Dev Like Cassie (Mid Year Singles & Albums 2011)

[koganbot]

Been meaning to gather up the tracks featuring Dev that are scattered across the 'Net and then give her a proper write-up, but in case the write-up never materializes, here's my thesis: Dev hits me in my Cassie spot. Their image and sound are different - Cassie's a model/starlet at an audition, while Dev is a 1950s shopgirl offhours, reincarnated in 2011, preparing for her Friday night. But they both have a drifting, inexplicable sexiness, Cassie's maybe more dreamy and Dev's more scrappy, but it feels like the same thing.

(Don't think Dev is at the Cassie point yet where she can do no wrong, but unlike anything recent from Cassie, some of her tracks are actually released for purchase and such.)

Singles:
1. Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me"
2. Jeremih "Down On Me"
3. GD&TOP "High High"
4. Galaxy Dream ft. Turbotronic "Ready 4or Romance"
5. IU "The Story Only I Didn't Know"
6. Bobby Brackins ft. Dev "A1"

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7. Big Bang "Tonight"
8. Far East Movement ft. Lil Jon & Colette Carr "Go Ape"
9. Dia Frampton "Heartless" (live)
10. GD&TOP "Knock Out"
11. Rihanna "S&M"
12. 2NE1 "I Am The Best"
13. Rihanna "Man Down"
14. Reba McEntire "If I Were A Boy"
15. Nicola Roberts "Beat Of My Drum (Loverushuk Radio Remix)"
16. Secret "No. 1 (Inst.)"
17. Big Freedia "Almost Famous"
18. Girl2School "Let's Play Dance"
19. Kara "Jumping"
20. Lemonade Mouth Cast "Determinate"
21. Rainbow "To Me"
22. T-ara "Why Are You Being Like This?"
23. Kelly Rowland ft. Lil Wayne "Motivation"
24. AB ft. Jacob Eye "Slip"

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25. Metronomy "The Look"
26. Celia "D-D-Down"
27. Crookers ft. Róisín Murphy "Royal T."
28. Xoxo "Mocha Java"
29. The-Dream "Fuck My Brains Out"
30. Roach Gigz ft. Lil 4Tay "Wild Child"

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31. Dev "In The Dark (Proper Villains Remix)"
32. CREEP ft. Nina Sky "You"
33. Dev ft. the Cataracs "Bass Down Low"
34. Avril Lavigne "What The Hell"
35. Camo & Krooked "Nothing Is Older Than Yesterday"
36. Alexandra Stan "Mr. Saxobeat"
37. Jamey Johnson "Heartache"
38. Dionne Bromfield ft. Diggy Sim "Yeah Right"
39. Phaeleh ft. Soundmouse "Afterglow"
40. Cee-Lo Green ft. Wiz Khalifa "Bright Lights Bigger City"
41. Rittz "High Five"
42. The Decemberists "Down By The Water"
43. Nicholas Jaar "Keep Me There"
44. Robyn "Call Your Girlfriend"
45. T-ara "Ya Ya Ya"
46. 4minute "Mirror Mirror"
47. Nero ft. Alano "Guilt"
48. Yasmin "Finish Line"
49. Kim Kardashian "Jam (Turn It Up)"
50. Blady "찌릿찌릿"

My previous round-up included links to my write-ups on some of these; here are subsequent musings and convos: "Heartless," "I Am The Best," "Motivation." Am determined to review "You" for the Jukebox if it gets on the board; and I ought to defend "The Look" one of these days.

A couple of weeks ago on Rolling K-pop I did quick shots for some of the Korean tracks.

My albums list doesn't mean much, since a lot on it I've only heard once, and I never got around to listening to the albs you people recommended in May. I hope that doesn't stop you from making more recommendations in the comments. You should link other people's mid-year lists where warranted, too.

I'll need to make a decision between John Travolta Wannabe and Temptastic one of these days, as the former is simply disco remixes of the latter, plus new single "Roly-Poly" and another new track.

Albums:
1. SOOLj Electro SOOLj (EP)
2. SNSD 1st Japan Album
3. Various Artists Mr.Collipark Presents Can I Have The Club Back Please
4. Britney Spears Femme Fatale
5. Roach Gigz Roachy Balboa 2
6. LPG The Special
7. T-ara John Travolta Wannabe (EP)
8. T-ara Temptastic (EP)
9. Rainbow SO女 (EP)
10. DJ Bedbugs Teen Pop Lock And Drop Vol. 1

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thanks!

