'He ain't nothing but a Poll Rigger' - It's the ILM 2005 Tracks of the year

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Well here it finally is, the top 50 tracks as voted by you, the collective might of ILM. Any idea that the infamous hivemind is in operation was soon banished, 65 people voted for 760 tracks. At one point I was considering abandoning the tracks poll as there was so little consensus, but through the month it gradually took shape to what you're about to see unveiled.

I'm planning to list 10 a night, starting with tracks tonight and alternating between tracks and albums. I'll probably take a break over the weekend when traffic to the board is quieter, plus I have other things to do with my life, (though not much at the moment).

A number of people took the unordered option for their lists, hence the reason that there are a number of half points scattered amongst the final totals.

So let us begin with number 50...

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

50. The Killers - Mr Brightside (Jacque Lu Cont mix)
(47.5 Points, 4 votes, 1 number 1)

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I actually really like the "Mr Brightside" remix! I haven't heard the original, mind. It could be the original that's secretly doing it for me underneath all the synth cumulus clouds. But it's so pretty! And the chorus so aching! Mind you he's pretty good generally at recontextualising vocals so that they're suggestive of a quite different original song.
-- Tim Finney March 15th, 2005 11:15 AM.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally if anyone wants to write any blurbs, feel free to get in touch. In particular, but not exclusively, I'm lacking pieces on the hip hop/r'n'b which made the polls.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, a surprise right off the bat -- I figured that would be a lot higher.

I strongly prefer the JLC dub mix myself.

NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

49. Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches
(48 points, 4 votes)

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I really like the contrast between the sweet, girlish pop voice and the smackdown hip hop bragging, with its dirty lines about coming in your mouth. It reminds me of various other things I love - perhaps most obviously Annie, Missy, Betty Boo.

I kind of thought her voice might get wearingly cloying after a while when I first heard her, but that hasn't happened at all. It also has a funny and fresh ending.

Is Robyn going to make it this time? I hope so.

Martin Skidmore

Other ilxors said..

Konichiwa Bitches is perfect.

What on earth would improve it? An ODB, Ludacris, Missy Elliot guest verse??

fandango August 22nd, 2005 10:16 AM.

The bit at the end of 'Konichiwa Bitches' where she pretends to forget the last word of every line is one of the finest bypass-the-brain-it's-an-awesome-pop-device moments in living memory.

baboon2004 January 8th, 2006 4:17 AM.


Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

48. Mike Jones feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall - Still Tippin'
(49.5 points, 6 votes)

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Other ilxors said...

I like Mike Jones' as a persona, a hungry, on the grind, serious yet funny, using his shortcomings to his advantage, that strained, rough-textured, melodically raw and blunted voice, he's very much an interesting character. And it comes across in his songs.
deej. April 22nd, 2005 6:56 PM.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit! I just downloaded the Robyn track! Really, really amazing! How does this happen?

regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Go buy the record, roundups - it's phe-nom-en-al.

sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Sean. I'm actually downloading it now, but when it hits the US, I'm all over it. Unless I missed it and it's already here.

regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

robyn album: http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TGOZEAY2T2W310XQ2H2L6RP8P

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

47. U2 - Sometimes you can't make it on your own
(50 points, 3 votes)

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other ilxors said...

worst single = Walk On or Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own or Elevation
Sociah T Azzahole June 30th, 2005 12:02 PM.

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own is maybe the best song U2 have ever done.
Marcello Carlin June 30th, 2005 12:02 PM.


Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

You can order it for £8.75 with free worldwide shipping... (!)

sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was one of the 3 people who voted for U2 - a band which has historically left me stone cold - but this track got to me in a big way at the start of 2005 (reducing me to tears the first time I heard it), and again at the end of 2005 (when it did the same thing again, for very different reasons). There's something of the Shirley Bassey-esque big ballad to it, and a diret emotional quality which cuts straight through all my usual antipathy to U2. Maybe it's a Dead Dad thing.

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck! Awesome! Thanks to both Charlie and Sean! Disappointed by the U2 even though I haven't heard it. I know that's unfair, but I am positive that my #1 track didn't make it, so I feel dissed. Even though it wasn't a single.

regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I shoula sent in my votes for this. Now I have no right to complain if the final product looks iffy. No complaints so far. Looking forward to the full deal.

gspm (gspm), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

46. Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to?
(50 points, 7 votes)

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"Do You Want To" plays the part of a brilliant sequel – the band's second "Take Me Out", and proof that success hasn't made them any less relevant or exciting.  "DYWT" starts out with another disconcerting intro, but instead of boiling down to a violent groove like "Take Me Out", it jumps right into a full-on dance-pop-rock attack of guitar, synth, hi-hat and doo-doos.  The band proceeds to not only make fun of themselves, or make fun of would-be critics, but (stick with me here) make fun of themselves making fun of people making fun of Franz Ferdinand (especially clear in the video, where they mockingly trash an overdone parody of their infamous chateau parties).  To seal the deal, halfway through the song the band says, "You want 'Take Me Out'?  FINE!" and plays that riff during the break (the Erol Alkan-sampled one), right before leaping back into some of the deadliest death-disco they've ever played.  Franz: 2; haters: 0.    
Peter Lansky

 

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

In the few occasions where the points were the same, as above, I'm separating them by a. Most #1 votes b. Number of votes c. most #2 votes etc z. whether I like their hair or not.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

lol at "Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own" beating "Still Tippin'" and the JLC "Mr. Brightside"

the non-grouping of remixes and originals means that the original MB could still be to come, right?

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I always react to these with a cringe and think "This is not ILM." But I mean, it obviously is.

öROXYMUZAKö (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

45. Royksopp - What else is there? (Trentemoller remix)

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I find myself with some technical difficulties at this point. I want to listen to this track before I write this blurb, but every time I try to listen to it I end up looping it for like an hour, raving around my flat, and becoming very very tempted to fill my face with pills and go out raving. Aptly for a song on the theme of THE FLASHLIGHTS! AND THE EXPLOSIONS!, it's the explosions which matter most: the two astounding breaks, cutting up and stretching out Karin Dreijer's voice - poised, as ever, right on the knife-edge of ecstasy and woe - so that it is all that matters in the entire world, each time catapulting the buzz and click of those five notes into something even harder, bassier, spasm-inducing than before.
The Lex

Other ilxors said...

I think, for me, this one actually has everything the original had and more, like even the quiet bit is more deftly produced, something about the way the strings well up in the breakdown is so much more affecting, and I did like the original alot but it was a bit of a used style I thought, the Trentemoller one has this really weird dramatic, almost cinematic feel to the breakdown, which I didn't get in the original so much, good and all as it was.
(then it has a ridiculously ott pay off!)

Ronan October 25th, 2005 2:20 PM.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

U2: 50 points, 3 votes

hey mike, U2 voters REPRAZENT! i listened to it while putting my list together the other week and, er, i sniffled.

hey, hang on, i wrote a blurb about it too, actually. hem-hem-hem :)

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

points? votes?

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Do You Want To" gave me the biggest initial rush of any single last year. The first time I heard it, I immediately started dancing round the kitchen with a big daft drunken grin on my face, laughing out loud in several key places - and the moment it ended, I put it straight back on again. Of course, the trouble with such instant hits is that the early buzz can so quickly fade. This one never did. I love the cheekiness and the straight-boys-do-campness, the middle section which evokes part of the opening riff of Dolly Parton's "9 To 5", the lucky-lucky-lucky nod to Kylie, the way that killer moment follows killer moment. If only I felt the same way about the rest of the second album...

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for 45! yay me!

adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Grimly, you're right, it got lost in the chaos of my inbox.

It should read...

U2
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Sometimes you can't beat the ones you know. pluck at my heartstrings, edge. Lift me to the sky. Give me a break in the middle eight, then soar with meto the edge of heaven.

Trust me, i don't even like U2 all that much. but if this doesn't move you even slightly, you're dead inside.

Royksopps points were 50.5 from 4 voters.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

:)

adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

44. Polmo Polpo - Kiss me again and again
(51 points, 3 votes)

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Annecdote. February 2003. The fifth anniversary of Wavelength, a popular weekly indie showcase in Toronto, remains semi-legendary to this day. Before the gig started, I spent a healthy chunk of time trying to explain the genius of local act Polmo Polpo to a few unsuspecting friends. It was difficult to communicate the sound of Wolfgang Voigt-inflected minimal techno with string samples and shoegaze-y guitar to people who had never heard anything remotely similar to it. In the end, Polmo Polpo threw the entire club for a loop by playing but one track (as per his norm) -- a head-nodding twenty-minute disco-funk number with no apparent beginning or end. I felt like the boy who cried wolf. The legendary part came immediately after, as five hundred brains were fried by a scorching set from prog metallers Rockets Red Glare.

