Monday, September 18, 2006
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 Hopefully you all had a very pleasant weekend, mine was quite good yes, thanks for asking! I'll inform you all about what I got up to (it involves Melbourne's newest superclub, nearly 100 photos taken and the amazing Princess Superstar) sometime later on this week.
Now, for the important matters of the day. How does one turn the greatest single of 2006 into something even better? You can find the answer to that by listening to the new Tony Lamezma remix of Girls Aloud's "Something Kinda Oooh" (which you could very well find over at the superb blog The Eye-Pod), which is about 600 times mightier than the radio edit - which you should all recall from last weeks postings that I heralded as the single of the year. It is like every single awesome early-to-mid-90's Motiv8 remix and production have been thrown together in a blender, along with an acapella of "Something Kinda Oooh", and hey presto, best remix of any pop song in about 8 years (arguably, the last truly great pop remix was Tall Paul's take on Billie's "Because We Want To", although Motiv8's remix of her ace track "Something Deep Inside" was pretty darn special as well). So it's probably safe to say that both the radio edit and Tony Lamezma's take on "Oooh" will be somewhere in my top 10 for the year. The remix is clearly at Number #1 though.
Bertine Zetlitz's absolutely bonkers new album "My Italian Greyhound" is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. And Kate Ryan's new album, "Alive", is just as splendid, IF NOT MORE SO (thank you Ella for bringing it to my attention love!). The new Scissor Sisters album, however, is about as exciting as a sink full of 4 day old dishwater. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Someone needs to tell Jake Shears that yes, we're quite aware your voice can be made to sound like a ladies, but do we have to hear it on EVERY SINGLE FUCKING SONG? Jake's voice is AMAZING when he's not going all falsetto on our arses (not that I don't think "Don't Feel Like Dancing" isn't genius or anything), just take a look at his collaboration with Tiga, "You Gonna Want Me"... WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT - NORMAL MALE VOCALS. Amazingly, he does it quite well. Sadly, it seems Jake has convinced a few other male artists that sounding like a lady on your singles is truly the way to go, hence Justin Timberlake's "would-be-a-great-song-if-his-balls-weren't-being-scrunched-tightly" next single "My Love" and the new number from Jet are absolutely LACED with it. Thanks Jake. Thanks a lot.
The thing that's really gotten to me about this poor excuse of an album is the use (or lack there of) of Ana Matronic, which the ace Xolondon pointed out last week on his blog. Backing vocals on one song? No wonder she's been looking so fucking bored during all the live performances, she's actually been given nothing to do.
Some would say Jake's been a bit too busy pumelling cocaine into his nose with his new gal-pal Kylie (who, quite alarmingly, looks like a drag queen in several of the pictures in her new calendar, which you can preview at the really really good Pink Is The New Blog), and with the creation of her upcoming album.
Some would say that I probably agree.
Come on Ana, I think it is high time you invested a bit of cash into a solo effort for next year. Your fans deserve it, especially after all this.
3 Comments:
- 11:12 AM | xolondon said...
Chartrigger brought the lack of Ana to my attention. It's too bad as I think she adds something to their sound.
Kate Ryan is like album Lisa Stansfield has been trying to make for years.
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- 12:05 PM | im-always-right.com said...
That is a VERY good point re: Lisa Stansfield. Ella mentioned it was the album Dannii promised to make, which did make me more interested to hear it. I don't necessarily agree, but there's definitely that fun dance-pop feel found that D.M's known for.
Oh I do miss Lisa Stansfield. And Cathy Denis for that matter.
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- 2:32 PM | Woodsman said...
I love the scissors but having just listened to the album for the first time then i am left with a Blah feeling in my mouth too. I just dont really get it and a couple of the songs really annoyed me.
This is double shit as i just secured tix to their show in Boston in a month's time - im so international these days.
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