Yet Another Year In Pop: 32

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Having just remembered Kat's away, I shall do my part for ensuring our workplace is primarily used for creating polls-

[Poll #1442013]

Comments

warning: hungover and misanthropic

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It might just be the fact I've been listening to the mighty Crowded House all morning but really what the fvck is that Girls Can't Catch song? I mean honestly. It just ...it's the distilled sound of the bits of Xenomania that are somehow key to their sound but irrelevant to the music and I don't even know if they wrote it. Also, video is embarassingly rub; I'll dig it up in a minute.

Haven't heard the Tinchy/Amelle but suspect will be horrified, no idea who Ian Carey is.

fvck's sake

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I forgot leadsingerygirl also does that annoying Pixie Lott-style oversing 'I HAVE A BIG VOICE' thing, even though she REALLY DOESN'T.

Also, next video I see about girls beating up boys on some level I am going to SET FIRE TO SOMETHING. Not a boy, obviously. It's just so c0cking embarassing. I think in this sense Girls Can't Catch may have quite a lot of barriers to overcome before I crack and iTunes their album, as with the Sats. (Who I quite like these days, to be fair)

Re: fvck's sake

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

O GOD the "we are confident gurls WALKING TOGETHER" video thing is such a cliche.

Moggy did you read the GAMMA WOMEN thing I linked to :)

Re: fvck's sake

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I forgot I was going to do that when I got to work! I shall go and read it now.

Re: fvck's sake

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It won't help. With anything in the world.

Re: fvck's sake

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I'll just leave this icon here and comment on yr journal later when my brain's finished dribbling out of my head.

Re: fvck's sake

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Good god what an awful name/song/video/band. On hearing that Goldfrapp intro get reused AGAIN I actually literally did a facedesk.

Unfortunate for them that I heard this while in the midst of an Electrik Red splurge. Girls Can't Catch never stood a chance. Honestly they just sound so impossibly amateurish, limited and pointless next to what Electrik Red are doing. And yet which of those acts appears to have a semi-viable career. This is why I hate people.

I just discovered that the incredible 'Electrik City', which I'd thought was a leaked demo which inexplicably never made the Electrik Red album, was actually their first single from a Darkchild-helmed false start three years ago, and it has A VIDEO.



- A+ stuff all round
- impressively, a consistent aesthetic w/what they're doing now - the vision is clearly the group's and they haven't diluted it in any way - 'Electrik City' could easily fit on How To Be A Lady
- god, that swelling bass and those whispers just slay me

sexy, unsubtle

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME. I lovelovelove Darkchild anyway but ...ARGH, AWESOME. I wonder if there's any of the rest of that incarnation kicking around?

Also: interesting that it's their aesthetic. Really have to write that 'Electrik Red Are Girls Like Me' thing sooner or later.

Re: fvck's sake

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Holy CRAP.

And an Uptown Top Ranking cover to boot?

AMAZING.

AMAZING AMAZING.

Re: fvck's sake

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

If you haven't heard How To Be A Lady: Vol 1, their Dream-produced debut full-length and by ALBUM OF THE YEAR by approx several hundred miles, you need to! It probably won't be getting a UK release because people are fools, but it's ~out there~ on the internet.

Re: fvck's sake

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I've heard a few cuts from it here and there - "Drink In My Cup", I recall - but nothing grabbed me yet as immediately as this. In context of this though, will def. take a closer look.

Re: fvck's sake

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

More Electrik Red tasters! Given that we haven't really talked about them on Poptimists and better this than Girls Can't Sing.

Re: fvck's sake

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Let's just have a full-on Poptimists thread for 'em, shall we? Mass video/audio stream pimpage and general drooling. It'll be great.

Re: fvck's sake

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I may do that tomorrow, when I've written a thing.

Re: fvck's sake

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ugh, Onsmash videos inexplicably not embedding.

Drink In My Cup (http://videos.onsmash.com/v/bIH3Lab4eCSGssNM) (my video of the year)
Friend Lover (http://videos.onsmash.com/v/f8Yas2G7l3h3UwM7)

Re: fvck's sake

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

still can't believe this came out three years ago and no-one seemed to pick up on it (don't recall mention of it on ILM either)

Re: fvck's sake

[meserach.livejournal.com]

As Popjustice person keeps saying.

Croquet.

Rubbish dump.

Egads, why?