UK Top 40, w/e 20th August 2005

01. James Blunt - You're Beautiful
02. Daniel Powter - Bad Day

^^ wau

that's an epochal one-two right there.

This was the third week in a row of Blunt keeping Powter off number one, btw. Both were then dislodged one place exactly the week after by McFly.

my vote is for 'oh'. surprised that i know a decent number of these.

The following is a blurb from that week's Stylus Singles Jukebox:

This is quite nicely produced for a rock song! It has an effective little tune, too: chord progressions in all the right places, small-scale epic. And the middle eight is quite nicely menacing. Now please hand it over to Avril immediately so we don't have the problem of the vocals any more: she can sneer and pout a million times better than this boy can, judging by his rather nondescript efforts here.
[6]

a) By whom?
b) About which of these singles?

the magic numbers were really that popular in the uk? what the fuck? i thought they were one of those bands that gets covered in the front of the book of SPIN as "big in the uk" but no one over there actually cares \(o_O)/

i voted 09. Mariah Carey - We Belong Together duh

tempted to vote for GASOLINA tho

a) By whom?
b) About which of these singles?

― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, July 9, 2009 10:08 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i guessed this 100% correctly.

This song was as big as The Magic Numbers ever got, really, but it's not a huge surprise to see it do this well - as I remember, this was around the time that downloads were sort-of kind-of getting phased in, so it was still possible for fanbase buy-ins of physical singles to propel acts like them towards the top 10. Plus "Love Me Like You" was incredibly radio-friendly: big, shiny, propulsive strumming, pretty sizeable chorus, rather nice backing vocals...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n2kcLas-c4

Also feel I should put in the Roll Deep video, in case people aren't familiar with that (it has been nearly four years now):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMjAoifjp0

http://misssssskind.no.sapo.pt/dbimg/EminemAssLikeThat200532826_f.jpg

Couldn't help myself

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?

a) Tom Paulin
b) "Ass Like That"

OMFG It's about the Gorillaz isn't it?

a) Dom Passantino
b) Lady Sovereign - 9 To 5

'St. Petersburg' is easily the best thing here, and doesn't get enough love

Is there any way a mod can out the inevitable tit that votes for Kaiser Chiefs?

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".

frankly, it hurts not voting for mariah or daddy yankee :(

1. oh
2. we belong together
3. gasolina
4. lose control
5. since u been gone

uh

6. diamonds from sierra leone

either don't remember or don't like the rest :/

oh 'dreams' is pretty nice actually.

lack of quantity ob redeemed by 'oh' being the finest song of this decade

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 cookin
they got them fellas lookin

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 element
throwing things, crying, trying to figure where the hell i went
wrong, the pain reflected in this song
ain't even half of what i'm feelin inside
i need you need you back in my life~~~~~

<3 mimi's run-on lyrics

a) Dom
b) Mattafix
man i hated that song.

the ciara-vs-mariah quandary is kinda killing me here.

the best part of "we belong together" is

i change the dial, tryin to catch a break
and 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

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

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

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.

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.

Super Soaraway Stevie G
6, 14, 27, 29, 34

Vladi Smicer
5, 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 Cheyrou
1, 2, 8, 20, 26, 39

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.

based on one top40? don't be absurd

2005 > 2009

steve you don't remember 'we belong together'?!?!

i do, not my thing

based on one top40? don't be absurd

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.

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HELL YES

ciara got that fire like ohhh
round here we ridin slowww
we keep it gutta u should knowww
gettin crunk up in the club, we get lowww