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 14th January 2024, 01:24 AM
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Some more great tracks here in 'Houdini', 'Dusk', 'Euforija' and 'Under Your Spell'!
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14th January 2024, 11:49 AM
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88 Weyes Blood - Hearts Aglow
86 Lana Del Rey - A&W 84 Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør - Oh, Lover 81 Aexhy - I Had A Dream 79 Samia - Honey 75 TDJ - Save Me 70 Hard Target, Clouds, Tommy Holohan - Echoes 69 The Blessed Madonna - Serotonin Moonbeams 68 Dua Lipa - Houdini 67 Chelsea Wolfe - Dusk 65 Kesha - Eat The Acid 64 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell 62 Shygirl - Firefly 61 Fanera - Euforija  Jim, here's my faves since I last commented!Brilliant write up for 'Save Me' there  And what a chart run it had for you despite the #20 peak *.* Speaking of TDJ, nice to see some love for Aexhy's 'I Had a Dream' from TDJ's outstanding SPF INFINI 3 which is so stacked with trance gems. I think I've charted almost the entire album by now  Not sure if you've seen the hour long visual for it yet, but I highly recommend giving it a watch Samia and Chelsea Wolfe were both great alternative BJSC choices from you that deserved better. I recall having 'Echoes' penciled in for a ETOTW poll but removed it at the last minute. Really cool to see that go #1 for you. Is a banger!  Great to see 'Houdini', 'Under Your Spell' and 'Firefly' - all 3 were huge number ones on my chart. 'Firefly' made number 5 on my EOY for 2022.Looking forward to the rest of the countdown x |
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14th January 2024, 02:54 PM
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Nice to see "Houdini" and "Alarm Clock" in your Year-End list, recently discovered "Alarm Clock" at the start of 2024!
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14th January 2024, 11:30 PM
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QUOTE(Roba. @ Jan 14 2024, 01:24 AM)  Some more great tracks here in 'Houdini', 'Dusk', 'Euforija' and 'Under Your Spell'! Very glad you were a fan of 'Dusk'  and those other BJSC songs are dance bangers!QUOTE(k👠th @ Jan 14 2024, 11:49 AM) 88 Weyes Blood - Hearts Aglow 86 Lana Del Rey - A&W 84 Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør - Oh, Lover 81 Aexhy - I Had A Dream 79 Samia - Honey 75 TDJ - Save Me 70 Hard Target, Clouds, Tommy Holohan - Echoes 69 The Blessed Madonna - Serotonin Moonbeams 68 Dua Lipa - Houdini 67 Chelsea Wolfe - Dusk 65 Kesha - Eat The Acid 64 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell 62 Shygirl - Firefly 61 Fanera - Euforija Jim, here's my faves since I last commented!Brilliant write up for 'Save Me' there And what a chart run it had for you despite the #20 peak *.* Speaking of TDJ, nice to see some love for Aexhy's 'I Had a Dream' from TDJ's outstanding SPF INFINI 3 which is so stacked with trance gems. I think I've charted almost the entire album by now Not sure if you've seen the hour long visual for it yet, but I highly recommend giving it a watch Samia and Chelsea Wolfe were both great alternative BJSC choices from you that deserved better. I recall having 'Echoes' penciled in for a ETOTW poll but removed it at the last minute. Really cool to see that go #1 for you. Is a banger! Great to see 'Houdini', 'Under Your Spell' and 'Firefly' - all 3 were huge number ones on my chart. 'Firefly' made number 5 on my EOY for 2022.Looking forward to the rest of the countdown x Hey Kath, wow that's quite a list! 'Save Me' is really impressive from TDJ, 'Miles Away' also came close to making this 100 for her too - I had 3 songs from SPF Infini 3 back to back in my top 20 at one point with that, the Panteros666 song Leww has entered to the current BJSC, and 'I Had A Dream', though it was the last of those which really took off for me along with 'Echoes' - there's something about those dark bangers! Thanks for the visual, will give a watch at some point  Glad those BJSC entries were to your liking - Chelsea did quite well, and Samia might have done better in the other semi but hey - and 'Under Your Spell' winning by over 100 points was a moment *.* Pleased to have discovered 'Firefly' eventually from either yours or Ansel's EOYs for 2022!QUOTE(Sergej @ Jan 14 2024, 02:54 PM) Nice to see "Houdini" and "Alarm Clock" in your Year-End list, recently discovered "Alarm Clock" at the start of 2024! Yay a hat-trick of 'Houdini' love, and great to see another fan of 'Alarm Clock', it's as catchy as anything! Thanks all! |