Two years later, Polmo Polpo decided to release that Arthur Russell cover after all. Rockets Red Glare have long since imploded. Meanwhile, at a gig this past summer, a spectacular live version of "Kiss Me Again and Again" (lasting more than thirty minutes) convinced me that Polmo Polpo and I both needed to grow into the song a little bit.
Barry Bruner

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

The misspelling of Anecdote is mine and not Barry's btw.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

OMG if "Trapped In The Closet" appears on here I will be forced to kill.

Dan (Argh) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

43. T.A.T.U - All about us
(53 Points, 4 votes, 1 number one)

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Has there been an act that had such an obvious short expiry date as
Tatu? Gimmick, scandal, the talent probably all elsewhere, a long gap
after the debut - guaranteed to vanish, surely. All About Us is a great bravado title for the comeback, but surely it would be hopeless? No. The singing is a little stronger and more confident, the production like before is about as restrained as Jim Steinman, and it's another neat tune using the two voices wonderfully well (apart from a saggy near-operatic segment three quarters of the way through). Still the best faux-lesbian Russian pop duo we have ever had.
Martin Skidmore


 

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

OMG if "Trapped In The Closet" appears on here I will be forced to kill

My lips are sealed, but Dan, don't shoot the messenger.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

as long as it doesn't win...wouldn't be at all surprised if it's top 10-ish, though...

that royksopp cover is beautiful...might be able to account for all 4 of its votes (me too!)

Jimmy_tango, Monday, 9 January 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

A very electronic heavy list so far (the genre(s) I definitely know absolutely nothing about. reading blurbs about royksopp and polmo polpo - who I'd never heard of - is like reading icelandic to me, although Lex's anecdote does set my pleasuredrome downloading buzzers off a bit). I wonder if that's just the bottom and all the R&B/hip hop comes later. Also, the chart pop contains none of the American variety, not that I'm surprised. Dan, xpost, I expect trapped in the closet to make it. I'm also putting some money on GA's "Biology." Will any non-singles make it? Hmm, I'll give that a max of 2.

reg roundups not logged in, Monday, 9 January 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

This list is actually more fun knowing that I didn't vote in it.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm slowly realizing that not many of the tracks I voted for are going to appear here!

adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Especially cos I cheated and Terra Danjah/Shola Ama "With U" was late 2004.

adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

this list is terrible. and "KB" is the slightest track on robyn's entire album, as well.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

actually, it's the only track!

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's not like that's the only Robyn track that's going to make it.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

This next one will suprise a few people.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

42. Sugababes - Push the button
(54.5 points, 5 votes)
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other ilxors said

It is purest froth and it is the most colourful thing they have ever done, and the least self-consciously 'classy'. It might be my single-of-year, I will give it 42 plays and then see.

If "Milkshake" was all attack then this is the sustain/release chunk, and you could slot them together and have one fantastic full-bodied track, but in isolation from one another they are both doubly unusual and extraordinary. Especially this. You can hear them SMILING.
The Lex August 11th, 2005 12:53 PM.

There's a bit in "Push the Button" (the bit starting from the line "I've been waiting patiently...") that sort of makes me want to burst into a verse of Tina Turner's "The Best."
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
brittle-lemon August 11th, 2005 2:50 PM.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

why is that surprising?

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I expected it to place top 20. Maybe that's just me though.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

please god don't let sufjan be #1.

sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm...my number 1 at 50. does that mean i win the ten thousand dollars?

irrigation can save your purple, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

amen (xpost)

Matt McEver (mattmc387), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

"any sufjan, no credibility"

pompe vers le haut du volume (haitch), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

not a single one of my tracks will show here.

jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

good comment from SugaLex

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

41. M83 - Don't save us from the flames
(55 points, 6 votes)

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It's like I'm driving some ridiculously fast car way in the future on a highway through a perfectly lovely (and artificially-preserved) field. I'm still not convinced about the second M83 album being any good, but this song hooked me right away and is a great combination of beauty and adrenaline.

Maciej Kasperowicz

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see it as clumsy or lumbering. The snare's quite punchy and a bit 'longer' than much electrohouse (which tends to reduce it to a super-short 'clack') but the drums are turned down to counter this. It's no heavier than something like the PSB's 'I Don't Know What You Want...' though maybe a couple of bpm slower than that.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Ladytrom single is just boring. You've heard everything it has to offer by the first verse but they have to do it three times over again cos.. that's a single innit.

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

they look like a cliché and they sound like one too.

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'm surprised Frank K is mentioning Alanis as opposed to Avril.

I don't understand this. Avril - unlike Alanis* - was never marketed as a disco dolly, hence didn't have to switch images. She was singer-songwriter-w/-loud-guitar from the get-go. I only know the singles from the second album, and I guess they're not as pop-pretty as the two biggies from the first; but her image was never (merely) pop-pretty to begin with. (And the first album has a lot that sounds loud and dark.)

*In case you don't know, Jagged Little Pill was Alanis's third album.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing off the latest Ladytron album interested me, but some of their older stuff is good (Seventeen, Playgirl, PACO!...)

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! I come back today and find my comment has spawned about fifteen pages of discussion about J-Lo! Sorry!
FWIW, I think "Jenny From The Block" is super catchy but it got boring very quickly. She has other great singles but the problem with her is always the same: her voice is unlistenable.
(x-post)

LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 19 January 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

According to the archives, Dan Perry has practically made hating this song his life's work.

Hahahaha

Dan (It's True!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 January 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand this. Avril - unlike Alanis* -

I'm just surprised at how seriously 'Since U Been Gone' and Clarkson have been taken by so many American critics and this reminded me of the popularity of 'Sk8er Boi' and doesn't seem to be suggesting anything near as 'dark' or 'edgy' as how Morrisette and 'Jagged Little Pill' sounded or were marketed. I know AM started off even fluffier than Clarkson and I do get the comparison in that respect. But I can't see Clarkson's career following in the same way to the point where she'll really resemble Morrisette more than Lavigne with her big radio pop rock where the angst is just seen as cute (nobody thought Alanis was cute/hott - did they?). Then again Alanis ended up going quite light and boppy again (Hands Clean etc.), and I can see KC doing something like that, although her voice is surely too generic to pull it off? Surely Clarkson's appeal is that she IS pop-pretty (more than Avril) but this is blended with the tepid rock chick thing that worked briefly for Pink, but then she had a lot more sass too. Sorry if I'm missing things here.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing off the latest Ladytron album interested me, but some of their older stuff is good (Seventeen, Playgirl, PACO!...)

Yeah I must admit I didn't really get into 'The Witching Hour' and think they've been on a bit of a descent since '604' despite surely improving on a technical basis since then. 'Destroy...' is okay but they could've definitely put more PSB-style drama into the proceedings (I was thinking more like 'I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give Anymore' which might serve as a useful precedent and guide for that sort of thing) and made it more epic, especially as it could well be their last single.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dan is totally OTM about "Waiting Til Tonight." Killer.

I think "Get Right" is fantastic. "Jenny From The Block" is awkward as fuck, bad transitions, melodic sample bitten from a better song ("Watch Out Now"). That said, its pretty OK.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Steve, what confuses me is that you're not actually responding to what I wrote. In specific you're not responding to my reason for citing Alanis rather than someone else: Alanis had to change style and jettison the sugar as she went for the "adult" market, whereas Kelly doesn't have to jettison the sugar. So that's why I cited Alanis rather than Avril. I am saying that Kelly doesn't have to resemble Alanis.

As for why American rock critics take Kelly Clarkson seriously. Well, you know, we're a strange bunch. In the past we've taken Britney Spears and Ricky Martin and the Backstreet Boys seriously, too. And our taking a performer seriously isn't predicated on their being dark. (That said, something tells me you've never heard Pink's "Numb" or Avril's "Unwanted" or Kelly Clarkson's "Addicted.")

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Predicated on his or her being dark, that is (in case Nabisco reads this thread).

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

i don't get the ladytron love this year either: everything i've heard off the new album sounds like a slightly boring version of everything they did in 2002 and before.

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 20 January 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

That Ladytron song sounds pretty good to me.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 January 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well, you know, we're a strange bunch. In the past we've taken Britney Spears and Ricky Martin and the Backstreet Boys seriously, too. And our taking a performer seriously isn't predicated on their being dark.

