Okay, a looong overdue update, here's songs #80-76;
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So, I remember when this song blew up and everyone I knew was obsessing over it and I honestly had never heard it. I didn't get into it either until months after it was out. I heard it once when it was out on the radio and I think I skipped it because I wanted to find something else I wanted to listen to. It wasn't until I stumbled upon it on YouTube I listened to it again that I just got hooked on it and I absolutely adore it.
The light house production on this track is sweet. It's certainly got a dark feeling to it, but I just love it. The bouncy riff makes me want to dance even when I'm in the car and it's on, it's a great electronic song and they did well with this song. Disclosure have a few other songs on their album which are pretty amazing, so check out their album Settle if you can, it's worth it. Particularly a song called Latch which features this incredible vocalist called Sam Smith.
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When I was plug.dj-ing with JungleDisturbia like so many months ago, he played a song by a K-pop group called ZE:A and the song was called The Ghost of Wind. It was such a fantastic song and I had to download the groups discography so find out if they had any more gems like the one I had heard. And luckily, I was correct!
Crazy is a great pop song. It's got pop-rock vibes in it, overall the production is great, it's got a little bit of a dark feel to it, but the chorus is so bubbly and light it's so refreshing after the verses. It's so catchy and was stuck in my head for days. I hope in 2014 ZE:A can deliver again, they did well with their music this year.
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A few years ago, I went through this insane Paramore phase, where I just adored everything they did, but that lasted like a few months and I went off them, and even now I don't think i could listen to their old discography, it pretty much sits dusty in my iTunes. When they released their most recent album, I was hesitant to listen to it, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. But it's actually a really great record, they have some really great songs on it.
This song is undeniably the best song however, and maybe even their best ever, in my opinion. Still Into You is plain fun and the electronic rock vibes here are there make the song much more than a dry rock song. They tried to experiment with sounds and vibes on this album as a whole and it payed off. This song is really great, I'd check it out.
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So, I never know if I like Jessie J or not. Sometimes she can really deliver and I can sit here and admit that vocally she is one of the best vocalists on the planet today, her voice is insanely good. But sometimes she irks me, if I'm 100% honest. She had one or two good songs on her debut and same goes for Alive.
I remember sitting in the living room and some make-up advert came on and this song played, it was before her album was even out, and my sister and I both looked at each other and said "is that Jessie J?". I searched so hard for this song, but I had to wait for the album release to hear it in full. Sexy Lady is a fun pop-rock song with a gritty chorus vocally while still being uplifting and catchy at the same time. Much better than It's My Party, this should have been the second single from Alive, especially with the promotion it was getting in the UK from that make-up advert.
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(Sorry, they don't have a version of this on YouTube that isn't pitched!)
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I don't have much more to say about B1A4 that I haven't already said. B1A4 really deliver this year making great fun pop tunes and I can't wait for new music from them next year.
How Many Times is this sort of really fun, cheesy, typical k-pop song. It's great, it's catchy and I love the production in the chorus with the little hint of rock elements. This is a great song, but certainly not their best, but one of their best.
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Please comment! Album #9 is finally coming up in a bit!
Thanks for the comments guys! Alright, here's a 10 song update, and an album update is actually coming sometime later tonight. Alright, he's #75-66.
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So, I don't hate Sky, I'm just not a huge fan in all honesty, she can deliver a good song here and there, but for the most part I find her fairly mundane. And honestly, in hindsight her album is pretty disappointing after the good she released in the Ghost EP.
But here we are, she still made my list. You're Not the One is a great pop song. I like the electronic rock influences and I'll admit the chorus is pretty catchy. I think she needs to sort her look out though, this meth queen look just doesn't look good.
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Gosh, Avril is popping up on this list just about every update, funny that. She did well for herself with her most recent album. I'd really like for her to become a major success again, it's nice for her to have Japan to fall back on, but she deserves to be a major success again. Especially with this song.
I remember someone on here posted that this was Avril's favourite song she's written since I'm With You, or something like that. I didn't expect it to be my favourite song of hers since I'm With You when I heard it. This song is so amazing. The acoustics are beautiful in a chilling sort of way, she sounds so great on the track and the whole song is just really well written. Without a doubt the best song on Avril Lavigne.
