Random Music Thoughts XXV: Where Have You Been All My Life?

[coolinout1]

If Chris Brown can become relevant again, Ciara can!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3JaTlM8ZY"]chris brown ft ciara-dança.mpg - YouTube[/ame]

[Ceilidh-ann]

Grace Jones is better than you. Yes, you.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwEgzDNb2w"]Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert) - YouTube[/ame]

[haqyunus]

So, Holland's biggest (and by far best) music magazine, OOR (which means EAR) had their readers select and Indie Top 100 (from a set list of 400 contestants, by the way), and this was the result:

1. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (2005)
2. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out (2004)
3. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980)
4. The Strokes – Last Nite (2001)
5. Editors – Munich (2005)
6. dEUS – Suds & Soda (1994)
7. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (2003)
8. Blur – Song 2 (1997)
9. The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (1986)
10. New Order – Blue Monday (1983)

Thoughts? Three of my personal Top 100 of all time are in it, so I can't complain, but it skews a bit... young, no?

The Smiths' is like one of my favorite song of all time. But I agree 7/10 can be classified as contemporary with special objection to the inclusion of Franz Ferdinand and AM at the top. These are good songs but not deserve to be included in a top 10. Also, Blur should have rated higher.

[J2DR]

Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_qFaFl7JVc&list=UUA8xMhX1D fxA8UKsfjn9vQg&index=1&feature=plcp "]Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger - YouTube[/ame]

Beach House - Lazuli

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfzFVbkutFE"]BEACH HOUSE -- "LAZULI" (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) - YouTube[/ame]

[dyedred19]

It's been hard for me to get into that new Dirty Projectors single.

The entirety of Bloom, however, is fantastic.

[veritas]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-b_XWcf6DM"]Gossip 2012 - Love In A Foreign Place (A Joyful Noise) - YouTube[/ame]

So this is the record of the year, thus far.

[kupo]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6j2OcAlNRg"]Cold Cave- Believe in my blood - YouTube[/ame]

Sort of in love with this Cold Cave song that was recorded as a B-side for Cherish the Light Years and is just now seeing the light of day.

[makemeameteor]

Grace Jones is better than you. Yes, you.

Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert) - YouTube

LMAO, I love her.

[dyedred19]

Anybody on the Emeli Sande train? I've only heard a couple of her tracks, but I very much like what I hear. Looking forward to listening to the entire album soon.

[haqyunus]

Absolutely ing this:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5VNumNJyqE"]Friends - I'm His Girl - YouTube[/ame]

[Critix]

Anybody on the Emeli Sande train? I've only heard a couple of her tracks, but I very much like what I hear. Looking forward to listening to the entire album soon.

I was JUST about to post about her. Her album is fantastic!

Heaven is so, so good.

[haqyunus]

Anybody on the Emeli Sande train? I've only heard a couple of her tracks, but I very much like what I hear. Looking forward to listening to the entire album soon.

Yeah, I got on the ride 2 pages back (and I think Largo too.) I haven't heard the album yet and that I exactly what I was asking: how is the whole record? I wonder the resemblance to Beyonce will hurt her or help.

[Critix]

Yeah, I got on the ride 2 pages back (and I think Largo too.) I haven't heard the album yet and that I exactly what I was asking: how is the whole record? I wonder the resemblance to Beyonce will hurt her or help.

Huh? She sounds more like Leona Lewis than anyone else.

[filmy]

It's kind of shameful how much I still love American Idiot, like, one decade (what) later.

[haqyunus]

Huh? She sounds more like Leona Lewis than anyone else.

Leona? I never thought of her.

Hehe, for me the similarity to Beyonce's style of singing and vocals was uncanny.

[Critix]

IMO, she sounds nothing like Beyonce.

[haqyunus]

For me Leona is a bit mellow and controlled and Beyonce fierce and raw. Hence Sande's likeness to the latter.

[dyedred19]

I don't get much Beyonce from at all. I can hear the Leona comparisons.

[dyedred19]

Bon Iver's set from Bonnaroo is live on YouTube right now for anybody who cares.

[TheBoss]

VIDEO of the Year, really!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM"]DIE ANTWOORD - BABY'S ON FIRE (OFFICIAL) - YouTube[/ame]