Oh I know, though in the main none of them were taken as seriously as Morrisette was at her peak were they? Or maybe the attitude to Pop there really is different to the UK (e.g. James Blunt is automatically taken more seriously here than Girls Aloud - that's what I was getting at there). But yes I was missing your point.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

james cunt, stevem. call the man by his name

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the clarification, Billy. And hurrah I get to dump "Mr Brightside" from the top 50 ;)

Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Get Right" actually goes a long way towards imbuing me with goodwill towards J.Lo, largely because it sounds like a copy of an Amerie song rather than a copy of a Beyonce song.

Dan (J.Lo Can't Do Sprechgesang) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that's basically why I like it. Also, the bridge is great.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I can totally hear Beyonce singing 'Get Right' tho.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are all wrong w/r/t J Lo. Clearly her great songs are (in descending order):

1) I'm Real (Remix) ft. Ja Rule (Murder Inc's fluffy commerical highpoint? The interplay b/w the two was delicious. And Lex I'm disappointed that you don't R-E-C-O-G-N-I-Z-E that Ashanti did some awesome stuff on her first album - though to be fair t'was all album tracks. Search "Voodoo" and "Rescue Me" now!).

2) Play (actually possibly even better than the above, although it has slightly less sentimental value for me. Sterling Clover loves this one and rightly so - the best Prince rip-off done by an actually-charting R&B/pop star in the last five years? i.e. excluding Teedra Moses).

3) Jenny From The Block (totally unworkable as a song, but great to dance to and something of a fearsome challenge as a karaoke number - the vocal melody is actually incredibly hard to remember and replicate!)

4) Waiting For Tonight (this and "Let's Get Loud" are beloved of teh gays. This one is far superior obv)

5) Get Right (There's something kinda awkward about the verse/chorus construction of all three of Harrison's big club hits, but this one probably struggles harder and falls shorter in its attemtps to gel and cohere - still it's kinda irresistible, and the video clip straddles that awesome/awful divide so confidently)

6) Ain't It Funny (don't you just love it when this comes on the radio?)

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

the vocal melody is actually incredibly hard to remember and replicate!

No it isn't!

Dan (So There) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I meant in the verses - the not-quite-fully-sung bit.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway Dan I don't trust yr assessments of what's easy and hard to sing!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahahahaha fair point!

Dan (Improv 101, Though) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

the verses of 'jenny from the block' have the kind of melody which on first listen appears non-existent but is just incredible subtle and after a while fearsomely catchy.

tim i will search those ashanti tracks although i definitely don't share the 'i'm real' love! partly because ja rule's voice irritates me beyond belief but i did find everything else about it very bland.

The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the complete list of all 759 tracks (Kanye West's Gone was listed twice previously so it's not 760).

