Hipster
Posted 14 June 2013 - 10:25 AM
So I just realized that I worked on this big project for my blog where I ranked my favorite pop albums from the previous decade. I always intended to share it with you guys, but as you're aware the board got a little sidetracked and it slipped my mind. If you're the type that cherishes suspense, reading, embedded songs and Spotify links, you can check out the list starting from 50-41 right here.
Or you could just check the spoiler tag below.
MV's blog: http://h-b-e.blogspot.com
MV's other blog about every mixtape he's ever made: http://mixedreaction.blogspot.com
"Our clique is the world. The world is our clique"
Hipster
Posted 14 June 2013 - 11:31 AM
I'm just happy that someone likes
as much as I do!
Hipster
Posted 16 June 2013 - 04:33 PM
Spoiler
i still fucks with all of these but man, the whole list is giving me pop flashbacks, particularly a few of those singles. it's been a good century of music ya'know. still haven't heard the scissor sisters s/t, probably should change that.
but yeah thanks mv for sharing. i was thinking about it the other day and it was your how to make the perfect mixtape thread that first brought me to this board oh so many years ago. (well, that and gdb's top music videos thread.)
Hipster
Posted Yesterday, 09:43 AM
I don't know too many fans of that Siobhán record, so it's always nice to see people appreciative of it. Just some mind-blowing, high class stuff going on there. And what else needs can be said about Rachel?
Ohhh, I did make a thread on mixtapes way back when! Fun times. I wish I had saved it because I would probably make all kinds of changes to it now that I'm older and allegedly more wiser.
MV's blog: http://h-b-e.blogspot.com
MV's other blog about every mixtape he's ever made: http://mixedreaction.blogspot.com
"Our clique is the world. The world is our clique"
Newbie
Posted Yesterday, 09:48 AM
Yeah, kudos on including that Siobhan one. btw https://soundcloud.c...iobhan-flatline
edit: my verdict. meh.
Newbie
Posted Yesterday, 09:57 AM
Some fantastic albums on that list, although I don't really agree with the order. 'Anniemal' should be #1 but I'm a fanboy for anything she puts out. Never got into the Scissor Sisters as much as others did, always seemed too much of a comedy band. All the pop punk/pop rock-lite stuff like Avril Lavigne, Paramore and McFly doesn't do much for me either.
I absolutely loved 'Come and Get It' around the time of its release, but I played it lately and it didn't hold up too well.
Girl Aloud are terrible imo, never got why all the indie kids latched onto them. Ditto Madonna. Robbie Williams is a good live performer, don't ever want to hear him on record really. Lily Allen holds up better than I would have expected for something that was so much 'of its time'.
Interesting list anyway, and some great music on there. A comp of the best tracks from these records would be fun as hell.
Hipster
Posted Yesterday, 03:48 PM
Some fantastic albums on that list, although I don't really agree with the order. 'Anniemal' should be #1 but I'm a fanboy for anything she puts out. Never got into the Scissor Sisters as much as others did, always seemed too much of a comedy band. All the pop punk/pop rock-lite stuff like Avril Lavigne, Paramore and McFly doesn't do much for me either.
I absolutely loved 'Come and Get It' around the time of its release, but I played it lately and it didn't hold up too well.
Girl Aloud are terrible imo, never got why all the indie kids latched onto them. Ditto Madonna. Robbie Williams is a good live performer, don't ever want to hear him on record really. Lily Allen holds up better than I would have expected for something that was so much 'of its time'.
Interesting list anyway, and some great music on there. A comp of the best tracks from these records would be fun as hell.
I think the embrace of Girls Aloud by the indie community came as a bit of a shock initially to me, but I came to understand it. Their music was still unabashedly pop, but there's enough slyness and eclecticism to be able to discern what they were doing from what was going on in America at the time. It also helped that they had the Xenomania machine behind them, who I think have earned pop royalty status by now. There's a part of me that wants to say that GA would have been bland without Xenomaina (I think the solo work of Cheryl Cole and Nicola Roberts makes the case for both sides), but Xenomania was never zanier or crazier than with Girls Aloud. It was beneficial for both sides. They were the perfect canvas to experiment some of the most delirious pop ideas of the past decade on. I look at the list of singles they've done together and I can't fathom them being associated with the word "terrible."
MV's blog: http://h-b-e.blogspot.com
MV's other blog about every mixtape he's ever made: http://mixedreaction.blogspot.com
"Our clique is the world. The world is our clique"
Lurker
Posted Today, 09:42 AM
girls aloud are a fine band and their songs are stacked with hooks, they have a ton of incredible deep cuts & b-sides. TU > wwtns > ooc > C > the first one IMO but i can see how wwtns can be someone's fav what with "graffiti my soul" and "the show" and "heeeeeeeeear me out"
mutya keisha siobhan LP will be one of the best of the yr if it ever comes out
Lurker
Posted Today, 09:47 AM
also it's not all that surprising that GA appealed to "indie" fans in that lyrically as MV says there's a lot of sly playfulness going on; i think about a lot of mainstream chart music now and how there are thousands of songs about being up in the club and all that (only one line into the first verse of the latest miley, for instance, does she drop a lazy line like "Hands in the air like we don’t care") but GA never really resorted to anything that plain (except for some of those reunion songs i guess). and even when they're kind of bizarre and don't make any sense (on biology - "I got one Alabama return" and "So I got my cappuccino to go and I’m heading for the hills again"???) the sheer ebullience of the hooks is enough for one to toss any silliness aside imo
Edited by monotony, Today, 09:50 AM.
Newbie
Posted Today, 11:23 AM
Just strange for a Pop Idol act to get any indie credibility I suppose, although Kelly Clarkson was also getting a lot of love at the same time.
