A kung fu fighter in a disco

- I once organised a radical picnic with Kathleen Hanna
- I used to share a squat in Camden in Nina Hagen and she used to make pizza out of dead cats
- I was born with only one leg
etc

Here's the stream for No Bra on Last.fm (http://www.last.fm/music/No+Bra/_/Munchausen). It is basically two hipster dudes trying to outdo each other and you can get the gist of it from the kinda poor-quality video, which involves p1ssing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Pq9gMsP34). Except in this NSFW live version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ9ma3LaBY) the dude is having the conversation with HIMSELF ARGH.

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friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com

Surely this is a CarterTutti track?? It even namechecks Nina Hagen! Plus the exaggerated penis size and one-upmanship-flirting.

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This is the other one of my noms off the Superpitcher mix that is a MUST LISTEN crying whilst staring out of bus window omg track:

I just love that down-the-plughole vworp-gurgle noise. Arrggh so good.

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martinv.livejournal.com

This heat is seriously tough.

Two of my favourites of 2005 in here (along with lots of lesser faves)

Jamie Lidell's Multiply

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Please Stand Up by British Sea Power. Probably my indie-guitar-thing song of the decade. Just glorious.

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redcommieapples.livejournal.com

Jamie Lidell! The soundtrack to my walking/dancing/romping in the streets back in 2005.

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British Sea Power passed me by all decade, and I think this may be the first thing of theirs I've actually listened to. I enjoyed it!

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I was thinking about doing a separate poll question about this tbh, as obv it is rather divisive. Does anyone really, really, loathe My Humps still? If you hated it at the time, have the intervening years softened your attitude? Or did you always love it?

I was on the side of the h8tas but then I actually LISTENED to it and dere lord my life was never to be the same again. I also think this was one of my 2005 pop turning points (along with finally embracing Scooter after years of holding out on them), realising that pop songs are only rubbish if you can't think of anything to write about them on the internets.

Edited Date: 2010-03-05 01:10 pm (UTC)

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It was one of the few pop songs I included in my excessively indie top 50 for 2006. It's awesome. I didn't exactly need converting to pop, but it was one of the songs that taught me that daftness in pop music wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

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martinv.livejournal.com

2005, I mean, obviously

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braisedbywolves.livejournal.com

It was my first tick, but it was my first untick as well - part of its ubiquity is that I could happily never hear it again. In contrast to Nelly & Tim's brokeback premonition, which I think I'll go listen to now.

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In fact, is Nelly the one artist who only works in duets? This and Dilemma are kind of a million miles ahead of any of his own stuff.

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Hot In Herre?

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braisedbywolves.livejournal.com

Is good! It's just not Dilemma or Over and Over!

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

ride wit me!

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bengraham.livejournal.com

Country Grammar?

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I do like Over And Over quite a lot, but it seems to lack support and there's a lot to tick here. I may throw it a mercy tick later.

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It shocked me when I first heard it - not 'cause I'm shocked by blatantly attention-grabbing hip-hop tracks that appear to be about the sex, but because, having heard nothing by the Black Eyed Peas except "Where Is The Love?," I'd stereotyped them as positive "conscious" and clean rappers whom you could take home to Aunt Tipper. I instantly thought "My Humps" was terrific, but I needed five or six listenings before this thought penetrated my mental barrier and entered my consciousness as a genuine opinion, and even by year's end I still didn't quite get how awesomely humpsy the track truly was, at least not enough to consider it for my year-end top ten (though I wouldn't have had room for it anyway; my number 10 was "Gasolina"; "Be Mine!" didn't make my list either, and since I'd just belatedly had my revelation about the amazingness of the Ashlee-Kelly-Lindsay-Hilary thing, everything else that wasn't Miranda Lambert or t.A.T.u.'s "Cosmos" was getting forgotten).

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The exact point when the amazingness of it kicked in:

"SHE'S GOT ME SPENNNNNNNDIN'"

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I'm slightly disappointed that nobody nominated "Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)" cos then I could have linked to the "Hump My Tunnel" mashup, which still makes me laugh every time I hear it.

"Humps" is classic obv (but so is more or less all BEPs since Fergie joined).

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No votes for Oh My God yet?

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bengraham.livejournal.com

It's a tough heat. Which, I'm grateful to see, Mr. Vitalic is sailing through. Hurrah!

