Best Song of 2005: Heat #4
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poptimistsKanye, Gorillaz, Daddy Yankee and the Chemical Brothers qualify for the next round. Kanye also wins the run-off from Heat #2. But guess what? Yes, ANOTHER run-off follows heat #4, which is FULL OF BANGERS.
[Poll #1530858]
Extra ticks this heat go to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
justfanoe, credoimprobus, mesearch, koganbot and me.
- You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you told us all your new favourite (and why) from the last heat. Put your new favourite in the box below and get an extra tick for the next heat - do it for five or more heats and get an extra nomination for 2006 (unless I think of something else to do in 2006).
- The top five in each heat will go through to the next stage. Make sure you rep for your faves in the comments!
- If you want to fill in the 'best song I only heard today' box later, change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.
- You have until Tuesday lunchtime to vote.
[Poll #1530858]
Extra ticks this heat go to
justfanoe, credoimprobus, mesearch, koganbot and me.
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Baxendale?????
Date: 2010-02-26 12:43 pm (UTC)Re: Baxendale?????
Date: 2010-02-26 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: Baxendale?????
Date: 2010-02-26 01:23 pm (UTC)it's alright actually :)
We're gonna build this city again!
Date: 2010-02-26 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-26 12:51 pm (UTC)"The pussy or the mouth, that is the question
Like Shakespeare but my erection is the case here
I ain't got time to drive you all the way home
But instead I can slide you to a club bathroom or a restaurant men's room
Then I can zoom in your womb."
no subject
Date: 2010-02-26 01:08 pm (UTC)I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside
Date: 2010-02-26 01:59 pm (UTC)Lindsay goes beyond brat to tiger claws. And Ashlee's at her most Courtney. I was playing these five times a day at the end of '06.
Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside
Date: 2010-02-26 07:01 pm (UTC)Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside
Date: 2010-02-26 07:06 pm (UTC)So one technical feature of a lot of rock confessional is that it's modal music where major/minor is in flux. That means that the use of thirds is crucial. "Rush" (pretending it's in C for now): "Don't let nobody tell you" gravitates around the fifth in the minor scale (in C minor it's G) and the major third in the major scale (in Eb major it's G). But when they come down to what should be the root (essentially V-I, traditional harmonic resolution), that Eb makes the resolution minor (V-i), because they hit the minor third.
"I Live for the Day" does something unexpected by setting the chorus in an indirectly related key, from B minor to E minor/G maj and carrying over the vocal melody. In the chorus, the vocal rhythmic pattern (and to some extent the melodic pattern, it's a third below Kelly C.) is "Since U Been Gone," "I-live-for-the-da-ay," with the second "syllable" in the extended "day" resolving in a similar way. Imagine what "Since U Been Gone" would sound like if, instead of blasting GOOOOONE, Kelly had patterned it like this: "Since U Been Gone! Since U Been Gone! I can breathe..." (she does do this with a double track at some point, but it's not the primary melody). It would be a bit more desperate, more frantic, less immediately cathartic. That's what Lindsay's doing here. And -- didn't notice this until yesterday -- there's an almost imperceptible key change at the end, up a whole step to F#min/A maj, so that the intensity has been increased considerably (it's the classic climactic modulation that takes the song over the top) but covertly.
Plus Lindsay KICKS ASS.
Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside
Date: 2010-02-27 10:35 pm (UTC)Is the Lindsay just seeing a desire to see an ex-lover destroyed, or is it seeing an ex-lover destroyed so that they'll finally feel bad enough to love Lindsay again? It seems like the former is the text but I can't help but feel that the latter is a subtext? But I haven't fully attended to the lyrics on one playthrough.
Better than expected, anyway!
Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside
Date: 2010-02-27 11:06 pm (UTC)In other news, Lindsay Lohan reportedly moving to UK (article itself includes refers to her by title as well as name: Troubled Actress Lindsay Lohan).
*Though that doesn't necessarily mean that Lindsay will love him/her back, just that she wants to be wanted.
Wheeeee-awwwr WHEEEEE-AWWWR
Date: 2010-02-26 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: Wheeeee-awwwr WHEEEEE-AWWWR
Date: 2010-02-26 02:25 pm (UTC)BAD! NOW DIG IT
Date: 2010-02-26 03:02 pm (UTC)Other things:
Not my nom but I love it long time, and so must REP -- Sticky-produced grime classic Hype Hype:
Xzibit and early-days K-Hil; also BANGING:
Re: BAD! NOW DIG IT
Date: 2010-02-27 10:30 pm (UTC)SLK sounds like most of the Sticky stuff I've heard, which is to say it sounds GREBT and also hyper-mega-manic. Good but not tuned to my mood at the moment.
I also like the Xzibit thing, more for Keri's contrib but still.
Re: BAD! NOW DIG IT
Date: 2010-02-27 10:43 pm (UTC)Re: BAD! NOW DIG IT
Date: 2010-02-27 10:45 pm (UTC)Re: BAD! NOW DIG IT
Date: 2010-03-02 01:00 pm (UTC)Gone
Date: 2010-02-26 04:22 pm (UTC)Possibly my favourite Kanye song.
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Date: 2010-02-26 07:03 pm (UTC)Spotify
Date: 2010-02-27 12:17 pm (UTC)Missing:
They Might Be Giants - Here Come the ABCs
SLK - Hype Hype
Baxendale - I Built This City For You (Michael Mayer mix)
The Pipettes - I Like a Boy in Uniform (School Uniform)
Lindsay Lohan - I Live For the Day
Lee Ann Womack - I May Hate Myself In The Morning
Roisin Murphy - If We're In Love
SCHOOL UNIFORM!
Date: 2010-02-27 12:21 pm (UTC)Like a fist, can't resist you
Date: 2010-02-27 02:10 pm (UTC)2 - Hard To Beat – Hard Fi
As I said at the start of this particular exercise, I had no idea what was going to be at number one – or even at the top end – until I finished it. And I suspect that Hard To Beat has gained more from the last eight months than any other song in this chart, which found itself being reached for any time I stumbled in a strange street at a strange hour of the day during those six strange months in the middle of 2006. Hell, at one occasion I was literally doing the shouting at strangers routine from Spaced to it, bouncing between road and kerb, throwing shapes and not caring…
I dunno. I’m sorry. You have to care too much to not care like that, and I’ll cherish that.
Understand Hard Fi are an entirely forgettable, sludge-grey band. Which makes Hard To Beat such an anomaly – a structure which leans on the basis of that ska, before draping every colour of the universe over it. It’s like walking into the strange dusty cupboard in some relatives place and finding yourself in a club at 2.50 am with only the people who care about caring there. Even elements like the absolute basic crassness of the lyric rubbing against the songs waves of sonic-eroticism are key – it’s a macho-posturing record which sounds enormously fey, with Hard-fi seemingly unaware of it. Like the hardest guy you know wearing a pink shirt because it’s in fashion, it’s both inspiring and hilarious.
It’s not just a record which makes me want to turn around dramatically, hoping someone’s behind me.
It’s a record which makes me believe if I do so, someone will be.
Anthony and the Johnsons
Date: 2010-02-27 06:46 pm (UTC)*it comes up on Spotify as I listen to my playlist*
Me: "I have no idea who these guys are"
* listen for a bit *
Me: Man, what is that voice?
* listening *
Me That's either the most annoying voice in the world...
* listens a bit more *
Me: ...or the most heartbreaking
* listens *
* cries *
Re: Anthony and the Johnsons
Date: 2010-02-27 06:51 pm (UTC)