songs of 2010 (list)
Since it's end of the year time, I've been looking at songs I liked over the year.
Songs are really the only "end of the year" list I really make anymore. I don't write a "Top 5" list about movies, or music videos because I realized when I was doing that, I was not only being pretentious, but that I was missing the point of whatever I was judging. Be it music video or movie.
So, why can I make a list about songs? Well, I'll tell you journal. Because iTunes keeps track of all the songs I've been listening to that are from this year. And the songs that I listen to the most should be in my "Songs of 2010" list.
So here is my Songs of 2010 list according to iTunes.
1. "All I Want"/"Drunk Girls" - LCD Soundsystem
This year I discovered LCD Sounsystem and I remember asking, where this music has been all my life. Both "All I Want" and "Drunk Girls" are from LCD Sounsystem's new album This Is Happening. The album sound itself is a little bit more "rockin' " and a little bit less "Funk/Punk" than what LCD Sounsystem is used to and this is shown in both "All I want" (a waining Glam-Rock lullaby) and "Drunk Girls" (A fist pumping, floor stomping chant. Describing what it's like to hang around drunk people). Both songs made it to the top of my iTunes Top 25 Chart for 2010. Which probably means, I need to lay off the LCD Soundsystem. But as long as this record is around, there is no. freaking. way.
2. "Daddy Fat Sax" - Big Boi
My love for OutKast was reawakened this year because Big Boi's solo album "Sir Luscious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty" was released, on my 21st birthday. "Daddy Fat Sax" is the first song off of this album and it is a doozy. The beat comes at you with nothing really holding it back and Big Boi rhymes sound a little bit more mature than they did when he was writing with Andre 3000. He's talking more about politics than pimping (talking how the republicans stole the election of 2000 and his fears of an Obama assassination) but just because it's more mature doesn't mean he exiles his since of humor. The beat itself is kind of humorous just because of it sounds like a song that's been warped from being left in a strip club for too long and the ending where they repeat "Daddy Fat Sax", like, 50 times reassured me that while Big Boi still has a glorious view of himself, he's not too mighty to make a couple jokes about caterpillars. ("Defying all the laws/Like a caterpillar flying")
3. "Chilled Coughphee (Feat. Devin The Dude)" - Curren$y
How perfect is it that this song is after "Daddy Fat Sax"? Both songs sound like they were produced by a guy thinks the only way to make a beat is by using a woozy synth sound.
To be honest, this song isn't the most impressive Curren$y song but "Chilled Coughphee" is a typical Curren$y song. There is usually a feature from one of Curren$y's friends and no matter who it is, they talk, back and forth, about how they like to smoke weed and drink. All they talk about in this song really is having good times ("And it's all about chilling/smiling/laughing"). And sometimes that's really all I like to hear when I'm going to the 7-11 to buy candy. Also the beat is so pho-funky that when I hear it I feel I just got off of the 21st century Soul Train. I know this song isn't the best but it's definitely something I listened to hold my hand when I was stressed.
4. "Disco Drymouth" - Jeffrey Jerusalem
Catchy aint it? I found Jeffrey Jerusalem on Ping. iTunes's attempt to try and make the internet music market place something like Facebook. I was looking at another bands page (YACHT) and on their "favorite albums" links they had Jeffrey Jerusalem's Grimace. Intrigued by the album name and the cover (yep that's all it takes to gain my attention) once I started listening to Grimace I knew I'd probably listen to only a couple songs off of the album, but MAN did I listen to those couple of songs.
I don't know a lot about Jeffrey Jerusalem, his mypsace page (yeah. Remember those?) is void of any actual information and he has no wikipedia page so this little blurb is going to have to be shorter than the others. So I guess all I can say is, I'm a big fan of this song and a couple others that he's written. I know that this kind of music is starting to be frowned upon in the indie community (unless your Daft Punk and even then you kind of suck cause you've only made a movie score in the last 2 years) but I think Jeffrey Jerusalem is different. The song itself not heavy on, pound your head against the wall repetition creates a groove that is just genetically engineered to make you shake your ass. BUT WATCH YOURSELF!
