POPTIMISTS TRACKS OF 2009: Nos 50-44

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hip-hop heavy stretch of the tracks poll - check back later this afternoon for 43-37.

50. DJ QUIK & KURUPT - "9x Outta 10"

Singles Jukebox influence here I suspect! Hip-hop veterans make uncompromising yet catchy banger.

49. CASCADA - "Evacuate The Dancefloor"

Borrows all its ideas from Blackout/Circus era Britney, gets just reward. The lowest placed song which got 4 separate votes!

48. LADY GAGA ft COLBY O'DONNIS - "Just Dance"

First Gaga sighting! Does it sound better now we all like her? (Or worse to the people who already did?)

47. GIRLS ALOUD - "Untouchable"

Beautiful robots dancing alone.

46. NEKO CASE - "This Tornado Loves You"

Fan video alert! This song is about a tornado loving somebody.

45. NICKI MINAJ - "Beam Me Up Scotty"

You'll need to turn the volume up on this stills vid - all the copies of this on YT are superquiet. The chorus hook on this is straight outta rave 92 I'd say!

44. RAEKWON et al. - "House Of Flying Daggers"

House of embedding disabled moar like so click through for the completely absurd cartoon video.

Comments

[koganbot]

Pleasantly surprised that mine wasn't the only vote for "Untouchable," which seemed to be getting nothing but mehs here. Whereas I feel a beautiful whomp of sadness as the song drifts down.

"Beam Me Up Scotty" was my other choice here; I had no idea how it would do, since I didn't think Lex was going to participate and didn't know if Xhuxk would either (still don't know if they did, or if either of them voted Nicki). The track's great for sounding otherworldly and bratty at the same time.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

I voted for Untouchable - I think it'd have been higher on my list if it wasn't such a tail end of '08 track. It's far from middling IMO, and easily the best thing on the last GA album.