POPTIMISTS TRACKS OF 2009: Nos 36-31

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another half-dozen, and more to come later today.

36. DJ QUIK AND KURUPT - "Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)"

Camels!!

35. THE-DREAM - "Take You Home 2 My Mama"

We were no great respecters of singles with this dude - a still photo vid of this excellent Love vs Money song.

34. ELECTRIK RED - "So Good"

Though actually this was the single wasn't it? So forget what I just said.

33. FUZZY LOGIC ft EGYPT - "In The Morning"

Went for the ripped still video over the official one cos I preferred this unedited mix.

32. LA ROUX - "Bulletproof"

2008's most divisive act. This one has a nice backing track I'll admit. Embedding disabled - a bunch of points also for the "Skream remix" which seems not to exist, either they meant the Zinc one or they meant "In For The Kill" in which case "Bulletproof" drops to #58!

31. LOVE AND THEFT - "Runaway"

Country voters FTW, though I've not actually had time to listen to this yet.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Maybe dudes meant the Skream remix of 'In For The Kill'?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Which I am interested (FSVO, I am unemployed so threshold is currently pretty low) is being used to promote Bayonetta. Is this because the idea of committing unspeakable acts of violence on La Roux = good marketing ploy?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see that Love and Theft song mentioned (obviously mostly by Frank), I immediately think of 80s post-punk post-goth proto-rave trio Love and Rockets. [/indie]

If the La Roux mix up means "In For The Kill" is lower than it would it would otherwise be, then this is clearly serendipity and MUST STAND.

[koganbot]

You don't think of Joan Jett? </punk>

Excuse the chain of thought, but the Fall should put out an album called "Norah Jones."

You might like "Runaway" as a California highway song set in the American southeast. The Cali harmonies on everything else by Love And Theft neutralize their sound into nothingness, whereas the Cali harmonies on "Runaway" coalesce into evocativeness. It's a very ordinary sounding song, though, but evocatively ordinary.

But band should really have called themselves "Rumours," not just for the harmonies but for rumors. (Results 1 - 10 of about 7,600 for "Stephen Barker Liles" "taylor swift". (0.26 seconds))

Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

First artist in the list I'd not even heard *of* before! Is this another Jukebox x-over?

Re: Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, it's a UK funky pick - though Lex didn't vote for it. Proper grassroots action innit.

Re: Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aha! Is that lass with the big nose?

Re: Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it was on the Jukebox yes. i HATE it, but many do not.

[credoimprobus]

Re: The-Dream: dude needs to RELEASE his best tunes if he wants us to respect singles, innit! (Yes, I'm still cranky about that -- not that I didn't love all the singles as well, mind, just not as much as Those Other Ones There, ifyousee.)

Am entirely unsurprised that my The-Dream pick is his lowest scoring one; I have an unfailing skill for falling for the underdogs, heh. (My ER pick = also their lowest scoring track!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Somehow I don't think Love vs Money Part II would do v well as a single (awesome as it is) :(

[koganbot]

The two title tracks plus "Fancy" would've been in my top thirty if we'd been listing a thirty - really, any track from the second half of the album was a contender, incl. the Lil Jon. Offhand, I can't think of any other album since Michael Jackson's Dangerous that shifts styles and mood midstream and stays with the shift (though I expect there are some I'm not thinking of).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Bowie's Low and Byrne/Eno's Bush of Ghosts both do.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there's plenty of two CD releases where the second CD is totally a difft project, moodwise or whatever, than the first -- but the "flipside of the LP" effect was all but a lost art from around the mid-80s, bcz you no longer actually flipped the LP

dangerous is 1991 or so, so really strikingly late to be doing this

i imagine there are also non-pop releases where eg tracks 1 and 2 are (a) all that's on the release and (b) notvery like each other

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

i imagine there are also non-pop releases where eg tracks 1 and 2 are (a) all that's on the release and (b) notvery like each other

all ash ra temple albs are like this!

[koganbot]

For Your Pleasure kind of does too, though I don't know if that's deliberate. (These are all pre-Dangerous, mind. Not that I mind.)

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Haha I did mean the Zinc remix! Oops I am useless.