759 Forward Russia! - Thirteen 1 1 0
758 Raveonettes - Love in a trashcan 1 1 0
757 Ada - I Love Asphalt 1 1 0
756 Ashlee Simpson - Coming back for more 1 1 0
755 Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E 1 1 0
754 Black Mountain - Faulty Times 1 1 0
753 Deerhoof - After Me The Deluge 1 1 0
752 Destinys Child -Girl 1 1 0
751 Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road (Manasseh mix) 1 1 0
750 Gorillaz - Dirty Harry 1 1 0
749 Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl 1 1 0
748 Holy Fuck - Tone Bank Jungle 1 1 0
747 John Doe - Mama don't 1 1 0
746 Keren Ann - For you and I 1 1 0
745 LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator 1 1 0
744 Matthew Johnson - Marionette (Live edit) 1 1 0
743 Mayer/Aguayo 1 1 0
742 Mono Taxi - Kind of better 1 1 0
741 Ninja High School - Jam Band Death Cult 1 1 0
740 Quack Quack - You've won a prize 1 1 0
739 Rex The Dog - Frequency 1 1 0
738 Sleater-Kinney - Let's call it love 1 1 0
737 Smog - The well 1 1 0
736 Solasso - Hypnotise 1 1 0
735 Sophie Rimheden - Can you save me 1 1 0
734 Status Quo - The party ain't over yet 1 1 0
733 Super Furry Animals - Cabin fever 1 1 0
732 The Go Team - Bottle Rocket 1 1 0
731 Tocotronic - Aber Hier Leben, Nein Danke 1 1 0
730 Tom Vek - If you want 1 1 0
729 Tony Yayo - So Seductive 1 1 0
728 Tunng - Pioneers 1 1 0
727 Ying Yang Twins - Shake feat. Pitbull 1 1 0
726 Billy Joe Shaver - Try and Try again 1 1 0
725 Adam Green - Emily 2 1 0
724 André Herman Düne - Everyday Bliss 2 1 0
723 Boards of Canada - Hey Saturday Sun 2 1 0
722 Boy Least Likely to - Be Gentle with me 2 1 0
721 Break 3000 - Flash A 2 1 0
720 Cassidy - I'm a hustla 2 1 0
719 Ce'Cile ft KC Jockey - Gwaan Hype 2 1 0
718 Charlotte Church - Crazy chick 2 1 0
717 Chris TT - Tony's heart 2 1 0
716 CocoRosie - Armageddon 2 1 0
715 Colder - Wrong baby 2 1 0
714 D4L - Laffy Taffy 2 1 0
713 Editors - Bullets 2 1 0
712 Excepter - Interplay: Your House 2 1 0
711 Fiery Furnaces - Single again 2 1 0
710 Flii Stylz - Rize 2 1 0
709 High on Fir - Come down Hessian 2 1 0
708 Junior Senior - Take my time 2 1 0
707 Keren Ann - Midi Dans le Salon De la Duches 2 1 0
706 Kinski - Wives of Artie Shaw 2 1 0
705 Mattafix - Big City Life 2 1 0
704 Natalie - Goin' Crazy 2 1 0
703 Partysquad - Wat wil je doen? 2 1 0
702 Paul Wall feat. Big Pokey - Sittin' sidewayz 2 1 0
701 Robbie Williams - Make me pure 2 1 0
700 Roots Manuva - Collosal Insight 2 1 0
699 Sa Ra Creative Partners - Divine 2 1 0
698 Wedding Present - Interstate 5 2 1 0
697 Billy Joe Shaver -The real deal 2 1 0
696 Boards of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat 3 1 0
695 BRMC - Shuffle your feet 3 1 0
694 Circle - Teraskylpy 3 1 0
693 Coral - In the morning 3 1 0
692 Danger Doom - Sofa King 3 1 0
691 Excepter - Interplay: Back Room 3 1 0
690 Feist - When I was a young girl 3 1 0
689 Guilemots - I saw such things in my sleep 3 1 0
688 Jeffrey Lewis - Don't be upset 3 1 0
687 Jens Lekman - A sweet summers night on hammer Hill 3 1 0
686 John Legend - Ordinary People 3 1 0
685 Keren Ann - La Forme et LeFond 3 1 0
684 Killers - Somebody told me 3 1 0
683 Ladytron - Sugar 3 1 0
682 Living Things - March in daylight 3 1 0
681 Magda - 48 Hour Crack in my bass 3 1 0
680 Mr. Lee G and Ghislan P - They Wanna Know (whisper edit) 3 1 0
679 Patrick Wolf - Tristian 3 1 0
678 Petey Pablo ft Rasheeda - Vibrate 3 1 0
677 R Kelly - Happy Summertime 3 1 0
676 Rachel Stevens - I will be there 3 1 0
675 Research - The way you used to smile 3 1 0
674 Roll Deep - When I'm Ere 3 1 0
673 Sharon Jones - Natural born lover 3 1 0
672 Shitmat - Vengeance of the Whitehawk townies 3 1 0
671 Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight 3 1 0
670 Sleater-Kinney - Night Light 3 1 0
669 The Diskettes - 12345 3 1 0
668 Billy Joe Shaver - Live Forever 3 1 0
667 Editors - Munich 4 1 0
666 Benjamin Zephaniah - Rong Radio Station 4 1 0
665 Black Mountain - Druganaut 4 1 0
664 Bloc Party - The Pioneers (M83 remix) 4 1 0
663 Bruce Springsteen - The Hitter 4 1 0
662 Cardigans - I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer 4 1 0
661 Coldplay - Talk 4 1 0
660 Darkness - Is it just me 4 1 0
659 David Sylvian - The Only daughter (Ryoji Ikeda remix) 4 1 0
658 Decomposure - Disconnect 4 1 0
657 Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance 4 1 0
656 Fred Everything - Friday (Trentemoller mix) 4 1 0
655 Justus Kohncke - Elan 4 1 0
654 Kanye West - Drive slow 4 1 0
653 Keren Ann - One day without 4 1 0
652 Konono no 1 - Paradison 4 1 0
651 Kus - Lekker Ding 4 1 0
650 Lemon Jelly - Stay with you 4 1 0
649 Low - California 4 1 0
648 Matthew Johnson - Return of the zombie bikers 4 1 0
647 Missy Elliot - On and on 4 1 0
646 Mules - Polly-O 4 1 0
645 My My - Serpentine 4 1 0
644 Robbie Williams - Tripping 4 1 0
643 Roisin Murphy - If we're in love 4 1 0
642 Saul Williams - Black Stacey 4 1 0
641 Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers 4 1 0
640 Spinto Band - Did I tell you? 4 1 0
639 Stereophonics - Dakota 4 1 0
638 Tatu - Perfect Enemy 4 1 0
637 Trisha Yearwood - River of you 4 1 0
636 Tweet - Turn da lights off (feat Missy Elliot) 4 1 0
635 Weezer - Perfect situation 4 1 0
634 James McMurtry - We can't make it here 4 1 0
633 Akron Family - Running, returning 5 1 0
632 Andre Kraml - Safari 5 1 0
631 Antony & The Johnsons - For today I am a Boy 5 1 0
630 Ashanti - Only U 5 1 0
629 Autolux - Here comes everybody 5 1 0
628 Calvin Johnson - Rabbit Blood 5 1 0
627 Chicken Lips - Sweet Cow (Lindstrom mix) 5 1 0
626 Decemberists - We both go down together 5 1 0
625 Digitalism - Zdarlight 5 1 0
624 Fountains of Wayne - Maureen 5 1 0
623 Gene Serene & John Downfall - I can do anything 5 1 0
622 Geto Boys - I tried 5 1 0
621 Gorillaz - Kids with guns 5 1 0
620 Huggabroomstik - Vincenzo 5 1 0
619 Jeans Team - Oh Bauer 5 1 0
618 Juan Maclean - Give me every little thing 5 1 0
617 Keren Ann - Chelsea Burns 5 1 0
616 Laura Cantrell - Letters 5 1 0
615 Lil' Kim - Lighters up 5 1 0
614 M Ward - I'll be your bird 5 1 0
613 Madonna - Future lovers 5 1 0
612 Nathalie Nordness - Cars and boys 5 1 0
611 Nathan Fake - Dinamo 5 1 0
610 New Order - Temptation (Secret Machines remix) 5 1 0
609 New Pornographers - Sing me Spanish Techno 5 1 0
608 Night and City of Broken Promises - Accumulation of correspondence 5 1 0
607 Saint Etienne - Teenage Winter 5 1 0
606 Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl 5 1 0
605 Starsailor - Four to the floor 5 1 0
604 Hope Partlow - Cold 5 1 0
603 Bees - Chicken Payback 6 1 0
602 Carl Craig - Sandstorm 6 1 0
601 Coldplay - X and Y 6 1 0
600 Gang of Four - Natural's not in it (Ladytron remodel) 6 1 0
599 GZA vs DJ Muggs - Smothered Mate 6 1 0
598 Hold Steady - Banging Camp 6 1 0
597 Kaiser Chiefs - Oh my God 6 1 0
596 Kelley Polar - Here in the night 6 1 0
595 Linus Loves - The Victoria Principle ep 6 1 0
594 MIA - Hombre 6 1 0
593 Mitchell Brothers - Harvey Nichs 6 1 0
592 Nathan Fake - Coheed (Michael Mayer mix) 6 1 0
591 Nine Horses - Darkest Bird 6 1 0
590 Paul McCartney - At the mercy 6 1 0
589 Pelican - March into the sea 6 1 0
588 Princess Superstar - My Machine (Jr Sanchez remix) 6 1 0
587 Roisin Murphy - Leaving the city 6 1 0
586 Roll Deep - The Avenue 6 1 0
585 roots manuva - awfully deep 6 1 0
584 Sleater-Kinney - Entertain 6 1 0
583 Soltero - Hands up 6 1 0
582 Sons & Daughters - Dance me in 6 1 0
581 Spirit Catcher - Key generator 6 1 0
580 Tompaulin - Useless 6 1 0
579 Verbalicious - Don't play nice 6 1 0
578 Hope Partlow - It's too late 6 1 0
577 King Biscuit Time - C I am 7 1 0
576 Annie - Helpless fool for love (Patrick Wolf remix) 7 1 0
575 Argy - Love Dose (Luciano remix) 7 1 0
574 Books - Be good to them always 7 1 0
573 Casting Couch - Flying Machine 7 1 0
572 Clyde Carson - Soul Glo 7 1 0
571 Cowboy Troy - I play Chicken (With the train) 7 1 0
570 Great Lake Swimmers - Moving pictures, Silent Films 7 1 0
569 Half Man Half Biscuit - Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo 7 1 0
568 Junior Senior - Itch you can't scratch 7 1 0
567 Kanye West - Heard 'Em say 7 1 0
566 Lightning Bolt- Bizarro Bike 7 1 0
565 Mariah Carey - We belong together (Peter Rauhofer mix) 7 1 0
564 Maximo Park - Now I'm all over the shop 7 1 0
563 Moby - Love should 7 1 0
562 Mountain Goats - Dance music 7 1 0
561 Nada Surf - Blankest year 7 1 0
