Share! Praise! Adore! The ten best tracks you heard, in 2004!

9. Vitalic - Fanfares

Fades in too long too quiet, speakers up until those military drums are enough on their own, make you an army. Every other dance record I've loved this year has done things with expectation, made me wait as neon cold goosebumps hatched across my back. If there's a nod to that here it's that moment's silence after "fanfare number one-and-two", a halfbeat heartbeat to laugh before your arms and legs send you flying across the room. But the second time's it's a roll short, sudden and brutal and right, chasing after the beat as it tears itself apart, messy as revolution.

Silver coins. Shine.

8. Devandra Banhart - At The Hop

I'd never heard of him.

That's not quite true. I knew he wore brown, like Gareth. Frilly things. I'd heard he was beautiful.

The first thing was that warble. You know the one - high and affected and awful. I played it more and it faded as this bloomed into something hands could touch; listened for it today and it was gone, overexposed into a warm toasted glow.

A pile of lace. The three tenses of love.

7. The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstacy With Me

Stutters like a kaleidoscope. Crickets and wind-up toys that spin into a world of black snowmobiles, racoon eyes. So many basslines as you dance to anything, as that mantra thickens into syrupy threat.

6. Abigail Lapeil - Waking Up In Boston

So stark, so tiny, that when she whispers under her small, thin voice at the very end, you melt at the suggestion that this was a song at all. Keychinks, an icy puzzle that pays you off in murmurs and clicks, coldwinter snaps from dead wood. I shouldn't use words - this should be described in the banks of hope around quiet desperation, soiled and solid, laudrettes, consequences, life. I've never felt less wanted.

5. Jon Doe - Underground

At 45rpm this is terrific, hardpulse trance that you only realise has eaten your heart when the beat skips and you suddenly can't breathe.

At 33, the way Peel played it once and I've never heard it since (though I bought it the next bustedturntable day), this chimes out like pink crystal icicles shattering on marble floors and the beat comes in seperate and slanted until they merge and scale like nothing I'd heard, farwest skyscraper winds that slam you around the room too hard to even dance, though you do, until it skips and grunts and fades away and you gasp and wonder what the fuck five minutes just happened.

It doesn't end. There's a silence, a note. And then...

Rapture.

4. Nancy Sinatra - Baby's Coming Back

It's about coming afterwards. Of having lived too long, seen too much. About having had to leave others behind, and of how they never leave you. Swansong.

She sings "so say goodbye to rain" with the most perfect Stuart Murdoch lilt. It reaches in, and it bonds like murder.

3. Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall

Summer. White socks pulled up high, Arsenal unbeaten. A tiny room this filled completely, reading the History Of Danish Dreams over two months to keep things open with neurotic babyfaced academic, like they ever were. She had a ten-year-old child. The things that kept me going.

I mean, you've heard this, right? You know how it's all spinning wheels and huge fucking heart, how it trips, squeals, rolls, those ecstacy drumrolls filling every corner of your skull, your sink. That SFJ thing: "his flow is so musical, it's musical". I liked the bit about Europe.

2. Scala Choir - I Touch Myself

Pianoglacier angel music; loveyoung and strong and too too amazing. Something in this cecelia virginsuicide quiet whirl of passion and silence will change you, make you better, drown yr cynicism in watery joy. Tragedy without the sadness, perhaps, all that richness and that icy fire and a purity the joke only makes brighter.

People will visit you, when you play this. It will turn them to ash.

1. The Hacker - Fadin' Away (Dima remix)

As before: that the rush and clutter of this is the memory of parties long gone, half drunk half inspired nights you'd snogged cuties way too young, went home and sung in the rain. The way ripples merge, when you look back; the way they did too, even then. Every other record I heard this year just made this richer and deeper, Mulholland scrubland synths, all the density of dream. Go create a world.

10. Boredoms - Circle
Like going up and up and up in a helicopter and looking down upon the Serengetti plain. Capturing that glint of sunlight as you reach the top and never going back down.

9. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Morning Of Our Live
A beautiful song by any standards. The vocal interplay of Jonathan and his band:

JR: It's not just me who thinks so dear, I asked my friends/Now I asked Leroy and AK and D-Sharp
ML: Yeah, yeah, yeaaaah!!!
JR: Don't you love her too?
ML: Yes we do
JR: Then tell her she's okay
ML: You're okay, you're okay
JR: Tell her she's alright
ML: You're alright, you're alright

Is it possible to be heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time?