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As I already stated, I just found Alive a bit boring, most of the tracks were above average, and if I'm honest, Jessie J in person sort of annoys me, so I struggle to enjoy her music to the best I can.
But Thunder is just a really spectacular pop song. Definietly the best song off Alive, and I really love it. I want to see Jessie do more of this stuff. I'm not really interested in much else that she does.
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Yeah, here's Yeezus again. I wasn't too interested in his album to be honest, I do like his music as I said before, it's great to go a run to and he's pretty majorly talented at what he does. It's not not what I'd choose to listen to upon first choice. But I do enjoy his music, he's great and pretty gifted at what he does.
Black Skinhead is a brilliant song. The lyrics are smart, the beat is insane. It's Kanye at his best in my opinion. I love the "dum dum" hum, it adds so much more to the verses and makes the beat so much more powerful, the little screams here and there add to that too. The darkness to this track adds to it, it's brilliant. I'm glad that Miley remix never saw the light of day though, no thank you.
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Okay, I'll be honest, I literally can't stand Avicii, actually can't stand him. Eveyone here loves him and I just think for the most part his music is abysmal. That Wake Me Up song is one of the most annoying songs to have ever been released and every time I heard it I have to change it. I can't stand it.
But there's a silver lining. Hey Brother is actually pretty decent, it's like my guilty pleasure song of the year, I hate that I love it. The country-esque verses are super catchy and the horn section breakdown, with a pretty crazy beat, is just super fun. A great party track I actually love.
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Justin Timberlakes album was great, but pretty overrated if I'm 100% honest. I also most times can't really be arsed to sit and listen to it, it really takes a lot of effort to listen to the song lengths, especially since a lot of them are too long for no apparent reason.
Anyway, Strawberry Bubblegum is pretty nice, it's one of the best on the album in my opinion. It's a great song and the R&B and pop crossover vibes are so pleasing to listen to. He sounds great too, he's an incredible vocalist. I love this song, and him, a lot.
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About a year and a half ago, if you asked me if a knew who Steel Panther were I'd have said no, and if someone told me I'd like them and they were a metal band, I'd laugh at them. It wasn't until I was asked to sing for a metal band that I heard them, and now I love them. They're the type of metal band I'm into and the songs are super catchy.
This song is certainly much more poppy than I expected from, sounds like something off One Direction's new album. But the song itself is really great and is typical Steel Panther humour. All about banging some girl with big boobs, listening to a bitchin' metal band and getting high, it's pretty much a party.
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KT Tunstall has been one of my favourite artists for a long time. I remember when her first album came out and I still have the first copy that I bought, I was pretty young when it came out too. She's so talented and she's paved the way for acoustic-pop artists of today. She's a mega talented singer-songwriter and she has yet to deliver an album I don't think is great, she's a brilliant artist.
Crescent Moon is one of the two title tracks on her fourth album Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon, which is her most stripped down album yet. The song is a piano track with some nice synthy ornaments dotted about the track giving it a chilling and eerie feeling. It's a really beautiful song.
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(Unfortunately there was no audio of this song on YouTube, I suggest you look it up yourself, it's great!)
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I've never been overly keen on the Arctic Monkeys, but this year I heard one of their songs on the radio and was hooked for months, but that song will appear later. So I decided to check out AM, their new album released this year and I thought it was great. It had some downs, but it also had some ups and those amazing songs were... well, amazing.
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High (what a mouthful) is a great song, it's pretty chill for the most part and less rocky than other songs on their album. It's got a really catchy hook and I think the whole song is well written. It's a great song, I recommend you check out their latest album.
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Oh, Kety. This song is actually really great, I'm not sure it should have been the second single from her album, but I love it a lot more than Roar, it's a really great catchy pop song and I hope it does pick up in the end and become a decent sized hit, one of my favourites from Prism.
The song itself has a pretty soft production that I think makes it charming. I love the power in the chorus compared to the verses and it's just an overall happy song, which is what you should expect from Katy Perry at this point. It's a nice song, will be interesting to see if it gets picked up soon. I do hope so.
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Please comment! Album review coming in a few hours.