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9 :ne: Johnny Cash

8 :up: 2 Rihanna - A Girl Like Me

7 :down: 1 Nina Simone

6 :down: 2 Fatboy slim - Why Try Harder - The Greatest Hits

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No :(

 

I doubt they ever will - they slated it the other week - bast*rdS

Rihanna's new song is terrible :puke2:

 

The most overly promoted chump since PCD

 

Unfaithful is BRILLIANT :wub:

5 :down: 4 Lostphrophets

4 :down: 2 Keane

3 :up: 2 Zutons

2 :up: 1 Kooks

 

1 :ne: Muse - Black Holes & Revelations

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Following 2003's smash hit album 'Absolution', Muse return with brand new studio album 'Black Holes And Revelations'. With the aim of combining club beats with alternative guitar licks, whilst still retaining all their epic, space-aged rock melodica, Muse sound like a new band; expanded of mind, settled of spirit and anything but sedentary of sound, 'Absolution 2: Back To The Planets', this most certainly is not.

Still, some of this might come as a shock: after opener 'Take A Bow' takes over where 'Absolution' left off – all doomy celestial synths and Matt's preacherish wails of "You will burn in hell for your sins!" – we suddenly rocket off into unexplored quadrants. 'Starlight' is an Abba gig on the moon, 'Map Of The Problematique' is Depeche Mode impersonating Queen for a Bond theme and, most surprising of all, 'Supermassive Black Hole' is a dance floor electro-metal stomper, resembling Beck giving Marilyn Manson a helium blowback in Studio 54. Which is not to mention the triptych of Italian folk-influenced meta-country that closes the record in a flurry of flamenco frenetics and mariachi horns.

For continuity, in fact, we must also look to the lyrical themes, where fans of the apocalyptic soundbite, the madcap conspiracy theory, the revolutionary rabble-rousing, the weird stuff about aliens inventing all earthly religions and other such classic Muse concerns will not be disappointed. For instance lets look at the single, 'Supermassive Black Hole', an emotional metaphior based around the theory that the Earth is actually an expanding sphere, being sucked towards the gigantic black hole at the centre of the universe! Also examined is the fear of our civilisation going the way of the Roman Empire (surf-prog album closer 'Knights Of Cydonia') and the loss of hope in the face of unjustifiable wars ('Soldier's Poem' and 'Invincible').

Whereas 'Absolution' gazed on helplessly at the subjugation of humanity by corrupt world leaders and encroaching environmental or galactic disasters (and certainly, 'Black Holes And Revelations' has its fair share of climate change/ oil crisis/ global inflagration paranoia), on the new album's pivotal track 'Assassin', Bellamy appears to be calling for nothing short of a global revolution – "Shoot your leaders down/ And join forces underground…. Destroy demonocracy". The time has come. The New Muse Order is on the rise.

 

track listing

 

* 1. Take A Bow

* 2. Starlight

* 3. Supermassive Black Hole

* 4. Map Of The Problematique

* 5. Soldier's Poem

* 6. Invincible

* 7. Assassin

* 8. Exo-politics

* 9. City Of Delusion

* 10. Hoodoo

* 11. Knights Of Cydonia

20 :ne: (from 81) Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

 

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Fantastic video from the song that is sure to be the biggest club hit of the summer, 'We Are Your Friends'. French dance masters Justice (tipped as the new Daft Punk) did a stonking mash-up of Simian's classic 'Never Be Alone' and this awesome video compliments it well. - virginrecordsuk@YouTube

 

 

'We Are Your Friends' is the latest dance beast from French house duo Justice, AKA Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Auge. The track samples British psych-poppers Simian and their 2002 single 'Never Be Alone', and Justice have transformed it into an insanely catchy dancefloor smash. - HMV

 

track listing

 

* 1. We Are Your Friends [Original Mix]

* 2. We Are Your Friends [Lee Caberera's 'Lower East Side' Remix]

* 3. We Are Your Friends [Milke 'Heavy Friends' Remix]

* 4. We Are Your Friends [Video]

 

Discussion here http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11067

My predictions.

1. Lily Allen

2. Shakira

3. Paolo Nutini

4. Razorlight

5. Nelly Furtado

 

 

19 :down: (from 14) Lost Prophets – Rooftops

 

Rooftops (Liberation Broadcast)

Lostprophets (Lost Prophets) Release date: 19-6-2006

Catalogue Number: TORMENT72CD

Label: VISIBLENOISE

 

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Jun 2006

 

Lostprophets return with their first single in over 18 months with the release of the euphoric anthem 'Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)'. The band gave the new track, alongside 2 others from new album 'Liberation Transmission', its first airing in the UK recently in front of 25,000 fans when Lostprophets headlined the "Give it A Name" festival in Manchester and London.

 

The single (and album) was recorded in Hawaii with legendary producer Bob Rock and the b-sides came from the same sessions and are all brand new tracks. The band, which consists of guitarist Mike Lewis, frontman Ian Watkins, Lee Gaze (guitar), Stuart Richardson (bass) and Jamie Oliver (keyboards, programming) formed almost a decade ago in Pontypridd, Wales.

 

Discuss Single here http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9029

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