angelbaz (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ultrabaz) wrote,@ 2008-03-28 07:15:00 |
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Come In, Records Of Quarter 1 - Your Time Is Up
Ta-Dah! I said sometime back in February that 2008 has turned out to be the best start to a year in music for me since God knows when. And there's been no let up since then either. Here's my twenty from the best, though it could have been a top forty or even a fifty. From what I know's already on the horizon the best could even be yet to come - My Toys Like Me, Santogold, Sebastian Tellier, Annie, Madonna, Shortwave Set, Little Dragon etc., are all on the horizon ... maybe Radiohead will finally get round to releasing House Of Cards, too. And look! Three songs vying for my Number 1 affections.
=01. Time To Pretend – MGMT
Ooh, The Big Music’s back! I’m hearing Rise, The Whole Of The Moon, Pasionate Friend, The Cutter, Dazzle, Inbetween Days, Road To Nowhere… ambitious, beautifully produced indie pop with a lot of ambition but not an ounce of waste (or Oasis). ”We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end / We were fated to pretend”. Epic, funny, sad and true - carry the news.
=01. Blind – Hercules & Love Affair
Oh, come on. This one is just obvious.
=01. A&E – Goldfrapp
A suicide attempt never sounded so glam. It’s one of those last-ditch, grab-for-attention ones, isn’t it? - ”I was trying to phone you when I'm crawling out the door”. The devil is in the details: bright blue light, a pastel ward, some pills, a backless dress... Oh, Alison, could you be the most underrated lyricist we’ve got?
04. Ready For The Floor – Hot Chips
We’d had it knocking about in the DJ wallet for a few weeks but Ready For The Floor really caught fire for me during the night in New York. Now it just feels like it’s always been there, filling the floor faster than The Friday Night Project’s Coat Of Cash. The ”Number Number Number Number One One One One” bit is still terrifically exciting, even if you have to forcibly restrict yourself from wondering whether they might turn out to be the Landscape of now. They would do an awfully good Einstein A Go Go, I think.
05. Courtship Dating – Crystal Castles
Only just made it into Q1 – it’s actually out on Monday. Hmmm. Maybe it should be a place higher than Hot Chip. It sounds like… um… it sounds like, er…. Well, it sounds like little, screaming, half-bat bitmap people (maybe three-quarters-bat) falling off a cliff with some radioactively malfunctioning synthesizers. That is honestly what it sounds like but there’s a great tune in there somewhere too, albeit one that's suffocating slowly in a bag. I wouldn’t play it walking down a dark alley if I were you.
06. American Boy – Estelle
The girl from next door and Little Miss Nineteen-Eighty (the year that God made me) must be 28 now. Old and gnarly enough, then, to be hanging out with Jay-Z and Kanye and coming up with sauce like, ”Don’t like his baggy jeans but I might like what’s underneath.” Must we throw this filth at our kids? Apparently yes – it’s "all over radio" and Number 1 in the Hit Parade as I type.
07. Slow Kids (S.P.A. Mix) – Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeeds
And this is Number 1 in the Hip Parade. All the versions are worth anybody’s bob but for me it’s this mix, so lo-fi it could have been mastered from a Boots Ferro C60 cassette, circa 1976. Imagine Jilted John / Graham Fellows singing The Silicone Teens: ”I am a girl with no lips but I can keep a hula going around my hips / We work in the same place looking after Slow Kids but we never ever take it too faaaar”. He’s not a girl at all, y' know. Mad! *Rik from The Young Ones face*
08. Machine Gun – Portishead
Nope, I never expected much either. People rarely do come back after this amount of time with much worth cherishing but I think this is every bit as good as Sour Times or Mysterons. Without the big clunking drums and gun / dive bomber stimulations it could be a desolate old English folk song from the olden days - I'd like to hear Maddy Prior or someone give it a go. Hope they do an a-capella so we can all play mash-ups.
09. Great DJ – The Ting Tings
A-boing boing boing boing, A-boing boing boooooing! Springier and zingier than Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi playing bikini beach ball on a bouncy castle. On pogo-sticks. This Q’s other dead cert aerobics floorfiller –up, down, Top Rank Tings (yes, sorry about that). Long may they reign.
10. Beeper – The Count And Sinden
Is it Get me on my beeper, Hit me on my beeper or Hear me on my beeper? Been driving me mad since January. A daft load of old rubbish and therefore positively, definitely, indupitably me, me , meeeeeeeee.
They also served
11. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Work - Kelly Rowland
13. Run – Gnarls Barkley
14. How To Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim – XX Teens
15. Morning After Midnight – Adam Green
16. Can’t Speak French – Girls Aloud
17. Needy Girl – Chromeo
18. Letting Go – Team Waterpolo
19. Superstar – Lupe Fiasco
20. Black And Gold - Sam Sparrow
Not even remotely interested in The Foals or Vampire Weekend.
