― xhuxk, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Fefe Dobson, "Stupid Little Love Song"Hilary Duff, "Fly"Skye Sweetnam, "Billy S."Skye Sweetnam, "Tangled Up in Me"Joss Stone, "The Choking Kind"Joss Stone, "Super Duper Love"Avril Lavigne, "My Happy Ending"Avril Lavigne, "Together"The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine"Jojo, "Leave (Get Out)"Alicia Keys, "Karma"Michelle Branch, "Are You Happy Now?"Kelly Clarkson, "Miss Independent"Kelly Clarkson, "The Trouble With Love Is"Kelly Clarkson w/ Tamyra Gray, "You Thought Wrong"Avril Lavigne, "Sk8ter Boi"Avril Lavigne, "Complicated"Loretta Lynn, "Family Tree"Kelly Clarkson, "Behind These Hazel Eyes"Kelly Clarkson, "Breakaway"Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone"
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
(But I'd only claimed she was upthread so that someone could challange me and I could respond with, "Oops, I misunderstood. It turns out she was merely a teenmom." But no one took my bait.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't really know what in Evanescence other than the opening to "Bring Me to Life" sounds like "Fly," which generally flies to undark regions.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 30 January 2006 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Let the rain fall down and wake my dreamsLet it wash away my sanity'Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna screamLet the rain fall down, I'm coming clean
However, the remix of "Come Clean" on Most Wanted does have a short break that vocodorizes the vocal and moves into a techno pound-pound-pound that could propel you into the dark romantic sublime if that's what you are absolutely set on. It functions similarly to ye olde Yardbirds rave-up or a James Brown gospel vamp. (This, in fact, is what a lot of techno is shooting for.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 30 January 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link
So, anyway, for the time being (until someone thinks of a better term), I'm thinking of calling "Hear Me" and ilk "secular goth," the word "secular" not just meaning without religion but also without all the mists and shadows and bright-side/dark-side salvation angst. Or, more accurately, the shadows and bright-vs-dark salvation angst is appropriated by pop romance for its s/he-loves-me, s/he-loves-me-not, I-am-free, I-am-trapped stories. Musically the "dark" chord intervals and progressions are less prominent but still there.
(Avril's "Naked," by the way, is another song in which the music isn't quite willing to listen to the lyrics, which are about finally getting someone to love and trust. The sound won't altogether let go of its menace.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
(Jeez, I'm just losing it as a proofreader.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
>Lots of catchy tough glammy post-Runaways girl rock songs on the *Rollergirls* soundtrack (apparently there's a TV show, though I never heard of it since I never watch TV except *Everybody Hates Chris* these days) - the obvious Donnas, but also gals I never heard of called Angie Heaton ("Rollerskate," copyright 1988), The Addictions ("Rollergirl," copyright 2004) and the Sweethearts ("Never Give Up," copyright 2004.) Also some good country and disco stuff.
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
(george explains the TV show on the metal thread, if you're interested)
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 4 February 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
And 'Break Me Shake Me' was the underrated gem of that album!
― Abby (abby mcdonald), Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I might buy a Savage Garden comp!
― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Rolling World Music 2006 Thread
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 February 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 February 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I dunno. I am kind of liking "Animal Song" (especially its Diddley/glitter drum rumble start) and "Love Can Move You" (fast beautiful high-register electro disco building momentum toward rock and at least partially about New York) and maybe "Affirmation" (long list of stuff they say they believe in though they're probably lying about a lot of them) and "Hold Me"s boy-band prettiness and the funk and Jesus references and Calvin Klein Obsession references and train rhythms on some of the other B-sides on this new best of. Seems like a smartly chosen selection, and in general I'd forgotten how weird these guys' words could be. I'll always have a sentimental attachment to the debut, but if Anthony's gotta buy one or the other, I can't swear that the best-of wouldn't be the better long-term investment. (Debut's more *manageable* at 11 songs not 17, though, and it's got their best ones.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 February 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 February 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
So...
With a name as common as Dan James googling didn't get me anywhere immediately, though I may try again when I have more time. Googling Leah Haywood, however, I got a young Australian singer who hit in 2001 in the Antipodes with a dance pop album, some of which had input from the Cheiron Swedes, some of which was recorded in Los Angeles, little of which sold in the States. I don't know if this is the same woman as the Aly & AJ Haywood, and I never heard the Haywood album. Any info?
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 6 February 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
"Truly Madly Deeply" was maybe my second or third least favorite on the first album, though I haven't listened this century. I think I've got a promo cassette of it somewhere. Hayes has an amazing voice.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 6 February 2006 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Last week 'Breaking Free' by Zac Efron & Vanessa Anne Hudgens debuted at number 84 on the Hot 100. This week, when it moved to number 4 it rewrote the history books as no single has ever jumped from such a low number to the top in one week. Also, last week Zac Efron was the first artist to ever have two singles debut simultaneously. This week that record was tied by Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Gabreel with 'What I've Been Looking For' and 'Bop To The Top.'
Billboard Hot 100
4. Zac Efron & Vanessa Anne Hudgens - Breaking Free 23. Zac Efron - Get'cha Head In The Game28. Zac Efron & Vanessa Anne Hudgens - Start Of Something New34. High School Musical Cast - We're All In This Together35. Ashley Tisdale & Lucas Gabreel - What I've Been Looking For43. High School Musical Cast - Stick To The Status Quo62. Ashley Tisdale & Lucas Gabreel - Bop To The Top
― Abby (abby mcdonald), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
There's also the input of "C. Michalka," who as far as I can tell is their mother. She (co-)wrote the one about kidnapping that, not surprisingly, hasn't made it to RD yet.
According to Allmusic, it's the same Leah Haywood (worked with Jorgen Elofsson and Andreas Carlsson...interesting). Dan James did random production work in "world" music (again AMG's words, not mine).
― nameom (nameom), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I was actually asked to pitch a version of the rollergirls soundtrack. Looks like the one that made it was better than mine in that it had actual rollerskating content.
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/w/don?v=ISBzaPPURvI&search=miranda%20don
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link