (The End EP)

Which is to say that my #1 album of the year (if I were to do a top 10 right now) might actually be #7 on the list above. Unless I decided to do something weird, which I might this year. Confusing!

[mindtaker-cro.livejournal.com]

april/may discoveries top 15:

1. Tynisha Keli - Hype Me
2. Ms Alysha & Peter Ram - Coming Down
3. Erphaan Alves - You're the One
4. Markus Homm, Mihai Popoviciu & Jay Bliss - Bis Co
5. Black Eyed Peas feat. 50 Cent - Boom Boom Pow (Boys Noize Remix)
6. Audio Werner - Easygoing
7. Moulinex - Lover in Me
8. Pixie Lott - Mama Do (Linus Loves Remix)
9. Sean Kingston - Fire Burning
10. Beyonce - Ego
11. Keri Hilson feat. Timbaland - Return the Favor (A4 Latin House Mix)
12. Jamie Jones - You!
13. Teairra Mari feat. Kanye West - Diamonds
14. Kelly Rowland - Love Me Better
15. Katy Perry - Waking Up in Vegas (Manhattan Clique Edit)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Hm, haven't done this yet, so Singles of the Year So Far (still need to think about these a bunch):

1. T.I. - Shit Popped Off
2. Lonely Island f. T-Pain - I'm on a Boat
3. Jamie Foxx f. T-Pain - Blame It
4. Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper remix)
5. Demi Lovato - Behind Enemy Lines
6. KIG - Head Shoulders Kneez and Toez
7. Robin Thicke - Dreamworld
8. Priscilla Renea f. Akorn - Emergency Room
9. Medina - Kun for Mig
10. Maia Hirasawa - South Again

depressing quantities of la roux

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

10. Mista Bishi- Printer Jam (Barbarix Remix)
9. La Roux- In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix) <-- would be three places higher if 12" version ever emerges
8. La Roux- Bulletproof (Foamo Remix)
7. Isis- 20 minutes/40 years
6. Jamie T- Sticks & Stones
5. Florence & The Machine- Rabbit Heart (Lionheart Remix)
4. Silversun Pickups- Catch And Release
3. Mastodon- The Czar
2. Jay Dabhi & Moises Modesto- Cry For Freedom
1. Das Racist- Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell (Wallpaper RMX)

I would, I have concluded, actually pay quite a lot of money (which on my salary means 'about three quid') on a La Roux remixes album. Ellie's vocals are annoying in the context of stupid blippy crapness but when Skream or Zinc or Foamo get their hands on things, they turn into those Euphoric Trance vocals like eg: 'It's My Turn' by whoever that was by. Raven Maize? Probably not.

Someone has sampled 'Saturday Night' by Whigfield. It is all over Starz, which is sort of like a low-rent version of a low-rent music channel. It makes me die a little inside.

Of course I haven't actually heard any new albums for nearly two months now so the competition is still pretty open and, as you can probably tell, entirely dominated by things Nerm & D-Code and the lovely Bailey play on their lovely late-night BOSH shows wot I can stream off the iPlayer at werk.