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Just been wrapping presents for two of my nearest and dearest whilst listening to the live Foo Fighters album, Skin & Bones….gorgeous music and a lovely evening
This song was part of a Question on Popmaster on Radio 2 and had to dig it up, Very good track even though all the French i learned at School was no help at all.
Ooh Neil, you shouldn’t have done that! I’ve been inspired to dig out some other Europop classics of similar vintage this evening, and wound up mugging an hour on, among others;
ART COMPANY – Suzanna
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=09OWfebHZ3QFR DAVID – Words
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6hM6f9U4sDOUBLE – The Captain of Her Heart
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlx1JffMQ4ERSTE ALLGEMEINE VERUNSICHERUNG – Ba Ba Bankrobbery
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8JXmzPr6bkAMYLENE FARMER – Desenchantee
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxPrIhs4Lo&feature=relatedGAZEBO – I Like Chopin
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_6J03UCxs&NR=1THIERRY HAZARD – Poupee Psychedelique
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2Aq-S7kSA&feature=relatedOPUS – Live is Life
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ElHcFMpYiTo&feature=relatedSTEPHAN REMMLER (him out of Trio) – Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JSE32fuOcTHE OTHER ONES – Holiday
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x3DsfGffOdMTRANS-X – Living on Video
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1fYhuM8AA(Note to a prowling Zozwold: if you didn’t think much of the clip of David Christie’s “Saddle Up” I sent you the other day, I’m afraid these aren’t going to go down much better. Soz! At least you didn’t have to grow up on this stuff…
)gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
The Trans X track is very enjoyable, Unsire about FR David though as he seems to have the dress sense of Clarke Datchler from his Johnny Hates Jazz days and the face of Roy Orbison.
How about these then.
Propaganda – Duel, Heard it live last year when singer Claudia Brucken performed it with her new group One Two when they suppoerted Erasure.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_q58CFfAo
Johnny Hates Jazz – Shattered Dreams
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-8MHKuQ5IHue and Cry – Looking for Linda
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ONc3OMOb98IErasure – Drama, This always gets the crowd going at any concert that i go to
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8gMsp_2F4 … re=relatedRichard Harris – MacArthur Park, Not the greatest track but when i first heard it i finally got the joke from the Simpson when in Little Miss Springfield the niece of Apu finished playing it on the Bongos then Krusty said "Man that just went on didnt it"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1FQuQ74ACPAhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QN8HwUxFouM
Incredible. Christmas Number 1 contender? If it isn’t it bloody should be…
Slowly slowly, catch your monkey… My Delirium has now risen to number 62 despite the festive competition, and that on downloads only – must be a good chance of a top 40 placing this coming weekend as it’s released on CD and vinyl today.
Festive track update – can I just ask who out there didn’t already have all these songs at least once?!?!? New chart positions as follows;
All I Want for Christmas is You – 17
Fairytale of New York – 19
Last Christmas – 36
Merry Christmas Everyone (Shaky) – 44
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – 48
Merry Xmas Everyone (Slade) – 49
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – 63
Do They Know It’s Christmsa – 64
Driving Home for Christmas – 70There are also a couple of new attempts at festive songs by Basshunter and Gabriella Cilmi lurking in the chart peripheries, but two notable omissions leap out at me;
– I Was Born on Christmas Day, St Etienne’s 1993 offering and the best Christmas song EVER EVER EVER (that’s not open to discussion, btw
)– the slightly more risque Oh Well Noel by FirmTurds, a delightful paean to festive man-love in Newcastle (imagine Hidden Cameras transposed to Haymarket Station)
Ah well, maybe next week…
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
One for Prufrock, I think – not a million miles removed from his (and my) beloved Boards of Canada, perhaps;
LUKE ABBOTT – Melody 120
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5E8oGkhSyc0gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
If it’s 80’s Europop you’re after, then I give you….
………Geusch Patti
Good lord, I’ve not heard that one for ages, Grass, much less remembered the pervy video!
