08-11-07

Music that'll rock your socks (i promise)  

Here's a list I started last Thursday. It's crazy awesome, and I plan to use this music to get me through my weekend cleaning regimen. A track-by-track rundown:
  1. I Suck (ft Rivers Cuomo) - Mark Ronson: This track combines my love of 90s nostalgia (remember when Weezer was cool?) and Mark Ronson's evolving production. Gone is his signature 60s Wall of Sound style. He, like all great producers, has taken some time to undergo a renewal instead of copying himself and getting stale (ahem, Timbaland). This is 90s-style slacker rock at its best. With swears!
  2. Fuck You Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups: Recently I discover Hypem, a music blog aggregator that tells you which songs are all over the scenester blog community. And this was topping the list. It's very mellow and another 90s style offering. Expect lots of hipsters to be sexing to this music within the next couple of months.
  3. Never Miss a Beat - Kaiser Chiefs: This is the lead single off the Mark Ronson produced Off With Their Heads. Sorry for the crummy quality, but this song'll give you the gist and reinforces that a) Mark Ronson 2.0 is amazing and, b) the Kaiser Chiefs haven't disappointed.
  4. I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Kaiser Chiefs: I love original version of this song so much that I would normally scoff at anyone touching it. But the Kaiser Chiefs can do no wrong right now. I'd give a million pesos to see this performed energetically in concert.
  5. Let There Be Love (Justice vs. Kanye West) - Party Ben: Usually I ignore Justice mashups. There are so many of them, and most of them sound the same. But this mashup - it's like the fact that Love Lockdown was lacking (unless you're just evaluating it as a progression of Kanye's production career) and this was exactly what it needed.
  6. Coldest Winter - Kanye West: Have you ever asked yourself the question, "What if Kanye West turned into Sting?" This track leaked off West's upcoming 808s and Heartbreaks answers that question. My Sting-loving stepmother would loooove this song. But so do I. 
  7. Kelly - Van She: This song has all the scenester blogs creaming themselves right now. It's a totally synthed up, American Apparel-ready, authentically 80s mimicking song. And a new remix version appears every 3 seconds. This is my new shower song.
  8. Womanizer (The Teenagers Remix) - Britney Spears: I'm not a Teenagers fan. They seem like a Perez Hilton band. But this remix makes the chorus of Womanizer (and its aside around 2:30) ear candy.
  9. Keeps Getting Better (Tricky Remix) - Christina Aguilera: You know why Aguilera's single kicks ass? Because it isn't some Madonna-aspiring 40s redux vanity project. It takes Aguilera back to aggressive bubblegum. And I'm betting this remix will be the one favored by drag queens across the globe.
  10. Dance Dreams (Lady Gaga vs. Eurythmics) - Divide & Kreate: It only took a couple of listens of Just Dance before I thought, "Somewhere out there, there is a mashup of this song with Sweet Dreams". One google search later, here it is. It's mediocre, but a nice novelty.
  11. Help, I'm Alive (radio edit) - Metric: Metric lost me for a while there. They sucked when I say them in concert. Their last album was a clusterfuck. But this song signals good things. Like a 90s alterna sound. And a chorus that makes me want to become a lesbian all over again just to sleep with Emily Haines.
  12. Who'd Have Known - Lily Allen: This song makes me love Lily Allen even more. It has a laid back vibe like her earlier MySpace releases Since You've Gone and I Don't Know. And the chorus borrows heavily from Take That's comeback anthem Shine. A cute little love song.
  13. Everyone's At It - Lily Allen: An unsuccessful attempt at witty commentary (the subject of overprescribing drugs has been tackled before - and better). But an excellent song. It sounds pretty and new.
  14. Spaceman - The Killers: Their first single Human already dropped a while ago. So this is brand new. And it sounds less contemplative and more fun. The Killers have finally written a song that doesn't sound like something from an extra broody episode of The OC.
  15. Cobrastyle (Bloody Beetroots remix) - Robyn: Cobrastyle was one of the weaker songs on Robyn's album. But this remix breathes a new life into it. 
  16. My Deeper Love - Aretha vs Justin Timberlake: I'm tired of writing descriptions. Just listen to the damn thing and you'll feel like making love to the next person you see.
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