Top Singles, First Quarter 2009
Apr. 1st, 2009 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotHere's my list of top singles so far for 2009. Haven't been listening to enough country, hip-hop, reggae, um, not enough of everything, actually. "New Style" is the only one certain in my top ten at the end of the year. I was going to write a little blurb for each but realized I didn't have time if I wanted it posted today. But I do want to use the phrase "exuberantly grim," so, briefly, about the ones that we haven't much talked about on lj:
Jamey Johnson, "High Cost Of Living" (second track here): Exuberantly grim! It's a drunkalog, basically, and the apparent grimness is to try to fend off the call of the wild. The title and the lyrics in the chorus are built around a pun, and the track ends with Jamey laughing encouragement to his guitar player.
MC Lars f. Brett Anderson and Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia": The rap is a witless retelling of Hamlet, the joke being that ha ha let's pretend the whole thing is about neurosis and let's mix our ordinary casual vernacular into Shakespeare's eloquence. It did make me laugh in exactly one instance ("I'll have them re-enact the murder, watch my uncle's expression/The play's the thing to catch the king, and teach him a lesson"), but what I'm rating is the music that runs through this, a recasting of Therapy?'s "Screamager" that ramps up the anger and drama and gorgeousness of the original, tremendous singing from Anderson (she of the Donnas), yanks me out of the dumb playlet and into the combined taunting and sorrow of actual punk rock: I'm fucked up and that'll show you/I'm fucked up and it's awful.
Caitlin & Will "Even Now": A duet where a couple play breakup and infidelity games to hurt each other and to get even, without knowing how to stop the hurtfulness or stop loving one another, but the way I've said it is clumsier than the song's way. I'm posting the video (under the cut) 'cause according to the person who posted it on YouTube, "it's totally country awesome, yes it is, just totally! Yes! OMG! It is just incredible, the best country video in years and probably the best ever made! WOW! Like OMG WOW!" I perhaps don't agree, but it's a good song.
1. Shystie f. DJ Deekline "New Style"
2. Rich Boy "Drop"
3. The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow"
4. Timberlee f. Tosh "Heels"
5. Jim Jones f. Ryan Leslie "Precious"
6. Nicki Minaj "Beam Me Up Scotty"
7. Love And Theft "Runaway"
8. Jamey Johnson "High Cost Of Living"
9. MC Lars f. Brett Anderson & Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia"
10. Paleface f. Kyla "Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Remix)"
11. Ron Browz "Pop Champagne"
12. Kelly Clarkson "My Life Would Suck Without You"
13. Lily Allen "The Fear"
14. Asher Roth "I Love College"
15. Depeche Mode "Wrong"
16. Enrique Iglesias f. Ciara "Takin' Back My Love"
17. Mavado "So Special"
18. Britney Spears "If U Seek Amy"
19. Maino f. T-Pain "All The Above"
20. Caitlin & Will "Even Now"
21. GS Boyz "Stanky Legg"
22. Girls Aloud "Untouchable"
Jamey Johnson, "High Cost Of Living" (second track here): Exuberantly grim! It's a drunkalog, basically, and the apparent grimness is to try to fend off the call of the wild. The title and the lyrics in the chorus are built around a pun, and the track ends with Jamey laughing encouragement to his guitar player.
MC Lars f. Brett Anderson and Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia": The rap is a witless retelling of Hamlet, the joke being that ha ha let's pretend the whole thing is about neurosis and let's mix our ordinary casual vernacular into Shakespeare's eloquence. It did make me laugh in exactly one instance ("I'll have them re-enact the murder, watch my uncle's expression/The play's the thing to catch the king, and teach him a lesson"), but what I'm rating is the music that runs through this, a recasting of Therapy?'s "Screamager" that ramps up the anger and drama and gorgeousness of the original, tremendous singing from Anderson (she of the Donnas), yanks me out of the dumb playlet and into the combined taunting and sorrow of actual punk rock: I'm fucked up and that'll show you/I'm fucked up and it's awful.
Caitlin & Will "Even Now": A duet where a couple play breakup and infidelity games to hurt each other and to get even, without knowing how to stop the hurtfulness or stop loving one another, but the way I've said it is clumsier than the song's way. I'm posting the video (under the cut) 'cause according to the person who posted it on YouTube, "it's totally country awesome, yes it is, just totally! Yes! OMG! It is just incredible, the best country video in years and probably the best ever made! WOW! Like OMG WOW!" I perhaps don't agree, but it's a good song.
1. Shystie f. DJ Deekline "New Style"
2. Rich Boy "Drop"
3. The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow"
4. Timberlee f. Tosh "Heels"
5. Jim Jones f. Ryan Leslie "Precious"
6. Nicki Minaj "Beam Me Up Scotty"
7. Love And Theft "Runaway"
8. Jamey Johnson "High Cost Of Living"
9. MC Lars f. Brett Anderson & Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia"
10. Paleface f. Kyla "Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Remix)"
11. Ron Browz "Pop Champagne"
12. Kelly Clarkson "My Life Would Suck Without You"
13. Lily Allen "The Fear"
14. Asher Roth "I Love College"
15. Depeche Mode "Wrong"
16. Enrique Iglesias f. Ciara "Takin' Back My Love"
17. Mavado "So Special"
18. Britney Spears "If U Seek Amy"
19. Maino f. T-Pain "All The Above"
20. Caitlin & Will "Even Now"
21. GS Boyz "Stanky Legg"
22. Girls Aloud "Untouchable"