5. "Monster (Feat. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Bon Iver & Nikki Minaj)" - Kanye West
I went to a party this year, and I was booed when I changed the song from "Monster" to Sam Cooke's "Feel It (Don't Fight It)" and now retrospectively I think the mob was in the right corner. What was I thinking changing the song? "Monster" has single handedly brought forth a new era of post-modern hip-hop. The song looks back to the older styles where the MC's have to try and out do one another but also looks foreword creating a beat that sounds as minimalist as it does new. The beat itself is some kind of weird, inverted, dark, shifting sound matched with a base drum and a symbol crash. That's it. Unlike most of Mr. West's catalogue it's the beat that is supposed to wow you in this case. It's what's being said. Most of the time you're paying attention to one of the many impressive rhymes by West, Jay-Z (Rick Ross not so much) and Nikki Minaj. Oh, AND FUCKING NIKKI MINAJ. I spent the first half of 2010 asking friends who her target audience was and the second half waiting for her album (Pink Friday hasn't gotten stellar reviews but whatever, shut up) . Her feature on "Monster" is so good it's almost something that comes from folklore. (Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's got to climb it /Hotter than a middle eastern climate /Find it /20 mataran dutty whine it /While it /Nikki on a pit when I sign it / How these n-gga's so one track minded)
2010 has been a big year for Kanye West. The release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has gotten urber amount of publicity and anything he's said this year has been recorded on some format and used against him. But just how progressive the album is in terms of hip-hop hasn't really been mentioned. A couple years ago people were calling Drake a Post-Kanye rapper. So, does this mean that we're gonna think of something else to call him, like Post-Kanye/Pre-My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy rapper?
I think these songs have proved that I have no musical taste what so ever. So here is a list of honorable mentions to just crush any resinating ideas that I actually know what I'm talking about when it comes to music.
Honorable Mentions.
"Kids"/"Tell Em" - Sleigh Bells
"Welcome To The World of the Plastic Beach (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)" - Gorillaz
"Floating Vibes" - Surfer Blood
Enjoy.
Songs are really the only "end of the year" list I really make anymore. I don't write a "Top 5" list about movies, or music videos because I realized when I was doing that, I was not only being pretentious, but that I was missing the point of whatever I was judging. Be it music video or movie.
So, why can I make a list about songs? Well, I'll tell you journal. Because iTunes keeps track of all the songs I've been listening to that are from this year. And the songs that I listen to the most should be in my "Songs of 2010" list.
So here is my Songs of 2010 list according to iTunes.
1. "All I Want"/"Drunk Girls" - LCD Soundsystem
This year I discovered LCD Sounsystem and I remember asking, where this music has been all my life. Both "All I Want" and "Drunk Girls" are from LCD Sounsystem's new album This Is Happening. The album sound itself is a little bit more "rockin' " and a little bit less "Funk/Punk" than what LCD Sounsystem is used to and this is shown in both "All I want" (a waining Glam-Rock lullaby) and "Drunk Girls" (A fist pumping, floor stomping chant. Describing what it's like to hang around drunk people). Both songs made it to the top of my iTunes Top 25 Chart for 2010. Which probably means, I need to lay off the LCD Soundsystem. But as long as this record is around, there is no. freaking. way.
2. "Daddy Fat Sax" - Big Boi
My love for OutKast was reawakened this year because Big Boi's solo album "Sir Luscious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty" was released, on my 21st birthday. "Daddy Fat Sax" is the first song off of this album and it is a doozy. The beat comes at you with nothing really holding it back and Big Boi rhymes sound a little bit more mature than they did when he was writing with Andre 3000. He's talking more about politics than pimping (talking how the republicans stole the election of 2000 and his fears of an Obama assassination) but just because it's more mature doesn't mean he exiles his since of humor. The beat itself is kind of humorous just because of it sounds like a song that's been warped from being left in a strip club for too long and the ending where they repeat "Daddy Fat Sax", like, 50 times reassured me that while Big Boi still has a glorious view of himself, he's not too mighty to make a couple jokes about caterpillars. ("Defying all the laws/Like a caterpillar flying")
3. "Chilled Coughphee (Feat. Devin The Dude)" - Curren$y
How perfect is it that this song is after "Daddy Fat Sax"? Both songs sound like they were produced by a guy thinks the only way to make a beat is by using a woozy synth sound.
