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

[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))