8. Animal Collective - We Tigers
Prowling, hunting, brooding "verse" which suddenly builds into a raucous yelling all out party. This is probably their best song. Lyrics typically buried under nonsense vocal gymnastics and tribal rhythms.

7. Electrelane - The Valleys
Like some kind of art-punk tabernacle choir. Haunting and mystical and just, well, interesting I guess. Lots of different parts to it which I like.

6. Andrew WK - Get Ready To Die
How can anyone resist this? Cheesy? Yes. OTT? Yes. Catchy? You bet! Shut up and rage? Yes please!

5. 3 Inches Of Blood - Destroy the Orcs
Umm... See #6 except add a bunch of Priest-obsessed Dungeons and Dragons geeks to the pot.

4. Tom Waits - Sins of My Father
First listens brought me to the conclusion that this track was overlong and rather boring. Further listens proved to me that the length of the song was necessary for this dusty-roaded blues epic.

3. Jon B - Blandwagon Poos
A parody of drum'n'bass that manages to be better than almost anything else in the genre - absolutely slammmmin!!

2. Deerhoof - Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain
A crazy punked-up 70s kids show theme. The catchiest post-rock song of all time?

1. Robag Wruhme - Hugendubel
Manages to rip off the Aphex Twin without sounding old hat. Haven't eard electronica like this in a very long time!

Luomo & Raz - Give it away

new track... nathan fake: the sky was pink (james holden remix)
old track... donna summer: now i need you / working the midnight shift

10. Two Lone Swordsmen - Sex Beat
09. Secret Machines - Nowhere Again
08. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
07. Liars - There's Always Room on the Broom
06. Mouse on Mars - Wipe That Sound
05. Beta Band - Assessment
04. The Concretes - Can't Hurry Love
03. The Streets - Blinded by the Lights
02. The Fall - Sparta
01. The Walkmen - The Rat

THANK YOU

Two Lone Swordsmen covered The Gun Club?

10] Shugo Tokumaru “Typewriter”
the most beautiful song of the year by an arm, leg and whatever other appendage you choose. whatever this song is about, i'm going to agree with that guy's voice, this whole thing sounds like bjork, with the evolving counter-melodies. this is morning after music, selected ambient works without the bank or the tank (to quote a song by myself, fuck i'm a narcissist).

9] Liars “There’s Always Room For The Broom”
Talk all the shit you want about the album's concept or execution or really anything, it's not that great. But this song is exactly what the Liars actually probably should've done the whole way through. The point was to invert dance-punk, not make some stupid no-wave bullshit about witches, but this is the song where it actually really worked. the sludge rock and tribal drumming giving way into pretty much straight four-on-the-floor is great. the drumming is awkwardly perfect throughout, especially in the chorus, where the snares appear to fly in from nowhere. this song shows empathy into what the point of all this was: "In summer, what we want to be in school with everyone/ Somehow we're ordinary, 'til we get more damage done". See, that isn't actually that esoteric.

8] McLusky “She Will Only Bring You Happiness”
This is just great pop-rock. it could've been a huge hit if this was 1994 and the radio was still into kitschy, funny, ironic lyrics about erections and sex criminal singers. it all reminds me of pavement, i think. there are better songs on the album, which is criminally underrated, but this one is the most accessible and encapsulates the fun of mclusky the most obviously. god bless the welsh.

7] Fox & Wolf “Youth Alcoholic”
electroclash has embers left, i'll tell you what. the kicks bounce hard and mechanical like from an mpc with a non-premo drumset. this song is sexy as hell, with this girl shrieking her whole rebel rebel talk: "i wake up in the morning, don't have a clue where i am/ my clothes are the floor and i put them on". the lame part about losing control and stuff is salvaged by the use of claps. this shit is 808 plus or something, it all just kills. GIVE ME THE BOOZE NOT THE BLUESSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAH i'm scared to hear another song by them because i doubt they could ever top this.