To be honest, this song isn't the most impressive Curren$y song but "Chilled Coughphee" is a typical Curren$y song. There is usually a feature from one of Curren$y's friends and no matter who it is, they talk, back and forth, about how they like to smoke weed and drink. All they talk about in this song really is having good times ("And it's all about chilling/smiling/laughing"). And sometimes that's really all I like to hear when I'm going to the 7-11 to buy candy. Also the beat is so pho-funky that when I hear it I feel I just got off of the 21st century Soul Train. I know this song isn't the best but it's definitely something I listened to hold my hand when I was stressed.
4. "Disco Drymouth" - Jeffrey Jerusalem
Catchy aint it? I found Jeffrey Jerusalem on Ping. iTunes's attempt to try and make the internet music market place something like Facebook. I was looking at another bands page (YACHT) and on their "favorite albums" links they had Jeffrey Jerusalem's Grimace. Intrigued by the album name and the cover (yep that's all it takes to gain my attention) once I started listening to Grimace I knew I'd probably listen to only a couple songs off of the album, but MAN did I listen to those couple of songs.
I don't know a lot about Jeffrey Jerusalem, his mypsace page (yeah. Remember those?) is void of any actual information and he has no wikipedia page so this little blurb is going to have to be shorter than the others. So I guess all I can say is, I'm a big fan of this song and a couple others that he's written. I know that this kind of music is starting to be frowned upon in the indie community (unless your Daft Punk and even then you kind of suck cause you've only made a movie score in the last 2 years) but I think Jeffrey Jerusalem is different. The song itself not heavy on, pound your head against the wall repetition creates a groove that is just genetically engineered to make you shake your ass. BUT WATCH YOURSELF!
5. "Monster (Feat. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Bon Iver & Nikki Minaj)" - Kanye West
I went to a party this year, and I was booed when I changed the song from "Monster" to Sam Cooke's "Feel It (Don't Fight It)" and now retrospectively I think the mob was in the right corner. What was I thinking changing the song? "Monster" has single handedly brought forth a new era of post-modern hip-hop. The song looks back to the older styles where the MC's have to try and out do one another but also looks foreword creating a beat that sounds as minimalist as it does new. The beat itself is some kind of weird, inverted, dark, shifting sound matched with a base drum and a symbol crash. That's it. Unlike most of Mr. West's catalogue it's the beat that is supposed to wow you in this case. It's what's being said. Most of the time you're paying attention to one of the many impressive rhymes by West, Jay-Z (Rick Ross not so much) and Nikki Minaj. Oh, AND FUCKING NIKKI MINAJ. I spent the first half of 2010 asking friends who her target audience was and the second half waiting for her album (Pink Friday hasn't gotten stellar reviews but whatever, shut up) . Her feature on "Monster" is so good it's almost something that comes from folklore. (Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's got to climb it /Hotter than a middle eastern climate /Find it /20 mataran dutty whine it /While it /Nikki on a pit when I sign it / How these n-gga's so one track minded)
2010 has been a big year for Kanye West. The release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has gotten urber amount of publicity and anything he's said this year has been recorded on some format and used against him. But just how progressive the album is in terms of hip-hop hasn't really been mentioned. A couple years ago people were calling Drake a Post-Kanye rapper. So, does this mean that we're gonna think of something else to call him, like Post-Kanye/Pre-My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy rapper?
I think these songs have proved that I have no musical taste what so ever. So here is a list of honorable mentions to just crush any resinating ideas that I actually know what I'm talking about when it comes to music.
Honorable Mentions.
"Kids"/"Tell Em" - Sleigh Bells
"Welcome To The World of the Plastic Beach (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)" - Gorillaz
"Floating Vibes" - Surfer Blood
Enjoy.