Yet Another Year In Pop: 28

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cascada remain at the top, Mi-Jack still dominating most of the top 40.

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Reminder: I have decided that you have until THURSDAY LUNCHTIME to nominate songs for 2001 - this means I can put up the first heat on Friday. Please comment on the original post so your nomination doesn't get lost!

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[koganbot]

Mix-and-not-match week:

Chipmunk f. Emeli Sande "Diamonds": I love the short-wave cheap-sound-system over-the-water feel of early ska; Chipmunk fits in, one of the boys hanging at the back table with his rum and coke. Emeli is the opposite, Miss Style, glitzed up and into the limelight, above noticing something as mundane as a ska cover of an old surf hit. The incongruity half works, her assertion feeling harried rather than cold, though I will need more listens to decide if this really holds together. In the meantime, it gets the benefit of the TICK.

Arctic Monkeys "Crying Lightning": By coincidence this one uses vaguely surfed-up guitar-billy, though the dogged talk-singing sounds as if it's never been within a hundred miles of a beach or a sock hop, or even a bit of sunlight. NO TICK, though the chorus almost redeems the drudgery.

VV Brown "Shark In The Water": Finishing-school vocal mannerisms try to get their bearings atop weakly strummed Diddley. Rescued by a wash of sound in the chorus. BORDERLINE TICK.