Coming forward two more years to 1989, herewith a track from Mysterious Art’s “Omen: The Story”, which even by Germany’s own standards was a hugely commercially successful, ubiquitous darkwave album in that country. This track and the title track were absolute staples at any party I went to on German exchanges for years afterwards;
MYSTERIOUS ART – Requiem
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPVsn8dOqAStill in Germany, here’s a rare-ish 1993 TV appearance by Nena in support of the lead track from her comparatively forgotten “Bongo Girl” album, promo videos of which are conspicuously absent from Youtube. 99 Red Balloons it ain’t;
NENA – Ohne Ende
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4J8YT2HFryE&feature=related…as opposed to this 2004 collaboration, which was abso-blimmin-lutely everywhere;
NENA vs KIM WILDE – Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LVOiUHo3WSE&feature=relatedgc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I love this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FjFb0_s6c&NR=1
and this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NdpKCV-LlAo
plus this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QN8HwUxFouM
Incredible. Christmas Number 1 contender? If it isn’t it bloody should be…
Slowly slowly, catch your monkey… My Delirium has now risen to number 62 despite the festive competition, and that on downloads only – must be a good chance of a top 40 placing this coming weekend as it’s released on CD and vinyl today.
Has popped in @ No33 this week, but think with a bit more radio air time it could get higher next week.
I’m a little more guarded about that, to be honest – since the chart rules were changed in January 2007, the first week in which physical sales are logged alongside download sales tends to give any single its greatest sales push, after which a descent ensues with varying degrees of rapidity.
There are exceptions, of course – Snow Patrol’s execrable Chasing Cars has spent over two years (and counting) in the top 100, all of that nowadays thanks to a combination of downloads and shop remainder sales – but not huge numbers of them.
In addition to which, there is still another week’s worth of festive / novelty / X-Factor spin-off single sales under whose stampeding feet to get trampled – you will have noticed in the countdown today that the two songs immediately above Ladyhawke are Slade and Wizzard’s ageless festive tracks, no?
The hope is that if the Ladyhawke track falls next week, as I believe it will, it will not fall too far that it can’t recoup places once all the Christmas tracks plummet back out of the charts the week after (as last year’s chart behaviour indicates they certainly will).
This is generally a very bad time of year to try to have a sizeable hit with a halfway alternative track, as so much other rubbish gets in the way, so I’m actually surprised and delighted it’s done as well as it has so far.
Meanwhile, for all you other old buggers like me out there who were fighting the Indie Wars ™ long before most X-Factor viewers even plopped out of their stinking eggs, look who’ve dug themselves up again after a few years off;
WIRE – One of Us
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=61rkMv6iF0cEffortless genuis once more.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I Was Born on Christmas Day, St Etienne’s 1993 offering and the best Christmas song EVER EVER EVER (that’s not open to discussion, btw )
I have a Rat Pack album of xmas classics. Right laugh. Sinatra sounds like he cant be bothered with the bloody carols but the voice still works. Deano is good fun.
Nat king cole made the best xmas album. He really did have the perfect voice… Diana Krall released a very fine album couple of years back, with some dark humour too
Although i cant abide Shane Mcgowan, have to say that the Pogues is the best single of recent times
agree totally about that; the only non Christmas song thats worth at listen to all year round; so sad about Kirsty Macoll though, but guess that makes it more poignant.
Have to agree IMO Fairytale of New York is the best christmas song ever. Had an argument with a welshman once who tried telling me that it was bohemian rhapsody. He also reckoned Zulu was the best film of all time, and it almost descended into fisticuffs when I said "best musical maybe…".
As sure as night follows day, and as sure as my ar*se points downwards, herewith my Not The Festive 50 for 2008 (already put on the wrong thread elsewhere, duh…);
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(1) JAMES YUILL – No Pins Allowed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyROzlScNxQ
My most-loved track of the year by a mile. A perfect fusion of neo-folk and Gallic techno by a Brighton solo artist with a surprisingly captivating stage presence, given that it’s basically him, an acoustic and an armada of electronic push buttons up there.(2) KATEGOES – Happy Dancing
http://www.myspace.com/kategoes
