Thirty Smashing Songs
Twenty Songs, 29 July 2007
Having been away a while we thought we'd treat you to the The Thirty Biggest Songs Of The Last Two Months, before we get back to the more modest task of a weekly Twenty. To be honest it's almost all remixes and electro but hey, that's what's been floating out boat. Special mention to Kissy Sell Out who could've been on this list an extra four times, easily, all in the top ten, but we thought that was a bit unfair.
30 The Rakes, The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
29 Goose, Everybody (Instrumental Dub)
28 GoodBooks, Passchendaele
27 Mr Oizo, Transexual
26 Simian Mobile Disco, I Got This Down
A lot of what you see here is here on behalf of itself and something else. Above, Goose, GoodBooks and Simian Mobile Disco could have featured a lot more heavily, with these being perhaps the best examples of them over the last few months or, the best new examples. Indeed, Mr Oizo's Transexual, while the best of his recent songs isn't so much in our head all the time as it's introduction (Hello) is but it seemed childish to put that in. A rare appearance for The Rakes is due to this being perhaps their best song ever.
25 Remi Nicole, Fed Up (Kissy Sell Out's Rules Of Attraction Remix)
24 DJ Mehdi, I Am Somebody (Switch Remix)
23 Foals, Hummer
22 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Beggin' (Pilooski Re-Edit)
21 The Teenagers, Homecoming
We don't now and may never like Remi Nicole particularly but when Kissy gets his hands on something, the kids know. This is no exception. Someone with more exceptions is Switch who we have had hits and misses from, this one, clearly, erring more on the side of major hit. Consistency, luckily is more a byword of Foals though Hummer remains the flagship of the re-recorded material. Speaking of which, Frankie Valli is the kids favourite again, thanks, perhaps, to a man called Pilooski, although, we're not sure exactly how much he's changed the songs he's re-edited, bless him. We have The Teenagers here for one reason and one reason alone - the filth. Yeah.
20 Interpol, All Fired Up
19 Good Shoes, Morden (Metronomy Remix)
18 The Go! Team, Bullet In The Heather
17 Roxy Music, Editions Of You (Phones Mix)
16 Pharoahe Monch, Body Baby (Count Of Monte Cristal And Sinden Remix)
With a new album out, Interpol are once again a choice affair, with All Fired Up an instant standout on a return to form album. We liked Good Shoes anyway but with the Metronomy treatment their album standout Morden is all the more irresistible. We were never so hooked on The Go! Team, despite loving their name, however with Bullet In The Heather we can finally pin our badges to them without reproach, with it being the song they always threatened to make. Poppy and dainty but ripped through with violence and bloodshed. Indeed, when it comes to irreproachability (if such a thing can be come to), Phones is now a man it's not possible to fault, with his remix of Roxy Music another absolute clattering stormer of a track. Finally, while Herve sometimes has his off moments (we don't actually like the sound of his basslines), in his Count of Monte Cristal guise and with Sinden by his side, bombs fall, explosions happen, word gets round.
15 Scissor Sisters, I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Erol Alkan's Carnival Of Light Rework)
14 Groove Armada, Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control) (Linus Loves Dub Remix)
13 D.I.M., Airbus Baby
12 Sinden & The Count Of Monte Cristal, Kudurolicious
11 Digitalism, Digitalism In Cairo
It was never the case that Erol Alkan's remixes meant a song completely unrelated to the original and yet with his remake of Scissor Sisters he takes a camp romp into a thing of elegance and beauty, we doff our caps. Simiarly, Linus Loves have managed to flick a switch somewhere in this Groove Armada radio dross and make something all the kids should love. We don't know D.I.M. but when it comes to anonymous instrumental electro, they've nailed it with a track we can listen to time after time without fail. Finally, once again, The Count and Sinden show why their top the game with these oldie but goodie from the re-pressed Beeper EP on which ever track, sans non, is a stormer.
