Pie Chart Topping

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Morningwood - Nth Degree 9
Sir Lancelot - Pan american way 9
Bodies Without Organs - Gone 9

Gene Serene & John Downfall - The Hours 7

Coldplay - Talk (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) 6
The Knife - Neverland 6

The Knife - silent shout 5
Cat Power - The Greatest 5
The Knife - The captain 5
The Knife - Marble house 5


Morningwood still at the top, but now sharing their slice of the pop pie at 9 plays each with Pop World Cup entries: Bodies Without Organs (yay the all conquering* swedes) and Sir Lancelot (plucky Trinidad/Tobago). England trailing behind in 4th place... BREAKING NEWS swedes swizzed as England qualify!! What mad science is this?

However winning on points - as predicted last week- are Teh Knife with FOUR songs. My that's almost an entirely new album there. I suspect that the mysterious TARWATER may feature here next week. SEE YOU THEN

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Heartbeats aside, I find the Knife pretty dire in non-remixed form - what off the new album should I hear to change this?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i doubt you'll like it as it's GOTHTRONICA with glacial synths a go go, tho i find it all quite marvellous

didn't you like 'Is It Medicine?' off 'Deep Cuts'?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Don't think I heard it, I only dl'ed a couple of tracks other than heartbeats, thought "right, I know your game mateys" and stopped. Oh and I heard a wretched Xmas song too!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am surprised again! I love The Knife - I think of them as a more songful offshoot of banging electro, rather than wimpy Bodies Without Blood type pop (also Karin Dreijer's voice is v definitely NOT bloodless and wimpy). I like 'Pass This On' and 'You Take My Breath Away' especially (haven't heard new album apart from 'Silent Shout' though).

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Tom, there was a Knife-thing on the ILM YSI thread which I enjoyed. I can YSI. Though, I too havent heard any Knife bar the RTD remix.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

the Knife are banging electro!?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Offshoot of: I think I came to this conclusion based on The Knife's affinity for banging remixes.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think by the third or fourth track I was hearing the vocal contortions as a boring gimmick rather than an exciting new thing. The backing was OK, none of the songwriting seemed up to Heartbeats though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ah well I grew up on angsty female singer-songwriters so contorted female vocals are v definitely My Thing whether gimmicky or not. However much of what is true for Karin Dreijer's voice can also be found in Kate Bush's!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there's whitegirl "gospel melisma" argt to be explored here also: viz CAN YOU DISTINGUISH between m.carey, b.knowles, x aguilera ect ect and IF NOT can you account for the close attention you pay to tiny diffs between l.cocteau, k.bosh, t.amos et al

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can distinguish between Carey, Aguilera et al! In fact whenever I talk about modern r&b to most people one of the arguments I'm often faced with is that the singers themselves are indistinguishable (via melisma or blandness), and succeed only due to Timbaland/Neptunes production - this happened on an ILM thread, but Tim and I couldn't really think of ANY r&b singer we classed as completely generic (apart from maybe Ashanti). And I think the stylistic differences between eg Mya, Ciara and Beyonce are def as great as those between Tori, Kate and Fiona - ie quite large.

I am tempted to say that the the former can sing 'better' than the latter - and due to its very nature technical proficiency will make people sound more like each other than technical incompetence ie indieness - but then someone like Fiona Apple has a properly good jazz voice whereas Ciara has only just slightly more range than Cat Power.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Possibly I might struggle in a "blindfold" "pepsi challenge" involving Brandy, Mya, Aaliyah, Ashanti, Kiley Dean and Ciara (depending on which songs you chose of course).

(Which doesn't mean I subscribe to the "succeeds only due to the production" view. Far from it.)

(And I'd have no problems spotting Mariah, Xtina and Bouncy I think)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

You should give all of 'Deep Cuts' a listen Tom as there are fluctuations in style (obv. the voice and sounds used are fairly constant). You might like 'Listen Now' and 'Girls Night Out' for their uptempo Euro-y lean as well as the aforementioned 'Is It Medicine' techno-bop.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

knife = ladyton at 5rpm

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Off the new album: "Marble House".