― 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
Points: 205No. of votes: 10No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: THE STARSTitle: ELEVATOR LOVE LETTERLabel: SetantaYear: 2003
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Sixpence None The Richer meets Dubstar uptown.
Comments: (It made m tear up) especially the "... I'll take her home after midnight, and if she likes I'll tell her lies, of how we'll be in love by the morning" part. I'm welling up thinking about it right now. Spencer Chow
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
in other news, I THINK I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE! it's not catastrophic at all but it will mean I need to recount votes for one track and the eponymous album it's form. If the missing points remain missing then everything from 86 upwards will move up one place and what would've been 75 will now be 86. Argh. And sorry.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
i'll mail you tho cheers
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link