10 Dragonette, Take It Like A Man (Kissy Sell Out's Horror Sequel)
09 M.I.A., Boyz
08 Blood Red Shoes, It's Getting Boring By The Sea
07 All Saints, Chick Fit (Kissy Sell Out's Bogus Journey)
06 The Fallout Trust, Before The Light Goes (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Hey look, it's that man Kissy again, twice, to make four for the period. Which is to say, four out of the potential dozens and dozens we could've given him. He's fully boss. His Dragonette remix is just amazing like hold your breath while his All Saints attack was two pronged - the Bogus Journey edging out the Excellent Adventure as it has no vocals and thus is more like a pure Kissy track than any kind of remix, not least single the vacuous original didn't really offer anything to it. A welcome return is seen to M.I.A. with Switch co-produced belter Boyz and Blood Red Shoes remind us that poppier doesn't mean poorer with our favourite single of their yet as they once again increase the sheen of their polish. No chart would be complete with a Simian Mobile Disco remix, even though they have calmed their production duties somewhat, recently. This one is amazing and our mouth literally drools every time we even think we're about to hear it. Stellar stuff.
05 Guns N' Bombs, Crossover Appeal
04 Feist, My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
03 Lily Allen, LDN (Switch Remix)
02 Justice, D.A.N.C.E.
01 Neat People, Baby I'm Bored (Kissy Sell Out Remix)
Because this week's chart was even less ordered than usually we're just gonna belt though the top of it enough to say yes, Guns N' Bombs are bigger than the Beatles and their Crossover Appeal is a bit too dirty to cross over but that's everyone else's fault, not theirs. The genius that is sweet 'n' sour My Moon My Man remix by Boys Noize deserves it's own slot but we'll surfice to say that it makes something swoony and lovely into something a bit rougher without losing that delicacy. When we say Switch is a bit hit and miss, always remember, they, call, it, SWITCH! and the man is back. Right up there with his Futureheads remix is this absolute chaos emerald take on LDN, like a remix of the city itself, more than of the song. Utterly, utterly sublime. When it comes to Pop! you have two options, make it the way everyone else is or, take a dirty, black-tar production team and sweeten them up to within an inch of their lives until they release this Jackson 5 esque opus of kiddie-vocals and infectiousness. It's a virus of a song and we caught it. Which leaves us with The Best Kissy Sell Out Remix yet. Which, when you consider Kissy is the best remixer of the year and, considering the quality of remixes this year what an acolade that is, imagine how much we must love this remix to bestow that kind of praise on it. Unavailable anywhere else, we downloaded it from Soulseek so it shouldn't even be in the chart but hey, for one week only we've broken the rules.
Having been away a while we thought we'd treat you to the The Thirty Biggest Songs Of The Last Two Months, before we get back to the more modest task of a weekly Twenty. To be honest it's almost all remixes and electro but hey, that's what's been floating out boat. Special mention to Kissy Sell Out who could've been on this list an extra four times, easily, all in the top ten, but we thought that was a bit unfair.
30 The Rakes, The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
29 Goose, Everybody (Instrumental Dub)
28 GoodBooks, Passchendaele
27 Mr Oizo, Transexual
26 Simian Mobile Disco, I Got This Down
A lot of what you see here is here on behalf of itself and something else. Above, Goose, GoodBooks and Simian Mobile Disco could have featured a lot more heavily, with these being perhaps the best examples of them over the last few months or, the best new examples. Indeed, Mr Oizo's Transexual, while the best of his recent songs isn't so much in our head all the time as it's introduction (Hello) is but it seemed childish to put that in. A rare appearance for The Rakes is due to this being perhaps their best song ever.
25 Remi Nicole, Fed Up (Kissy Sell Out's Rules Of Attraction Remix)
24 DJ Mehdi, I Am Somebody (Switch Remix)
23 Foals, Hummer
22 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Beggin' (Pilooski Re-Edit)
21 The Teenagers, Homecoming
We don't now and may never like Remi Nicole particularly but when Kissy gets his hands on something, the kids know. This is no exception. Someone with more exceptions is Switch who we have had hits and misses from, this one, clearly, erring more on the side of major hit. Consistency, luckily is more a byword of Foals though Hummer remains the flagship of the re-recorded material. Speaking of which, Frankie Valli is the kids favourite again, thanks, perhaps, to a man called Pilooski, although, we're not sure exactly how much he's changed the songs he's re-edited, bless him. We have The Teenagers here for one reason and one reason alone - the filth. Yeah.