560 Patrick Wolf - This weather 7 1 0
559 Public Enemy - Hell No we ain't all right 7 1 0
558 Roisin Murphy - Sow into you 7 2 0
557 Roman Flugel - Gehts Noch 7 1 0
556 Ryan Teague - Prelude I 7 1 0
555 Saint Etienne - The Birdman of EC1 7 1 0
554 Spoon - I summon you 7 1 0
553 Supersystem - Born into the world 7 1 0
552 Teenage Fanclub-slow fade pictures 7 1 0
551 Hope Partlow - Girlfriend 7 1 0
550 African Head Charge - Run come see 8 1 0
549 Athlete - Wires 8 1 0
548 Beanie Siegel feat. Melissa - Feel it in the air 8 1 0
547 Broadcast - Black Cat 8 1 0
546 Broken Family Band - Happy days are here again 8 1 0
545 Chemical Brothers - Marvo Ging 8 1 0
544 CocoRosie - Noah's Ark 8 1 0
543 Daso - Daybreak 8 1 0
542 Death from Above 1979 - Black History Month 8 1 0
541 Depeche Mode - Precious (SM's Holier than thou reproach) 8 1 0
540 Destinys Child - Lose my breath 8 1 0
539 Four Tet - Smile around the face 8 1 0
538 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl (Diplo remix) 8 1 0
537 Kubichek - Nightjoy 8 1 0
536 Lindsey Lohan - I live for this day 8 1 0
535 Mark Owen - Believe in the boogie 8 1 0
534 Mylo - Drop the Pressure (Rex the Dog mix) 8 1 0
533 New Order - Turn 8 1 0
532 New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call 8 1 0
531 Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren 8 2 0
530 Pay TV - Refrain Refrain 8 1 0
529 R Kelly - In the kitchen (remix) 8 1 0
528 Robyn - Bum like you 8 1 0
527 Ruff Sqwad - Underground 8 1 0
526 Spoon - Sister Jack 8 3 0
525 Stereolab - Kyberneticka Babicka 8 1 0
524 System of a Down - Hypnotize 8 1 0
523 Tiger Saw - Postcards and letters 8 1 0
522 Trama - Praise God 8 1 0
521 White Stripes - Denial twist 8 1 0
520 Z-Ro feat Paul Wall & Lil' Flip - From the South 8 1 0
519 Hope Partlow - Like we are 8 1 0
518 50 Cent - Candy Shop 9 1 0
517 Bloc Party - Like eating glass 9 1 0
516 Captain Kids - Snapshots 9 1 0
515 Click Five - Just the girl 9 1 0
514 Cliff Richard - What car 9 1 0
513 Destra - Independent Ladies 9 1 0
512 Kano - Reload it (High contrast mix) 9 1 0
511 Kano feat. Demon & Wiley - Mic Fight 9 1 0
510 karin filipsson & mont ventoux - 'your daft punk records' 9 1 0
509 Les Visiteurs - Snoops acid drop 9 1 0
508 Lifelike Kris menace - Discopolis 9 1 0
507 Lucksmiths - Fiction 9 1 0
506 Madonna - Sorry 9 1 0
505 Matias Aguayo - De Papel 9 1 0
504 Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beast For Thee 9 1 0
503 Michael Mayer - Lovefood/slow 9 1 0
502 Neil Diamond - Hell yeah 9 1 0
501 Nemesi - Cosmica (Lindstrom mix) 9 1 0
500 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Operator 9 1 0
499 Shortwave Set - Is it any wonder? 9 1 0
498 Shortwave Set - Your Room 9 1 0
497 Soviettes - Multiply and divide 9 1 0
496 Sugababes - Ace reject 9 1 0
495 T-Pain - I'm sprung 9 1 0
494 Trentemoller - Sunstroke 9 1 0
493 White Stripes - Blue Orchid (High Contrast Remix) 9 1 0
492 Wighnomy Bros - Pele Bloss 9 1 0
491 Yann Tiersen - Kala 9 1 0
490 Annie - Happy without you 9 1 0
489 Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I love you less and less 10 1 0
488 Amerie feat Ti - Touch (remix) 10 1 0
487 Cassy - Night to remember 10 1 0
486 Cecille w Jacques Lu Cont - Na Na Na 10 1 0
485 Chemical Brothers - Shake break bounce 10 1 0
484 Dancing DJ's vs Roxette - Fading like a flower 10 1 0
483 Dengue Fever - Tip my canoe 10 1 0
482 Fall - What about us 10 1 0
481 Gui Boratto - Arquipelago 10 1 0
480 GZA vs DJ Muggs feat. Raekwon - Destruction of a guard 10 1 0
479 Juliet - Avalon 10 1 0
478 Keren Ann - Greatest you can fine 10 1 0
477 Keyshia Cole - I should have cheated 10 1 0
476 Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch (Hot Chip mix) 10 1 0
475 LCD Soundsystem - Thrills 10 1 0
474 LCD Soundsystem - Too much love 10 1 0
473 Maximo Park - The Coast is always changing 10 1 0
472 Mint Condition - Luxury Brown 10 1 0
471 Mountain Goats - Lion's teeth 10 1 0
470 mr suitcase - while we're learning to forget 10 1 0
469 Natasha Bedingfield - These words 10 1 0
468 Of Montreal - Oslo in the Summertime 10 1 0
467 Outrageous Cherry - Unless 10 1 0
466 PAJO - Let Me Bleed 10 1 0
465 Rachel Stevens - Dumb Dumb 10 1 0
464 Rammstein - Keine Lust (Blackstrobe Mix) 10 1 0
463 Rob Thomas - Lonely no more 10 1 0
462 Robyn - Who's that girl 10 1 0
461 Soulwax - E-Talking (Rex the Dog mix) 10 1 0
460 Tri-Lambs - Mungo 10 1 0
459 Turbonegro - All my friends are dead 10 1 0
458 White Stripes - Forever for her (is over for me) 10 1 0
457 Annie - Anniemal 10 1 0
456 Clipse - Zen feat. Ab-liva and Sandman 10.5 1 0
455 The Killers - Mister Brightside (JLC mix) 10.5 1 0
454 Tiga - Louder than a bomb 10.5 1 0
453 Lopazz - Blood 10.5 1 0
452 Felix Da Housecat - tweek 10.5 1 0
451 Fischerspooner - Just let go (Thin white duke mix) 10.5 1 0
450 Hell - Follow you (Eulberg mix) 10.5 1 0
449 Alex Storm - What's the point 10.5 1 0
448 Animal Collective - Bees 10.5 1 0
447 Annie - Heartbeat (Maurice Fulton mix) 10.5 1 0
446 Big Boi feat Big Gee & Bun B - 808 10.5 1 0
445 Burst - Immateria 10.5 1 0
444 Caribou - Brahminy Kite 10.5 1 0
443 Daft Punk -Robot Rock 10.5 1 0
442 Dark Tranquility - Lost to apathy 10.5 1 0
441 Death from Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan's Love from Below re-edit) 10.5 1 0
440 Fischerspooner - Just let go 10.5 1 0
439 Girls Aloud - See the day 10.5 1 0
438 Goldfrapp - Number 1 (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke club remix) 10.5 1 0
437 ILikeTrains - A Rook house for Bobby 10.5 1 0
436 Jammer feat. Wiley, D Double E, Kano And Goodz - Destruction VIP 10.5 1 0
435 Jori Hulkkonen - Lo Fiction 10.5 1 0
434 Juan Maclean - Tito's way (Reverso 68 mix) 10.5 1 0
433 Kate Bush - Bertie 10.5 1 0
432 Mew - Apocalypso 10.5 1 0
431 Missy Elliott - Can't Stop 10.5 1 0
430 Mu - Tigerbastard 10.5 1 0
429 My Morning Jacket - Gideon 10.5 1 0
428 Radio Dept - Deliverance 10.5 1 0
427 Richard Davis - Bring me closer 10.5 1 0
426 Riverside - Second life syndrome 10.5 1 0
425 Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Glorious 10.5 1 0
424 Scenario Rock - Skitzo Dancer (Justice remiz) 10.5 1 0
423 Sebastian - Dolami 10.5 1 0
422 Shy Child - Sunshine 10.5 1 0
421 Stereolab - Interlock 10.5 1 0
420 Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm 10.5 1 0
419 Sugababes - Red Dress 10.5 1 0
418 Tom Vek - Nothing but Green lights (Phones Madchester '90 remix) 10.5 1 0
417 Ulver - Christmas 10.5 1 0
416 Vitalic - Repair machines 10.5 1 0
415 Wilderness - End of Freedom 10.5 1 0
414 Baxendale - I built this city 11 1 0
413 Bloc Party - She's hearing voices 11 1 0
412 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon tidal wave of young blood 11 1 0
411 Coldplay - Fix you 11 1 0
410 Constantines - Love in fear 11 1 0
409 Cranebuilders - Public Space 11 2 0
408 Decemberists - Mariner's revenge song 11 1 0
407 Dirty on Purpose - Girls & Sunshine 11 1 0
406 Fall out Boy - Sugar, we're going down 11 2 0
405 Field Music - You decide 11 1 0
404 Foxy Brown feat. Sizzla - Come fly with me 11 1 0
403 Fursaxa - Karma 11 1 0
402 Goldfrapp - Number 1 11 1 0
401 Jaga Jazzist - Oslo Skyline 11 1 0
400 Jason Forrest & Laura Cantrell - Nightclothes and headphones 11 1 0
399 Keren Ann - Que N'ai-Je? 11 1 0
398 Kills - The Good Ones 11 1 0
397 Konono no 1 - Lufala Ndongo 11 1 0
396 Matias Aguayo - So in love 11 1 0
395 MIA - Galang 11 2 0
394 Mylo - Into my arms 11 1 0
393 New Pornographers - Use it 11 1 0
392 Of Montreal - So begins our Abalee 11 1 0
391 Robyn - Crash And Burn Girl 11 2 0
390 Sharon Jones & Dap Kings - How long do I have to wait for you 11 1 0
389 Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster 11 1 0
388 Spoon - The Delicate Place 11 1 0
387 Sugababes - 2 Hearts 11 1 0
386 Triola - Leuchtturm (Wighomy's Polarzipper remix) 11 1 0
385 Venetian Snares - Hajnal 11 1 0
384 Vico C - Tu Corazon Ya No Aguanta Pela 11 1 0
383 Annie - Helpless fool for love 11 1 0
382 Amit - Re-order 12 1 0
381 Andre Krami - Safari (James Holden remi) 12 1 0
380 Animal Collective - Purple Bottle 12 2 0
379 Archer Prewitt - Cheap rhyme 12 1 0
378 Au Revoir Simone - Through The Backyards 12 1 0
377 Beck - Girl 12 1 0
376 Black Mountain - Don't run our hearts around 12 1 0
375 Boards of Canada - Peacock Trail 12 1 0
374 Coldplay - Speed of sound 12 2 0
373 Cranebuilders - Radio 12 1 0
