it's also partly cuz cheryl cole has somehow become one of the most insufferable ubiquitous celebrities around i'm never quite sure about the extent to which people buy the ridiculous "nation's sweetheart" thing she tries to craft ham-fistedly around herself.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Sugababes were much better 00-04.
Girls Aloud's rubbish dancing has always been charming. "We are too drunk or busy being wags to learn routines, lets just do some silly hand gestures" (later stolen by beyonce.)
RIP Cheryl btw. What Ashley can't kill, malaria sure can.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ahoy ahoy OTM xpost
shouldn't let Out of Control (despite a couple of great tracks) and Cheryl's ubiquity/dreams of breaking US with bland R&B pop ruin the glory days.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex it's only going to get worse
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Jul/Week1/15660008.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ahoy ahoy otm re: rachel stevens btw
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Biology's chorus str8 rips off my favourite track of the entire 00's (U Schnauss' On My Own) - this means it's pretty good, although I can never quite separate the two in my head
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
mutya buena is the kind of pop heroine that none of girls aloud could ever be. sugababes effectively died when she left (i guess "about you now" was one last hurrah)
come and get it is still a good album, surprisingly, lol rachel stevens though.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Which people are you talking about? The people that post here, of course not. But yeah she's suffering from massive overexposure and her solo stuff is beyond dreadful. But really the actual girls themselves feel kind of irrelevant to the records, where there's barely a trace of personality in their voices. I still can't tell which is which.
I'm amazed that people thought to nominate So Good and Negotiate With Love but neither of those people plumped for I Said Never Again But Here We Are which was another high-water mark for this type of pop.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Sex god to GOD
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP :(
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2005_Deuce_Bigalow__European_Gigolo/005DBE_Rachel_Stevens_001.jpg
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
rob schneider gave the nations favourite racist cheryl tweedy malaria?
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol is it wrong if i legit liked cheryl's first two solo singles?
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
xp to mdc - i meant the ~general public~ really, i genuinely have no idea whether people buy into cheryl cole or not.
"i said never again" hasn't dated very well, "so good" was never good at all, "negotiate with love"/"funny how"/"dumb dumb"/"nothing good about this goodbye" are the rachel stevens keepers imo.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
17. PORTISHEAD "The Rip" (2008) [413 points, 19 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOaLjtR4mw
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
aw
― my funny mommy hole, sweet funny mommy hole (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
But really the actual girls themselves feel kind of irrelevant to the records, where there's barely a trace of personality in their voices. I still can't tell which is which.
they were at their best when they had that collective pissed-up girl-gang personality to their vox, à la "no good advice", but it was really striking how useless cheryl cole's voice was on its own - like even worse than any of the spice girls, and they could barely hit any notes at all!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_E1-t6h4ZE
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh shit. That Girls Aloud song is goood. I'd always ignored it before because I thought I'd heard it.
It is funny, though, how one girl's always cut out of the shot. They shoot that video in wide screen or something?
Also, you can tell which is which because they go out of their way to make their hair colors distinctly different from one another. Can't have two girls with the same shade!
― Parenthetical Grillz, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I made my own mp3 version of that when you first posted it and I still listen to it every once in a while. xp
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
'the rip' wasn't a standout track for me on that album so i'm still confused at its 'hit single' status on ilm
i voted for 'machine gun' which seems like much more of a statement on its own rather than a part of an album
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Machine Gun >>> The Rip
― Parenthetical Grillz, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted for 'Machine Gun' and not 'The Rip' because I think Machine Gun is a brilliant, brilliant song and the Rip a nice little experiment
but yeah my prediction upthread of The Rip in 10-20 and Machine Gun in the top 10 is still on
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wouldn't be surprised to see machine gun still make it.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost re girls aloud: Nothing wrong with the video. The VEVO version is cropped for some reason.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
16. PORTISHEAD "Machine Gun" (2008) [424.5 points, 18 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8azH3iJWsI&feature=fvst
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
The Rip is so unbelievably gorgeous - I'd love for Portishead to use it as a jumping off point for the next album. They're very good at doom-laden but it feels like they can do it in their sleep by now.
(xpost lololol)
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
No point sitting on this since people are already talking about it.
Portishead went back-to-back.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I'm happy my vote established the correct order, at least! :D
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually gave Small more than 10 points more than Machine Gun, because Small is pretty much Portishead's crowning achievement and a quite staggering piece of music on any level IMO
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the same people voted for both portishead songs then?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
no, as said above I only voted for Machine Gun
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that slowed down "the rip" more than the orig
nylon smile is the only track i care abt on that album
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
The Rip is so unbelievably gorgeous - I'd love for Portishead to use it as a jumping off point for the next album.
What actually happened was that The Horrors used it as a jumping off point for their big 8-minute single, which I ended up preferring to The Rip (SB me)
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
if you insist
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
wow! this entire top 20 has been pretty amazing so far.
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that if you don't like "Machine Gun", you don't like melancholy death robots, and if you don't like melancholy death robots, well you're no friend of mine.
― my funny mommy hole, sweet funny mommy hole (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dan pretty much has it in one there
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Melancholy death robots don't need to be liked by anyone unless they're emo losers.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Bought "Third" because of ILM love, listened to it, didn't remember a thing from it. "Rip" sounds great to me now though. "Machine Gun" I can't seem to hear as a song, only as a collage.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Well of COURSE the melancholy death robots don't care! I do, though.
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
15. LADY GAGA "Bad Romance" (2009) [442.5 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
First shit song in the top 20. I wish it would go away :(
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
:P to you, sir.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i never understood the fuss over that one. if the video didn't come out i probably wouldn't have listened to it more than twice. i can't believe it's THIS high, really. recency effect? fuck idk
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a decent song! Personally I would have picked "Telephone" and "Paparazzi" over it, though.
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
If this song had come out on January 1, 2005, I'd still have been voting for it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hitchcock verse is pretty great
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Somehow I expected "Bad Romance" to sound more modern. But is there any sense in which this couldn't have been a hit in 1988? Maybe the nonsense singing at the beginning, but that's it. Also, I think the woodblock sounds like was recorded in a different room from everything else.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This one should've been top ten.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
But is there any sense in which this couldn't have been a hit in 1988
Yeah I get that. I think it's got a very specific type of naffness that you don't get much of these days that I find really offputting in pop - its got a female Adam Ant vibe to it and that is total DO NOT WANT as far as I'm concerned.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link