Part of the whole happy indie scene in Birmingham that has also begotten Misty’s Big Adventure, Kid Carpet and Voluntary Butler Scheme, KateGoes come on stage in a different fancy dress each gig (“KateGoes prehistoric”, “KateGoes on safari”, etc.) and play the sort of cheery ditties that have already won frontwoman Kate Thompson a retainer to write music for kids’ television. Either your vision of Hell itself or a day-glo joy – I know which side I’m on.(3) PRESETS – This Boy’s in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgOuXepPsA
Ah, the return of the finest exponents of Australian electronic music. Spiky synths, sexually charged lyrics, job done once again!(4) ALPHABEAT – Fascination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CEZpqckSI
You can’t have missed this one at the start of the year – it was everywhere. 1980s-influenced cheery Danish popsters rightly hogged the top 10 forever with the standout track from the We Are Alphabeat album, months after Little Brother Column played an import copy of it to death at the folks’ place through Christmas!(5) PORTISHEAD – Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm-OkHj-VM
The absolute antithesis of Glory Box, All Mine and the like off the first two Portishead albums 11 years and more ago. Not about to grace even a fraction of as many dinner parties. Good.(6) ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – A Good Café on George Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVhNWm65HE
A real find. Gentle, acoustic folk-indie from a Leeds sextet who were definitely one of the highpoints of this summer’s Indietracks festival. That’s not Rosie in the video – Rosie’s just a name.(7) CSS – Left Behind
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhJC2-UNZA
Let’s Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above headed my Not The Festive 50 list two years ago, and I like this one only marginally less. More jumpsuit-wearing, keyboard-prodding Brazilian party punk pop for the innately joyous. God, that’s at least three happy songs in the line-up already. What’s happening to me?(8 ) LADYTRON – Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEBg0b8hoUs
Denser, more glammy and more guitar laced than classic early singles such as Playgirl, but a band can evolve (unless it’s Oasis, natch ), and evolve Ladytron has. Brooding, dramatic… and sharing the same key sig as the Doctor Who theme, but we’ll let that one ride.(9) SILVERY – Horrors
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-9nn-bI84
Is it steampunk? Is it an unholy alliance of Menswear and Cardiacs? Is it just chuffing ace? I know it’s the best song yet by some friends of friends of Mrs Column, and never off MTV2. Which’ll do me.(10) dEUS – The Architect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CFDsG_oxg
Belgium’s best-selling band EVER, but let that not be the faint praise it may sound like. A career highlight single after a lenghty hiatus.(11) SEBASTIEN TELLIER – Divine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz58Hw9hldw
AKA the French song that should have won Eurovision, as it murdered everything else musically and artistically as well as being a lot of fun. I can almost hear Prufrock nodding! It got him a decent slot at Latitude and is now being used to flog cars, so Mr Tellier has had the last laugh in any event. Good.(12) THE STREETS – Heaven for the Weather
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-pG4qCfdKt4
Taken from another album a little too erraticfor comfort, and certainly not in the same league as Original Pirate Material, this was still a corking track buried among the flotsam and jetsam. A memorable Jonathan Ross appearance featured Satan himself on keyboards / sequencers…(13) AMADOU & MARIAM – Magosa
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BhyYXSe1wU4
Consistently brilliant Afrobeat exponents can’t help but bring a smile to my (and Moehat’s) face! The standout track from the year’s Welcome to Mali album, and even better in its greatly extended live form.(14) DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Angles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkvWOAJeZmM
The title track of, to my mind, the album of the year – not a dull track on it, and especially not this scary recollection of a knifing from four or five different angles.(15) SILVER WIZARD PROJECT – Psychedelic ******* Machine
http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
Yes, it’s Mrs Column’s band. What of it? I rate them that much. This gets the most hits on their website – some of it possibly due to the naughty name, but plenty of it due to it being a finely executed theremin and violin-laced New Wave floorfiller. Can’t wait for the album.(16) WAVE PICTURES – Strange Fruit for David
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHfi4U2k-g
Taken from probably the album of the year among the be-anoraked fanzine-scribbling indie kids out there. Wordy Northampton trio recount a tail of – yes, I’m afraid so – peccadilloes with a much, much older lady. If anyone can work out what the lyrics about statues and marmalade have to do with anything, drop me a postcard.