20 Interpol, All Fired Up
19 Good Shoes, Morden (Metronomy Remix)
18 The Go! Team, Bullet In The Heather
17 Roxy Music, Editions Of You (Phones Mix)
16 Pharoahe Monch, Body Baby (Count Of Monte Cristal And Sinden Remix)
With a new album out, Interpol are once again a choice affair, with All Fired Up an instant standout on a return to form album. We liked Good Shoes anyway but with the Metronomy treatment their album standout Morden is all the more irresistible. We were never so hooked on The Go! Team, despite loving their name, however with Bullet In The Heather we can finally pin our badges to them without reproach, with it being the song they always threatened to make. Poppy and dainty but ripped through with violence and bloodshed. Indeed, when it comes to irreproachability (if such a thing can be come to), Phones is now a man it's not possible to fault, with his remix of Roxy Music another absolute clattering stormer of a track. Finally, while Herve sometimes has his off moments (we don't actually like the sound of his basslines), in his Count of Monte Cristal guise and with Sinden by his side, bombs fall, explosions happen, word gets round.
15 Scissor Sisters, I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Erol Alkan's Carnival Of Light Rework)
14 Groove Armada, Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control) (Linus Loves Dub Remix)
13 D.I.M., Airbus Baby
12 Sinden & The Count Of Monte Cristal, Kudurolicious
11 Digitalism, Digitalism In Cairo
It was never the case that Erol Alkan's remixes meant a song completely unrelated to the original and yet with his remake of Scissor Sisters he takes a camp romp into a thing of elegance and beauty, we doff our caps. Simiarly, Linus Loves have managed to flick a switch somewhere in this Groove Armada radio dross and make something all the kids should love. We don't know D.I.M. but when it comes to anonymous instrumental electro, they've nailed it with a track we can listen to time after time without fail. Finally, once again, The Count and Sinden show why their top the game with these oldie but goodie from the re-pressed Beeper EP on which ever track, sans non, is a stormer.
10 Dragonette, Take It Like A Man (Kissy Sell Out's Horror Sequel)
09 M.I.A., Boyz
08 Blood Red Shoes, It's Getting Boring By The Sea
07 All Saints, Chick Fit (Kissy Sell Out's Bogus Journey)
06 The Fallout Trust, Before The Light Goes (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Hey look, it's that man Kissy again, twice, to make four for the period. Which is to say, four out of the potential dozens and dozens we could've given him. He's fully boss. His Dragonette remix is just amazing like hold your breath while his All Saints attack was two pronged - the Bogus Journey edging out the Excellent Adventure as it has no vocals and thus is more like a pure Kissy track than any kind of remix, not least single the vacuous original didn't really offer anything to it. A welcome return is seen to M.I.A. with Switch co-produced belter Boyz and Blood Red Shoes remind us that poppier doesn't mean poorer with our favourite single of their yet as they once again increase the sheen of their polish. No chart would be complete with a Simian Mobile Disco remix, even though they have calmed their production duties somewhat, recently. This one is amazing and our mouth literally drools every time we even think we're about to hear it. Stellar stuff.
05 Guns N' Bombs, Crossover Appeal
04 Feist, My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
03 Lily Allen, LDN (Switch Remix)
02 Justice, D.A.N.C.E.
01 Neat People, Baby I'm Bored (Kissy Sell Out Remix)
Because this week's chart was even less ordered than usually we're just gonna belt though the top of it enough to say yes, Guns N' Bombs are bigger than the Beatles and their Crossover Appeal is a bit too dirty to cross over but that's everyone else's fault, not theirs. The genius that is sweet 'n' sour My Moon My Man remix by Boys Noize deserves it's own slot but we'll surfice to say that it makes something swoony and lovely into something a bit rougher without losing that delicacy. When we say Switch is a bit hit and miss, always remember, they, call, it, SWITCH! and the man is back. Right up there with his Futureheads remix is this absolute chaos emerald take on LDN, like a remix of the city itself, more than of the song. Utterly, utterly sublime. When it comes to Pop! you have two options, make it the way everyone else is or, take a dirty, black-tar production team and sweeten them up to within an inch of their lives until they release this Jackson 5 esque opus of kiddie-vocals and infectiousness. It's a virus of a song and we caught it. Which leaves us with The Best Kissy Sell Out Remix yet. Which, when you consider Kissy is the best remixer of the year and, considering the quality of remixes this year what an acolade that is, imagine how much we must love this remix to bestow that kind of praise on it. Unavailable anywhere else, we downloaded it from Soulseek so it shouldn't even be in the chart but hey, for one week only we've broken the rules.