6] Blood Brothers “Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck”
i hate songs that get all weird and do the mars volta thing and seriously go nowhere at all lyrically. this is one of those songs. i get the shit about the characters for the most part, but "I feel so free like a pineapple in a tree, BOYYYYYYYYYYYY". Stop it. The chorus is a hammer though: "AND BACK AT THE HOSPITALLLLLLLLLL/ You've got no visitors at all". the different phases of the song are so fluid, and the high points? like the scream at 2:30? that's one of the best moments of the year. the song works, it's the pop-hardcore thing that I like for the year, last year's being "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades" by Brand New. Wait, that was 2003, right? i'm gonna be mad as hell if i disincluded that song from this year by accident.

5] The Fiery Furnaces “Straight Street”
the winner for live show most unlike their album goes tooooooooooo....these dudes. great band, album of the year, blah blah blah, i think this song is pretty outstanding. it's like psych rock goes to the saloon to buy a player piano, but it gets shot by synth lasers at the OK Computer corral. let me tell you a story, i had to take a train from new jersey to virginia at like 5 in the morning and 3:26 was epic as FUCK as the train rolled in. i like the lyrics to this one a lot, it's a pretty interesting story, the brother's a great writer. the references to phone companies and eleanor's (she's a fox) delivery are pretty great.

4] The Walkmen “The Rat”
THE DRUMS WHO IS THIS GUY is always the first thought in my mind when hearing this song. but the rest is awesome. every year needs a big searing guitar croon-a-long joint and this is it. it was pretty interesting to be in a room with like 10 or 11 other people on the way to the bar and when this song cued up, everyone sung the shit like a christmas carol, while passing around moonshine. tender moments, locked in time. "when i used to go out, i would know everyone that i saw/ now i go out alone, if i go out at all" is a pretty affecting lyric. remember when this song and my number one were pretty obviously the front runners for song of the year around summertime? what the fuck happened? more songs came out. yeah. that.

3] TV On The Radio “Ambulance”
you know a song is strong when you do the video in your head everytime you hear it. my video has tunde laying down with a clone of him up with the afro dude doing the barbershop while this girl is sitting across from him or around him in different situations. always going back to an ambulance and the hospital. it's very art-house. they should fucking hire me. i love the bravery in tunde simply living and dying on his own vocal merit. it was what made me love the EP and it's the reason TV on the Radio is among my favorite bands.

2] Bloc Party “Banquet”
Two black singers in a row, in the top three? Lenny Kravitz for number one? This song killed me in exactly the same way that, i dunno, !!! "Me And Giuliani" or The Rapture "House of Jealous Lovers" did last year. this is the equivalent except it's leaner, meaner and way better written. it isn't about the backbeat, but then again, it can be if you want it to. the bridge is Brooklyn, through and through, heartbreaking downstrokes and the "IF YOU FEEL, A LITTLE LEFT BEHIND/ WE WILL AWAIT YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE/ CAUSE I'M ON FIRE!!!!!11!" part is the best moment of the year, i think. when these guys are too famous for the internet to like them anymore, i'll stick around, but only because the singer's black. JUST PLAYING

1] LCD Soundsystem “Yeah (Crass Version)”
as a frame of reference, my favorite song of 2003 was....i actually can't remember. let's assume something like non-prophets 'tolerance level', king geedorah 'fazers' or dizzee rascal 'i luv u' (this is exactly why i've done this, hey?). this was a year where i was enamored with the death knell. the death rattle. the death dirge of genres. m.i.a/diplo kinda made the mashup obsolete, the silures and fox & wolf survive electroclash via darwinism and by this token, lcd soundsystem destroys dance-punk by making it's defining statement, it's anthem. the song is about boredom and monotony amongst scenesters, but the ideas are so fresh and exciting within. which is obviously the point. it's funny how the song is a sort of flailing, restrained funk stomp until the 7:30 point. this marks the freak out which is kinda like when a butterfly leaves its cocoon but with more cowbell and better synth. this song is my common law wife and it is the best of 2004.

its the other donna summer. track 5 and 6 from 'once upon a time', 1977.

(Cheers Rollie & DL, those are excellent)

SpacePlace, would you mind hooking me up with the Madvillain track? I really wanna hear him.

1. Robert Ashley - Flying Saucer Dialogue

This hilarious Lazy sleepy track and gorgeous track from the composer of "In Sarah , mencken, christ and beethoven there were men and women" and "Automatic Writing" has suddenly become one of my top ten songs ever.

2. Boredoms - Seadrum

Thrills me - my morning getting-dressed routine has been accompanied by this.

