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Post by greendemon on Nov 23, 2012 11:39:21 GMT 1
haha, i remember the infernal song; my housemate at uni LOVED it!
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Post by Roo. on Nov 23, 2012 15:23:01 GMT 1
I have to say, I absolutely LOVE the LL Cool J / JLo collab. I think it's the ZA ZA ZA ZA ZA, ZA ZA ZA, ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZA bit that is just so ridiculous and so catchy that makes it great.
I do really like From Paris To Berlin as well actually.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 24, 2012 20:11:13 GMT 1
I do remember the LL Cool J song for how massively hyped it was at the time and then how soon it was forgotten. I think that Zzzzzzz bit is ripped off from somewhere else actually.
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Post by Gezza on Nov 24, 2012 21:40:08 GMT 1
29TH JULY- UNFAITHFUL- Rihanna (2 wks)Co-written by Ne-Yo and entitled "Murderer" this was Rihanna's third No 2 hit within a 12 month period during which she couldn't quite manage a chart topper. Notable for a shift in gear towards balladry that she hadn't attempted before (singles wise) it seems now to be viewed as one of her finer singles but I had always thought it was a song that laid bare her rather thin vocals. Ironically having viewed several "live" versions of this she actually delivers a better vocal live than in the studio where she seems to struggle to hold the notes and you wonder how it could have sounded in the hands of Dion, or Lewis. Still in an era when the ballad rather seemed to be on its last legs (Lewis and a reformed Take That would rectify that by the year's end) perhaps it rather suffers for its subtlety in her cannon, but her nasal voice does grate overall.
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Post by Gezza on Nov 24, 2012 21:57:37 GMT 1
05TH AUGUST- AIN'T NO OTHER MAN- Christina Aguilera (1 wk)Confession time. I don't like Jazz, and "big band" 30s/ 40s music holds limited appeal for me, hence I'm not a fan of this. The fact that the mighty "Hurt" followed this shows just what she was still more than capable of in 2006, there is also far too much showboating of Aguilera's vocals on this, the kind of attempt to defeat the listender by strength and power of the voice that sadly would mar much of Carey's work post 1998. There is no doubt that she can sing, and that she has an "A" grade voice, but there is something ultimately "hard faced" about Aguilera, far too clinical in performance that strips the emotion away, she is in this way, a much nearer relation to Madonna than may at first be apparent. She may not the master marketeer that the latter is but the marked need for a new image with every album, and a career filled with controversy would suggest she's picked up a few tricks from the material girl. In conclusion "Ain't No Other Man" is a perfectly competant piece of pop without anything you can positively say is bad, but for all that SOMETHING is just missing....
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Post by borneoman on Nov 25, 2012 8:57:57 GMT 1
Unfaithful is one of my guilty pleasures Cannot help but love it despite my lack of love for Rihanna. Agree it could have been amazing if done by a better singer agree again on Christina's... I hate Big Band, so imho it was a wrong decision to do a Big Band for her 3rd album... think it signaled the beginning of the end of her career, despite having the amazing Hurt, which should have been the Xmas #1 in 2006
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Post by madmurray on Nov 25, 2012 9:03:06 GMT 1
27TH MAY- FROM PARIS TO BERLIN- Infernal (1 wk)I apologise for this- wholeheartedly, but I LOVE THIS song! Tacky eurodisco had been missing from the charts for a while and this was a reminder of all things that school disco's etc should be about. Lyrically very.........simple, it was 100% earworm and was one of the songs that dominated the airwaves that summer thanks to its appropriation for the England football world cup "attempt" that year coupled with the viral campaign by Colin Murray and his dancing, which helped to spur the track into public conciousness. It spent 11 weeks inside the top 10 (no small thing in 2006) as the song refused to die, the folow up (and only other hit from them) was a cover of Laura Branigan's 1984 hit "Self Control" which is perhaps better forgotten. Of course it's all disposable disco music but there is an art to making earworm tracks and whatever that is you can count this as an example. Apols again! Love this song and surprised it wasnt a number 1.
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Post by Roo. on Nov 25, 2012 13:15:51 GMT 1
Unfaithful is a belter of a song, still sounds amazing to this day.
Ain't No Other Man I totally agree with. It's technically very good but there's heart missing from it. I also think the same of Hurt though, much prefer You Lost Me from Bionic when it comes to a Christina mega-ballad.
