Pick only ten: TRACKS from 2009 so far

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Here's my ten:

1. The Juan Maclean - Tonight
2. Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
3. Meanderthals - Andromeda
4. Royksopp - You Don't Have A Clue
5. Richgirl - He Ain't With Me Now Tho
6. Electrik Red - Bed Rest
7. Ciara - Work
8. Fever Ray - Dry And Dusty (but could be swapped with 2 or 3 others from the LP)
9. Roska - Our Father
10. Jay-Jay Johansson - Lightning Strikes

I'd been thinking this year had been dry so far but no that's just the charts. Tell your ten!
 

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

was gonna type stuff out w/last.fm as a reference point then realised how pointless that was when I could just paste the link to my top trax of the last 6 months! http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/charts?rangetype=6month&subtype=tracks

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

last 3 months feels more relevant actually http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/charts?rangetype=3month&subtype=tracks

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

and yeah you're right that any mediocrity this year has been solely confined to the charts - in terms of new music I'm constantly discovering, it's getting better and better and better in every direction. so...fuck the charts. it seems the a fool's game to hope that any of the great stuff will get into them - i don't think i can recall a time when what "mainstream pop" meant in this country was this awful.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it is hard for me to stop caring about the charts completely due to "aspie" stats love, and i would still like them to be feature stuff i love. as i said elsewhere i think they are defined more by mediocrity rather than peaks and troughs. there were terrible things in/about the charts in the past that now seem diminished too.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

my last.fm last 6 months list is not really a reliable source as it's weighted strongly in favour of albums that came out at the start of the year ie less crowded time so they got more plays...by May there's loads more stuff to hear and it takes longer for stuff to climb the list (plus i keep putting it on hold for older stuff). Juan Maclean LP is my current year fave tho (if only because Foxbase Alpha remaster doesn't count) so by December their tracks should be higher than Royksopp's and Fever Ray's.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

well yeah, ditto, hence the 3 months list.

I feel you re: the charts and wanting them to be better but there's a point at which it gets so bad for so long that you have to stop caring, really, and we've passed that point for me. It's not just the usual crop of bad songs, it's mainstream pop music overall...what that's come to mean, what it takes for an artist to become part of it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Pizza Hut/Taco Bell
- I'm On A Boat

I would like to point out to the h8tas that I like the above two not because they are 'funny' but because they are CATCHY (and boshing, in the case of PH/TB) and I have been singing them round the house constantly for the last few months.

OK now that's off my chest, here's some more:

- 'Death of Autotune' (only heard this week and may go off it but I just ♥ Jay-Z rhyming over the top of the clinky-glass sound cf 'Roc Boys')
- 'Intuition' by Keri Hilson (still my top pick off the album though about 4 other tracks are v close behind)
- 'A Thing For Me' by Metronomy (dreadful vocal but I keep coming back to it, argh)
- 'Bubblicious' by Rex T Dog
- 'Like A Surgeon' by Ciara (best slow jam of the year, tho it's more like a slow marmalade it's so sharp)
- 'Beat Again' by JLS (surprise pop WINNAH of the year so far)
- 'Zero' by the YYYs (definite grower)
- 'Lions/Tigers/Bears' by J-Sull (epic)
- 'Clocks' by H2 (obligatory minimal bosh)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Bubblicious' is great. After the Fever Ray/Royksopp gig at RFH he was DJing downstairs in the foyer and playing it with huge screens of his animations. Only about 12 people dancing tho, most others just pottering around trying to decide whether it was worth sticking around for. Incogruous location really!

The Felix Housecat mix is cool too.

[koganbot]

1. Jenna “Soldier 4 Your Love”
2. Cassie “Summer Charm”
3. Shystie f. DJ Deekline "New Style"
4. The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow"
5. Love And Theft "Runaway"
6. MC Lars f. Brett Anderson & Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia"
7. The Lonely Island "I'm On A Boat"
8. Timberlee f. Tosh "Heels"
9. Das Racist "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)"
10. Rich Boy "Drop"

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

1. Jamey Johnson – “High Cost Of Living”
2. Love and Theft – “Runaway”
3. Das Racist – “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)”
4. Nicki Minaj – “Beam Me Up Scotty”
5. Larry Shannon Hargrove – “I Need A Bailout”
6. Rascal Flatts – “Summer Nights”
7. Timberlee feat. Tosh – “Heels”
8. John Rich – “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”
9. DJ Quik And Kurupt – “9 X Out Of 10”
10. Mel Waiters – “Everything Is Going Up (But My Paycheck)”

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

PS If "High Cost Of Living" counts as a 2008 "track" (since that's when it was in fact an album track, even though it's a single in 2009, in which case the same rule would apply to "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift), next in line would be one of these three:

-- The Lonely Island feat. T-Pain – “I’m On A Boat”
-- Florence and the Machine – “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)”
-- The Flatlanders – “Homeland Refugee”

[koganbot]

"You Belong With Me" was a digital single in 2008, actually, and jumped to number 12 on the U.S. charts. But that's no reason not to vote for it now, while it's having an impact on a greater number of people; ditto for "High Cost Of Living." Unless you're looking for reasons to cut down the number of eligible songs.

2009

[charltonlido.livejournal.com]

this is harder than I thought - had a top 10 down easy, but then it turned out lots of them were from late 2008 and I didn't hear them till this year.

Re: 2009

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

post 'em anyway

[credoimprobus]

Having taken some time to consult my (extremely patchy & incomplete) rolling shortlist, my 10:

1. The-Dream: Take You Home 2 My Mama
2. Square1 feat. Siobhan Donaghy: Styfling (Square1 & CalCuts Remix)
3. Jazmine Sullivan: Dream Big
4. Ms. Dynamite: Bad Gyal
5. Two Fingers feat. Sway: What You Know
6. Ryan Leslie: Just Right
7. Ron Browz: Jumping Out the Window
8. The Notwist: Where in this World
9. Chrisette Michele: Another One
10. Kid Cudi vs. Crookers: Day 'n' Nite

(Could so easily append hours' worth of side commentary, but shall restrain myself, haha.)

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Bad Gyal is so amazing.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

10. cascada- evacuate the dancefloor (as of this morning, may be sent back to the depths)
9. loads of people from sri lanka- kiruvi
8. basement jaxx- raindrops
7. dude i can't remember the name of- choose a side
6. mariah carey- obsessed (and rising)
5. jazmine sullivan- call me guilty
4. mastodon- crack the skye (song)
3. flo & teh machine- rabbitheart (lionheart remix)
2. jay dabhi & moises modesto- cry for freedom
1. pizza hut/taco bell

likely that some of the new dev townsend will elbow its way in, as soon as actually get hold of ki and there's probably a lot of hoarpop i'm missing out on what with this damnable internet blackout.

the iPlayer is not working so i cannot listen to lovely bobby friction to remember who the people from sri lanka and dude i can't remember the name of actually are. pah!