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My Top 200 of 2008!
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Touch My Body is so silly, but still one of the best of the year. I love it.
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16. Girls Aloud - The Promise
Ten reasons The Promise is genius:
- It's wonderfully cynical on the surface, timed perfectly to take advantage of the psuedo 60s sound sweeping the world (the UK specifically) ...
- ... but, unlike the detractors say - it's not a lazy attempt at the sonic universe Amy Winehouse et al have created. It's actually a clever 2000s intepretation of the Spector sound. (all those double tracked vocals?!?!?)
- It's the best Bond theme there never was ( a darn sight better than the "song" we were stuck with this year)
- Lyrically, it's a masterstoke, perhaps the best song about stalking to ever hit number one
- Their vocals are better than ever - in fact Xenomania pulled something of a miracle, making the weakest member of the group (that would be Sarah, if you didn't know) the MVP
- The urgency - somewhere between defiance, joy and obsession
- Like most of GA's music, it strikes the perfect balance of ironic camp and sincere emotion
- The last part of the second verse - where Nadine leads, Nicola supports and Cheryl comes from behind - all uniting on "power's failing me everytime!!!!" hits me in the heart everytime I hear it
- HERE I AM, WALKING PRIMROSE, WONDERING IF I'M GONNA SEE YOU AGAIN
- How many number ones can you name where each verse has a different melody?
And, well, there's this. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J_pPi5n3vwk
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The Promise
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Graveyard Girl, Touch My Body, A-Punk. Your list is on fire right now, Bart!
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15. The Walkmen - In the New Year
Devastating. And incredibly appropriate for the year we've just started. In the New Yearconcerns itself with missed opportunities; at love, at life. Its' power comes from just how much it gets right - the balance we all have to strike in order to get through the day, the month, the year. The opening linesOh I'm still living
At the old address
And I'm waiting on the weather
And I know you'll pass are painful, because we've all dealt with being swept up in the everyday - and, more importantly, waiting for something (or someone) better to come along. By the time the chorus ([I]I know that it's true
It's gonna be a good year[/I) we all know that we can do nothing but hope that sentiment's right.]
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14. Miranda Lambert - More Like Her
She's beautiful in her simple little way
Another devastating song, but for completely different reasons - if In the New Year breaks hearts by praying for hope, than More Like Her hurts for how well it chronicles pain. The spareness of Miranda's vocal, and the sparseness of the music belie the doubt, anger, and self-hate that flow through the lyrics. If the song's chorus- I should have held on to my pride
I should have never let you lie
I guess you got what you deserved
I guess I should've been more like her doesn't hit you hard, then you should be lucky you've never been where Miranda has.
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yay! a-punk (though itt doesn't appear on my countdown)
BTW, I know which one's your number one, girl.
You can't fool ME.
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Light Years, hush. I don't want you to holla back, no. :teairra mari:
13. TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose
He's a what?
He's a what?
He's a newspaper man
Wherein TV on the Radio brillianty dissect today's "culture", and we get swept along for the thoroughly funky ride.
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your secret's safe, for now
WHAHAHAHAHAHA
good position for dancing choose, but what surprised me is that I was checking your previous posts and I didn't see emiliana torrini!!!! she's so great and Me And Armini is proof of that. So, only because of that, your secret will be safe.
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"A-Punk" and "In The New Year"
amazing and different tracks here. I like it
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12. LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
The most personal of all the tracks on this list (at least, to me - although, I can scarily relate to The Promise's stalker!) James Murphy slows it down and creates a ballad (?!?!) that details New York City's losing battle with it's older, cooler, more liveable self.
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I completly agree about the promise
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11. Radiohead - Reckoner
Funky. Badass. THE ****. And when the tambourines give way to the instrumental bridge? HOLD ME BACK.
Top ten's next! And four of the acts in the last ten are in the top ten? Plus, LOTS OF WOMEN. And a rapper.
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In the last three pages, especial highlights are: NY I Love You, Break the Dawn, Electric Feel, Burnin' Up, 7 Things.
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And to follow your lead, Friday, here are some more lists.
BEST SHOW OF THE YEAR
MAD MEN. Nothing else came close. (although Lost and Gossip Girl did put up quite a fight!)
BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR
1. The Class (Laurent Cantet)
2. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
3. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
4. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
5. ?_? Could be anything? Could be Rachel Getting Married, or the Dark Knight, or Vicky Cristina Barcelona, or one of the many films I haven't seen yet? (Milk? Paranoid Park? Flight of the Red Balloon? Alexandra? The Edge of Heaven? Syndedoche, New York? The Wrestler? I DON'T KNOW?!?!?)
I'll do an albums thingy after I post the top ten. MAYBE.
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Bart, reading your countdown feels like reading Mike's.
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