December 2010
16 posts
I do not care for the winter sun →
beachhousebaltimore.com
We recorded this a few days ago in our practice space: its a winter/holiday song, its a gift to the internet, thank you for the lovely, intense year!
“The hardest thing to do in music is create your own sound, innovate, and still sell records. Anyone can pretend to be “experimental” or “uncompromising” by making shit music that no-one actually wants to listen to. Walking the razor edge of beauty, art, and sales is the greatest feat, and yet it so seldom gets as much credit as either selling the most or the least, or sounding the worst! The simplicity of Robyn’s electronic music is breathtaking. The fewer instruments, the louder the record. A wondrous blend of her own distinctively fragile vocal sound (especially when she double-tracks herself) laid bare against slabs of brutal electronica. Once upon a time it was raincoat-clad English boys from dark bedsits who wrote electronic music to slash your wrists to. Now it’s an elfin Swedish girl who is crying in the corner of the disco as the object of her affections dances to a thumping wall of synthesizer with somebody else! The album version of “Dancing on My Own” is quite simply the best combination of electro, tears, and dancing that has been released so far this century!”
—Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on why Robyn is “the best music artist in the world right now” in Pitchfork’s Guest List: Best of 2010. That’s just an excerpt, he says much more! (via perpetua)
"Autotuned Barbra Streisand (!!!); two separate appearances by Nicole Scherzinger; a group rap that contains the will.i.am-penned line "when the floor breaks/ a magic carpet to stand on"; Auto-Tuned Lil Wayne filling in for Bob Dylan; Auto-Tuned T-Pain; Akon; and Kanye dueting with will.i.am." →
blogs.villagevoice.com
A partial litany of sins committed by the #5 song on F2K10, “We Are The World 25 For Haiti.” Click through for more.
Also, tune into WNYC at 2 p.m. today to hear Chris Weingarten and me talk about the countdown!
Favourite songs of all time (2010 edition)
2. Green Day - Basket Case
3. The National – Mr. November
4. Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
5. The Clash - Train In Vain
6. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
7. Foo Fighters - Everlong
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
9. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
10. New Order - Age of Consent
11. LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
12. Weezer – Tired Of Sex
13. Bruce Springsteen - For You
14. The Jesus And Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
15. Wilco – Via Chicago
16. The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations
17. The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
18. Cat Power – Lived in Bars
19. Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
20. Dinosaur Jr. – The Wagon
21. Pixies – Debaser
22. David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday
23. Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
24. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl
25. The Killers – Mr. Brightside