3. Ekkehard Ehlers and Sebastien Meissner - Endless House

Sublime, gorgeous Glitched brilliance.

4. Bill Withers - I can't write Left Handed

Why have i never heard this before - it's moving and funny. Fatboy slim can fuck right off.

5. Gaz Nevada - Special Agent Man

Best track off this years best compilation - Morgan Geist's "Unclassics"

6. The Vienna Boys Choir - Burning Down the House

Fills me with joy - does everything those scala tracks fail to do.

7. LCD Soundsytem - Movement

Their best track.

8. Witch Queen - All Right Now

Better than the original - an italo disco remodel of the Free track.

9. Jimmy Scott - Under the Sycamore Tree

This one just breaks my heart - one of the greatest voices ever.

10 Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday

i dunno what to say about this - it's insane and funky and i like it.

frenchbloke & son - ""i, bloodbrother be" (shockheaded peters) vs "the game is not over" (t. raumschmiere ft miss kittin)"
just edges out "frei/hot love" as this 2004's best queer schaffel track. civil unions bill passed in new zealand, bitches!

utada - "let me give you my love"
ginuwine's "pony" treated as evolutionary psychology. also, druggy terror sex.

les georges leningard - "supa doopa"
unhinged & bottomless & makes lcd soundsystem's "movement" redundant & oh fuck the ground won't stop shaking.

0=0 - "the soul hunter testifies"
JESSUS WALKSSTALKS.

mu - "paris hilton"
everybody's crazy for dance crazes! ba-GAWK!

united states of electronica - "emerald city"
blocky & earnest & sorta makes me wish there was a song celebrating auckland. got to DJ this enough times at the local schmindie disco for people to sing along.

mocky - "mickey mouse muthafuckers (tiefschwarz remix)"
I used to dream about this when I was a little boy. never thought it'd end up this way.

cut copy - "future"
an illusion of weightlessness. comforting like a (filter)disco where the air's been replaced with cotton wool.

michael dracula - "destroy yourself (optimo remix)"
I spent quite a bit of 2004 wishing I was in glasgow. this helped. somebody make an organ donor joke.

junior boys - "under the sun"
under the sun, missing the moon.

1. David Axelrod -- The Human Abstract
2. Lee Perry/Upsetters -- Tight Spot
3. Joanna Newsom -- Bridges and Balloons
4. Mississippi John Hurt -- Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
5. Fred Frith -- Hello Music
6. Cannonball Adderly -- Fun
7. Kitty Wells -- Crying Steel Guitar
8. The Meters -- Cardova
9. Tony Williams/Lifetime -- Via The Spectrum Road
10. Bert Jansch -- Blackwater Side

If I have to drop another one for that I'd probably go with The Meters track -- it's awesome but not all that different from all the other Meters cuts I already knew.

Kano - I Hate Boyfriends
grime's first gay anthem! kind of. if you ignore some of the lyrics, like the ones about girls. it's over that 'wot do u call it?' riddim. I don't know the name.

Christina Milian - L.O.V.E
not the album version with joe budden! spizzazzz did a really good post on this which summed up why the demo version is so much better than the rather awkward cop-out which made it on to the (otherwise great) album. smoother, lusher, those plinking synths perfectly caressing christina's high register. also cos it's a demo you get a BEAT BREAKDOWN instead of a guest rap.

while you're at it, tracking down I Can Be That Woman from the album is a must - I can't send it but it's shit-hot, these massive electro-synths slamming into the melody every so often like go-go dancers.

Nas ft. Kelis - American Way
haha I probably like this better than anything on Illmatic which I think is incredibly dull. the political stuff all works, Kelis even makes it sexy. Nas calls Condoleezza Rice a 'coon Uncle Tom fool', which is great.

The Pirates ft. Shola Ama and some other people - You Should Really Know
the answer record to that Mario Winans song. really really heart-breaking and gorgeous. they're singing the same tune, but not listening to each other.

Britney Spears - Everytime (ambient version)
I don't know who did this mix, I don't really remember downloading it. it doesn't sound as if it fits readily into any dance or electronic trends I've heard in 2004. it makes the song kind of epic, in a subtle way: Brit still sounds lost and lonely, but there's massive crescendoing synth action and a fantastic beat crashing down on the 'this song's my sorry' line, some awesome strings and, er, some gothic wailing which reminds me of Enigma.