372 Girls Aloud - Models 12 1 0
371 Goldfrapp - Ride a white horse 12 1 0
370 Gruff Rhys - Gwn mi win 12 1 0
369 Kevin Blechdom - Love you from the heart 12 1 0
368 Kill The Vultures - The Vultures 12 1 0
367 Lovebites - You broke my heart 12 1 0
366 Mayito Rivera - Negrito Bailador 12 1 0
365 Miranda Lambert - Kerosene 12 1 0
364 Mystery Jets - Alas Agnes 12 1 0
363 Paul McCartney -This never happened before 12 1 0
362 Regina Spektor - Your Honor 12 1 0
361 Royksopp - Only This Moment (Alan Braxe mix) 12 1 0
360 Shakira - La Tortura 12 1 0
359 Strokes - Juicebox 12 2 0
358 Talib Kweli - Ms Hill 12 1 0
357 Tom Vek - I ain't saying my goodbyes 12 1 0
356 Vitalic - U and I 12 1 0
355 Young Jeezy - Go Crazy 12 1 0
354 Annie - Always too late 12 1 0
353 1 Up - Yeahdancetomyrecordbitch 13 1 0
352 Akon - Mr Lonely 13 1 0
351 Bananarama - Look on the floor 13 1 0
350 Bob Mould - (Shine your) Light love hope 13 1 0
349 Calle 13 - Se Vale To-To 13 1 0
348 Daft Punk - The prime time of your life 13 1 0
347 Deana Carter - The girl you left me for 13 1 0
346 Devendra Banhart - Little Boys 13 1 0
345 Girls Aloud - Swinging London Town 13 1 0
344 Go-Betweens - Statue 13 1 0
343 Green Day - Holiday 13 1 0
342 Helen Love - Debbie loves Joey 13 1 0
341 Japanther - The Gravy 13 1 0
340 John Tejada - Paranoia 13 1 0
339 Lady Sovereign - Hoodie 13 2 0
338 Lady Sovereign - Hoodie (Basement Jaxx radio edit) 13 1 0
337 Lady Sovereign - Random (Menta mix) 13 1 0
336 LCD Soundsystem - Movement 13 1 0
335 Lindstrom - I feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y remix) 13 1 0
334 Low - Pissing 13 1 0
333 Of Montreal - Forecast Fascist Futures 13 2 0
332 Of Montreal - Requiem for OMM 13 1 0
331 Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gebrunn 13 1 0
330 Paul McCartney - Riding to Vanity Fair 13 1 0
329 Rihanna - Pon de Replay 13 1 0
328 Russian Futurists - Why you gotta do that 13 1 0
327 Ryan Adams - A kiss before I go 13 1 0
326 Sleep Archive - Research 13 1 0
325 Snoop Dogg ft Justin Timberlake - Signs 13 1 0
324 Voice of the Seven Woods - An hour before dawn 13 1 0
323 We are Scientists - Nobody moves 13 1 0
322 Annie - Chewing gum 13 1 0
321 !!! - Take Ecstacy with me 14 3 0
320 Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power out) 14 2 0
319 Bloc Party - Two more years 14 1 0
318 Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo 14 1 0
317 Bonnie "Prince" Billy + Matt Sweeney - I Gave You 14 1 0
316 Boris - Ibitsu 14 1 0
315 Brakes - All night disco party 14 1 0
314 Bright Eyes - Lua 14 1 0
313 David Banner - Play 14 1 0
312 Dieter Schmidt - Morse cide from the cold war 14 1 0
311 Go-Betweens - Lavender 14 1 0
310 Juelz Santana - Mic Check (1,2) 14 1 0
309 Killers - Mr Brightside 14 1 0
308 Kronos Quartet/Asha Bhosle - Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke) 14 1 0
307 Lopazz - Blood (Tiefschwarz remix) 14 1 0
306 Love As Laughter - Idol Worship! Idol Worship! 14 1 0
305 Magnet - Hold on 14 1 0
304 Mountain Goats - Love, love love 14 1 0
303 Richard Hawley - I sleep alone 14 1 0
302 Sinead O'Connor - Curly locks 14 1 0
301 T Waters - Throw'd off 14 1 0
300 TimTim - Bell Lane 14 1 0
299 UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - Comfort Me, I've Lost My Heart 14 1 0
298 wir sind helden - Nur Ein Wort 14 1 0
297 Witchcraft - Chylde Of Fire 14 1 0
296 Lady Sovereign - The Battle 14 1 0
295 Animal Collective feat. Vashti Bunyan - I remember learning how to dive 15 1 0
294 Bjork - Storm 15 1 0
293 Black Dice - Smiling Off (Luomo Mix) 15 2 0
292 Books - An animated description of Mr Maps 15 1 0
291 Brendan Benson - Spit it out 15 1 0
290 Christian Vogel - 1968, Holes 15 1 0
289 Coheed and Cambria - The suffering 15 1 0
288 Compactrisk - Drop it like it's Huey 15 1 0
287 De jeugd van tegenwoordig - Watskeburt 15 1 0
286 Doves - Snowden 15 1 0
285 Einmusick - Jittery heritage 15 1 0
284 Emilliana Torini - Serenade 15 1 0
283 Futureheads - Area 15 1 0
282 Jamie Lidell - Multiply (Gonzales mix) 15 1 0
281 Killers - All these things I've done 15 1 0
280 Kills - Love is a deserter 15 1 0
279 Lali Puna - Micronomic(Boom Bip Remix) 15 1 0
278 Laura Veirs - Spelunking 15 1 0
277 LCD Soundsystem - Your City's a sucker 15 2 0
276 Long Blondes - Appropriation (By any other name) 15 2 0
275 Los Super Elegantes - Dance 15 1 0
274 Low - On the edge of 15 1 0
273 Luciano - Octagonal 15 1 0
272 Mike Jones – Still Tippin Feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall (Diplo Remix) 15 1 0
271 New Pornographers - These are the fables 15 2 0
270 Nina Nastasia - Bird of Cuzco 15 1 0
269 N'Klabe - I love salsa 15 1 0
268 Robert Post - Got none 15 1 0
267 Tatu - Cosmos (Outer Space) 15 1 0
266 Greg Osby: "Diode Emissions 15 1 0
265 50 Cent - Just a lil' bit 16 1 0
264 Ashlee Simpson - I am me 16 1 0
263 Colleen - Bubbles which on the water swim 16 1 0
262 Death From Above 1979 - Blood on our hands (Justice remix) 16 1 0
261 Depeche Mode - Suffer well 16 1 0
260 Devendra Banhart - Korean Dogwood 16 1 0
259 DJ Shadow ft. Turf Talk & Keak Da Sneak - 3 Freaks 16 1 0
258 Ellen Allien - Washing Machine is speaking 16 1 0
257 Go! Team - Ladyflash 16 1 0
256 Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (Tiefschwarz mix) 16 1 0
255 Gorillaz - O Green world 16 1 0
254 Jackson and his Computer Band - Hard Tits 16 1 0
253 Kathleen Edwards - Back to me 16 1 0
252 Lady Sovereign - Boys will be Girls 16 1 0
251 Malcolm Middleton - Choir 16 1 0
250 Mario - Let me love you 16 1 0
249 MIA - Fire Fire 16 1 0
248 Out Hud - One life to leave 16 2 0
247 Pipettes - It hurts 2 C U dance so well 16 1 0
246 Regina Spektor - Us 16 1 0
245 Revelations - You're the loser 16 1 0
244 Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso 16 1 0
243 Rich Boy - Get to poppin' (Remix feat Pitbull) 16 1 0
242 Search & Destroy - Desperate measures 16 1 0
241 Spinto Band - O Mandy 16 1 0
240 Sweetlight - Abusator (Blackstrobe remix) 16 1 0
239 The Futureheads - Hounds of Love 16 1 0
238 Theo Parrish - Falling up (Carl Craig mix) 16 1 0
237 Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga's Na Na Na remix) 16 1 0
236 Vitalic - The past 16 1 0
235 Voltio with Calle 13 - Ojalai 16 1 0
234 Dixie Chicks with Robert Randolph: "I Hope" 16 1 0
233 Tiefschwarz - Issst 16.5 2 0
232 Annie - The wedding 17 1 0
231 Ashlee Simpson - La La 17 1 0
230 Daddy Yankee and Lil' John - Gasolina (DJ Buddha remix) 17 1 0
229 Electrelane - Suitcase 17 1 0
228 Fall - I can hear the grass grow 17 1 0
227 Fiery Furnaces - Here comes the summer 17 1 0
226 Fountains of Wayne - Always love 17 1 0
225 Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to (Erol's Glam racket mix) 17 1 0
224 Gorillaz - Dare (Soulwax mix) 17 1 0
223 Hilary Duff - Wake up 17 1 0
222 Howard Hughes - The Guest 17 1 0
221 I Self Devine - Ice Cold 17 1 0
220 Jackson & His Computer Band - Fast Life 17 1 0
219 Juelz Santana - There it go (The Whistle song) 17 1 0
218 Kode9 & Space Ape - Kingstown 17 1 0
217 Lady Sovereign - Ch Ching 17 2 0
216 Liz Phair Got My Own Thing 17 1 0
215 Maximo Park - Going missing 17 1 0
214 Mitchell Brothers - Routine Check 17 1 0
213 Paul McCartney - A certain softness 17 1 0
212 Tom Vek - C-C (You set the fire in me) 17 2 0
211 Voxtrot - The Start of something 17 1 0
210 Wolf Parade - I'll believ in anything 17 1 0
209 Cobra Verde - So long Marianne 17 1 0
208 Royksopp - what else is there? (JLC mix) 17.5 2 0
207 Beck - Broken Drum (Boards of Canada remix) 18 2 0
206 Big Business - Eastern Romantic 18 1 0
205 Cesar Pedroso - Del Trabajo A La Casa 18 1 0
204 Ciara feat Missy Elliot - 1,2 Step 18 1 0
203 Datarock - Fa fa fa 18 1 0
202 Diane Cluck - Just as I should Be 18 1 0
201 Ellen Allien - She is with me 18 1 0
200 Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor put your boots on 18 3 0
199 Gwen Stefani - Cool 18 1 0
198 Jim Noir - Computer Song 18 1 0
197 Kent - Dom Som Forvasn 18 1 0
196 Kim-Lian - Teenage Superstar 18 1 0
195 Low - Monkey 18 1 0
194 Million Dead - Living the dream 18 1 0
193 Modeselektor - Dancing Box 18 1 0
192 Nathan Fake - Dinamo (Dominik Eulberg remix) 18 1 0
191 New Order - Krafty 18 3 0
190 Noze - Kitchen 18 1 0
189 Richard Hawley - Coles Corner 18 1 0
188 Skream - Request Line 18 1 0
187 Slagmalsklubben - His morning promenade 18 1 0
186 Spoon - Two sides of Monseiur Valentin 18 1 0
