Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 1, 2020 16:28:55 GMT 1
Some forum members are more loyal to modern chart music than me.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 1, 2020 16:37:55 GMT 1
The Avicii track is ok but not his best, as for the Elbow song I do like it but I much preferred 'Grounds For Divorce' of the same record as I prefer music to be a bit rockier/alternative. Not sure I ever heard the Sia song.
I listen to Radio 1 every day but only specialist shows Annie Mac, Jack Saunders and sometimes Dance anthems
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 1, 2020 17:48:29 GMT 1
Some forum members are more loyal to modern chart music than me. I try and like it but it's definitely getting worse. A year ago there might have been 8 or 9 songs in the top 40 that I liked enough not to skip before they'd finished. Nowadays I'm lucky if there's 5.
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Post by masenz on Jul 2, 2020 10:48:08 GMT 1
I don't think modern music is getting worse per say, we are just all getting older and I imagine not many of us are the main target audience of top 40 these days. The fact we don't like much if it means they probably are quite accurate with what they are producing!
Anyhoo, agree with ShireBlogger on the Sia one. The epitome of a 'made-for-spotify' hit, but not in the slightest exciting.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 2, 2020 11:01:24 GMT 1
My first thought for Sia was "what, such a big hit and it only has an audio" so I looked it up on youtube and it does indeed have a video, it takes about a minute for the song to come in, so maybe that's why he posted an audio.
"Oh, yet another song like this...". Do all 2010s songs sound the same? Not that they have the same melody or lyrics, but the same vocal style, the same whiny instrumental backing... It has some rhythm to it, and is just "ok". Sia reached #40 in my chart in 2015 with "Big Girls Cry" and #3 in 2017 with "Candy Cane Lane" (in my last ever Christmas chart, behind Prosecco Socialist and Skinny Lister). No show for this song which I'd never even heard of, but probably had on a long playlist and rejected from adding to the regular playlist.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 2, 2020 11:14:34 GMT 1
My first thought for Sia was "what, such a big hit and it only has an audio" so I looked it up on youtube and it does indeed have a video, it takes about a minute for the song to come in, so maybe that's why he posted an audio. Good guess, but not quite! It appeared to me that the video was the version just by Sia, but the OCC seem to list the single as featuring Kendrick Lamar, so I posted the one with him in it.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 2, 2020 11:23:38 GMT 1
I don't think modern music is getting worse per say, we are just all getting older and I imagine not many of us are the main target audience of top 40 these days. Maybe you are right, but if you want to find something good\interesting from retro years you must just watch official charts from the period of your interest in music. Now charts are not enough for the music enthusiasts such like almost every Haven forum member. It's much harder to find music that you will like from last 5-10 years than from the oldies.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 2, 2020 12:00:20 GMT 1
739 - S&M by Rihanna No. 3 in 2011
"Sex in the air, I don't care, I like the smell of it". And to think people were scandalised when Madonna breathed a bit heavily on Justify My Love...
I kind of feel here what that could in theory be a perfectly profficient singalong pop song is kind of obscured somewhat by the subject matter. Is this a bold and sassy statement of female empowerment, or a pervy subjugation of a woman in an industry controlled dirty old men? And to quote Helen Lovejoy from The Simpson's, won't somebody please think of the children?
I can't be arsed with this to be honest. Not one of her better ones, shock tactics for the sake of it. Call me dull but chains and whips don't particularly excite me, and neither does this record.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 2, 2020 12:21:29 GMT 1
I have to question, if my dad had been interested enough to do it and been going through the new music in 1983, regardless of whether they were hits or not, and picking out the music he liked, would he have picked the ones that became hits or the same songs as me?
Because essentially that is what I was doing in 2016.
I like to think though that songs like "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" and "Karma Chameleon" were such appealing songs that anyone would have picked them.
2016 had for me my 2 biggest hits of the decade. But one sounded a lot like Queen and the other like The Selecta - quite different but both artists who were big in my era.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 2, 2020 12:29:33 GMT 1
S&M means Sadism and Masochism so more "Hanky Panky" than "Justify My Love" when it comes to Madonna comparisons.
And my chart had "Suburban Sex Dungeon" at #1 in my chart for one week at the start of 2016 before "Time Of My Life" took over.
