― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - "Juicy" (401 points, 22 votes)
http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/soulrb/closeup/CU20020917D/juicy.JPG
"I find "Juicy" by the Notorious BIG to be very sad. Talking about his shitty life growing up & how great he has it now, there's still a strong undercurrent of meloncholy to it (probably coming from the instrumental track), that the riches don't compensate for the pain. The fact that he was dead like three years later makes it worse."--Mark
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
NEW RADICALS - "You Get What You Give" (414 points, 26 votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000INL7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"I love the new radicals cus they are fun and groovy.Some people feel offended by those qualities in music. I have no idea why." -- supercub
"Incidently, he did a song for Hanson on their new album! Apparently he no longer hates them." -- djdee2005
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
is either the best or worst line in rap history
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
THE PET SHOP BOYS - "Being Boring" (427 points, 22 votes)
http://petshopboysinparis.free.fr/boring.jpg
comments?
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/mbv/mbv_tremolo.jpg
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
there are so many classic lines in "juicy"
'birthdays were the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thir-stay"
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
“Can You Forgive Her?” – A quick reminder, then: the song is about a gay man, closeted even to himself, whose female lover has guessed the truth about him. The song’s invisible narrator is dragging him back through his past, forcing him to confront his feelings – and his loathing for her and himself – for the first time. Now I know it is incredibly cheesy to talk about ‘adult subjects’ getting into the Top 10 but unlike shitty ooh-its-about-heroin songs like “Perfect Day” this actually is groundbreaking, adult, and brilliantly done: a conflicted psychodrama on a par with the greatest soul music. And the music is magnificent. Lyrical intelligence isn’t a prerequisite for great pop, duh, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it when it turns up, and nothing like this turned up in the charts again until “Ms Jackson”.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
"Common People" will be #1, of course.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, it depends on what you mean by "skewed" because they're placing a lot of songs but they're placing lower because of split voting.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
PULP - "Disco 2000" (440 points, 24 votes, 1 first place vote)
http://coverart.last.fm/300x300/4447.jpg
"when the '99-'00, changeover happened I put on Prince "1999" and then followed up with "Disco 2000" for a large party of friends in CA and, while none of them knew it, due to it's being so yearny and pounding and DISCO people were on the verge of tears. it rulez."-- Spencer Chow
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - "Papua New Guinea" (441 points, 25 votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001D7Q.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
" "Papua New Guinea" stands up as a gorgeous pop record, whether it would work on a dancefloor (or in a chill out room) these days I neither know nor care." -- Tico Tico
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
How cool is that?
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
though i'm 100% positive that my #1 (Hit Parade w/ Cath Carroll - "Autobiography") won't place. And I'm having strong doubts about Right Said Fred, 2 Bad Mice and Blur's "No Distance"
― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
OK "Born To Run" minus the bad poetry. "Common People" has grandeur without being grandiose.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
BRITNEY SPEARS - "Baby One More Time" (441 points, 27 votes, 1 first place vote)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JCWV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"'Baby One More Time' is one of the very best pop tunes of the 1990ies. the impeccably pre-horny max martin production, the hookline, britney's longing vibrato voice, everything is perfect here. this song shits on everything she's made since..."-- Jay Kid
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link