185 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Mountains made of steam 18 1 0
184 Cobra Verde - I feel love 18 1 0
183 Rakes - Retreat 19 1 0
182 Atmosphere - Pour me another 19 1 0
181 Blues Explosion - Mars, Arizona (DFA remix) 19 1 0
180 Bob Sinclair - Love Generation 19 1 0
179 Coldplay - what if? 19 1 0
178 Dierks Bentley - Lot of leavin' left to do 19 1 0
177 Duoteque - Drug Queen 19 1 0
176 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine 19 1 0
175 Foo Fighters - Best of you 19 1 0
174 Forward Russia! - Seven 19 1 0
173 Gledhill - Good times ahead 19 1 0
172 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 19 1 0
171 Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves 19 1 0
170 Herman Düne - You Could Be A Model, Goodbye 19 1 0
169 Jaga Jazzist - All I know is tonight 19 1 0
168 John Cale - Perfect 19 1 0
167 Lightning Bolt- Captain Caveman 19 1 0
166 M83 - Teen Angst 19 2 0
165 MIA - Sunshowers 19 1 0
164 Mountain Goats - Song for Dennis Brown 19 1 0
163 Rich Boy - Get to poppin' 19 1 0
162 Robyn - Handle me 19 1 0
161 Shola Ama - With U 19 1 0
160 Kentucky Headhunters - Chug-A-Lug 19 1 0
159 MIA - Amazon 19.5 2 0
158 Cranebuilders - Trouble is 20 1 1
157 Frames - Locusts 20 1 1
156 Human Television - Saw you walking by 20 1 1
155 Joy Zipper - 1 20 1 1
154 Kelis - Get along without you (Fake ID mix) 20 1 1
153 M83 - Lower your eyelids to die with the sun 20 1 1
152 Morane - Electric Pilot Girl (Club version) 20 1 1
151 Mu - Out of Breach 20 1 1
150 Oasis - Who putthe weight of the world on my shoulders 20 1 1
149 Of Montreal - The Party's crashing us 20 1 1
148 Phoebe Kreutz - Bull Run Beer Run 20 1 1
147 Royksopp - what else is there? 20 3 0
146 Ryan Adams - Let it ride 20 1 1
145 Sway - Up your speed 20 2 0
144 System of a Down - BYOB 20 1 1
143 Tusia Beridze - Wound 20 1 1
142 Yann Tiersen - Mary 20 1 1
141 Kentucky Headhunters - Like A Rolling Stone 20 1 1
140 Depeche Mode - Lilian 20.5 2 0
139 Amerie - One thing (Slik mix) 21 2 0
138 Baxendale - I built this city (Michael Mayer mix) 21 2 1
137 Clientele - Since K got over me 21 3 0
136 Isolee - My Hi-Matic 21 2 0
135 Jackson & His Computer Band - Rock on 21 2 0
134 Kelly Osbourne - One word 21 4 0
133 Ladytron - International Dateline 21 2 0
132 Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viasquez 21 2 0
131 Electrelane - Bells 22 2 0
130 Juan Maclean - Dance with me 22 2 0
129 M83 - Teen Angst (Luciano Mix) 22 2 0
128 QOTSA - Little Sister 22 2 0
127 Young Jeezy - My Hood 22 2 0
126 Juliet - Avalon (JLC mix) 22.5 3 0
125 Bikstok Rogsystem - Cigar 23 2 1
124 Broken Social Scene - 7-4 Shorelines 23 2 0
123 Doves - Black and White town 23 2 1
122 LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (Lindstrom mix) 23 3 0
121 Kanye West - Diamonds from Sierra leone (feat Jay Z) 23.5 2 0
120 Big Boi Presents… - Kryptonite 23.5 2 0
119 Black Mountain - No hits 24 2 0
118 Daft Punk - Make love 24 2 0
117 Royksopp - Only This Moment 24 2 0
116 Shakira - Don't bother 24 2 0
115 Bloc Party - Helicopter 25 2 1
114 Imogen Heap - Hide and seek 25 3 0
113 Kylie Minogue - Made of glass 25 2 0
112 My Morning Jacket - Off the record 25 2 0
111 Saint Etienne - Side Streets 25 2 0
110 Out Hud - It's for you 26 3 0
109 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago 26 2 0
108 Arctic Monkeys - I bet that she looks good on the dancefloor 27 2 0
107 Art Brut - Emily Kane 27 2 0
106 Clor - Love and pain 27 2 0
105 X-Press 2 (Feat. Kurt Wagner) - Give it 27 2 0
104 Kate Bush - King of the mountain 27.5 2 0
103 Sigur Ros - Glosoli 27.5 2 0
102 Art Brut - Good Weekend 28 5 0
101 Geiger - Cocain-e 28 2 0
100 Girls Aloud - Wild Horses 28 2 0
99 Jamie Lidell - Multiply 28 3 0
98 MFA - The difference it makes 28.5 2 0
97 MANDY vs Booka Shade - Body Language 29 2 0
96 Rachel Stevens - Nothing good about this goodbye 29 2 1
95 Wolf Parade - Shine a light 29 2 0
94 Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday 29.5 2 0
93 Pharrell Williams - Can I Have It Like That 29.5 3 0
92 M83 - Don't save us from the flames (Superpitcher mix) 29.5 2 0
91 Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned... 30 4 0
90 Stars - Ageless Beauty 30 4 0
89 Bjork - Who is it (Vitalic remix) 30.5 2 1
88 Kate Bush - Nocturne 30.5 2 1
87 Saint Etienne - Milkbottle Symphony 30.5 2 1
86 The Game - Put you on the game 30.5 2 1
85 Hot Chip - Over and over b/w Just like we (breakdown) DFA remix 31 2 0
84 Nine Inch Nails - Only 31 2 1
83 Rachel Stevens - So Good 31 2 0
82 Depeche Mode - Precious 31.5 3 1
81 Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha 32 2 0
80 Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind 33 3 0
79 Gorillaz - Dare (DFA remix) 34.5 3 0
78 Hold Steady - Your little hood rat friend 35 2 0
77 Okkervill River - For real 35 3 0
76 Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer 36 3 0
75 Daft Punk - Technologic (Basement Jaxx mix) 36 3 0
74 Annie - Heartbeat (Alan Braxe Mix) 37 3 0
73 Ladytron - All the way 37 2 0
72 Patrick Wolf - The Libertine 37 2 1
71 Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle 37 3 0
70 Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy 37 2 0
69 Bloc Party - So here we are 38 3 0
68 Broadcast - Michael A Grammar 38 2 1
67 Daft Punk - Human After All 38 4 0
66 Rachel Stevens - Funny how 39 2 1
65 Legendary KO - George Bush don't care about black people 39 2 1
64 Animal Collective - Grass 40 4 1
63 Annie - Heartbeat 41 4 0
62 Lady Sovereign - Random 42.5 4 0
61 Fannypack - 718 42.5 4 0
60 Rachel Stevens - I Said Never Again (But Here We Are) 43 4 0
59 MFa - The difference it makes (Superpitcher mix) 44 3 0
58 Lady Sovereign - 9-5 44 3 1
57 Hard-Fi - Hard to beat 44 4 1
56 Feist - Inside and out 45 3 0
55 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 45 3 0
54 My Chemical Romance - Helena 45 3 1
53 Isolee - Schrapnell 45.5 4 1
52 Mariah Carey - We belong together 46 3 1
51 Killers - Mr Brightside (Thin white duke mix) 47.5 4 1
50 Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches* 48 4 0
49 Kanye West feat Cam'ron and Consequence - Gone 48.5 3 1
48 Mike Jones - Still Tipping (Feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall) 49.5 6 0
47 Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to 50 7 0
46 U2 - Sometimes you can't make it on your own 50 3 0
45 Royksopp - What else is there ? (Trentemoller mix) 50.5 4 0
44 Polmo Polpo - Kiss me again and again 51 3 0
43 Tatu - All about us 53 4 1
42 Sugababes - Push the button 54.5 5 0
41 m83 - Don't save us from the flames 55 6 0
40 Saint Etienne - Stars above us* 56 3 0
39 Gorillaz - Dare 59.5 5 0
38 Damein Jr. Gong Marley - Welcome to Jamrock 60 4 1
37 Basement Jaxx - Oh my Gosh 61.5 6 0
36 Goldfrapp - Ooh La La 63.5 6 0
35 MIA - Bucky done gun 65 5 0
34 Mountain Goats - This year 65 4 0
33 Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl 66.5 5 1
32 MIA - Pull up the people 68 5 0
31 Tori Alamaze - Don't Cha 68.5 5 0
30 White Stripes - Blue Orchid 68.5 6 0
29 Vitalic - My Friend Dario 69.5 8 0
28 Antony & The Johnsons - Hope there's someone 70 5 0
27 Missy Elliott - Lose Control 70.5 8 0
26 Missy Elliott - Lose Control (JLC mix) 70.5 5 0
25 Spoon - I Turn my camera on 71 6 0
24 Rachel Stevens - Negotiate With Love 75 9 0
23 MIA - 10 Dollar* 76 8 0
22 R Kelly - Trapped in the closet 78.5 5 0
21 Ying Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper song) 78.5 11 0
20 Futureheads - Hounds of love 80 6 1
19 Maximo Park - Apply some pressure 80.5 8 2
18 Daddy Yankee and Lil' John - Gasolina 81.5 6 1
17 Ciara - Oh feat. Ludacris 83.5 9 1
16 LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing at my house 84 9 0
15 Lindstrom - I feel space 88 9 0
14 Broadcast - America's Boy 92 8 1
13 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 92.5 7 0
12 White Stripes - My Doorbell 93 9 0
11 LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations 97.5 8 0
10 Robyn - Be Mine 102 9 0
9 Game and 50 Cent - Hate it or love it 114 7 1
8 Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch 118.5 9 0
7 Kanye West - Gold Digger feat. Jamie Foxx 123 12 0
6 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl 139.5 14 1
5 Madonna - Hung Up 149.5 14 0
4 Three Six Mafia - Stay Fly 181 14 0
3 Kelly Clarkson - Since u been gone 183 13 2
2 Girls Aloud - Biology 235.5 16 3
1 Amerie - 1 thing 348 25 6

