A kung fu fighter in a disco

*does wiggly fingers by ears*

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I once met Dot Allison at a soundcheck and had to try very hard not to gibber at her 'omfghghhghgh I love that song you did so much you're brilliant aragjhakgjhkg'

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blue-russian.livejournal.com

where is the "like this" button?

i played this album *so* much

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koganbot

This ended up in second place for Best Track That's New To My Ears. The singing is total kitsch, clinical depression that's speaking to us from a swamp of cough syrup. But Felix Da Housecat jauntily rides his steam shovel to the rescue.

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The bit where the eerie synthy strings kick in is just fantastic - it switches Dot's mumblings from claustrophobic psychosis into Epic Riding Off Into The Sunset.

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Accept no imitations! :)

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Dude kind of looks like a cross between Jesus and Brandon Flowers.

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Only 3 must ticks this round at first sight. And GA will sail through anyway. I have four open slots therefore so don't be shy of embedding or linking to your favourites. I must check out "Still Fly" for starters.

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carsmilesteve.livejournal.com

next friday lunchtime?

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Hi dere copy and paste! :)

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chezghost.livejournal.com

BANGIN

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This is excellent. Would've even been my pick for best new thing this heat, except, ahaha, I actually have the album, just haven't listened to it enough/recently enough to remember it. Bummer!

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piratemoggy.livejournal.com

Fvcking HELL this is a strong heat; I nearly didn't tick Girls Aloud because there's so much awesome stuff but Nicola Roberts > Matt Skiba, so...

There Goes The Fear is one of my favourite songs; it's very comforting, as per it's stated intent & I find it quite moving. I was v v v v v sad when it came out though so this is probs an enhanced response but it is all browns and golds and mottled leaf patterns, in my mind.

And I don't care if this makes me indie but To Hell With Good Intentions is about as canonical as they get, rite?

The Sticky is also amazing & if I knew how to embed I would.

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OK here's the Sticky vid. I'll check it out later.

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HELLO I have actually heard this one! Must've been in some recent old skool garage mix or other that I've downloaded, though, because the title was competely unfamiliar.

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koganbot

Prefers bums to guns; warns that if you push, you get death, not tush. (Nor bush.)

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Now, I properly love me some old-skool indie cheer Bis, but it has to be said that they made a really, really excellent electropop band. Return to Central = CLASSIC. The End Starts Today is not only my favourite track off that album, but possibly my overall favourite Bis track EVAH (with maybe the exception of How Can We Be Strange?). Here, listen to it and its HUGE, HUGE chorus!

Also in the indie corner, Pretty Girls Make Graves with a bright and brash pop-punky ode to music escapism:

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I have a soft spot for the PGMG song - haven't heard it for years but can still remember the triumphant 'YRADER-VREEER-VAR-MRAH-NEER-YADDA-EAR-AIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRR' chorus.

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martinv.livejournal.com

This is also my favourite Bis song. Strongly recommend a listen to anyone who only ever heard early, shouty Bis.

Elsewhere, this heat is full of really good stuff. Star Guitar for me is by some distance the best Chemicals track.

Glad the Doves track is getting some credit. No love for them in general but this is pretty much perfect.

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OK Atomic Kitten's version of TTIH is pretty rubbish actually. Who wants to convince me to tick any of the following instead:

a) Jimmy Eat World
b) Tiga Sunglasses
c) Any of the other bosh I haven't ticked

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petronia.livejournal.com

You have to tick Tiga Sunglasses. I will say this for the Atomic TTIH that it's stuck in the memory all this time, I just DON'T KNOW WHY.

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Alesha & co covering Warren G: OMG

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piratemoggy.livejournal.com

i'm not a massive fan of darren hayes, as a rule but 'strange relationship' is stunning; it's a love song but it's a twisted one, wrapped up in self-hate and selfishness and delivered with a genuine delicacy (as opposed to affected feyness, which i find he does a lot, like on 'insatiable' which i don't like half as much) and with enough force to still be just a good pop song. it is not getting enough love

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barrysarll.livejournal.com

Conversely I am generally quite a fan of his (largely because of that tendency towards twistedness) but don't think this was one of its best expressions. Also, not enough ticks to spare!

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koganbot

You know how Ennio Morricone got that sense of vast space in his western soundtracks? He did it by leaving a lot of space, with harmonicas reverberating into distances and such. OK, that didn't take a Ph.D. to figure out, and I don't have a Ph.D.

So Mr. Collipark uses completely crowded sonic canvasses, and he gets "oo woos" and horn flourishes to echo into Morricone distances anyway. Not sure how he does it.

Imeem version has better sound, but here's the YouTube:

Ying Yang Twins "Sound Off."

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koganbot

OK, if you don't pay much attention to Toby Keith, please forget what you think his reputation is and listen to this: slow and brooding, deserves the title Quiet Storm if that format would have ever played country.

Toby Keith "That's Not How It Is" (on last.fm).

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Okay, I don't care how indie you think the vocals are, this is still one of the great dance anthems of the decade. The way it BUILDS! The hands-in-the-air synths in the chorus! The brightness and energy of it! Also, although I didn't see it until this year, the video is GREBT.

And this one I'd actually forgotten about until I looked through the chart archives for noms, shock and horror (which makes it a good thing I did go through them!) That soaring chorus! The synth pulses! So good.

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That Southern Sun is actually the most ARSE video I have ever seen. It's brilliant. No, I mean arse! No, AWESOME. ARGH.

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koganbot

OK, you know how Ennio Morricone got that sense of vast space in the sound of his western soundtracks? He did it by leaving a lot of space! Right, that didn't take a Ph.D. to figure out, and I don't have a Ph.D. So Mr. Collipark creates totally crowded sonics and he gets that Morricone sense of space too, "ooos" and horn flourishes echoing out to the wild frontier, and I don't know how he does it.

Ying Yang Twins "Sound Off," on imeem. Also on YouTube, but the sound is thinner:

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(Ha, I almost posted this one earlier, but thought I'd give you a chance to do it yourself first. :))

I'd like to state for the record that I thoroughly second this rep. Seriously, people, this deserves WAY MORE TICKS.

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Again, not heard myself, but will check out later.

"Embedding disabled by request" boo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_IajXqEgCc

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Fun fact: Stronger is apparently the by far most enduring Sugababes single in Finland (at least it's the one that most noticably still regularly gets radio play). I would like to point out that this is because it is AWESOME. Certainly enough to deserve more ticks than it has right now, anyway! One of the top three Sugaballads, for real.

And in closing, just because, PIE:

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WOW, the Mr Scruff is GREBT (the track I mean, but the video is even more awesome) TICK! Why isn't this the Freaky Trigger anthem??

Agree on the 'babes as well. (The vid here is rubbish though.) Bah, all the *wrong* songs by them are qualifying!

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I think I will swap my AK tick for Stronger. I am trying to work out if that's Tooting Bec lido...

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~~In a sense there is nothing that is not a pie~~

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meserach.livejournal.com

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/2xlCkthWfy32VdklD3EVG6

Decent turn out I thought. Not sure about versions of "Southern Sun" (I have a "DJ Tiesto" mix) and "Take Me Away" (I have two versions).

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