― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 165No. of votes: 9No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: DEAD PREZTitle: HIP HOPLabel: LoudYear: 2000
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Like classic PE, militant noise you can roll, bounce and shake to.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 166No. of votes: 10No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: THE STREETSTitle: THE IRONY OF IT ALLLabel: Locked OnYear: 2001
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One of the highlights from 'Original Pirate Material', Mike Skinner's amusing social commentary on the hypocrisy and double-standards surrounding the culture of drinking and smoking in society...the beauty being it transcends that to touch on class and character divides (middle class student vs about-town hooligan), with the change in music highlighting the conflict and contrast further but the tongue always remaining in cheek. It may not be the most inspired, radical observation to make but that doesn't make it any less true. And more importantly, it's bloody hilarious (as is the video natch).
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 168No. of votes: 9No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: BLURTitle: OUT OF TIMELabel: ParlophoneYear: 2003
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(ILX server too busy again for search results...help!)...I don't know, perhaps this will be considered one of the most surprising appearances in the list for many. Something you either love or loathe? If it CAN stir one of those emotions in you then it can't be all bad. What I do like about it is some of the effects - Albarn's ghostly echoes of himself when 'feeling the sunshine' a confused mix of relief and despair, the subtle change in tone of the track as it turns, slowly, that corner from A to B, it's disregard for conventional song formula (when is a verse not a verse? can a bridge be a bridge if there is no chorus? if a tree falls in the forest but only Damon Albarn is there to hear it, does anyone still give a shit?) and the way it somehow ends with a cool sun peeking out from the grim overcast nature of the previous three minutes. I don't know how relevant it is that it's a Blur song...it seems to be trying not to be a Blur song, or even a song at all, which can be construed as intriguing, five out of every ten seconds...wait I've got it. If a tree falls in the forest ON Damon Albarn, THEN this song would make sense. Maybe THAT's why it's here.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 173No. of votes: 8No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: BLACK DICETitle: THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAMELabel: Fat CatYear: 2003
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From the pictured album Beaches & Canyons, just under 10 minutes long, tall, dark waves of...something else. Emoceanal, you might say, if you're looking for a slap.
Comments: This (album) rules, straight up. It could use a little more variation, but the screaming feedback/drone/noise/electronic bleeps n' blips make a great soundtrack to being stoned out of your gourd, going to sleep, or driving late at night. The only complaint I've ever heard by someone I've played it for is that "YOU PLAY THIS ALL THE TIME. I AM SICK OF IT. IT SOUNDS LIKE ELEPHANTS DYING." by my girlfriend... Ian Johnson
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Grrrrrrrr.....
― The Avenger, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I would have voted for Music Is My Radar if it had been nominated.
― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 180No. of votes: 13No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: TWISTA (FEATURING KANYE WEST & JAMIE FOXX)Title: SLOW JAMZLabel: AtlanticYear: 2003
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There are huge tunes and then there are HUGE TUNES, tributes and TRIBUTES, cheeky digs at Michael Jackson and CHEEKY DIGS AT MICHAEL JACKSON. This is a kitchen sink affair that not only incorporates the aformentioned elements but adds comedy bongos, sexy low female voices talking, sexy high female voices talking, laid back smooth soul chorus, classic sunshine flavour of bygone eras and breakneck rhymin' from debutant Twista to result in one hell of an anthem. In fact it packs so much into such a small space you might even be left wondering what the fuss is all about just because your ears 'blinked' for that one moment. Apparently though it's all about the Collipark remix. Now, with Vandross being cool again, how long for the Ray Parker Jr and Oran Juice Jones comebacks?
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't believe anyone could pick out any one Grandaddy song from the rest of their fucking boring songs to nominate or indeed vote for.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 180No. of votes: 7No. of #1 votes: 3
Artist: SHELLACTitle: A PRAYER TO GODLabel: Touch & GoYear: 2003
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Comments: This is the story of Steve losing his girlfriend, but it also manages to show an unseen side of Shellac. Steve is plaintive, almost humble, initially but manages to conceal his feelings of betrayal. When he turns to the man his ire rises, culminating in the plea for his death that dominates the track. That said, his spite is kept restrained till it can be kept in no more, and explodes over the penultimate repetition leaving a shattered man making one last desperate effort. Closes with 'Amen'. Quietly. I actually prefer the cover by Maestro Echoplex, but this is the song to play to people you want to convert to Shellac. aldo cowpat
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Glad to see my nomination ("Things Will Never Be The Same") made it. I can't remember if that #1 vote was mine.
― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 184No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: JAMELIATitle: SUPERSTARLabel: ParlophoneYear: 2003
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Comments: Common sense suggests that if you laud enough British R&B hopes one of them will end up producing a great single. Plucky Jamelia's breakthrough hit is pretty unassuming, it was only after hearing it about a dozen times that I realised how much I loved the chorus, and it still feels like a sturdy bit of craft in the midst of all these more spectacular pop triumphs. It's a reliable banker for the party DJ too, even if it never raises the roof. But perhaps we should take a moment to appreciate the modest, hard-working pop song - and give three hearty cheers for British engineering excellence, too. Tom Ewing
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 198No. of votes: 9No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: THE DISMEMBERMENT PLANTitle: FACE OF THE EARTHLabel: DesotoYear: 2001
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From the pictured album Change, more charged but staid indie fodder for those that find they like it.
Comments: (All I could find was:) Face of the Earth by the Dismemberment Plan is about your lover disappearing in front of your eyes in a sci-fi stylee...Tom Ewing
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 201No. of votes: 10No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: ANDREW WKTitle: SHE IS BEAUTIFULLabel: MercuryYear: 2002
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Is she ever. The guitars nag and push more than the rock cliches they reference by being more stripped down harmonically and melodically and more beefed up sonically to the point of being this mass of pop texture. More of a 'real tune' here but not so much so that it's not still something you could beat your head inwards to. Sundar Subramanian
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 202No. of votes: 14No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: UNDERWORLDTitle: TWO MONTHS OFFLabel: Junior Boys OwnYear: 2002
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What if you listen to the full length version of this from the A Hundred Days Off album right now? What will it do, if anything? I am listening to it as I write, looking for that same feeling I got when I first heard the radio edit on Radio 1's Essential Selection (again and again a crucial source for hearing the big tunes by the big guys first) over two years ago now. Instant satisfaction. A perfect moment (and I was just kotching at home not doing anything in particular except thinking about where to go later that night). Being able to attach a memory like that to a track always seems to be a major factor in shaping your view of it's quality. On a technical level this is classic Underworld - the influence of Darren Emerson lingering - a broad, nagging, simplistic synth hook (inviting inevitable comparisons with Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better With You', Pete Heller's 'Big Love' and other copycat anthems) suggesting a desire for a 'hit' as much as a return to margin. But add the tumbling bells, the somewhat incongruous, observational speech extracts and a more straightforward, obvious message of love from Karl Hyde and you've got a Summer banger with mass appeal. And I can still get that feeling.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I am a Blur fan and 'Out Of Time' is merely average.
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link