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Since U Been Gone" is not bad at all, now that I've actually heard it (often the best place to start in forming an opinion about a song).

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

(Not that I was putting it down before, just sort of expecting the worst.)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Why haven't I heard this at the gym instead of the scores of lesser songs I've heard there?

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

I am surprised that only one person voted for "Laffy Taffy." (Not that I'm wild about it myself, but it's been so, like, omnipresent, at least in the U.S.)

Also surprised that "Pon de Replay" had only one superfan.

And I was delighted that I wasn't the only one to vote for an Ashlee song, and that a couple of people voted for "Put You on the Game," and that I wasn't the only one to vote for "Get to Poppin'." Let's hear it for Timbo.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 22 January 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

(Get To Poppin = not timbo btw)

deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Then this must be a widely believed urban legend, because both Jess Harvell in the Seattle Weekly and Kelefa Sanneh in the New York Times, as well as scads of other people on the Web credit it to Timbaland. This is typical: "RICH BOY - GET To POPPIN - PROD BY TIMBALAND + ACAPPELA, Buy it now, GBP 0.99." A couple (out of hundreds) of hits mention Brian Kidd as the producer. Timbaland is involved somewhere (collaborated on the track? collaborated on an earlier version? is the producer w/ Kidd providing beats?). Do you know something definitive about this?

(Also, I saw a Web post that said the sample was from Toto la Momposina - La Verdolaga.)

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

props to whoever had human television at #1 but wasn't that a 2004 release?

jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

As a matter of fact, I seem to remember Rich Boy's own Web site crediting "Get to Poppin" to Timbaland. However, when I go back there now, there's no longer any info under "news."

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Direct from the liner notes:
Get To Poppin Remix - Rich Boy Feat. Pitbull
(B.Kidd, M. Richards, A. Ribeiro, A. Perez) Produced by Brian Kidd, Published by Streetrich Music/Dollanaire Publishing/Warrior Publishing/Marimbero Music Publishing, Inc., Adm. by BMG Music Publishing. Rich Boy appears courtesy of Zone 4, Inc/Interscope

(and to head off the question, yeah the beat is the same on the remix as the original.)

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 January 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Plenty of sites kept saying "Crazy In Love" was Just Blaze when that dropped.

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 January 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Brian Kidd has done beats on Ryde or Die vol. III and Watermelon, Chicken and Grits. I couldn't find much other info on him.

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 January 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the info. The name "Brian Kidd" is now burned into my mind.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

(I might have voted for the remix if I'd owned it [have the nonremix on an industry promo mixtape]; the remix actually got onto the radio here in Denver, on the reggaeton station, whereas the regular version didn't get any airplay here. I didn't hear the remix enough to be sure of it, though.)

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

i thought people liked music

corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 23 January 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Frank, do you like Tim'n'Bob beats? The "Get To Poppin" beat reminds me of a harder, gruffer version of their stuff.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 23 January 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Ladytrom single is just boring. You've heard everything it has to offer by the first verse but they have to do it three times over again cos.. that's a single innit.

-- fandango (...), January 19th, 2006.

hahaha

You could say the exact same thing for the Kills, too. Jaysus!


Mama Roux, Monday, 23 January 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

LadytroM? fwiw I quite liked them before, in a "yeah, these guys have potential once they get over the novelty of retro-fashioning their music & be a bit braver/more future" It looks like I was wrong about them so far though.

fandango (fandango), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe the 'Get To Poppin' producer confusion is like when Truth Hurts 'Addictive' was attributed to Dre.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

So, is Timbaland the executive producer (as Dre was with "Addictive")? Some of the sites even list Timbaland as the performer of "Get to Poppin," leading me to believe that there are maybe different mixtape versions one of which he may possibly have created himself:

E.g., this from a wayne&wax mixtape tracklist:

timbaland - get to poppin' (instrumental)

And sometimes I'll see "Rich Boy f. Timbaland 'When Niggaz Get to Poppin" and sometimes I'll see "Attitude f. Rich Boy 'When Niggaz Get to Poppin' (prod. Timbaland)." Maybe what happened is Timbaland used the Afro-Colombian (or whatever) sample on an instrumental track, and Rich Boy did a rap on that version, and then Kidd took the same sample and made it a different track, and Rich Boy did a rap on that one too, and that's the one that became single. Just guessing.

By the way, the sample is both eerie and funky, the not due to hocus-pocus wispiness but due to some full-bodiedness... er, I don't know what to say... full-bodied yet ghostly? No, not ghostly, just soul-catching, somehow, esp. with these beats, with toms.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know no Tim'n'Bob, that I know of.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I sincerely hope it's THIS Brian Kidd

http://cards.littleoak.com.au/196970_abc_greenbacks/mau_097_brian_kidd.jpg

zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 23 January 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

That looks like a Belle and Sebastian album cover...

National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 23 January 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Frank, Tim'n'Bob have done productions for Bobby Valentino, of which "Slow Down", "Give Me A Chance" and "Tell Me" are the best that i've heard. The other great track in this lugubrious drum micro-genre is Sizzla's "Step Pan Dem".

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)


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