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15th January 2024, 12:09 AM
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#60 -> #56 #60 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (248 points) [30-29-20-17-17-17-15-15-15-14-14+] #59 Gusted - Jet Plane (249 points) [26-20-15-15-15-15-17-21-21-21-26-31] #58 Rema feat. Selena Gomez - Calm Down (252 points) [[05-07]-07-08-10-12-15-18-20-21-22-27-39] #57 Ash - Race The Night (254 points) [24-15-09-07-06-11-13-18-23-30] #56 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism. (260 points) [28-20-08-06-06-08-12-14-20-28] Three of these songs should need little introduction, not least the current official #1 from Noah Kahan which is spearheading something of a folk revival and had yet to fall in 11 weeks on my chart - 'Dial Drunk' had a decent run for me too, but some fine lyrical imagery gives this the edge. The song from Gusted is a dance banger with plenty of untz untz and some trancey builds and instrumentation - I had it in mind for several song contests, but eventually sent it to Club Bizarre and it got vetoed, so that was that. I enjoyed the solo Rema version of his astoundingly huge afrobeats hit (which I still haven't tired of and was reluctant to push down my chart while it was still doing so well officially), but Selena Gomez transforms it with her one and a half verses. Ash came back with a song which sounded like they'd beamed in from about 20 years ago, brimming with high octane energy and ascending melodies. In the song which sealed an incredible chart-topping triumph for RAYE after years of striving for independence, she confidently throws down her verses while showing a more vulnerable side in the chorus, with the cameo for 070 Shake giving her some time to reflect before a stunning final chorus and outro - much has been said about it in these EOYs already, although that won't be quite the end of the story for it in this one... |
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15th January 2024, 12:12 AM
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'Race The Night' of course a great return from Ash *.* and 'Escapism' is fantastic as well, will be in the mix somewhere for my song of 2023!
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15th January 2024, 11:11 AM
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Very happy to see "Stick Season", "Calm Down" and "Escapism." on here!
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16th January 2024, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE(Roba. @ Jan 15 2024, 12:12 AM) 'Race The Night' of course a great return from Ash *.* and 'Escapism' is fantastic as well, will be in the mix somewhere for my song of 2023! Yeah as mentioned at the time, I may have discovered 'Race The Night' from your chart, so great taste! QUOTE(Sergej @ Jan 15 2024, 11:11 AM) Very happy to see "Stick Season", "Calm Down" and "Escapism." on here! Glad you approve, two of the biggest hits of 2023 and surely one of the biggest of 2024. Thanks both! |
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16th January 2024, 10:52 PM
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#55 -> #51 #55 Schak feat. Kim English - Moving All Around (Jumpin’) (260 points) [[10-08]-06-06-06-10-12-16-16-20-24-34] #54 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine (264 points) [16-15-14-13-12-11-10-13-16-26] #53 Queens Of The Stone Age - Paper Machete (269 points) [05-02-03-03-05-11-16-24-31] #52 Sølv - Past Life (271 points) [14-09-06-04-08-11-13-17-23-34] #51 Dagny - Same Again (For Love) (274 points) [24-13-09-11-13-14-15-16-17-21-30-35] Level on points with 'Escapism.' and with the same peak but for one week longer, Schak takes 55th spot with his update of Kim English - Bumpin' & Jumpin', adding a kicking bass riff in the chorus to push the energy up - the sound and spontaneous dancing video feel like they came straight out of the mid-00's, but a welcome throwback. Mitski getting not only a UK hit but a Top 10 was one of the best chart stories of the year, thanks to the song taking off on (huzzah!) TikTok - it's such a captivating two and half minutes, and while the parent album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We is consistently great, this is the track I've been the most compelled to return to. As much as I like 2002's 'No One Knows' by Queens Of The Stone Age I hadn't been looking out for their new material, but once again halfway through NMF, the choppy guitar, crunching drums and Josh Homme's