Collipark will make my Top Ten -- you should check out the Pitbull alb too, tho it's dropping s bit in esteem. Another big dumb generous clubby hip-hop alb worth more than sum of parts.

Will def. check out Roach Gigz -- haven't heard anything by him I haven't liked. Also waiting on Sunny Sweeney (August) and Dev (?)

[koganbot]

Roach Gigz has a new mixtape due next month (though last month he said it was due this month): Bitch I'm A Player. Roachy Balboa 2 is actually from last November or so, but I'm not strict about release dates especially with self-released items.

Dev's Blog

[koganbot]

http://devishot.com

Re: Dev's Blog

[koganbot]

Her last.fm photos (more artsy)

[koganbot]

Re: Her last.fm photos (more artsy)

[koganbot]

Limp Bizkit

[joshlanghoff.livejournal.com]

Frank, if there's even a small part of you that thinks you might enjoy a Limp Bizkit album, Gold Cobra is streamable on MySpace and it's really good. And I say this as a confused and befuddled person who's never been into them before. Lots of head-nodding and smacking down with wild animal metaphors.

Re: Limp Bizkit

[koganbot]

Thanks. Don't have strong feelings towards them one way or another, or much knowledge, actually. Didn't know they were still (or again) a going entity.

(Chuck Eddy's Lists)

[(Anonymous)]

My top 10 singles, at this point, would look something like:

1. The Dirtbombs – Sharevari
2. Mary Mary – Walking
3. GS&TOP – High High
4. Carl Sims - Hell On My Hands
5. Galaxy Dream feat. Turbotronic – Ready 4 Romance
6. Blame Sally – Living Without You
7. Buraka Som Sistema – Hangover (Ba Ba Ba)
8. Eric Church – Homeboy
9. Big Freedia - Almost Famous
10. Korpiklaani feat. Tuomari Nurmio – Ukon Wacka **

* - counts as a single because it's the lead cut of a five-song digital EP he/she put out through Scion A/V

** -Finnish humpa-folk metal that sounds a lot like "Seminole Wind" by John Anderson

Top 20 albums would look something like:

1. Randy Montana – Randy Montana (Mercury)
2. Cauldron – Burning Fortune (Earache)
3. Nazareth – Big Dogz (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
4. Gentleman’s Pistols – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure (Rise Above)
5. John Waite – Rough and Tumble (Frontiers/No Brakes)
6. Kultur Shock – Ministry Of Kultur (Kultur Shock)
7. Stealing Angels – Stealing Angels (Skyville)
8. Yaron Herman Trio – Follow The White Rabbit (ACT)
9. Thompson Square – Thompson Square (Stoney Creek)
10. The Dirtbombs – Party Store (In The Red)
11. Premonition 13 – 13 (Volcom Entertainment)
12. Blame Sally – Speeding Ticket And A Valentine (Ninth Street Opus)
13. Gutbucket – Flock (Cuneiform)
14. Garland Jeffreys – The King Of In Between (Luna Park)
15. Eric Church – Chief (EMI Nashville)
16. Ghost – Opus Eponymous (Metal Blade/Rise Above)
17. Too Slim and the Tail Draggers – Shiver (Underworld)
18. Black Spiders – Sons Of The North (Dark Riders)
19. Selena Gomez & the Scene – When The Sun Goes Down (Hollywood)
20. Sarandon – Sarandon’s Age Of Reason (Slumberland)

Have a shot at my Pazz & Jop ballot, still, despite not technically qualifying for the list above: 2010 albums by Carl Marshall and Band Perry; E.via best-of mix CD sent by Frank Kogan.

Surprising trend of the year: That I like so much new rock music, with guitars and stuff. Though that may have something to do with listening to more of it, since Rhapsody put me on the metal beat.

Guess I need to listen to that Roach Gigz album/mixtape/whatever more. I've had it in my car since January; always like a couple things on it pretty well, but none enough. And I don't think I've ever had much desire to make it all the way through the thing.

Re: (Chuck Eddy's Lists)

[(Anonymous)]

Oops - that first asterisk belonged to Big Freedia, if that wasn't clear.

Re: (Chuck Eddy's Lists)

[koganbot]

Well, I don't expect the Roach Gigz tape to still be in my ten come December; I'd say the Roach Gigz track to listen to right now is "Wild Child," which will be on his next tape, he says.