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Couldn't help myself
― Bo'para Selecta! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:28 (fourteen years ago) link
YES YOU BLOODY COULD
Another blurb from that week's Jukebox:
Yes, it may be a distillation of ten years worth of "black" music listened to by stoned teenagers (trip-hop, undie rap, dancehall, dub), it may be like a Mercury prize ticklist, it may sound like a dinner party at Roni Size's house where Steve Lamacq goes over the history of British hip-hop during the cheese and port, it may be cornier than James E Cornette, but my head nods so much during this you'd think I had Parkinson's. Partly through beauty, partly through rhythm, partly through "Yes, this song has made me think about what life is like today". Beautiful. [10]
a) By whom?b) About which of these singles?
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:28 (fourteen years ago) link
a) Tom Paulinb) "Ass Like That"
― Bo'para Selecta! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:31 (fourteen years ago) link
OMFG It's about the Gorillaz isn't it?
― Bo'para Selecta! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
a) Dom Passantinob) Lady Sovereign - 9 To 5
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
'St. Petersburg' is easily the best thing here, and doesn't get enough love
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there any way a mod can out the inevitable tit that votes for Kaiser Chiefs?
― Bo'para Selecta! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, "St Petersburg" really is rather underrated, but as for best thing here... hmm. Am tempted to go for the secateurs-and-trowel remix of "Fading Like A Flower".
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
frankly, it hurts not voting for mariah or daddy yankee :(
1. oh2. we belong together3. gasolina4. lose control5. since u been gone
uh
6. diamonds from sierra leone
either don't remember or don't like the rest :/
― lex pretend, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
oh 'dreams' is pretty nice actually.
lack of quantity ob redeemed by 'oh' being the finest song of this decade
― lex pretend, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
ciara dancing on the car roof while luda does his thing = classic
we keep it gutta you should know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QWAZYp8MYc
they got their southern cookinthey got them fellas lookin
― lex pretend, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link
then again this is probably the finest ballad of the decade
wait a minute this is too deep~~~ too deep~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIG6CT8MuE
i'm feelin all out of my elementthrowing things, crying, trying to figure where the hell i wentwrong, the pain reflected in this songain't even half of what i'm feelin insidei need you need you back in my life~~~~~
<3 mimi's run-on lyrics
― lex pretend, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
a) Domb) Mattafixman i hated that song.
the ciara-vs-mariah quandary is kinda killing me here.
― la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the best part of "we belong together" is
i change the dial, tryin to catch a breakand then i hear babyface
i really have never seen a bigger differential in between how mundane an action is and how heartbreaking the lyric makes it seem
― ruffalo stance (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
the 'lose control' video is so amazing...the choreography, the costumery, the wtf-is-ciara-flying-up-and-sticking-to-the-wall???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khgIVMUvihg
― lex pretend, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
as far as ciara swagger pseudo-raps go i think "echo" one ups "oh" but "oh" has luda's amazing verse - my lone reservation about "oh" is that it always felt just a biiiiiit too leaden - i know the brooding, stomping qualities of it are supposed to be the point but after i had heard it enough i kind of would get bored until luda's part
― ruffalo stance (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i still think it's an undeniable classic for the record
I'm having much temporal confusion here, very few of these songs are occupying the same mental place in time for me, yet here they are.
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
At the time: "Ooh La La" vs. "Lose Control".
Today, it's "Feel Good Inc" vs. "We Belong Together". As I'm still a bit pissed at Mariah for trampling over "I'll Be There", Damon gets it.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Super Soaraway Stevie G6, 14, 27, 29, 34
Vladi Smicer5, 7, 13, 15, 19, 23, 28, 31, 35
Djimi Traore (includes ones i haven't heard/don't remember)3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 30, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 40
Bruno Cheyrou1, 2, 8, 20, 26, 39
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a woeful Top 40. Voted for Ciara & Luda, but that's only because I didn't notice Gasolina in there. Lose Control probably in third.
Everything else = ARGH. There's a fairly compelling argument for 2005 being the worst year for pop this decade.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link
based on one top40? don't be absurd
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
2005 > 2009
― lex pretend, Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
steve you don't remember 'we belong together'?!?!
i do, not my thing
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Based on the year in general... looking back there seems so little that was good and almost everything big I can remember was pretty woeful.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 July 2009 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 13 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
HELL YES
ciara got that fire like ohhhround here we ridin slowwwwe keep it gutta u should knowwwgettin crunk up in the club, we get lowww
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link