Both that one and "Hanky Panky" musically more appealing to me though the latter is a bit "novelty".
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 2, 2020 12:30:05 GMT 1
With apologies to some readers, but I think this is a terrific song, and one of Rihanna's best.
Ref. the lyrics. She's not the first female music star to sing about sex and appear in a provocative video, and she won't be the last. The target market for r'n'b / pop / dance music is late teens and early twenties, and sex is a more interesting subject for this age range than whining about the government, for example. Donna Summer, Madonna, Kylie, Rihanna...
I note that this is a Stargate production. Credit to them for staying relevant for so long (their first hit was in 1999, this one is from 2011), and for evolving their sound to suit artists, technology and consumers' taste.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 2, 2020 12:32:05 GMT 1
It's much harder to find music that you will like from last 5-10 years than from the oldies. Absolute rubbish. Thanks to streaming, you have tens of millions of songs available instantly, and loads of different ways of picking up recommendations based on what you already like.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 2, 2020 12:52:49 GMT 1
Rihanna's music is a real mixed bag for me, but this is her at her absolute peak for me. It's a good reminder that there were some absolute R'n'B pop bangers made in the early half of the last decade.
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Post by greendemon on Jul 2, 2020 13:20:56 GMT 1
Doesn't do anything for me, but then there isn't much of her music I like other than the sublime 'We Found Love'.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 2, 2020 13:25:55 GMT 1
With apologies to some readers, but I think this is a terrific song, and one of Rihanna's best. No apology required! I don't mean for my comments to set the tone, in fact I like it when people disagree because it causes me to reconsider. Plus, this thread will work much better if people disagree than say nothing!
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Post by masenz on Jul 2, 2020 14:01:54 GMT 1
I have a soft spot for the Britney version with her baby-prostitute verses, but then I've never been one for a classy music taste.
This one is good. Not her best by any means but another solid 8/10 Rihanna banger that she could just churn out every other month it seemed at the time. I remember she made a comment I think in some interview that 'so much of what is on the radio sounds the same' and all I could think was 'well, given it's you every second song on commercial radio, you're quite right!'
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 3, 2020 13:30:58 GMT 1
738 - Rude Boy by Rihanna No. 2 in 2010
“Come on rude boy boy can you get it up? Come on rude boy boy is you big enough?” Here she goes again…
Yes, with 16 entries in total, Rhihanna is so ubiquitous on this list that even the data randomiser which I used to order the tracks all listed as selling exactly 1 million was unable to completely seperate her offerings.
I like this one, which, in comparisson to S&M, probably reveals quite a bit about my personal preferences. I'm not over fond of dance music, I expect that will become a theme throughout the thread. This is a proper R&B banger though, I don't like R&B when it becomes too whiney but when it's all hip-hoppy like this I'm up for it. Very good.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 3, 2020 14:13:11 GMT 1
I haven't listened to Rihanna in ages, and now it's twice in as many days!
Yeah, I really like this one too. When she was good she was on top form and this is another of those that you just can't help but bop to. I do think she probably missed the boat by not putting out a Greatest Hits album several years ago - if she just kept the big ones on there then I'm sure it would have been a huge seller.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 3, 2020 14:29:31 GMT 1
Having sung the praises of yesterday's Rihanna submission, I'm now going to diss this one.
"Rude Boy" sounds like three different songs welded together by a backstreet bodger. - First there is the chorus - the best element - with its Jamaican dancehall stylings. This is, potentially, a strong foundation. - But then the verses blunt the impact. They are a rather third-rate imitation of what Beyoncé was doing far more effectively at the time. - And stitching the whole thing together there is that really annoying click track. Really high pitched synth drums which must have taken all of three minutes to programme. Not a bass drum in sight, no interesting fills. It wrecks the whole thing, and stinks of the producers needing to add something to ensure they got their cut of the songwriters' fee.
4/10 on a good day.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 3, 2020 14:34:48 GMT 1
All of this has inspired me to have a Friday afternoon Rihanna session! I won't comment on the individual songs in case they come up later in this thread, but I'll just say that I've sifted out the songs that I find average and it's left me with a banging playlist!
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