A New Decade In Pop: Week #35

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cor, the charts have woken up after the Bank Holiday weekend! Taio is straight in at number 1, Hurts finally get a chart placing for "Wonderful Life" (sadly not a cover of this).

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alors On Danse has grown on me since I wrote this for Singles Jukebox (http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2191):

When I was seven, I began recorder lessons like everyone else at school. We were told not to blow too hard into the mouthpiece, and to ‘put our tongue in’ as we played the note. I can see why they did these lessons when we were seven — a year or two later and we would have been collapsing with giggles or turning red from embarrassment. Anyway, the last page of Easy Recorder Tunes For Innocent 7-Year-Olds was a Fun Section with instructions for making bird noises. By blowing softly (no tongueing required) on the unscrewed top section and repeatedly cupping the exposed wide end with the palm of your hand, you could make a passable seagull noise. This was much easier than ‘Three Blind Mice’ and our progress slowed considerably once we found said page. Skip forward 4 years to secondary school, where once again we were offered the opportunity to learn an instrument, this time the saxophone. I was enough of a spod already without being tarred with the Lisa Simpson brush so I declined to learn the saxophone, especially as my spoddishness meant I was still playing the recorder when everyone else had long given up (I could play bloody madrigals by that point). I imagine that on the last page of Increasingly Difficult Saxophone Melodies For Awkward Pre-Teens there were instructions for unscrewing the top piece and making the sad seagull noise that can now be heard throughout “Alors On Danse”.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OH. Is THAT what the thing with the electronic accordion is? I quite like it but couldn't work out what it was since Scott Mills never says.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have ticked Biffy Clyro because I spent a lot of the weekend clearing out my bedroom in my parents' house and it was on Radio 1 once every thirty minutes, as far as I can tell. I will probably go back and untick it later.

The Taio Cruz song is two songs, really, one of which is a terrible ode to brands and one of which is pretty good.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh god is this the one that goes "I'm wearing all my favourite BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS"? If so it = SUXXX.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is that one! It is basically awful but it is also on heavy rotation on R1's playlist.

I just noticed the Aggro Santos and am going back to tick. I thought he was American though and am very confused by how British he sounds on it. Also it is slightly rubbish but sounds a bit like Wiley so it's hookered me in.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh god the Stromae song was number 1 in Montreal FOREVER (~3 months) and then was replaced by Katy Perry FOREVER. It's like... economic downturn dance pop. Dance pop about how life sucks balls and we're all going to hell in a handbasket but at least dancing is reasonably tolerable and will generate endorphins. Why is Belgian dance pop always so grim?

It's Grim Up Antwerp

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

There must be a joke about Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy here somewhere.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I think the entire output of technotronic would disagree with you there on your last point

& I LOVE the stromae song, it grows on me with every listen