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Post by Gezza on Nov 29, 2012 19:01:24 GMT 1
19TH AUGUST- EVERYTIME WE TOUCH- Cascada (1 wk)Well thank god for "Hips Don't Lie" is all I can say! I've never seen the appeal of this kind of music, real top deck of the bus on a mobile phone kinda thing. I know "the kids" love it (or certainly the kids of 06 did) but this seems bereft of any kind of positivity that I can think of. Lyrically simple, it seems like a less developed little brother of "From Paris To Berlin" (yes I didn't think that was possible either) but perhaps this is where we had been heading since Scooter way back in 2002. I'm not a Cascada fan (as you can tell) and you could say it's just disposible dance music but even that would do an injustice to dance music in all fairness, the one small bit of hope that we can pull from this is that it didn't even sell 20k to make No 2 (it's the lowest selling weekly figure for a No 2 peaking song in the year) so it is perhaps punching above its weight in this thread. Dreadful
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Post by Gezza on Nov 29, 2012 19:09:01 GMT 1
26th AUGUST- RIDIN- Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone (1 wk)Racial profiling and police butality- nice breezy pop tune then- of course not this is 50 cent-lite Chamillionaire! I have to confess that I don't mind this one, there seems something genuinely ominous about the orchestration that backs up the message in quite a sinister way which lifts it above the bog standard piece of US Rap that was ten to a dozen at the time. I'm not an expert on the genre but for some reason this holds my interest, it may have just enough pop in it to get past my censors. Chamillionaire never really bothered us again so you can't complain he overstayed his welcome, in short, not that bad
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Post by andrew07 on Nov 29, 2012 20:01:02 GMT 1
I prefer Weird Al's version it should have been a hit over here:
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Post by Gezza on Dec 9, 2012 13:25:18 GMT 1
30TH SEPTEMBER- WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG- The Killers (2 wks)BEST.BAND.OF.THE.DECADE! You can keep your Coldplay's and your Keane's etc, it's always been the Killers for me. They've always appeared like an american indie version of the Pet Shop Boys for me, perhaps its the lyrical dysfunctionalism (?!), or the sublime use of those synths on some of their work but you'd have to have legs of stone not to tap along to their finer moments. OK so things like "Mr Brightside" have now become over played and over revered, but there is always a nugget of truth in these things, and whilst it's true that "Sam's Town" sounds a little less personal than its predecessor, lead single "When You Were Young" is all kinds of AMAZE! Full of longing, heartbreak, crushed hope, and nostalgia, it is in short much like a small opera, a tale told in under 4 minutes (whatever happened to strong narratives in a song?). Perhaps they just appeal to my rather melancholic side but this is all rapped up in a guitar thronged tune that is a practical assault on the senses and rushes at a metaphorical 100mph from the off. Yet make no mistake it's all about that bridge for me, the religious overtones, the quiet before the storm, the perfect unity of the orchestration and the story, a lot of thought has gone into this, and it shows. Unquestionably one of my tracks of the decade if not of all time- yeah I went there!
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Post by Gezza on Dec 9, 2012 13:37:25 GMT 1
11TH NOVEMBER- YEAH YEAH- Bodyrox Featuring Luciana (1 wk)Whilst over in clubland this was apparently all the rage. With a "suggestive" video I don't recall it creating much of a furore at the time, and in truth this track leaves me cold, then again I'd long concluded that me and dance music had seperated around 2004 and wouldn't really fall back in love until roughly 2009. Luciana would go onto guest with Taio Cruz on "Come On Girl" in 2008 and write songs for amongst others Kylie Minogue, but this for me, remains just an oddity that isn't unjustly, by and large, forgotten about now.
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Post by vya on Dec 12, 2012 19:18:53 GMT 1
I go some way towards sharing your enthusiasm for the Killers.... when they were good (as here, as indeed on the underrated follow-up "Bones"), they really were very good.
