With YouTube links where possible, so we don't have to bother telling you what each song actually sounds like. Technology benefiting the endemically lazy, there.
20. Jarvis - Running The World
To get the list going, here's a pop song with the word 'cunt' in the chorus. All very good, even if the track doesn't appear on the download versions of Jarv's debut album (and only as a hidden track on the 'proper' version). We'd still kind of like to approach the Cockmeister and ask him why he technically recorded a single calling Nelson Mandela a lady's part, though, just for a laugh.
19. TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
We put our TV on our radio the other day. One broken £950 LCD set and a squashed Binatone later, we saw the folly of doing so. Lucky we hadn't been listening to Death From Above, like CSS suggested to us, eh?
18. The Sounds - Painted By Numbers
A late entry to the chart, we're listening to their album as we bash out these words in a pre-new year hurry. Which is why we can't think of much interesting to say about them.
17. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
One of the highlights of the first episode of Torchwood was the scene where a massive pub brawl takes place as this song is playing on the jukebox. We could make a point about pub jukeboxes never having any songs as good as this on them, and they only ever contain Coldplay and Now 764, but nowadays there are plenty of massive hard-drive based ones, so we can't.
16. Hot Chip - Over and Over
We make a comment here spelling out a phrase like "we really like this record it is good" one letter at a time, like they do in this song. But it wouldn't work in print. We do, of course.
15. Babybird - Lighter and Spoon
They're back. And they're good. And this is the best track on the album, we reckon. No video evidence of the song available, so you'll have to go out and buy it.
14. DJ Yoda - Wheels
This stays in the chart, even if it does kind of remind us of that shit "DJ Santa on the wheels of steel" advert that has been on for the last few weeks. Hardly DJ Yoda's fault, to be fair.
13. Graham Coxon - Standing On My Own Again
Why is Graham Coxon not more famous? Oh yeah, because society is fundamentally flawed, and most people would rather listen to Snow Patrol. *Sad smiley face*.
12. The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
This might have been The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, only we used it as a ringtone for about two months, and duly got very sick of it.
11. Flatpack - Sweet Child Of Mine
A great cover version, and not just because it'll probably really annoy po-faced fans of Guns And Roses. Well, partly that. Because we hate Guns And Roses. So much, we can even be bothered typing their name in correctly.
10. Grandaddy - Jeez Louise
Standout track on their final album, and not even released as a single. We'd like to think this is because the band know it's a song far too good for radio 'jocks' to witter over the end of, and more likely because it's too loud for them to force their inane chatter over the top of.
9. Beth Orton - Shopping Trolley
Beth Orton had been off our personal radar for quite some time, until we'd heard this. It's stupidly good. A pity she'd spent so much time on underwhelming collaborations with The Chemical Brothers it took her this long to product something so wonderful. Still, better late than etc.
8. The Presets - Are You The One?
Also the recipient of BrokenFM's Best Pop Video Of The Year award, this excellent slice of electronic goodness had us dashing to the shops (ie. looking to see if it was on eMusic. It was!) for their album. Which is a bit of a let down. Oh well.
7. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
Great song, coupled with a interestingly grumpy performance in the promo video. Cheer up, you've made one of the best tunes of the summer. Tch.
6. The Russian Futurists - Paul Simon
We've looked on YouTube to see if there's a clip of this song being played along to Stephen Colbert dancing behind the back of a grumpy Congressman. There isn't. There should be.
5. Cansei De Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above
The problem is, Death From Above 1979 are rubbish.
4. Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
Kanye West doesn't care about collaborations between... oh, you know where we're going with this.
3. Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh
It's been a good year for pop, as the entire contents of the Pop Justice album prove, and as far as manufactured pop goes, this is up there with Daydream Believer. No, really. Really.
2. Robots In Disguise - Turn It Up
More textbook pop. The last rock song in this list was all the way back at number ten, you know. And that was from a band who don't exist any more.
1. Pet Shop Boys - Numb
Oh yes. By far the standout track on their comeback album, and quite possiblty the best thing they've ever recorded. The soundtrack to a nation's misery (and the soundtrack to another three smaller nations' Celtic smirking) as England got dumped out of the World Cup in front of the years' biggest TV audience. So, with classic style, they waited another five months to release it as a single, and ruined it by bunging a load of extra vocals on top. Tch. So good, the new year celebrations in Sydney have just been on, and this was the song used to welcome 2007 to Australia. And quite right, too.
It's A New Find (and an otherwise half-baked update)
- 12/28/2006 05:36:00 am
- By Mark X
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Cripes. We've done a YouTube search for different cover versions of Laisse Tomber les Filles (we were hoping there's a version performed by Serge Gainsbourg out there somewhere, but can't find one just yet), and ended up discovering the wonderful band Chick Habit. Presumably named after April March's excellent English translation of LTLF, they very much kick the arse part of our bodies, and luckily their début album is only £7.99 on iTunes. Unluckily, we can only find it on iTunes (stupid DRM), but we've bought it now.
A shouty girl punk band from Sweden, their influences are listed as "Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, ARE Weapons, Death From Above 1979, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Cat Power, The Cure, Holly Golightly, Interpol, The Kills, Mikabomb, RTX, Sister Vanilla, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo [and] Wolf Parade", which is fine by us. But why take our word for it? Here is the proof that they've just knocked Action Biker into the number two position of The BrokenFM Top Ten Of Great Swedish Gands That No-one Has Heard Of.
A shouty girl punk band from Sweden, their influences are listed as "Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, ARE Weapons, Death From Above 1979, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Cat Power, The Cure, Holly Golightly, Interpol, The Kills, Mikabomb, RTX, Sister Vanilla, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo [and] Wolf Parade", which is fine by us. But why take our word for it? Here is the proof that they've just knocked Action Biker into the number two position of The BrokenFM Top Ten Of Great Swedish Gands That No-one Has Heard Of.
"Doris Day"
"Rule the World"
First single "Bullshit Radio"
A resounding "hurrah" for shouty girlband guitar pop! Hurrah! It'd be one of our albums of the year, except it isn't from this year.
You know, despite, well, all of our updates thus far, we don't listen exclusively to female fronted pop bands, it just happens that the only albums we feel compelled to post about fall into that category thus far, given that the Graham Coxon album we've been listening to all week came out too long ago to bother with now, and the Gruff Rhys album we want to write about isn't technically out for another month.
Meanwhile, here's our top three versions of 'Laisse Tomber les Filles':
You know, despite, well, all of our updates thus far, we don't listen exclusively to female fronted pop bands, it just happens that the only albums we feel compelled to post about fall into that category thus far, given that the Graham Coxon album we've been listening to all week came out too long ago to bother with now, and the Gruff Rhys album we want to write about isn't technically out for another month.
Meanwhile, here's our top three versions of 'Laisse Tomber les Filles':
3. The original version, by France Gall.
2. The second best version, performed by Elke Brauweiler, isn't actually on YouTube, so here's another cover version by "Violett ft M$B", which probably clocks in at number four.
1. The April March version (without an actual video, and sung in English, but what can you do).
See, just doing an update on cover versions of Laisse Tomber les Filles would have been rubbish. Hurrah for Chick Habit. Oh, and if anyone could flipping well tell us why Blogger keeps removing the /embed tags from our embedded YouTube links meaning we've got to keep manually re-adding them, that'd be dandy. Thanks.