(17) MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES – Clusterf*ck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDH9UfE9SMo
The Blonde movement returns! Five surly Yorkshire teens bring back memories of the Primitives, the Darling Buds, and all that sort of thing – magnificently.(18 ) THE ZEBRAS – Push Our Way to the Front
http://www.myspace.com/ilikezebras
The best one yet from Melbourne’s answer to Teenage Fanclub. Gorgeous melodies.(19) NEON NEON ft CATE LE BON & GRUFF RHYS – I Lust U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lZqDmCO9c
Simon’s daughter (I think) and him out of Super Furry Animals (I know) guest on this melancholy, yet consumerism-charged, 80s-tinted synth number.(20) KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS – Going Up the Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxW3Ed7GrhQ&feature=related
A genuine musical curiosity – three teenage siblings from London who are obsessed with 50s rock’n’roll and R&B to the point of releasing 78rpm vinyl and recording exclusively in mono. Mimics, for sure, but startlingly impressive mimics at that.(21) STEREOLAB – Neon Beanbag
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LwpTYLJvY
Yep, they’re still going. 17 years, nine albums and several dozen singles later, we arrive at this latest ditty from everyone’s favourite easy listening / Krautrock / indiepop Marxists.(22) KIKO – Slave of My Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rij8qWLqo-U
Not an artist about whom I know the first thing, so just take in the bad-trip video in all its splendour instead.(23) MEXICAN KIDS AT HOME – Female Thief
http://www.mexicankidsathome.com/
Four sk8er bois and one of their girlfriends from the wonderfully-named Derbyshire town of Clowne defy expectations – and appearance – to knock out some sun-kissed acoustic pop fun in the Frente! mould.(24) FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Knickerbocker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0E8MWb3hgo
Absurdist Krautrock-influenced pop from Brighton (like so much else of merit on this list, like Yuill and Ladytron. When do I move? ), namechecking everything from Hans Christian Andersen to Lena Zavaroni via outmoded ice cream confection. Nice!(25) ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – The Sun on My Right
http://www.myspace.com/therosietaylorproject
Sparse but warm, doomed but still able to string the words together, a delicate story of alcoholism.(26) BJORK – Declare Independence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGC0VVobi6Ep
Another Bjork album, another arch, challenging, but ultimately rewarding listen. Longtime collaborator Mark Bell of LFO delivers some more harsh backing for Ms Gudmunsdottir to do her thing over.(27) SAM SPARRO – Black and Gold
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY
Yep, it’s about some fella upstairs me and a few other people used to know. That aside, though, it’s the best chart pop record of the year, bar none.(28 ) SILVER WIZARD PROJECT – She Lives in Trees
http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
Yes she does. And the reeds cut off his air supply. He never saw the moon.(29) DAN LES SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Back from Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxtjTehXDy8
Live version of another highlight from the Angles long-player.(30) WAVE PICTURES – Kiss Me
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hYypUkMC6jI
Special acoustic version of the recent single.(31) DAWN LANDES – Bodyguard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHhez7NMCc
Minimal, subtle bluegrass, and just about the oldest track on the list. The beardy guy in the video is a caution.(32) ROBOTNIK – People Walk Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7FVA7o4aMU
Not sure if he’s Robotnik or Rob Otnik – think I prefer the latter. I do know he’s good at clap-along indiepop chugs, though.(33) GAMEBOY GAMEGIRL – Sweaty Wet / Dirty Damp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NzMsktBcmI
More 80s influenced stuff, this time of the roll of linoleum and bodypopping variety, juxtaposed with lyrics that even Daphne and Celeste might find a bit basic!(34) DARREN HAYMAN & THE SECONDARY MODERN – Amy and Rachel
http://www.myspace.com/darrenhayman
The prolific indiepop storyteller tells a whimsical tale of two muffin-topped Harlow girls’ attempts to fuse R&B and death metal. Really.(35) FAKE BLOOD – Mars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNYb45SYks
I’ve got Marble to thank for posting this up halfway through the year. ‘Ardcore returns!(36) ORTZROKA – Planets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkD4jF8LXjo
The power of MTV2 – unsigned electronica band sends them a video, I end up playing it for weeks after. Everyone’s happy!(37) THE LITTLE ONES – Ordinary Songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzlj_sipkmc
Not actually a particularly physically prepossessing bunch, but the song is anything but ordinary – another Teenage Fanclub-a-like melody-fest.(38 ) BOMB THE BASS ft FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Butterfingers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8lcGoS9Yc
Yes, that Bomb the Bass from the 1980s. The first album in what must be over a decade contained this fabulous duet with Fujiya & Miyagi (q.v.) and featured the year’s cutest video, singing keyboard and all. Go see!(39) WIRE – One of Us
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=61rkMv6iF0c
Yes,that Wire from the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Activities have very much stepped up again this year, culminating in a new album evidently intended as a follow-on to their mid-1980s alt-pop output (Eardrum Buzz, etc). If I’m doing anything this productive in my 50s, I’ll be a happy bloke.(40) TILLY AND THE WALL – Beat Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3G3i0QBq0
