Top 10 Songs Of 2011

[koganbot]

So far. And three of them are holdovers from last year, which I justify down in the wonky notes. I've already posted about Jeremih, the gorgeous tenuousness of the sounds seeming to have nothing to do with the booty-gazing lyrics. You likely already know about the Britney, and if you haven't heard " High High" yet, that's hardly my fault. "Knock Out

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Chuck Eddy

[anonymous]

My lists so far (w/o absorbing your latest Frank's Eardrums mix -- which is to say, haven't decided yet what I think of "Knock Out," for instance--though so far, I have to say I'm underwhelmed by it

Re: Chuck Eddy

[koganbot]

"Yayaya" is December 2010, or maybe end of November, so yeah, it's eligible, I'd say. Was a near miss on my singles long list, but when I finally get around to posting my 2010 albums I'll probably put Temptastic, the EP it's from, in my top twenty; has a couple of other tracks more or less as good as "Yayaya."

"Knock Out" took a while to knock me out (in comparison to "High High") 'cause of the spareness and the slowness, but once it hooked me I kept playing it over and over. And I love watching them perform it. (And here.)

The duo is actually being marketed as "GD&TOP" (or "GD & TOP") rather than G-Dragon and T.O.P., even though their monikers in Big Bang are the latter.

Still haven't figured out if it's "Ya Ya Ya" or "Yayaya."

Forgot that I can count "Coming Home" as this year too.

Re: Chuck Eddy

[askbask]

Here's a Korean duo who don't necessarily sound that much like Far East Movement, but may have listened to them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuKhzAjFYvw

Re: Chuck Eddy

[koganbot]

Newest GD&TOP video, "Baby Good Night," my least favorite track on the EP, but it's a well-done bit of slush.

There's a snake in her bed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJ4IzpfVUs

[talrose]

The biggest singles on Chicago radio right now, unquestionably, are "Black and Yellow" and "No Hands," the former by Wiz Khalifa and the latter by Waka Flocka Flame. They are on the radio on at least three or four separate stations three or four times a day. But Wikipedia tells me that they were both released in 2010, though I can't remember ever hearing them before this month ("No Hands" I heard on Flockaveli, and it's a standout, but I don't remember hearing it on the radio the way I heard "Hard In Da Paint").

The other single in heavy rotation is "All Of The Lights," and that would probably be my single of the year so far. Actually, that's not true. My favorite single of the year is either "Love Letter" or "When A Woman Loves (Remix)," both off of R. Kelly's Love Letter, which might have been my #1 album last year, and I'm counting it for 2011, since it came out in December last year. You will not find a smile on my face as wide as the one that appears when the chorus of "Love Letter" pops up for the third time in the song while

[koganbot]

"No Hands" hit the Top 40 back in October and has hung in the top twenty since then. Would assume its r&b play goes back further, but Billboard's chart-history gizmo doesn't stockpile his stuff (or isn't working right), so I don't know more. Also don't know its airplay arc in Denver, since I've pretty much not had time to listen to the radio, having so many things to scarf up on the 'Net. "All Of The Lights" is probably only beginning its run in most places (assuming it gets much of a run): I presume that Kanye airplay gets accelerated in Chicago.

Odd thing, R. Kelly's always been pretty much in one ear and out the other for me (odd because I love The-Dream, who obviously loves R. Kelly). But there's been lots of favorable talk about Love Letter, so maybe it'll be what pulls me in. I actually liked "The Zoo" back in 2007, and then read the reviews with everyone saying that, for R. Kelly, it was second-rate. So something is askew in my R. Kelly listening, I guess.

[talrose]

Kind of makes sense actually, since the Jagger comparison you make to Terius doesn't really apply to R. Kelly, who doesn't have trap doors within a song as he does across an album or across his whole career. There's also a lot more to work with-the sheer volume of his work is pretty daunting, and it's very difficult to place where to begin with him. A couple other things of note: Kelly wrote many songs for Michael Jackson, including "You Are Not Alone," and according to a recent interview he has a couple albums' worth of songs he wrote for MJ, but my guess is they're all ballads, which I think says something about Kelly, that he's more of a ballad singer than a rock singer, and maybe there's more rock in Terius'. The-Dream's production is also a little more expansive, keyboards stretching out all over the track, the drums hitting a littler harder; whereas Kelly is a little more narrow, everything coming in streams and brooks and light splashes, a little more adult contemporary than The-Dream. Elegance is a big part of Kelly's music,

[talrose]

Great interview with, of all people, Will Oldham in the new issue of Interview:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/r-kelly/

[koganbot]

"I'm A Flirt" isn't a waltz; it's in 4/4 but he plays with the accents at the start, making the second beat feel like the one, so three beats later there you are at a new measure, giving dancers something to play with or trip over.

[koganbot]

Another gap: Oldham's music is something I don't know very well either.