Sean Paul - Bounce It Right There
the very first time I listened to this, on an mp3 via my truly shitty speakers, within a bar it got me dancing.

Stina Nordenstam - Get On With Your Life (Pluxus remix)
I prefer the original but can't send it to anyone. this is harder and more menacing. Stina's voice is great because she sings in such a deadpan, but at a high pitch more traditionally used for melodrama and emotional catharsis. 'on the edge of a nervous breakdown, but perfectly comfortable in that situation' as someone else said in her thread. here, she's on the edge of a nervous breakdown and fed through an industrial grinder, and still comfortable.

Javine - Best Of My Love
(I wrote the below on the blog, unfortunately I can't send the song because I only have it on a copy-protected CD :( )
Poor Javine. That solo career didn't go at all well, did it? It's probably scant consolation, but the girl who could've been aloud made the most slept-on single of the year, a monster disco anthem which sees her play the wronged woman to perfection. No, it's not that "Best Of My Love" - it's better. Replete with majestic, heady whooshes (oh, those whooshes! How good would they sound in a club? Very good, that's how good) and a pace which seems to get ever more frenetic as Javine's fury rises, it's mind-boggling that it didn't conquer the world. The city-flattening middle eight alone - 'I'm done with it! And I'm over it! And I'm through with it! And I can't believe I ever was a fool for you!' - should have been enough to cement this as Bona Fide Classic In The Vein Of "I Will Survive".

Scissor Sisters - Return To Oz
I can't send this either but I'm sure it should eb readily available from all the usual places (actually, everyone surely knows someone they could borrow the album off). no one ever talked about this song, everyone said "Mary" was the fantastic heart-rending ballad. pchah, "Mary" is nothing compared to this.

haha I didn't think I'd get to ten. there you go.

RF Spaceplace, that is ludicrously good. I am gonna have to buy the album now, aren't I?

I think "What Do You Call It" is over the Igloo riddim or some derivation of it, but "I Hate Boy Friends" is actually on the quite-similar-really (and also quite a bit like Danny Weed's "Rat Race") Pum Pum Riddim, which I *think* is by Lethal B. Great track.

Tunng - Tale From Black and Surprise Me 44
I was actually so blown away by Tunng's 7"s that I wrote to Static Caravan, and Geoff sent me a copy of the album, which is due out soon. Amazing amazing, English glitchy acoustic folk pop (think Four Tet or the Books crossed with Pentangle or the Beta Band)

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans or A Good Man Is Hard To Find
The whole Seven Swans album astounds me on every listen. It's so heartfelt and so simply done; I'm an atheist and I'm moved through and through.

Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back And Forth (Icarus remix)
Sad to admit, I didn't really know Icarus until this year. I heard this mix and nearly wet my pants, went and tracked down all their previous albums and am in love... They started off doing drum'n'bass in the vein (perhaps) of Photek's Hidden Camera (and wonderfully too), and have gradually veered more and more into Four Tet territory - in fact, I bet they're an influence on Four Tet, at least of late - and yet they still retain a certain jungle-ish feel to even the rather radically broken-down stuff of late.
And of course I'm a huge Four Tet fan anyway... So:

Hot Chip - The Ass Attack (Four Tet remix)
First time I heard this, I thought "argh, cheesy, yucky"! But how wrong I was! It's funky and deep and it rocks.
and:

Sia - Breathe Me (Four Tet remix)
Gal from Adelaide does great things in the UK... The song itself doesn't slay me, but Four Tet's mix is killer.

The Junior Boys - Last Exit (Fennesz remix)
>From the Last Exit 12", this is as perfect as you can get. Fennesz doing his washed-out Endless Summerism to turn the Junior Boys tune into something transcendent. Mind you, the Junior Boys' own (geddit?) self-remix on the same side, "unbirthday", is awesome too.

Bola - Effanajor / Effaninor
Great new album from Bola! Was listening back to his older stuff, because it always seems like his sound never changes... and to some extent that's true. All the way back to the Gescom SKA002 EP that Darrell Fitton is on, there's the lush pads and squelchy beats, but his productions skillz are out of this world...