vocals jumped through the speakers and I had to replay it straight afterwards - it was a highlight of their Glastonbury set too, and even earlier today when I'd been feeling a little exhausted, this song revived me in seconds. Sølv was a discovery from another Spotify playlist, and her high voice over a minimal, spacey production felt like it had drawn me into an unknown universe - she became my BJSC 154 entry with the most sensual song I've sent to date. Dagny got my silver medal in the latest PFSC ahead of Allie X in bronze (so spoiler alert about who is still to come), but I knew her song well, embedded in a dazzling Scandi-pop production, and if there's been a more glorious arms-aloft chorus in 2023 then I haven't heard it yet. |
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17th January 2024, 11:12 AM
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Really like seeing "Moving All Around (Jumpin')" on here, as well as "My Love Mine All Mine", ever since "The Only Heartbreaker", I've been liking her stuff as of late.
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18th January 2024, 09:05 PM
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Happy New Year is a fab song, always nice to have another song about the new year and this one really works. My Love Mine All Mine was something different in the charts as well which was nice, and Calm Down is quie the earworm as well!
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18th January 2024, 10:28 PM
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QUOTE(Sergej @ Jan 17 2024, 11:12 AM) Really like seeing "Moving All Around (Jumpin')" on here, as well as "My Love Mine All Mine", ever since "The Only Heartbreaker", I've been liking her stuff as of late. Good to hear, and I've been smitten with 'The Only Heartbreaker' since hearing it a couple of years ago, so was excited for new material from Mitski! QUOTE(PeteFromLeeds @ Jan 18 2024, 09:05 PM) Happy New Year is a fab song, always nice to have another song about the new year and this one really works. My Love Mine All Mine was something different in the charts as well which was nice, and Calm Down is quie the earworm as well! Agree, it's a positive thing for these cold January days. Mitski storming the singles chart was surreal at first, but showed there'd been a mainstream audience for her if the right song got the right exposure. 'Calm Down' just doesn't get old for me! Thanks both! |
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18th January 2024, 11:05 PM
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Hey Jim
congrats on your award win once more *.* have just had a catch-up (oops this week has been so busy), here are my favourites since I last popped in:#65 Kesha - Eat The Acid #64 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell #62 Shygirl - Firefly #61 Fanera - Euforija #56 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism. #54 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine #52 Sølv - Past Life Two of my favourite chart moments of the year appear in this section! 'Escapism.' at #1 was a satisfying moment for RAYE and I still can't quite believe that Mitski has a hit single to her name I wonder what surprises the chart will have in store for us this year. I guess Sophie, Mason and Natasha are already a good start... I think I would've first come across Shygirl via BJSC but 'Firefly' is a solid introductory point too! So excited for Club Shy to come out <3 'Past Life' was an instant highlight for me in BJSC, god bless the playlist you found it on! Definitely in my top 3 entries of yours alongside Chelsea and MRD, hoovering up my medals already  looking forward to seeing what the contest will bring this year. (btw the first time I tuned into 6Music I was a bit unsure but was hooked from one year of their Mercury coverage onwards, I most commonly listen to breakfast with Lauren Laverne!) |
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18th January 2024, 11:56 PM
