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Jimmy Presents: The Monster 2009
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No Surpise on Number 1 lol.
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6/6 Amazing top 3!
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5/6.
Britney.
Beyoncé and Lady GaGa.
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5/6
Green day so high Didn't know you were such a fan mijitoco.
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Great top 2 + Beyonce
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Lady GaGa | Britney Spears | Green Day | Beyonce
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6/6
Owl City, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Britney and Lady Gaga. I knew it bitch I don't blame you, Lady GaGa is indeed the number one artist of 2009.
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6/6
Lady GaGa at #1
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Owl City really disappointed me with Ocean Eyes. I bought "Of June" in 2007 and it's still definitely his best work. With songs like Strawberry Avalanche and Hot Air Balloon getting released prior to Ocean Eyes, I had huge hopes for Ocean Eyes, but was ultimately let down. His best song for me is still Swimming In Miami, followed closely by Strawberry Avalanche. I find that the the best on Ocean Eyes is The Bird and the Worm.
I hope I'm amazed by his next album, however.
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Originally posted by £100
Owl City really disappointed me with Ocean Eyes. I bought "Of June" in 2007 and it's still definitely his best work. With songs like Strawberry Avalanche and Hot Air Balloon getting released prior to Ocean Eyes, I had huge hopes for Ocean Eyes, but was ultimately let down. His best song for me is still Swimming In Miami, followed closely by Strawberry Avalanche. I find that the the best on Ocean Eyes is The Bird and the Worm.
I hope I'm amazed by his next album, however.
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Strawberry Avalanche is life
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3.5/6
Green Day, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Owl City.
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4/5
No pasa nada con Green Day.
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Originally posted by £100
Owl City really disappointed me with Ocean Eyes. I bought "Of June" in 2007 and it's still definitely his best work. With songs like Strawberry Avalanche and Hot Air Balloon getting released prior to Ocean Eyes, I had huge hopes for Ocean Eyes, but was ultimately let down. His best song for me is still Swimming In Miami, followed closely by Strawberry Avalanche. I find that the the best on Ocean Eyes is The Bird and the Worm.
I hope I'm amazed by his next album, however.
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Oh yeah, "Of June" >>> "Ocean Eyes"
Ocean Eyes is a good album, it has one of my favorite songs ever "Vanilla Twilight". It would be perfect with Strawberry Avalance, Hot Air Ballon included
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Originally posted by KarlosVzla
5/6
Green day so high Didn't know you were such a fan mijitoco.
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gwhrl, I loooove Green Day
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6/6!!! 2009 was definitely Gaga's year!! Congrats on your charts!
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5/5
Gaga is really did rule 2009!
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5/6 Amazing top 3!
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| 20. "Rated R"
by Rihanna
Everyone expected a successful year for Rihanna, maybe its not happening but at least the girl is back. The cover of the new Rihanna album features a severe black-and-white head shot of the star. She has her hand clapped over her right eye; her left eye, surrounded by a raccoon ring of mascara, glares back at the viewer. The context here is no secret: It is impossible to look at those eyes without remembering the images of Rihanna's bruised face in the aftermath of her beating in February by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. Until recently, the singer has been quiet about the incident. Songs like "Russian Roulette" — a domestic-violence victim's confession whipped into soaring melodrama — tell us why: She was busy saying her piece in the studio.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Rude Boy
04) Hard
03) Rockstar 101
02) Russian Roulette
01) Fire Bomb |
| 20. "Ocean Eyes"
by Owl City
It’s hard to credit the lyrics for being anything other than mediocre which is emphasized on tracks like “Dental Care” which is about, believe it or not, going to the dentist. On the opposite side though, “If My Heart Was A House” is a respectable love song probably melting the hearts of those who it eventually gets dedicated to. Much of this album is fit for the soundtracks of romantic comedies and so don’t be too shocked when tracks like “The Bird And The Worm” or “Vanilla Twilight” sneak into the mainstream silver screen.