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Post by Gezza on Dec 18, 2012 15:10:00 GMT 1
18TH NOVEMBER- THE SAINTS ARE COMING- Green Day & U2 (1 wk)Released in support of the Edge's musical charity "Music Rising" which was established to replace musical instruments lost in Hurricane Katrina, this cover of the Skids 1978 track is an honourable enough affair and was released with rather less righteousness on the part of Bono. This was in and out of the charts quicker than you could blink and as a result it never settled into my conciousness. It isn't a terrible cover and the video is at least engaging with an alternative history where Bush recalls troops from Iraq to help the aftermath of the hurricane and segues in from "House Of The Rising Sun", an appropriate track given that is a southern US folk song about life gone wrong in New Orleans. Slightly less pompous than a lot of U2 00's stuff and better for it, though still not great.
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Post by Gezza on Dec 18, 2012 15:22:26 GMT 1
25TH NOVEMBER- MY LOVE- Justin Timberlake Featuring T.I (1 wk)Ah nothing says 2006 quite like Timbaland, and his work has never been quite so exhaulted as it was in the those two Timberlake albums. Much better than the overly repetitive "Sexyback" which may have more naked ambition in its construct but "My Love" has a heart where the former is empty, the production is much more precise and the synths have been notched up a fair bit to make the track have something approaching soul. The video is of course a choreographer's dream with Timberlake evidencing quite why he was one of the biggest popstar's on the planet at the time. But it's more than just dancing and production here, he and Timbaland co-wrote and co-produced the track so it feels in actual fact an equal venture between them in a way that some of Timbaland's other projects don't (yes Nelly Furtado I'm looking at you). Kind of makes you sad that he decided he can't be bothered with this pop lark any more but this is a reminder of how great a popstar he was back in the day.
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Post by Gezza on Dec 21, 2012 14:31:08 GMT 1
16TH DECEMBER- BOOGIE 2NITE- Booty Luv (1 wk)I have a little confession to make, I don't actually mind the Hed Kandi stuff of the mid 00s. Bootyluv consisted of two ex members of Big Brovaz who had long since bit the dust (certainly in any kind of commercial sense), and chose as their first venture a cover of this 2002 song by Tweet. The original failed to get a full release thanks to lack of airplay but had established itself as a club hit so was familar to many pre release. With Seamus Haji on production duties the track became a surprise pre Christmas hit, there is nothing amazing or noteworthy here, suffice it to say that it's a highly competant piece of dance music circa 2006 which I've had many a dance to with a V & DC in my hand, and overall nice to hear it again after all these years.
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Post by Gezza on Dec 21, 2012 14:43:36 GMT 1
23RD DECEMBER- 21ST CENTURY CHRISTMAS/ MOVE IT- Cliff Richard (1 wk)Cliff's search for a noughties No 1 single came as close as it possibly could here in the dying weeks of 2006. With an updated take on Xmas including texts, faxes, satellites, DVD's etc it's all rather harmless, and I can't be mean to it given it is almost the big day. To be fair, people complain that no-one does Christmas records anymore due to charity/ reality releases at this time of year so perhaps we should give Cliff a break here for coming up with something at least new. It's coupled here with a new version of his first hit "Move It" which hit No 2 back in 1958, so perhaps he jinxed this. Anyway he was within 7k of the top spot but he never could get that 00s chart topper which would have put him in the unique position of getting a No 1 in 6 decades.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 18:44:37 GMT 1
haha, i remember the infernal song; my housemate at uni LOVED it! I remember being on holiday with my now ex-boyfriend when it was in all the clubs. We were in Newquay and were walking back onto our campsite, when we were walking to the on site pub, we had to walk past a club and "From Paris to Berlin" was playing. When the "Searching for love, searching for love" line piped out or whatever it was, this stranger flew past us being thrown out by a bouncer only just missing us avoiding a collision. That always springs to mind now whenever the song is mentioned!.
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Post by Gezza on Dec 26, 2012 14:40:34 GMT 1
13TH JANUARY 2007- PROPER EDUCATION- Eric Prydz Vs Floyd (2 wks)This is probably sacrilage but I quite like what Prydz has done here. The video is interesting in so much as what it says about education, the whole thing could be read as a full circle when bearing in mind the Pink Floyd orginal of 1979. Where that was about the failings of the education system (which produced the adults in the video) this seems to suggest that the children of today are more clued up, they can teach the adults instead of vice versa, an interesting proposition even if you don't buy it in its entirity. Prydz's only keeps the chorus of the Floyd original but that's enough to maintain the menacing tone of the track intack, the start of the video obviously plays on fear of youth crime until you know what those little skamps are really up to! I do like the original but I don't think Prydz disgraced it here by any definition!
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