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#50 -> #46 #50 Tove Lo - I like u (283 points) [32-29-18-11-09-08-10-12-15-19-25-30-32] #49 Temples - Cicada (289 points) [31-12-11-08-08-08-12-14-17-22-27-33] #48 Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again (289 points) [30-22-14-10-07-06-05-09-13-17-29] #47 Wet Leg - Angelica (289 points) [09-08-04-05-05-06-12-16-24-32] #46 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready To Fly (295 points) [[13]-08-05-05-08-10-10-14-16-19-25-36] Into the top half of the 100 now, and my top scoring song from the latest PFSC appears straight after runner-up Dagny, also being the first of two entries for Tove Lo - an enthralling build in the verses, as the music ascends and distorts beneath her longing vocals, giving way to full-on dance in the chorus with the infectious hook of the "la-la-la" extended title. Temples were #2 in Jade's EOY and I talked about the song there, but it's a psychedelic jaunt with Arabic instrumentation and an infectious chorus (yep, which does sound a bit like Girls Aloud - The Show) which goes harder still the second time around as the strings continue, until there's a twinkly coda as if awaking from a dream. Depeche Mode were reduced to a duo following the sad passing of Andy Fletcher in 2022 (RIP) which looms large over their first single since, as Dave Gahan reflects on their loss and the fleeting nature of life over mournful yet hopeful synths - I hadn't prepared for how incredibly moving this could be. Wet Leg gave a second push to a few singles from their self-titled 2022 album, but this one truly stuck with me on its 2023 repromotion and ousted 'Chaise Longue' as my favourite of theirs, with its jangly guitars and party backdrop of the lyrics giving way to something darker as the music turns almost alarm-like over the bridge. Sub Focus & Dimension had teamed up before on 'Desire', but this time they pleasingly crashed the Top 40 with this storming tune that seamlessly goes from piano-assisted D'n'B to hardcore on a burst of energy. This post has been edited by jimwatts: 18th January 2024, 11:58 PM |
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19th January 2024, 11:46 AM
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hey Jim, here's my faves of the list so far:
#90 Sergey Salekhov, DJoy - Nocturne -> this one ended up doing better in your chart than mine then, glad you enjoyed it #89 BLACKSHAPE - ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL -> yay for this appearing in another year-end list too #84 Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør - Oh, Lover #83 cassö, RAYE, D-Block Europe - Prada #80 LOWES - Game Of Love #76 Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You #74 Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year #69 The Blessed Madonna - Serotonin Moonbeams #68 Dua Lipa - Houdini -> this could end up fairly high in my 2024 year end list, it's a really great lead for her #64 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell #61 Fanera - Euforija #60 Noah Kahan - Stick Season #58 Rema feat. Selena Gomez - Calm Down #56 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism #55 Schak feat. Kim English - Moving All Around (Jumpin’) -> I do much prefer his new one 'Mama Used To Say' (which is another remake of course) #54 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine #50 Tove Lo - I like u #46 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready To Fly |
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19th January 2024, 01:09 PM
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Like to see "Ghosts Again" in the top 50, nice to see a Depeche Mode comeback this year!
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19th January 2024, 10:00 PM
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QUOTE(Jade @ Jan 18 2024, 11:05 PM) Hey Jim congrats on your award win once more *.* have just had a catch-up (oops this week has been so busy), here are my favourites since I last popped in:#65 Kesha - Eat The Acid #64 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell #62 Shygirl - Firefly #61 Fanera - Euforija #56 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism. #54 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine #52 Sølv - Past Life Two of my favourite chart moments of the year appear in this section! 'Escapism.' at #1 was a satisfying moment for RAYE and I still can't quite believe that Mitski has a hit single to her name I wonder what surprises the chart will have in store for us this year. I guess Sophie, Mason and Natasha are already a good start... I think I would've first come across Shygirl via BJSC but 'Firefly' is a solid introductory point too! So excited for Club Shy to come out <3 'Past Life' was an instant highlight for me in BJSC, god bless the playlist you found it on! Definitely in my top 3 entries of yours alongside Chelsea and MRD, hoovering up my medals already looking forward to seeing what the contest will bring this year. (btw the first time I tuned into 6Music I was a bit unsure but was hooked from one year of their Mercury coverage onwards, I most commonly listen to breakfast with Lauren Laverne!) Hey Jade - thank you for all the support, it's still sinking in! *.