Doghorse - Observations on Time Travel

Released: 2004
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Fucken brilliant.

9/10

Audiobullys feat. Nancy Sinatra - Shot You Down

Released: 2005
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Ugh. Sounds like Fatboy Slim soundtracking a painfully-retro Tarantino film.

Absolutely dire.

1/10

New Order - In a Lonely Place

Released: 1981
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After Joy Division collapsed with the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis, and before New Order rose out of the ashes to almost singlehandedly create the genre of electronic-pop, there was a strange in-between period where the confused lads continued playing JD-inspired dirges sans-Ian.

And yea - believe it or not, that's Bernard Sumner on vocals, doing his best Curtis-impersonation.

6/10

Super Car - Last Scene

Released: 2004
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Meandering along, pretty much like the last scene of some bullshit romantic comedy. 2:24 And the song starts accelerating a little with an aching change.

6/10

Bizarre - Hip Hop (feat. Eminem)

Released: 2005
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More dope beats from the shower-capped fat one. Eminem's flow in this one is up to the standards of yesteryear.

Can't believe this guy is getting another...

6/10

Jikustik - Takluk

Released: 2004
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Usually I don't get into this piano based adult pop shit. But if get over yourself for a second or two, you find it's a sweet song.

6/10

Mickey Harte - I Don't Want You Back

Released: 2004
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You'll probably never read this, but Happy Birthday anyway.

Noel Gallagher With Burt Bacharach - This Guys In Love With You

Released: 1996
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"Then there was... Sat in Burt Bacharach's hotel room one afternoon singing This guy's in love with you, just me and him on piano, that was quite ludicrous as well, just for the fact that he's 67 and I'm 29. Could be my Grandad. I mean, what do you talk to him about. I was just coming on like, (looks blank for a few seconds) D'ya like The Clash? He's like, (Bacharach's foppy West Coast bur to a tee) Uh, I can't say I've ever heard of them. Then he idles over to the piano on the other side of the room and starts playing the intro to This Guy's In Love With You. Then he turn around to me and goes, Just join in, man. I'm sat there thinking, How the fuck did I manage to get here? Doing the show at the Royal Festival Hall was nerve-wracking because I'd never sang without being up there with an electric or acoustic guitar. I was sat on a stool with a microphone like fucking Val Doonican, with a 36-piece orchestra behind me being directed by Burt Bacharach. It was ace. Mad."

- Noel Gallagher, select magazine - aug '96

He's an idiot but it's a nice song.

7/10

Fiery Furnaces - Here Comes The Summer

Released: 2005
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The Furnaces have undoubtedly got the "fun oddball indie pop" thing down pat.

6/10

Denali - Hold Your Breath

Released: 2003
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When I hear the words "haunting vocals" I immediately want to glass whoever said it.
Haunting female vocals complement the sinister tone of this track. Starts by slinking out of the darkness and then proceeds to pick up the pace. Even the fuzzy mini solo sounds aiight.

7/10

Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers

Released: 2004
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The man / boy sing / screams with forthright conviction and heartfelt determination. Can you possibly resist?

7/10

Sheila On 7 - Pria Kesepian

Released: 2005
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Rolls along like your dad does when he's tanked on JD and coke, wearing his cowboy hat cos your mum's just run away with the rodeo clown.

8/10

Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Going Down

Released: 2005
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"I'm just a notch in your bedpost
but you're just a line a song"

Big moving chords, harmonies, plaintive whiny vocals. The build up with 1 minute to go ending in a call - response run home, love this shit.

8/10

Soulwax - NY Excuse

Released: 2005
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Hot off the heels of their shit-hot "daft punk is playing" remix, comes the new single from the ever-reliable belgians (better known as their moonlighting mix-up moniker "2manydjs").

Bouncy electro goodness with manic vocals supplied by nancy from lcd soundsystem. I like.

7/10

Sufjan Stevens - The Lord God Bird

Released: 2005
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This song is like a satisfying bowel movement in a national park on a crystal clear
sunday morning.

5/10

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 Op. 36 - Lento- Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile

Delegated Review (delegated by Reyn)
Composed/First Release: 1976
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An exquisite 27-minute piece by the well-reknowned Polish composer, both mournful and life-affirming. There are too many ebbs and flows to detail here, but the piece de resistance has to be the haunting voice of the female soprano Dawn Upshaw floating in ethereal fashion at the centrepoint of the opus.

7/10

Sigur Rós - Untitled 3 (Samskeyti)

Released: 2003
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Dunno why it took me so long to get round to checking out these critically lauded prog-rockers from Iceland - I've always meant to, but end up getting distracted by more alluring genres such as Italian Electro and Chav Pop instead.

I now regret not doing it earlier, because for all their pretensions (refusing to give either their album or tracks any titles on their latest release) this is indeed very beautiful music.

7/10