The Fives feat. Vanya Taylor - It's What You Do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOcefsTgbhE

Straight-up song-of-the-year contender for me, and I've been thinking for ages it's far too good to sit unnoticed in the UK funky thread. Anyway, it Wut deserves its own thread then this does three times over. Something about the swell of the chorus, and those strings just does it for me...

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Straight-up song-of-the-year contender for me

It sort of pushes the same buttons as Groovejet for me and I have no idea why, the sort of effortless melodic glide to it. Also it has that feeling of having always existed that funky vocal anthems occasionally throw up, see also In The Morning.

uk chillwave represent

http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq184/aleronihead/reginashutup.gif

Okay I'm using that gif for everything from now on.

I hope it's not just us 3 in this thread.

http://imgur.com/4nDbO.gif

i was zinging the wut thread obv.

anyways yeah this song is terrific - perfect even - but as discussed on funky thread there are other perhaps more flawed songs i feel more of an gristly attachment to and would put up more of a fight for. i feel weirdly guilty about this.

has this STILL not been signed btw? #epicfailyetagain

anyways yeah this song is terrific - perfect even - but as discussed on funky thread there are other perhaps more flawed songs i feel more of an gristly attachment to and would put up more of a fight for.

I get this. "It's What You Do" doesn't sound like it needs personal jockeying (and hence is somewhat indifferent to whether you like it or not).

Although if it's still unsigned maybe it does!

haha yeah, it is just so obviously a hit that there was nothing left to do but give it a thumbs up and carry on digging elsewhere.

http://soundcloud.com/the-fives

^ impressive. their lightness of touch is striking i think - beautifully honed in comparison to funkystepz' cartoon extremes, for instance.

Moreover in a lot of ways it's the imperfect amateurish enthusiasm of a lot of the funky vocal anthems that is so endaearing (though some of them def. could do with more work - "Round & Round" for instance has an awesome chorus but the verses definitely require some workshopping).

Whereas "It's What You Do" is simply perfect, a burnished masterpiece. It's not at all endearing.

I assumed the relatively high production values of the video meant it had been signed. Weird, because it's daytime radio friendly in a way a lot of funky tracks aren't. It's the strings, mostly, but also the clarity of the vocals.

xp yeah hence anger when someone like the fool clark comes along like "oh this is the stuff FINALLY". essentially 'what u do' is already so good to go that it's unfair to both it and funky to keep them in the same general sphere. (although they still are, obviously).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXfAkBPlmvY

was this the first of this super-popular-underappreciated-one-foot-in-and-out of funky ilk? i'm trying to think. ('round & round' definitely applies.)

don't hold martin against the fives! that's hardly fair...

oh yeah no absolutely, that was just the one-time bout of fury. anything straying in vaguely uncomplimentary proximity to screama/farah will always get the attack dog mode of course.

well that's understandable.

"All My Love" would be the latest (future) candidate, no?

a standout candidate most definitely, although i might make the small argument that while fuzzy logik is clearly the poppiest of the funky-bracketed producers he hasn't quite cracked the effortlessness of fives/pessante/chuckdemgee: neither 'in the morning' or 'all my love' breathe like the others do, they kinda hold the same high pitch.

think i already mentioned 'all my love' reminds me of the neptunes, and it might indeed do well among general r&bists rather than in the charts (or er private mental zone of the charts i guess) per se.

(tbh though all of that i just wrote is a distinction so minor i barely care about it myself.)

Would Rudimental's "Sexy Sexy" fall into this category also. (as much as I love it I don't think "Midnight Affair" does, really)

this category i just made up? i see no formal reason why it shouldnt have but i'm not sure it ever quite captured the necessary funky-transcendent life of its own as it were.

It's not even a super-super-favourite of mine but it seemed very popular at the time.

But anyway back to The Fives or we'll scare everyone away.

Matt this is the Chuck Dem Gee tune "Round & Round":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVeWCKWtLCU

I was about to ask what Round & Round was. Make It Funky For Me is classic for all time obv.

NB. As I said above I'm not totally sure about the verses of "Round & Round". Chorus pretty undeniable though.

A classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6gXQx41si8

much to my amazement, i really love that fives track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZL3Qq70cxM

just watched this interview - they are all trained musicians who do session stuff and adverts etc and only started making their own stuff after hearing.... that attacca pesante song!

Haha perfect

Hopefully the "success" of "It's What You Do" will give a second lease on life to this prior Fives tune which I never even heard at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCv9p73Lfk&p=8587AE57CF7C5447&playnext=1&index=33

yes it's great! i did post the soundcloud but i guess this is less work for ppl, check these too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIszEEbI8iA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tuh6oDd0g

wow thats awesome xp

That Fives remix of Getaway is banging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT4hCKg0uOA

fwiw (norra lot) this is their track on the complete load of bollocks that is the roll deep album.

That Fives remix of Getaway is banging.

― Matt DC, Monday, 1 November 2010 18:59 (1 week ago) Bookmark

it really is. kinda pwning ill blu on the sly as well.

Um... what is that Roll Deep tune? I mean, I kinda like it, but it sounds like Swedish House Mafia crossed with Jacques Lu Cont.

I feel very warmly towards Brazen's raps on even the silliest of modern Roll Deep tunes.

Whereas the Wiley remix is just straight brill. Ha ha those little synth bleeps even sound like they're samples of an Ill Blu tune ("Green Light" remix sure, but actually more specifically the remix of H20's "Pink Love").

i already played my "delightfully incoherent" card for in at the deep end but there is (barely) conceivably a grim case for some brave soul to make with this new one, yeah.

Do I have to actually, you know, listen to the album in order to stake out that position?

I think Tim F. has infected my brain - I came across this track in the 2010 poll and I was like "damn this is good, tim f would probably like this" and then I scroll down and see he put it as his #1

haha, I never claimed not to be terribly predictable.

HAVE ME ANY WAY YOU WANT ME
I AM ALL YOURS TOOOO NIIIIGHT

when I am in a good mood this song comes straight into my head

First day of warm weather in Mintreal and this got played on my balcony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCv9p73Lfk

^^^

didn't realize this track was 3 years old, got it on a comp that came out this year

What comp is this?

http://soundcloud.com/audiodoughnuts/ad3lp

Thank you very much!