Bimonthly(?) mp3 blog: UK pop edition
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petroniaBusted - Thunderbirds Are Go
I'm given to understand that there's a new Thunderbirds movie with Ben Kingsley innit, and this is the theme song. I'm also given to understand that this is a UK Number One. So this track is probably old news to many of you; OTOH, there's the rest (and it's worthwhile to ponder the fact that North Americans have no real idea who Busted are. Does it still count as listening to chartpop, id est taking a popist stance for the analytical-among-us, if one is simply not exposed to the mediatic trappings of chartpop? Just going by the sound, the happy easy guitar-pop of them doesn't say much to me about what and who they are and even their commerciality or lack thereof, but then again you're talking to the person who thought the Spice Girls were African-American the first time she heard'em on the radio), to whom I say, ye must go forth and download, for this is A SONG FOR THE AGES.
Copy-pasting own blurb from comment thread elsewhere, because I'm lazy like that:
I'm using your analytical breakdown as an excuse to play the song (three times XD), which in any case I've been doing biking to and from work today. I think it's a great biking song, better biking than driving because of that atavistic feel it has about it (the retro, the completely unironic bugle). Driving songs need a touch of silky electronic technology, or - alternately depending on what car you're (imagining yourself) driving at what speed - a bit of grit and bounce and dirty bass. "Thunderbirds" tosses one right back to 12yrs old though, skinny summer scraped knees, driving that bicycle as fast as it will go, because it's the only vehicle one's got that goes faster than one's own feet, and in one's mind it's anything from a Gundam to a flying unicorn. Or a spaceship that comes out of the pool.
(By this I mean, of course, that it's a very bad song to play when biking on two Smirnoff cranberry twisters and a glass of Italian red raided from boss's family barbecue party, if you don't want to get into a horrible accident or at least make a fool of yourself on the public streets. Not that, er, I'd know anything about that. XD)
Girls Aloud - The Show
Which I discussed at lateral length the last time I posted an mp3. XD Girls Aloud are the product of one of the later editions of Pop Idol (am I even right?), and their latest single is called "Love Machine" which I believe is not a Morning Musume cover, though it would be REALLY FUNNY if it were. Tragically I do not have any mp3s of their songs besides this one, though I've liked all the ones I've heard; I stream their videos religiously, because I have a weird isolated crossed wire in my brain that causes me to be vastly more interested by girlbands than by boybands. Though tunes aside the only member I like like is Nicola, because stop me if this sounds familiar she's the redhead and also the least capable singer, which given circumstances I find rather endearing.
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
And now for the Raiding Song of the Ghei Barbarian Hordes, which I've also discussed somewhat. >D I suspect (suspect?) that this is one of those novelty "summer hit" earworms that will hop the pond if it hasn't already - like "All The Things She Said" or "The Ketchup Song", you can actually follow the progress of its geographic invasion by sticking a red pin on a hypothetic globe every time and place it goes to #1 on the radio. Amusement! Horror! Perhaps they will have English lyrics for America, and I shall be able to understand what they say about the linden tree.
I'm given to understand that there's a new Thunderbirds movie with Ben Kingsley innit, and this is the theme song. I'm also given to understand that this is a UK Number One. So this track is probably old news to many of you; OTOH, there's the rest (and it's worthwhile to ponder the fact that North Americans have no real idea who Busted are. Does it still count as listening to chartpop, id est taking a popist stance for the analytical-among-us, if one is simply not exposed to the mediatic trappings of chartpop? Just going by the sound, the happy easy guitar-pop of them doesn't say much to me about what and who they are and even their commerciality or lack thereof, but then again you're talking to the person who thought the Spice Girls were African-American the first time she heard'em on the radio), to whom I say, ye must go forth and download, for this is A SONG FOR THE AGES.
Copy-pasting own blurb from comment thread elsewhere, because I'm lazy like that:
I'm using your analytical breakdown as an excuse to play the song (three times XD), which in any case I've been doing biking to and from work today. I think it's a great biking song, better biking than driving because of that atavistic feel it has about it (the retro, the completely unironic bugle). Driving songs need a touch of silky electronic technology, or - alternately depending on what car you're (imagining yourself) driving at what speed - a bit of grit and bounce and dirty bass. "Thunderbirds" tosses one right back to 12yrs old though, skinny summer scraped knees, driving that bicycle as fast as it will go, because it's the only vehicle one's got that goes faster than one's own feet, and in one's mind it's anything from a Gundam to a flying unicorn. Or a spaceship that comes out of the pool.
(By this I mean, of course, that it's a very bad song to play when biking on two Smirnoff cranberry twisters and a glass of Italian red raided from boss's family barbecue party, if you don't want to get into a horrible accident or at least make a fool of yourself on the public streets. Not that, er, I'd know anything about that. XD)
Girls Aloud - The Show
Which I discussed at lateral length the last time I posted an mp3. XD Girls Aloud are the product of one of the later editions of Pop Idol (am I even right?), and their latest single is called "Love Machine" which I believe is not a Morning Musume cover, though it would be REALLY FUNNY if it were. Tragically I do not have any mp3s of their songs besides this one, though I've liked all the ones I've heard; I stream their videos religiously, because I have a weird isolated crossed wire in my brain that causes me to be vastly more interested by girlbands than by boybands. Though tunes aside the only member I like like is Nicola, because stop me if this sounds familiar she's the redhead and also the least capable singer, which given circumstances I find rather endearing.
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
And now for the Raiding Song of the Ghei Barbarian Hordes, which I've also discussed somewhat. >D I suspect (suspect?) that this is one of those novelty "summer hit" earworms that will hop the pond if it hasn't already - like "All The Things She Said" or "The Ketchup Song", you can actually follow the progress of its geographic invasion by sticking a red pin on a hypothetic globe every time and place it goes to #1 on the radio. Amusement! Horror! Perhaps they will have English lyrics for America, and I shall be able to understand what they say about the linden tree.