Ta-Dah! I said sometime back in February that 2008 has turned out to be the best start to a year in music for me since God knows when. And there's been no let up since then either. Here's my twenty from the best, though it could have been a top forty or even a fifty. From what I know's already on the horizon the best could even be yet to come - My Toys Like Me, Santogold, Sebastian Tellier, Annie, Madonna, Shortwave Set, Little Dragon etc., are all on the horizon ... maybe Radiohead will finally get round to releasing House Of Cards, too. And look! Three songs vying for my Number 1 affections.
=01. Time To Pretend – MGMT
Ooh, The Big Music’s back! I’m hearing Rise, The Whole Of The Moon, Pasionate Friend, The Cutter, Dazzle, Inbetween Days, Road To Nowhere… ambitious, beautifully produced indie pop with a lot of ambition but not an ounce of waste (or Oasis). ”We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end / We were fated to pretend”. Epic, funny, sad and true - carry the news.
=01. Blind – Hercules & Love Affair
Oh, come on. This one is just obvious.
=01. A&E – Goldfrapp
A suicide attempt never sounded so glam. It’s one of those last-ditch, grab-for-attention ones, isn’t it? - ”I was trying to phone you when I'm crawling out the door”. The devil is in the details: bright blue light, a pastel ward, some pills, a backless dress... Oh, Alison, could you be the most underrated lyricist we’ve got?
04. Ready For The Floor – Hot Chips
We’d had it knocking about in the DJ wallet for a few weeks but Ready For The Floor really caught fire for me during the night in New York. Now it just feels like it’s always been there, filling the floor faster than The Friday Night Project’s Coat Of Cash. The ”Number Number Number Number One One One One” bit is still terrifically exciting, even if you have to forcibly restrict yourself from wondering whether they might turn out to be the Landscape of now. They would do an awfully good Einstein A Go Go, I think.
05. Courtship Dating – Crystal Castles
Only just made it into Q1 – it’s actually out on Monday. Hmmm. Maybe it should be a place higher than Hot Chip. It sounds like… um… it sounds like, er…. Well, it sounds like little, screaming, half-bat bitmap people (maybe three-quarters-bat) falling off a cliff with some radioactively malfunctioning synthesizers. That is honestly what it sounds like but there’s a great tune in there somewhere too, albeit one that's suffocating slowly in a bag. I wouldn’t play it walking down a dark alley if I were you.
06. American Boy – Estelle
The girl from next door and Little Miss Nineteen-Eighty (the year that God made me) must be 28 now. Old and gnarly enough, then, to be hanging out with Jay-Z and Kanye and coming up with sauce like, ”Don’t like his baggy jeans but I might like what’s underneath.” Must we throw this filth at our kids? Apparently yes – it’s "all over radio" and Number 1 in the Hit Parade as I type.
07. Slow Kids (S.P.A. Mix) – Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeeds
And this is Number 1 in the Hip Parade. All the versions are worth anybody’s bob but for me it’s this mix, so lo-fi it could have been mastered from a Boots Ferro C60 cassette, circa 1976. Imagine Jilted John / Graham Fellows singing The Silicone Teens: ”I am a girl with no lips but I can keep a hula going around my hips / We work in the same place looking after Slow Kids but we never ever take it too faaaar”. He’s not a girl at all, y' know. Mad! *Rik from The Young Ones face*
08. Machine Gun – Portishead
Nope, I never expected much either. People rarely do come back after this amount of time with much worth cherishing but I think this is every bit as good as Sour Times or Mysterons. Without the big clunking drums and gun / dive bomber stimulations it could be a desolate old English folk song from the olden days - I'd like to hear Maddy Prior or someone give it a go. Hope they do an a-capella so we can all play mash-ups.
09. Great DJ – The Ting Tings
A-boing boing boing boing, A-boing boing boooooing! Springier and zingier than Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi playing bikini beach ball on a bouncy castle. On pogo-sticks. This Q’s other dead cert aerobics floorfiller –up, down, Top Rank Tings (yes, sorry about that). Long may they reign.
10. Beeper – The Count And Sinden
Is it Get me on my beeper, Hit me on my beeper or Hear me on my beeper? Been driving me mad since January. A daft load of old rubbish and therefore positively, definitely, indupitably me, me , meeeeeeeee.
They also served
11. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Work - Kelly Rowland
13. Run – Gnarls Barkley
14. How To Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim – XX Teens
15. Morning After Midnight – Adam Green
16. Can’t Speak French – Girls Aloud
17. Needy Girl – Chromeo
18. Letting Go – Team Waterpolo
19. Superstar – Lupe Fiasco
20. Black And Gold - Sam Sparrow
Not even remotely interested in The Foals or Vampire Weekend.
