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Originally posted by Patrick
I really have to take back everything I've ever said about Robyn. I was so skeptical of her as I have generally pretty **** tastes, deal only with the ultra-commercial and Robyn is a tad bit artsier than I tend to go. I think for those reasons I wanted to dislike her and I wasn't struck by the brilliance of this material on the first listen. Oh how wrong I was. I decided to give this a second chance today (listened to version with all 3 parts, but I suppose I'll have to go back and review the songs that were included on the other parts and not this one), but this time around the music had a completely different effect on me. These are some of the most amazing melodies I've heard in pop music, the production on every single track is flawless and these songs are way catchier than I ever would have expected from this girl that I have thought of as an over-praised hipster.
I have to go back and edit my top 50 singles countdown, but I feel like such a ridiculous poser doing so as I've just now realized the error of my ways and I've been so adamant in the past that Robyn just isn't that amazing. She's amazing, she really is.
Robyn in 2010 is even better than the Robyn I loved in 1998.
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Originally posted by annashaus
I've been listening to Time Machine a lot and I'd say that you're right, in terms of a smash. Call Your Girlfriend, though, is her best work ever IMO. That song is perfection..
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THIS!
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Originally posted by annashaus
I know right!
Track 3 to 9 are just hit after hit, to my ears. And then track 12 to 15. The fact that the amazing feeling remains when you're listening to them one after another is just incredible!
The only songs missing on the full album are Cry When You Get Older and Criminal Intent. And she should have put an acoustic version of Dancing On My Own on the Pt.3 EP. That's the only "negative" thing I have to say, really. But these are just small matters, and not at all necessary. The album as it is now, is one of the greatest work I've seen.
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Originally posted by Mgui_Blackout
Pitchfork's The Top 100 Tracks of 2010
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Robyn
"Dancing on My Own"
[Konichiwa / Cherrytree / Interscope]
How do you know when a new pop song is a stone instant classic? If it gives you chills whenever you hear it? If it mixes perfectly into basically any other song? When every straight guy you know confesses that he secretly loves and listens to it? If it interpolates the themes and sounds of every great disco torch song ever and updates them without being winky or retro, but keeps the "Funky Town" woodblock percussion? If it contains a couplet as perfect as, "Stilettos and broken bottles/ I'm spinning around in circles"? Or if, when the chorus comes on in the club, it always feels like the very first time?
Robyn gave us all kinds of great singles this year, but "Dancing on My Own", which kicked off her Body Talk trilogy, remains the standout. Defying expectations and categorizations at every turn, she continues to demonstrate that she is the Rocky Balboa of pop music. Summoning the eternal spirits of divas like Donna Summer, Sylvester, and Gloria Gaynor, Robyn alchemizes everything great about current dance music into flawless ABBA gold. --Molly Lambert
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