Ever wondered what a not-at-all-smackable version of Gloria Estefan would sound like?(41) WAVE PICTURES – I Love You Like A Madman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NU8GFzaRs
I’ll do anything for you…(42) DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Look for the Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqnKbdqjh2I
The story of a love affair killed by overfamiliarity and boredom.(43) SILVER WIZARD PROJECT – The Lover’s Plea
http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
The bleakest thing in the band’s set at present, I guess, though musically interesting again with electric violin and a female part not unlike To Bring You My Love-era PJ Harvey, perhaps.(44) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Water Curses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GZLRxVzvg
The sound of Gorkys Zygotic Mynci gulping for air from inside of a washing machine. Absolutely deranged alt-folk from a strange place.(45) YILA ft SCROOBIUS PIP – Astronaut
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UfvHnna38
Mr Pip once more, albeit this time teamed up with starker electronics and an unsettling, disembodied sample of a kid’s voice throughout. Special guest star for about half a second at 2:34.(46) MAGNETIC FIELDS – Three-Way
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0PvW6T-Xmqw&feature=related
This year’s Distortion was one of the oddest concept albums you’ll come across – all the “music” on the album is the distortion and feedback from instruments rather than the instruments themselves! This instrumental gives a decent idea of what that entails.(47) BODY SNATCHERS – Freaky Ho
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDjyGIuNiA
Yep, there’s even a Grime track inamongst this lot! One of the more exciting new musical genres for me since speed garage died a death, I reckon.(48 ) SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE – Rockist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfi8ZMu1mXM
Ostensibly a Field Music spin-off, though the two Field Music guys not in School Of Language seem to be helping the guy who is in Field Music and School Of Language to be in School Of Language rather a lot. If that makes sense.(49) NICOLE ATKINS – Maybe Tonight
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VoCcnpbco58
Noir pop from the US singer-guitarist whose performance was one of the unexpected joys of this last series of Later…(50) HOLY **** – Lovely Allen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtQEaeGaZY
Rough-round-the-edges but euphoric post-pop / knob-twiddly instrumental. We might have called this spacerock back in the day.I still bimmin’ love music, me.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I’m pleased to find I’m not the only post-pubescent male who’s acknowledged the charm of Alphabeat. A couple of their single releases are the closest thing to sugar-coated musical prozac this side of 1989 IMO.
(5) PORTISHEAD – Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm-OkHj-VM
The absolute antithesis of Glory Box, All Mine and the like off the first two Portishead albums 11 years and more ago. Not about to grace even a fraction of as many dinner parties. Good.Tooooonnn!!!!!
Sebastian Tellier’s Eurovision song is one that I just can’t help but like, even though I prefer La Ritournelle. Also like that wire song-one of us.
Alphabeat- Fascination surprisingly enough is a song that almost everyone likes, but some pretend not to like, probably because their style is a bit camp but its a good song. My wee Glaswegian mate thinks theyre brilliant, but when they were on at V, a girl that was with us wanted to go and see them but there was a general disgusted look from everyone else (closet case fans).
Afew that I would add to the list would be;
Justice – Stress
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GsmzNB_eXek
Good Tune, good video. Never really got into Justice until Oxegen, but it’s Daft Punk with attitudeJustice – Phantom Part II (Soulwax Remix)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U0b7IxwTORo
Absolutely kicking, everytime I have a pool night this tune is requested about 10 times, usually accompanied by "play it again". Best dance tune I have heard in years, by some way.Michael Jackson -Thriller (JUSTICE REMIX)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nnycOUu2ASg
An electro take on Michael Jacksons thriller which almost seems to have been to go with the original video. Good.Have really got into justice this year, hence three from him.
The Ting Tings – Great DJ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=myJnsqGgxxM
A brillinat little song by the ting tings, and part of the reason why about 3 times the amount of people wanted to see them at oxegen as the tent could hold.MGMT – Time To Pretend
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE
Great little tune and one that will always remind me of of summer 08.MGMT "Kids"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEOZCcaXzE
Another brilliant little tune by the MGMT.The Wombats – Kill The Director
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IIY226ZjhFA
Just love this wee track, and hated Bridget Jones, which I was trailed out of a perfectly good bar to go and watch in the cinema when it came out. So having Bridget Jones and Kill the Director sung at the same time works for me.And obviously a big shout to the kings of leon for sex on fire, which although not as good as their older stuff, managed to keep Cliff Richard off number one.
Sebastian Tellier’s Eurovision song is one that I just can’t help but like, even though I prefer La Ritournelle. Also like that wire song-one of us.
France’s entry in Eurovision this year did grab my attention, I’ve really started to take to the French-electro sub-genre in the last year or two. I also seem to remember quite enjoying Turkey’s attempt, as well as falling head-over-heels in love with Greek entrant Kalomoira (and as a result, her fairly catchy song).
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