* Those were fantastic chart moments for sure hope to witness some more on that scale in 2024, but we can enjoy some of the better 2000s hits returning for now  I think 'Cleo' was the first Shygirl song I heard, but 'Firefly' is such an earworm - anything from her new album that sticks with me nearly as much would be fantastic. Yay for the 'Past Life' appreciation - "The Other List" on Spotify is where I found it and had it installed as my next BJSC entry pretty much straight away - the Jadakissnia support has been immense, I'm delighted to have come up with some favourites of yours! I'll be sure to give Lauren's show a few goes as my morning listening too.QUOTE(Danuary @ Jan 19 2024, 11:46 AM) hey Jim, here's my faves of the list so far: #90 Sergey Salekhov, DJoy - Nocturne -> this one ended up doing better in your chart than mine then, glad you enjoyed it #89 BLACKSHAPE - ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL -> yay for this appearing in another year-end list too #84 Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør - Oh, Lover #83 cassö, RAYE, D-Block Europe - Prada #80 LOWES - Game Of Love #76 Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You #74 Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year #69 The Blessed Madonna - Serotonin Moonbeams #68 Dua Lipa - Houdini -> this could end up fairly high in my 2024 year end list, it's a really great lead for her #64 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell #61 Fanera - Euforija #60 Noah Kahan - Stick Season #58 Rema feat. Selena Gomez - Calm Down #56 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism #55 Schak feat. Kim English - Moving All Around (Jumpin’) -> I do much prefer his new one 'Mama Used To Say' (which is another remake of course) #54 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine #50 Tove Lo - I like u #46 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready To Fly Hey Dan - yes a great back-to-back of your entries to different contests there! 'Houdini' has been something of a revelation in how well it's holding up with repeated plays, I think it'll appear on many 2024 year ends too. I'm a little more familiar with earlier versions of 'Mama Used To Say' so that probably works against it for me, glad you also like his remake of the Kim English tune anyway. QUOTE(Sergej @ Jan 19 2024, 01:09 PM) Like to see "Ghosts Again" in the top 50, nice to see a Depeche Mode comeback this year! Great to see, it was a fantastic comeback and probably my favourite song of theirs since the 90s! Thanks all! |
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19th January 2024, 10:04 PM
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#45 -> #41 #45 MRD & Narciss - Midsommar (309 points) [28-19-17-15-12-11-10-13-14-16-18-20-31] #44 HighSchool - Colt (312 points) [35-26-17-13-13-13-13-15-15-14-13-16-25-34] #43 Metric - Who Would You Be For Me (322 points) [14-09-07-07-05-01-01-01-02+] #42 Lucia & The Best Boys - Burning Castles (325 points) [24-18-11-11-11-11-07-06-09-13-18-28] #41 Vandal Moon - Sweet Disaster (325 points) [14-12-07-05-09-11-09-09-13-19-26-33] Crossing 300 points now with the first song I heard from MRD - a collab with fellow producer Narciss which I described in Kath's EOY as "New Order on a trance trip", although maybe it's more of a techno trip, but anyway... it ticked just about every box going for me, and might well have been higher had it not been for another track on the same EP which I would send to BJSC. The highest song in this countdown not to have reached my weekly top 10 is a similar fusion of up-my-street genres from HighSchool and it even features some very 'Blue Monday'-esque drum breaks and basslines, but the best moment comes at 3:12 when that all drops out and the synths go up against the deep-in-the-mix vocals instead. Next is the first of three entries for Metric - all of which topped my weekly chart, and this in quick succession after my current BJSC entry, so we'll see how that goes, but regardless this was another delight of a tune packed with memorable lines from them. Speaking of BJSC, there's another of my 18 pointers higher up and also another contest winner, but the highest which achieved both comes from Lucia & The Best Boys as I was won over by the dramatic mid-tempo production with her voice scaling highs and lows and a huge Erasure-like chorus. Vandal Moon have my token discovery from 2022 in this section - I didn't realise a synthesised encapsulation of 80s goth was something I wanted, but I wouldn't be without it now! |