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koganbot

I crashed-out after Ke$ha last night, regretfully being unable to listen to my unheard songs from last heat, and man am I sorry I don't have an extra tick; I was on 12 songs here on my first pass. In any event, with 'most everything up for grabs, these three are certified, endorsed tickworthy good 'uns:

Ben Watt ft. Est'elle "Pop A Cap In Your Ass," dark burned sorrow that nonetheless allows you to relax into the groove like it's butter:

Kelly Osbourne "One Word," with dance-goth Nostradamus shit and an overwhelming lava flow of a chorus (producer, co-writer Linda Perry):

Ciara ft. Ludacris "Oh"; wet-dream gorgeousness.

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One Word was in my '05 top ten (incidentally the first year I put a list together, too)! Still love it immensely.

('Oh' supplementary: the DJ Volume remix = one of my favourite remixes of the noughties. All the official remixes were great, actually, but then they did have a truly solid foundation to build on.)

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petronia.livejournal.com

Reeeeeally tough heat. I can't believe Mandarine Girl's not making it through! :(

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redcommieapples.livejournal.com

you would think after the success of "Gasolina" they would have released this in the UK. There are so many great bits on this. The lovely breezy Nina Sky - "boricua, morena, cubano, dominicano," the aggressive Daddy Yankee. But my favourite bit is "Cream cheese and bagel on it!"

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redcommieapples.livejournal.com

The Reggaeton Ninos version is probably even better!

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This miiiiiiight be on Spotify or might just be a lot of cover versions... I'm not certain.

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...and this heat I don't have a single nom, NOT EVEN A CHARTING ONE. Life = ALL ABT THE UNFAIRNESS, apparently. :D

Nonetheless, a couple of reps:

Jaxx: never mind how grebt a tune it is (although that also is A LOT), let's focus on how it has the loveliest video in music video history:

Loooooooooooove!

And Röyksopp's gorgeous Only This Moment:

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http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/3oQThXbmdGUDetoVJHw0t7

Astonishingly, only four songs are missing! Absurdly, two of them are the Arcade Fire, because Spotify has actually NO tracks by them!

THE MISSING, LAMENT THEM:
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #2 (Laika) (30)
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) (26)
N.O.R.E. - Oye Mi Canto
DaHv - Pass The Shirley Temple

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Okay, FIVE are missing, just remebered that Kelly Osborne's "One Word" is absent also.

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koganbot

Her last name is actually spelled "Osbourne," in case that makes a difference as to whether you can find it.

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In what is surely a HYUGE SHOCKA, I just totally fell for this piece of beautiful, atmospheric dance:

May have to give up one of my safer ticks for the cause, there. GORGEOUS.

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(Google provides the tidbit that the (stunning) string loop is sampled from the score of Road to Perdition. Have sudden compulsion to rewatch it just to sample-spot...)

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Seriously dudes HOW IS NO ONE ELSE TICKING THIS? It's STUNNING, desperately, heartbreakingly sad, and I can't listen to it more than a couple of times in a row without it leaving me a total wreck. :(

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This didn't sound at all like I expected it to! Uptempo guitar pop with a twee twang.

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Actually really liking this at the moment, it's cheering me up astonishingly.

Does it help that I have no idea what any of it means? Probably.

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Oh wait was this that Nickelback song I decided was actually a pretty good girlgroup tune in disguise? (Answ: yes, yes it was.) Seriously: picture that with girls harmonising prettily over a guitar-pop backing!

(OPPORTUNITY MISSED, is what I call it.)

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I heart "Nocturn" so much, though my nomination here is really for this track and the title song on Aerial which follows straight on afterwards on the CD. Actually, lets be honest about it, I should have just nominated A Sky Of Honey and have done with it. IT'S ALL ONE SONG REALLY.

Ahem. Anyway, "Nocturn". Reminds me a bit of Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy", with its stately pace and string swells. But it's no less uplifting than the slightly more boshing tracks, "Sunset" and "Aerial". In my head this song is about the way we assume mastery of our individual universes when we dream. It's a great prelude to the ecstatic release of "Aerial", in which bonkers Kate shouts about wanting to climb up onto the roof and converse with the birds as dawn breaks.

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Here's a link to "Nocturn" on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-xsCXEvR6M#

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All of Aerial is pretty much great. Esp the numbers one and the washing machine one :)

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Sorry Kat :(

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