omg it's the charts!
it would seem not even a bizzare "let us celebrate the opening of the uk branch of def jam" remix of "southern hospitality" featuring ms dynamite could entice people to buy the ludacris single, but i think that's cuz "saturday" is as joyless as anything off his last album - it doesn't matter how much you talk about arses or have cooing ooh ooh choruses, we know you're a manic depressive, luda! (for more proof see mtv's diary of ludacris thing.) (to be fair it might just be a case of him not knowing exactly where to go after the early, funny ones.)
i just realized all the stuff i missed during spizzazzz downtime, like all the things i wanted to say about how appleton (i had a "fantasy" about never having to hear their song!) and pink and ronan and possibly others were all over that unrocking digi-rock sound i invented months ago! but now the moment has passed, so instead: wow, eve only at number six! i still like "gangsta lovin'" quite a lot, it's nice to imagine if all irv gotti choruses were sung by alicia, but surely this was eve's moment to step up to nelly's league with some perfectly realized impact pop! (eve-olution = dre fell off again!)
what is the point of trucks if their embarrassing brit-wheatus novelty rock only reaches number 35?? busted, on the other hand, are amazing and have exceeded expectation. i just listened to a brief clip of the new garbage single, it sounded ok but there was no goth shit. it reminded me of the fc kristhuna milian bootleg i wasted four hours making.
30.9.02
26.9.02
avril lavigne - "complicated"
this was way better when i had only experienced it on my super-tinny high-end-only tv (with strangely disappointing not-as-good-as-it-should-be avril and friends trash mall video) and i could make up my own chords and bassline without the tyrany of hearing what is actually played - i heard it on the radio for the first time today and the real chords are rubbish! but there are things i still like: avril is of course already queen of the winsome, catch-in-the-throat vocal thing, used so ruthlessly and efficiently on "complicated" that it becomes like one of the many perfect elements of linkin park super rock! i hope avril continues to refine the real-instrument-pop formula until all the shitty things have been removed. (you know, like when the singer tries to impart their personality! and everything about the nick carter song!)
i want to try and record my version of the song with the right bassline.
this was way better when i had only experienced it on my super-tinny high-end-only tv (with strangely disappointing not-as-good-as-it-should-be avril and friends trash mall video) and i could make up my own chords and bassline without the tyrany of hearing what is actually played - i heard it on the radio for the first time today and the real chords are rubbish! but there are things i still like: avril is of course already queen of the winsome, catch-in-the-throat vocal thing, used so ruthlessly and efficiently on "complicated" that it becomes like one of the many perfect elements of linkin park super rock! i hope avril continues to refine the real-instrument-pop formula until all the shitty things have been removed. (you know, like when the singer tries to impart their personality! and everything about the nick carter song!)
i want to try and record my version of the song with the right bassline.
6.9.02
the tamperer - "feel it" (1998)
proving there really were a lot of chart-dance half-forgotten classics in the nineties! deadpan vocals from the mad woman who wore like no clothes on totp, and that fist-pumping casio-synth-string melody that apparently reminded some people of christmas (!?) - actually it always made me think of "banned from tv" by noreaga since they were out around the same time (tamperer is the swizz beats of house! no really, that works on many levels) - the key thing here is the drums are so exhilaratingly lumbering and almost de-tuned it might as well be rock!
proving there really were a lot of chart-dance half-forgotten classics in the nineties! deadpan vocals from the mad woman who wore like no clothes on totp, and that fist-pumping casio-synth-string melody that apparently reminded some people of christmas (!?) - actually it always made me think of "banned from tv" by noreaga since they were out around the same time (tamperer is the swizz beats of house! no really, that works on many levels) - the key thing here is the drums are so exhilaratingly lumbering and almost de-tuned it might as well be rock!
4.9.02
ol dirty bastard - "brooklyn zoo" (1995)
this record is amazing yes, but if you pretend like you've never heard of the wu and you don't know odb's troubled history so you can't equate his wacky flow with drug use or being insane then it's the best thing ever of all time! s trife once claimed its "like not even music!" and the dude has a point; "brooklyn zoo" is a ridiculous, hysterical manifestation of why it's fun to listen/learn the words to freestyles on kay slay mixtapes and shout along, and it's even better if you are looking at your friends so you can shout the words at each other. it's not so much a song as a beautiful communal experience!
this record is amazing yes, but if you pretend like you've never heard of the wu and you don't know odb's troubled history so you can't equate his wacky flow with drug use or being insane then it's the best thing ever of all time! s trife once claimed its "like not even music!" and the dude has a point; "brooklyn zoo" is a ridiculous, hysterical manifestation of why it's fun to listen/learn the words to freestyles on kay slay mixtapes and shout along, and it's even better if you are looking at your friends so you can shout the words at each other. it's not so much a song as a beautiful communal experience!
2.9.02
green day - "when i come around" (1995)
this isn't even on an i-played-this-over-and-over-when-i-was-fourteen tip either, i just listened to it and it sounds better than ever! also it was really good when i was fourteen. green day deserve to be on this list because they probably helped a lot of other chart-punk bands get signed to major labels who gave them money for proper production with big snare sounds - and by extension get played on the radio. it means green day are partly responsible for a glut of beautiful radio songs, the kind which might not be as cool if you actually bought them, where the context is so special and often unexpected that they are easy to treasure beyond breaking the sound apart to tell what it is you like. i don't know why chart-punk is so good for carrying this kind of feeling, its probably all the hardcore yearning going on. anyway "when i come around" isn't even chart-punk, it's sweet-natured grunge pop, a woefully under-explored avenue i wish i could hear on the radio more!
this isn't even on an i-played-this-over-and-over-when-i-was-fourteen tip either, i just listened to it and it sounds better than ever! also it was really good when i was fourteen. green day deserve to be on this list because they probably helped a lot of other chart-punk bands get signed to major labels who gave them money for proper production with big snare sounds - and by extension get played on the radio. it means green day are partly responsible for a glut of beautiful radio songs, the kind which might not be as cool if you actually bought them, where the context is so special and often unexpected that they are easy to treasure beyond breaking the sound apart to tell what it is you like. i don't know why chart-punk is so good for carrying this kind of feeling, its probably all the hardcore yearning going on. anyway "when i come around" isn't even chart-punk, it's sweet-natured grunge pop, a woefully under-explored avenue i wish i could hear on the radio more!
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