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20th January 2024, 09:07 PM
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#40 -> #36 #40 Leony - Holding On (327 points) [28-21-14-10-06-07-08-10-12-15-18-25-32] #39 SZA - Kill Bill (328 points) [34-32-28-22-18-12-08-06-07-09-13-19-23-29-33-35] #38 Picture Parlour - Norwegian Wood (335 points) [01-01-01-01-04-05-07-16-22-29-31-39] #37 Broosnica - Enter The Energy (336 points) [33-26-21-17-13-09-10-08-09-07-08-13-23] #36 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle (336 points) [04-03-03-04-03-05-08-13-19-24-29] I knew nothing about Leony and her history as a BJSC winner when this song came up towards the end of NMF, with a synth riff which sounded a deliberate homage to 'Bad Habits' and therefore 'Smalltown Boy', and a pop song that's catchy as the hell she'd rather keep on going through "if hell is where I can be close to you". SZA released SOS at the end of 2022 and her biggest hit from it took its time but gradually usurped 'Nobody Gets Me' as its best unreleased track for me, and now rivals 'Good Days' as my overall favourite, as she lays down thoughts of revenge over the finest of musical earworms - the shift from "jail" to "hell" in the final chorus hits particularly hard. The second half of NMF comes up trumps again with Picture Parlour whose song I had to replay straight away, as Katherine Parlour's cathartically delivered vocal and every chord change went straight to my gut - maybe some lyrics are a little on the nose, and I felt like it could be polarising as a BJSC entry but I knew I'd regret it if I didn't send it, and happily it found some other dedicated fans who helped it to a top half finish. Broosinca were one of my first ETOTW discoveries with 'Neocity', then a few months later came this single where the energy certainly does enter, and proceeds to stomp around the place for some of the finest 3 minutes of techno I've encountered. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding surely need little explanation, a lot was at stake with two such big names and their collab history, but thankfully this was the perfect reimagination of all those classic trance hits of the 90s/00s, and a full-on revival of the sound in the charts was underway. This post has been edited by jimwatts: 20th January 2024, 09:08 PM |
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22nd January 2024, 12:05 AM
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#35 -> #31 #35 070 Shake - Black Dress (339 points) [06-05-06-07-09-06-08-09-12-16-28] #34 Röyksopp - Me&Youphoria (343 points) [[02-01]-01-01-03-04-07-09-11-13-17-20-27-36] #33 Madame - ARANCIATA (350 points) [36-23-18-20-18-18-14-09-06-04-09-13-18-23-36] #32 Armin van Buuren - Lose This Feeling (351 points) [17-04-03-03-03-06-07-12-14-18-22-32] #31 Ofenbach feat. Norma Jean Martine - Overdrive (355 points) [24-14-04-03-04-03-04-06-10-18-23-24+] The story of 'Escapism.' continues, except it's featured vocalist 070 Shake who has the highest appearance in this EOY with this mesmerising discovery, yet again from halfway through NMF, which I'm amazed had so little traction elsewhere - I did consider it for BJSC, but as she finished 3rd and 6th fairly recently I thought a veto was likely. My first weekly #1 of 2023 (and my last of 2022) comes from Röyksopp whose chiming and bubbling synths set the scene beautifully while the smooth soaring vocals from the uncredited Gunhild Ramsay Kovacs complete the sense of the titular euphoria. Madame was a name I recognised when I discovered her song from Sergej's chart which proved a slow-burning hit for me, with a heavily processed vocal but stunning range and an earworm of a tune, which I came to appreciate even more once I'd seen a translation of the Italian lyrics. The trance revival continues with something of a veteran in Armin van Buuren and in my mind an absolute stormer of a tune with pitched up vocals and speedy builds, but which again appears to have made little impression generally. Speaking of euphoria in its many spellings, 'Euforija' took my top score in BJSC 159 ahead of another song yet to come, which like the song that took my bronze in that contest from Ofenbach and Norma Jean Martine is one I already knew, hence it having a pre-contest run helping it to a higher placing here, as I'd already been swept along by the Kim Wilde - Cambodia interpolation and sheer joyfulness exemplified in the lyrics and delivery. |
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