"Bongo Jam" is my only track pick to surface thus far, although "Entropy Reigns..." came close.
Yes, Calista comes in later. She was a contestant on Big Brother's Celebrity Hijack on E4 in early 08, and a snatch of "Bongo Jam" was featured on her introductory VT.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
'Kids' is a strange one. I hate the intro melody when it's on its own (it's fine as part of the chorus and/or smothered in syths), the beat is the dullest thing ever and the two solos are just awful - but the whole has really grown on me. I'm a sucker for that kind of nostalgia I guess, especially with a nice understated melody
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I had to go back and check where I'd put Family Tree on my list. High.
Kids < Time to Pretend
Kids > Everything else MGMT have done except Time to Pretend
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I think "Electric Feel" is miles better than both of those (though no MGMT came close to my list).
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
great day today, 2 of my top 3 are in the 30s.
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
40 - Cassie - Official Girl83.5 points, 6 votes, 2 #1 votes
Official Girl is a bit More Than A Woman, but way more concise, same feeling of lift though and maybe a little slinkier than the usual Cassie track.― I know, right?
That should have been way higher. It's so... streamlined, like it flies along with so little effort.
Happy to see Bongo Jam in there but I have a feeling the only funky house track that'll place any higher will be Do You Mind.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd expected that MGMT song to place much higher as well but I'm happy it didn't.
It might just be the youtube clip (it's the first time hearing it) but Official Girl sounds like it's been mixed incredibly badly? Does it actually sound like that? Because if there is a version where the drums sound crisp, and the voice blends better with the beat etc., I might be interested in hearing it again.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Sad this isn't a little higher but yaaay all the same. Prolly my fav Danja production.
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, yeah, I'd think hearing a non-YouTube version (one in which you can actually hear the bass) might help bring it all together for you.
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Prolly my fav Danja production.
Think it might be mine too.
This was my #1.
― lou, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
prolly my least fav Danja production
― n00bian princess (some dude), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The Lil' Wayne-less version is so much better. Sucks that I can only find it on YouTube!
― lou, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:37 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
no, the beat really does suck.
― n00bian princess (some dude), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
good good. i can never usually tell when it comes to youtube.
― mother russia arsehaven good times (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
39 - Matias Aguayo – Minimal84 points, 7 votes(4 votes, 51.5 points for DJ Koze Maxi Version)126 for DJ Koze Mix in P&J
DJ Koze Mix
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, what's the big deal? sounds like by-the-numbers rnb with a lame-ass singer up top to me.
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― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The beat definitely doesn't sound by-the-numbers to me. I think it's quite odd, starting with the way the kick drums throw the whole thing off-kilter. I mean, I know, "OMG syncopation, big deal", but I think Danja is doing something really fun here.
Again, hearing it not on YouTube helps immensely, I think, and completely agree with Lou about the Wayne-less version being much better.
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
uh, the linearity of it is really cool. agree it would be nice to hear a version without lil wayne. i think the last guest rapper spot i really liked was jay-z in "umbrella" and it had more to do with his delivery than what he was actually saying.
― tricky, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
yikes, I'm typing "I think" a lot this morning xpost
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
no me hace pumpin pumpin pumpin
― tricky, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
crap i hate it when you are watching a youtube clip in a thread and then you post and goodbye song
― tricky, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
re: "Official Girl"- Basically Danja's little vocal bit makes me melt and it reminds me of (not as good but still) Aaliyah.
― lou, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i like "official girl" a lot because of its weightlessness and its urgency
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Aaliyah as a pretty vacant stepford rnb singer?
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, the "not as good" part is definitely because of the vocals. What sounds similar to me is the production--the "quite odd" beat Maciej described reminds me of how Timbaland arguably saved his weirder stuff for Aaliyah.
― lou, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
intersting list guys
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:35 AM Bookmark
Yeah, basically. "Me & U" was awesome because Cassie & R-Les pushed the icy, vacant robot aspect as far as it could go (the amazing production didn't hurt), but everything she's done since has been kind of nonexistant.
― The Reverend (rev), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know, I think Cassie does this sort of wistful sweetness thing ("Not With You," "Official Girl," "Kiss Me,") just as well as she does the detached ice-queen.
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
has she ever shown any personality, like, at all?
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
tbf it's not exactly part of her job description
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
38 - Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day86 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote
Jesus, there is so much righteous anger in that vocal performance (and in the playing), awesome― country matters
OK, after several listens, and some reflection, I've decided that the second verse of "National Shite Day" (the tale of Stringy Bob) is the best 90 seconds of music that will be released this year. The pathos. The damaged tragicomic humanity. The rest of the album's pretty fucking brilliant as well. They have this...infectious knack. Singalong. Fierce.― Just got offed
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I think she's very sweet and likeable on "Is It You?", but I guess that depends on what qualifies as personality for you. xxpost.
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
FUCK YES
entire poll redeemed ;)
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
my (country matters') quote was actually in reference to a different HMHB song, but it totally applies here too :)
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
weakest track yet. sorry, Louis.
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to say that I thought house and techno were going to be virtually unrepresented this year but I'd forgotten about Minimal. Even if the original is better than the DJ Koze version.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Dodgy live recording, Ioannis! The instruments are all wayyyy crisper and fiercer on the recorded version (or of you're actually at the gig).
Actually you can make out most of it, put it down to a lack of understanding of British culture :P
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
haha--that's probably very true.
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"Even if the original is better than the DJ Koze version."
^^ cosign.
― tricky, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd never heard that Kelley Polar song before (or indeed anything by him) and it's excellent. Thanks ILM.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
37 - Lil Wayne - Got Money (Ft. T-Pain)90.5 points, 7 votes120 in P&J
got money' is really underrated, sure the beat is pop-cheesy and you've got t-pain in the chorus AGAIN but weezy rides it pretty nimbly, something's constantly piquing your interest (handclaps, "i'm a great dane", umbrella riffing &c)― lex pretend
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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Ugh who the fuck put all those unwanted additional vocals over Bongo Jam? Rub.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I like and voted for the Cassie track. It's the constantly overlapping vocals that do it for me, they keep you on your toes all the way through. The guest rap is pretty rubbish, agreed - much encouraged by the suggestion that there's a Wayne-less version somewhere.
I really like Minimal. What is it, Brazilian?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Chilean.
Wayne-less O.G.:
― lou, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
hey re: official girl, the wayneless version is indeed far superior, and yeah the youtube is super poorly mixed-sounding and makes it sound way too cluttered. besides the great hook what i like about the song is how clean it all sounds; the production makes it super spacious and for me enhances the sentiment the song's trying to get across...it strikes me as really innocent and sincere and good-willed.
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks. It did occur to me that the vocal arrangement might be a way of covering up the weak singing that I'm always hearing about. It's great anyway, I can't think of another track that does so many different things with its vocals
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
enjoyed the screamer in the lil wayne video
― caek, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link