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Discussion: The New Sound of the UK: The End is Here
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Ideal top ten:
1. Rehab
2. Someone Like You
3. The Fear
4. Rolling in the Deep
5. Tears Dry On Their Own
6. Dog Days Are Over
7. You Know I'm No Good
8. Shake It Out
9. Back to Black
10. Valerie
Maybe? I don't know. This is a tough one.
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1. You Know That I'm No Good
2. Someone Like You
3. Tears Dry On Their Own
4. Back to Black
5. Shake It Out
6. Valerie
7. Dog Days Are Over
8. Rehab
9. The Fear
10. Rolling in the Deep
My ideal Top 10 
Rehab, The Fear & Rolling in the Deep are the only songs that didn't receive a 10 from me that are still in the game.
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Kind of a bland top 10 tbh. 
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Kind of a bland top 10 tbh. |
I agree.... I think a lot of the really good songs got kicked off 25-11 because a lot of the top 10 songs are "easy to like" or however you want to describe them, when songs like Smile and LDN could easily be disliked (even though they're 10/10).
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I cannot wait til the Aaliyah/Brandy/Monica face-off. I do think Mya should be thrown in there, even though she's a lesser compared to them.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Kind of a bland top 10 tbh. |
Totally agree! It's mostly good songs that made it, but they feel like a very obvious bunch. It's all the most inoffensive, widely appealing and biggest hits of the bunch.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Ideal top ten:
1. Rehab
2. Someone Like You
3. The Fear
4. Rolling in the Deep
5. Tears Dry On Their Own
6. Dog Days Are Over
7. You Know I'm No Good
8. Shake It Out
9. Back to Black
10. Valerie
Maybe? I don't know. This is a tough one.
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I love this top 10! Although I'd switch Rehab with Tears Dry On Their Own. And then I'd probably put The Fear in the top spot. A few are missing, sure, but on the whole I think this is a pretty legit finish. I didn't really stumble onto any hidden discoveries within this rate with the exception of Lily's catalog.
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Shake It Out better be next.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Ideal top ten:
1. Rehab
2. Someone Like You
3. The Fear
4. Rolling in the Deep
5. Tears Dry On Their Own
6. Dog Days Are Over
7. You Know I'm No Good
8. Shake It Out
9. Back to Black
10. Valerie
Maybe? I don't know. This is a tough one.
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This top 10 looks good 
But we know how the girls love to overrate Adele 
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
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Originally posted by madonnas
I agree.... I think a lot of the really good songs got kicked off 25-11 because a lot of the top 10 songs are "easy to like" or however you want to describe them, when songs like Smile and LDN could easily be disliked (even though they're 10/10).
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Totally agree! It's mostly good songs that made it, but they feel like a very obvious bunch. It's all the most inoffensive, widely appealing and biggest hits of the bunch.
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I've never heard Amy Winehouse described as bland or easy to like or inoffensive. 
10 - 7 tonight? I promise there are SHOCKERS.
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I've never heard Amy Winehouse described as bland or easy to like or inoffensive. |
Ace, don't shamelessly twist my words like that. You know that's not what I was saying.
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Originally posted by Ace Reject
I've never heard Amy Winehouse described as bland or easy to like or inoffensive.
10 - 7 tonight? I promise there are SHOCKERS. |
I'll be watching. 
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Originally posted by Ace Reject
I've never heard Amy Winehouse described as bland or easy to like or inoffensive.
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I dunno, I've never seen her as difficult to like. I mean my Grandpa spun Back To Black like it was going out of style. 
I definitely like that Back To Black and Rehab made it, but I really don't think the other 3 are top 10 material. Top 20, yes, top 10, no.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
I dunno, I've never seen her as difficult to like. I mean my Grandpa spun Back To Black like it was going out of style.
I definitely like that Back To Black and Rehab made it, but I really don't think the other 3 are top 10 material. Top 20, yes, top 10, no. |
I think lyrically she takes the most risks out of the five. There's a reason 21 sold so well and was so big on US radio while all of Back to Black's singles were shunned sans one. Amy's writing is too personal, and - pun intended - too frank. No one could get something like "he left no time to regret/kept his dick wet" or "thinking of you in the final throes/this is when my buzzer goes" onto pop radio, sadly.
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Originally posted by Ace Reject
I think lyrically she takes the most risks out of the five. There's a reason 21 sold so well and was so big on US radio while all of Back to Black's singles were shunned sans one. Amy's writing is too personal, and - pun intended - too frank. No one could get something like "he left no time to regret/kept his dick wet" or "thinking of you in the final throes/this is when my buzzer goes" onto pop radio, sadly.
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Fair enough. I just see Tears Dry On My Own, You Know I'm No Good, and Valerie as a very poor representation of Amy Winehouse as a frank, risk-taking artist though, which is why I don't particularly want them in the top 10.
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Shake It Out in the top 10 
I like it but Florence has much better singles than that.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Fair enough. I just see Tears Dry On My Own, You Know I'm No Good, and Valerie as a very poor representation of Amy Winehouse as a frank, risk-taking artist though, which is why I don't particularly want them in the top 10. |
You Know I'm No Good is her best single in my opinion.
But I'd really be fine with Back to Black and Tears Dry going now.
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Originally posted by Ace Reject
I think lyrically she takes the most risks out of the five. There's a reason 21 sold so well and was so big on US radio while all of Back to Black's singles were shunned sans one. Amy's writing is too personal, and - pun intended - too frank. No one could get something like "he left no time to regret/kept his dick wet" or "thinking of you in the final throes/this is when my buzzer goes" onto pop radio, sadly.
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Yes, but Back to Black an an album was still ENORMOUS. Is it any wonder it has four songs in the top ten, while Frank has none?
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Ready for the shock of your life?
(BTW thanks impressive instant for the gifs!!)
10.
Adele - Someone Like You
Average Rate: 8.672
Highest Score: 10 (16x)
Lowest Score: 7 (1x)
UK Chart Peak: #1
US Chart Peak: #1
Yep. That just happened.
The song that seems to have defined the past year (only one other song can claim that, and that's yet to come) bows out as we enter the top ten. Written by Adele and Dan Wilson, Someone Like You seized the world and went to number one in twelve countries; it has the unique mark of staying at the top spot for five weeks in both the UK and the US. (There it's double platinum, here it's quadruple platinum.) The closer to Adele's sophomore release, 21, Someone Like You struck such a chord that it was singled out by Pitchfork and mostly well-received on The Singles Jukebox - and if anyone knows those two sites, they know how hard that it is to accomplish.
The song was first performed in late 2010 on the Jools Holland Show, but truly stepped into the national spotlight when Adele performed it at the 2011 Brits. It shots straight to number one, blocking her first - and still only official at the time - single from 21, Rolling in the Deep. The song exploded over the world, but took a longer time to hit here - because we were Deep in something else. But Adele performed it at the 2011 VMAs, and it went straight to number one on Us iTunes - and later the Hot 100. Adele's performances of this song drew special attention because she was close to tears both times she performed it, and because she garnered minute long standing ovations after both performances.
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Originally posted by Adele
I was really emotional by the end because I'm quite overwhelmed by everything anyway, and then I had a vision of my ex, of him watching me at home and he's going to be laughing at me because he knows I'm crying because of him, with him thinking, 'Yep, she's still wrapped around my finger'. Then everyone stood up, so I was overwhelmed.
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Fun Fact: Adele said that when she heard Dan Wilson play the music he had written to the song, she fell to the floor in tears.
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