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"electric feel" is a great disco ballad, str8 up

and yeah it's a great pop song, the vocals are what make it anyway

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:15 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't like the vocals either tho. :-/ Dude sounds so meek. I guess one thing about the two Hot Chip songs I've heard that I do like ("Playboy and "Shake a Fist") is that he parlays this meekness into sounding kind of spooked.

yeah the meekness is the point and the attraction though - i mean the vocals are supposed to sound soft and vulnerable. i couldn't really imagine a more 'strong' voice singing hot chip songs

he's no Jonathan Richman.

man i had not taken MGMT seriously but both the songs that placed in the poll totally rule.

"Electric Feel" still sounds like an outtake from Midnite Vultures to me. I understand the Prince touchstones, but it doesn't swing at all.

but it doesn't swing at all

Yes, exactly. 'Electric Feel' is really plodding and crude-sounding. I can't stand the singer's manner either, or maybe I just don't like his face.

what does 'swinging' have to do with it - it's obviously supposed to move vertically not horizontally

by which i mean that i think it's supposed to be a lighters up anthem with a great bassline not some like sweaty dance workout

"Electric Feel" is the least of the three singles to come from the album, but still cool...I guess. "Kids" is my favorite of the three, though, so what the hell do I know.

yeah i guess i don't think electric feel is trying to swing and i think hot chip is.

man i had not taken MGMT seriously but both the songs that placed in the poll totally rule

yeah, me too

maybe I just don't like his face

im going to use this as my defense as much as possible from now on.

"why don't you like joy division???"
"maybe i just don't like his face...ever think of that?"

also, agree that electric feel doesn't swing, ergo is somewhat useless. time to pretend was my no 1, and i don't think i picked any other mgmt tunes.

the vocals are supposed to sound soft and vulnerable (re. Hot Chip)

That's as may be, but to me it's more feeble and wimpy. I can't stand the beat either (as previously referred to). I keep thinking the proper beat is going to come in, but it doesn't. Not that I want some great big dance beat to come in, but something a bit more solid.

what does 'swinging' have to do with it - it's obviously supposed to move vertically not horizontally

I guess the way it's constructed is intentional but I just don't like the rhythmic effect. It sounds leaden too me. No bounce.

yeah i guess how it could be seen as leaden, but i think that just means your misconstruing the intent of the song. like i said i think it's basically a ballad - you don't dance to ballads. unless you're slow dancing, and i think you could slow dance to "electric feel"

also i think the bassline is pretty bouncy

It doesn't come across as a ballad (not the song but the arrangement). It's got this big heavy downbeat, 4 beats to the bar feel to it, which is what I don't like.

good for walking and high-fivin

Isn't "Electric Feel" around 100 bpm? A bit fast for a ballad, and the drums almost play a march. Beck doing "Road To Nowhere".

14 - Aeroplane feat. Kathy Diamond - Whispers
158 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote
240 in P&J, 31 in p4k

What I love about them as original producers - the sense that on every single occasion they're consciously trying to make the most enjoyable record imaginable. And their ability to mix pop-disco and e-transcendence and that sense of wide-eyed wonder without ever really coming over as twee or cloying or annoying. Whispers is my favourite single of this year by several light years.
-Matt DC

Wow! I'd never heard that Aeroplane track. Really, really good. Well done everybody else!

best song on the list so far

that's very good. Lovely-looking video as well

Hadn't heard this before tonight, may well have voted for it if I had. Based on their remixes for Friendly Fires and Grace Jones and this I think they'll have one of the albums of 2009 when it's released in the Autumn.

It's got this big heavy downbeat, 4 beats to the bar feel to it, which is what I don't like.

― dubmill, Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:59 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sry for pedantry, but most of the song is in 6/4 time.

That was my #1 - I thought it might actually sneak into the Top 10 if the right people voted it high enough, but 14 isn't too bad at all :)

(Got a feeling the Friendly Fires song might be propelled quite high by a combination of original votes and remix votes, people seemed to keep nominating the remix at any rate)

Not so nuts about the Aeroplane there, the vox don't do a lot for me. She's no Roisin Murphy is she?

Well no she's not on Roisin's level, but she's a pretty good vocalist... you should check out her album Miss Diamond To You lots of great production by Maurice Fulton.

That version of Whispers isn't quite as good as the full six minute version but it gets the point across. Is that the real video? It works really well anyway.

I still need to hear that Kathy Diamond album.

Matt tell me you've at least heard her "I Need You"...

Sry for pedantry, but most of the song is in 6/4 time

As soon as I posted about '4 beats to the bar' I knew you would pick up on that. But you know what I meant. Also, if you listen to the drums, what they play is indistinguishable from a 4/4 pattern. But yes, I SHOULD have said It's got this big heavy downbeat, 6 beats to the bar feel to it, which is what I don't like.

Tim, probably, we saw her play at Glastonbury. Unfortunately it was at 11am in the Guardian Lounge and most people were sitting in armchairs, hungover, reading the paper and drinking tea, so probably not the ideal setting.

wow hadn't heard Whispers before. this is great.

13 - Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
161.5 points, 16 votes
64 in P&J, 7 in p4k

It shouldn't work, but it does. A maximalist masterpiece: synth stabs; nice arpeggios; "It Takes Two"-ish samples; trance builds; cheesy sax; New Order high-octave bass outro. All it's missing is a hip-house verse warning of the dangers of actually setting your heart on fire.
― Shane Black-Macken

idgi

I love that one as well - it threatened to be overplayed all summer but never actually got there.

hooray for aeroplane! although i think the cosmic jam remix of grace jones is better than theirs by some distance

My favorite track on the Miss Diamond To You album is "Between the Lines". The multitracked vocals in the
chorus get me every time.

i have another aeroplane as my number 1.

kathy diamond's vocals seems to really divide people. i think she compliments both aeroplane and maurice fulton's music very well.

I'm disappointed by that one (Cut Copy). The repeated line is such a cop-out - there are a couple of verses already, why not go for it a little bit more and turn it into a proper song? It's not manic or hypnotic enough to bear that amount of repetition. As it stands I'm switching off midway through, when it's a nice-sounding thing and deserves better

geez, seems = seem and compliment = complement

are we going to see the top 10 today?

Whoah, can't believe Kim & Jessie didn't finish top ten!

As soon as I posted about '4 beats to the bar' I knew you would pick up on that. But you know what I meant. Also, if you listen to the drums, what they play is indistinguishable from a 4/4 pattern. But yes, I SHOULD have said It's got this big heavy downbeat, 6 beats to the bar feel to it, which is what I don't like.

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― dubmill, Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:17 PM Bookmark

I should have added an "I feel you tho" to my pedantry

no, top 10 is tomorrow, we'll get up to 11 today

that Aeroplane is A++ thank u all for voting it I needed to hear that

hearts on fire is the jam of all jams

it was cemented as my fav song from the album for a while but last night i thought that maybe "so haunted" is better

not a single vote for the hercules and love affair remix of "whispers" is interesting/perplexing. maybe it just wasn't nominated.