Basically If you’ve heard any of the songs and like them you should be buying this record, consequently, if you didn’t like any of the songs they are similar enough that there really isn’t anything for you here. My thoughts are somewhat mixed although it definitely hits a soft spot. Good album overall.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Hello Seattle
04) Meteor Shower
03) Umbrella Beach
02) Fireflies
01) Vanilla Twilight |
| 19. Brand New Eyes
by Paramore
You can see it in the pointed use of lower case lettering in the album title on the artwork, in the cruelly dismembered and mounted butterfly on the cover and in the tormented song titles – ‘Turn It Off’, ‘Ignorance’, ‘Playing God’. Paramore have not only grown up, but grown into a cynical bunch. Despite being largely invisible to the ‘serious’ music fan in your life, Paramore are, pre-teen by pre-teen, taking over the world. The album is really good.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Ignorance
04) Decode
03) Brick By Boring Brick
02) Careful
01) All I Wanted |
| 18. "Here We Go Again"
by Demi Lovato
Lovato is a 17-year-old Disney star who digs death metal, a taste that doesn't entirely fit with the Ashlee- and Avril-style tunes on her second album. Lovato has chops and spunk akin to a fellow Texas pop singer, though her voice doesn't churn with Kelly Clarkson's gutsy heart yet. The fiery synth-powered "Got Dynamite" shows she can bite, and the Duffy-like orchestral soul on "Every Time You Lie" is a slick break from her crunchy pop rock. She is one of the Disney Artists that I like, she is really talented
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) U Got Nothin’ On Me
04) Gift Of A Friend
03) Here We Go Again
02) Got Dynamite
01) Remember December |
| 17. "It's Not Me, It's You"
by Lilly Allen
Lily Allen isn't just a pop star. She's a genre. Allen's fizzy, fiercely attitudinal 2007 debut, Alright, Still, sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide, made the 23-year-old Londoner one of Britain's tabloid fixtures and spawned an industry of Lily wanna-be's — seemingly every month, the U.K. record business disgorges a new songstress with a MySpace page full of post-feminist provocations set to perky tunes. Meanwhile, Allen-ism has migrated across the Atlantic: Is there any doubt where Christian popster-turned-bi-curious succès de scandale Katy Perry learned her best moves? But as Allen's long-awaited second album makes clear, no one does Lily like Lily. It's Not Me, It's You is far from perfect, but it sounds fantastic. With producer Greg Kurstin (the Bird and the Bee) at her side, Allen has gotten more musically eclectic, jettisoning the thumping rock-steady of Alright, Still without sacrificing catchiness or dance-floor bounce. The new album has a peppy electro underpinning, but all sorts of styles bubble up: Eurodisco, oompah and, in the galloping "Not Fair," a kind of spaghetti-Westernized synth pop. Any of the dozen tracks could be a single, from the rousing "22" to "Who'd Have Known," the ballad with the album's most surefire hook.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Not Fair
04) Who'd Have Known
03) The Fear
02) 22
01) **** You |
| 16. "Hot Mess"
by Cobra Starship
Having given up on emo for synth-charged snark a few years back, Gabe Saporta continues to live his Eighties-pop dreams with Cobra Starship's third album.
Hot Mess is packed with electro-sleaze tunes that go over the top in both their bright sound — sassy hook-singing girls are prevalent — and wink-wink mien. Sometimes the former Midtownsinger's snark falls flat, as with the title "Pete Wentz Is the Only Reason We're Famous"
or the part where the singer brags about his ass. But Saporta does have some pop gifts, apparent on the disco "Living in the Sky With Diamonds," where he delivers a sculpted, earnest-sounding chorus about a high-living lady — and also quotes Hall and Oates' "Maneater."
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Hot Mess
04) Good Girls Go Bad
03) Living In The Sky With Diamonds
02) Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We Are Famous
01) You're Not In On The Joke |
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4/5
Rated R!
Jimmy, I think if you want all your stuff updated in time for people to see it on the golden bar, you may want to start putting a lot in your posts... just saying though
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Originally posted by Matty
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Rated R!
Jimmy, I think if you want all your stuff updated in time for people to see it on the golden bar, you may want to start putting a lot in your posts... just saying though
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IKR? I think Im going to update like every 3 hours
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