Hood - You Shins Break My Heart
I could've chosen something from The Lost You, but this track (from the split picture 7" with the Themselves on Rocket Racer) is awesome because of the loop (at two different tempos) sampled from Talk Talk's "New Grass". Oh yesssssss.

Mara Carlyle - Baby Bloodheart / Lost to Sea
Actually, much like Sufjan Stevens, it's hard to choose a particular track from The Lovely. Gorgeous voice, excellent production... a revelation!

Shadow Huntaz - Figure of Speech
There are a lot of great tracks on this album, but this one has great programming from the Funckarma kids as well as a good lyric... American Dream is another great one...

That's 10. That'll do.

Haha thanks - I am useless when it comes to riddims, and their names and stuff. I actually have lots of stuff on the Pum Pum Riddim (have you heard "Get Boyed" by Shystie? Better than a lot of the stuff on her album) so I don't even know why I confused it with the Igloo one.

Why have i never heard this before - it's moving and funny. Fatboy slim can fuck right off.

I want to hear this now. Is is about wanking?

Electrelane - "The Valleys"
Mara Carlyle - "It's Time" & "June 15"
Phonophani - "Boiling Fjords Orchestra"
Björk - "Oceania"
Oren Ambarchi - "Remedios The Beauty"
Espers - "Daughter"

That's the name of that piece!!! I searched high and low for that track to put on my Fall Mix CD. Thank you, jaymc! I can put it on the Winter edition!

It does come off that way to me, especially considering that you took the time and effort to distinguish Gwen and Britney from other white female pop radio hits.

lex - yep, utada hikaru (with timbaland producing, I think!)

if somebody could gmail me kano's "i hate boyfriends" to stevie dot kaye at gmail dot com, I'd be thrilled.

also big ups "phone call".

10. Justus Köhncke - Frei/Hot Love
lalalaladidadaaaaaaa

9. Slim Thug, T.I. and Bun-B - Three Kings
g-funk + swaggering horns = lowriding strut or something.

8. Snoop Dogg - Drop it Like It's Hot
DAAA DAAA DAAAA DAT DAAAAAAH

7. Bling Dawg - Yeah, Yeah (Bubble Up Riddim)
Best use of bubble up, thanx to my friend Q for bringing this riddim to my attention and stelfox for bringing this voicing to my attention.

6. Brandy - Who is She 2 You
I like when her voice gets all ragged-sounding, and also the part at the end where timbaland says "timbo the king, brandy the queen" because it sounds sort of sad, like he's the king of a fading bounce-kingdom whose chair has been ursurped by blaring aggro-crunk of the much-deeper south.

5. Usher, Ludacris, Lil Jon - Yeah!
DAH DAT DAH DAT! DAH DAT DAH DAT!
(doo doodoo doodoo doooo)

4. Annie - Heartbeat
I want to feel her heartbeat.

3. Slim Thug, Mike Jones and Paul Wall - Still Tippin'
hypnotic viola sample and low-key functional drums with standard goofy paul wall lyrics ("similar to an ant cuz i'm low to the earth?") and Who? oh yeah Mike Jones has a lot of haters and a lot of homies and slim thug sounds rugged and sounds like he's not really worried about what you think you could do to him because he'll step on you.

2. Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For (JLQ Remix)
getphysical.blogspot.com has a cool writeup on this.

1. T.I. - Rubberband Man
DAAAA DATDADAAAAA DAAAAAA DATDADAAAAAA

oh my god. I must hear this. I've sent you Kano.

jaymc - it probably does come across as that, but it doesn't matter because the alternative is not to have "Dip It Low" in the top ten which is kind of unthinkable.

Another vote for "The Valleys" by Electrelane here by the way: utter spooky gorgeousness.

Also - the remix of Björk's "Oceania" featuring Kelis is incredible.

Ha ha deej I had to resist the urge to only write this in my singles wrap-up in my local magazine. It seemed unfair not to provide context when I don't think "Rubberband Man" was even released as a single here. But otherwise it's all I would have written (i wrote it anyway, in parentheses).

-- Salvador Saca (salvadorsac...), January 4th, 2005 9:12 AM. (Mr. Xolotl)

Haha! It's good disagree with you, Mr Saca :) We agree on enough that disagreeing upon the details can only bring us closer. Aaaaah.

On the other hand, I HATE that Kelis version of "Oceania". Lucky you didn't mention that one eh, Sal?