170 / Gyptian; Nicki Minaj – Hold Yuh

 

Another one PAINFULLY discriminated against by rubbishgais the internet over, this gorgeously lo-fi reggae track actually worked despite sounding immensely cheap and lazy. I don't suppose 50mg of Nicki Minaj probably helped things along a bit, although the original is still affecting and charming enough to be lovely in its own right.

 

169 / I Blame Coco – Selfmachine

 

SOUR-FACED COW is back already for a second entry into the top 200, although granted, the stakes in the 'songs about love and involving robots' are PRETTY BLOODY HIGH given the inclusion of Margaret Berger's 'Will You Remember Tomorrow', Robyn's 'The Girl and the Robot', and Beautiful Small Machine's 'Robots In Love', but I Blame Coco doesn't even come top in the 2010 competition (Sky Ferreira is yet to come...). That said, the chorus topline in this is incredibly endearing.

 

 

If Wow was the equivalent of an overly excitable 15 year old who just realised he was a MASSIVE POOF, then Get Outta My Way is the natural progression of that and a sonic personality doubled: think that overly excitable rubbishgai having hit the clubs for the first time and gotten fucked in the toilets after necking several bottles-worth of poppers (DON'T ACTUALLY DO THAT, IT'LL PROBABLY KILL YOU OR REALLY HURT YOUR THROAT). In short, THOROUGHLY FABULOUS as 'FOR THE GAYS' edition Kylie goes.

 

 

Look, just SOD OFF alright? I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT. This would be wonderful even WITHOUT the long overdue reinterpolation of The Cardigans' 'Lovefool'.

 

166 / Spark – Revolving

 

Channeling The Good Natured and Florence and the Machine ripping off Word Up with PROMINENT HARPSICHORD USAGE? Sign me UP.

 

 

Much as I'm REALLY not a fan of Cherly's solo output, I'm not going to deny that this has FILLED the hole I've had in my life that's been wanting for a BIG SHIT SLUSHY XMAS BALLAD ever since Change left my playlist.

 

 

I lack the comments to describe this patent Doop rehash. Instead, I'll just announce that I crack out one MEAN comb-rave to this bitch.

 

163 / Dandy Andy – My Lonely Valentine

 

Now THIS would've been a fabulous comeback for Sophie Ellis-Bextor - it's really a mix of three songs (in the original song anyway, which is seemingly absent from YouTube) - the verses all New Order/Eurythmics synthpop, the bridge strummy indie navelgazing pop, and a sweeping majestic bubbly synthified chorus filled to the brim with heartbreak. Luscious.

 

 

Despite having long since become a full convert to Ellie Goulding, I stand by my original prediction after hearing this that Marina would've gone on to be the bigger of the two - even though I've long since been proved wrong. Colour me BAFFLED as to how a song with only a half-good pop hook that takes ages to really make itself an earworm managed to go top five, but I'm going to have to put it down, as ever, to Starsmith's fantastic production - wonderfully classy as electropop goes, almost dreampop at times.

 

 

Oh now WHO DOESN'T love a bit of Gregorian chanting followed by pulsing insistent synths opening up their pop tracks? The production on this is properly fantastic, although the track would be nothing without Gabriella's heartbreakingly resigned vocal delivery.

Blimey, your passion for the contest is still unrivalled, I rarely discover anything I truly love from it anymore :( Only one or two week wonders these days...

 

There are a large number of BJSC entries in my top 100 but only two I actually 'discovered' from it :o And only one of those is top 50!

Oh, in terms of stuff since the contest break, barely anything's made it in...

This has improved. 'Choices' was FAR better than any Hoosiers comeback single ever had any right to be. Electropop/indie WORKS.

I also ADORE 'I Won't Kneel' - oh the melancholy! :drama: It's a shame Groove Armada seem to have lost what little commercial clout they may have ever had, because they've been one of the most on-form acts over the past year. 'Paper Romance' was similarly FABULOUS.

 

Alex Gardener - utter MEH and I'm not shocked it flopped. I can't believe how arsed the whole thing was. Xenomania on total auto-pilot, and chubster Gardener sounding utterly bored whilst looking like any average bloke you'd find in Watford town on a Saturday night. Total mess.

HELLO

 

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WHAT I KNOW AND love:

 

200 / Jay Sean; Nicki Minaj – 2012 (It Ain't The End) (Jump Smokers Remix)

198 / Glee Cast – Teenage Dream THIS IS amazing. I LOVE it.

195 / Marina and the Diamonds – Girls

194 / Aggro Santos – Candy

193 / James Blunt – Stay the Night

190 / Alex Gaudino – I'm In Love

189 / BC Jean – Just A Guy

188 / The Hoosiers – Choices

185 / Labrinth – Let The Sun Shine

182 / Sabrina Washington – OMG

181 / The Dream – Yamaha I STILL NEED TO hear THIS

180 / Travie McCoy; Bruno Mars – Billionaire

175 / Ellie Goulding – Your Song

172 / Usher; will.i.am. – OMG

171 / Sheelah – Psycho

168 / Kylie Minogue – Get Outta My Way

165 / Cheryl Cole – The Flood

162 / Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed

161 / Gabriella Cilmi – Love Me Cos You Want To I HOPE THERE'S MORE to COME FROM GABRIELLA :)

 

NICE CHart. :wub:

There are Youtube links in all the titles Jonjo, you have no excuse!

160 / Nerina Pallot – Real Late Starter

 

POOR BRAVE NERINA. Having remortgaged her house AGAIN to release this album, people still didn't give a $h!t whatsoever (on that point, I realise this is TECHNICALLY a 2009 track but I'm putting it in here as I discovered it this year and it's better than Joe McElderry's version, which suitably gays things up as appropriate and adds more bip bop bip bop.) - which is a massive shame, although this jaunty electro-acousticy track was far more fierce than it ever had any right to be.

 

 

In the absence of Santigold's followup album, Mndr brought me my dose of 80s-ish atavistic indie-pop with a real grower and a hell of a sensuous bassline.

 

 

POOR BRAVE Preeya Kalidas. Having established herself as a fierce (if USELESS) gorgeous bint on Eastenders, she should've had it made. Instead, the stupid cow went off and tried to make it in pop again - well, TO BE FAIR Shimmy did go #1 for a week (on the BBC Asian Network chart, but shh). However THIS wonderful slice of scuzzy electropop really hit the spot for me - THAT BRIDGE, THAT CHORUS, THAT POST-CHORUS *dies*

 

 

If there's one popstar that's ROYALLY GOTTEN ON MY TITS over the past year, it's been KATY FUCKING PERRY. Obnoxious bitch has been EVERYWHERE for the last few months, and by releasing an album unafraid to use a few swear words and allude to cock on one of the songs she's earned herself a LEGION of f***ing mindless rubbishgai stans who insist that she's ICONIC and FIERCE even though the album's QUITE GOOD at best. THIS in particular has to be by far the most overrated song of the year, shamelessly jacking the beat and production flourishes of TiK ToK but still receiving a near-universal orgasm from the internet. To which I say SOD OFF - although I will concede that it's hella feel good and has (I RELUCTANTLY SAY THIS) become a bit of a summer anthem, really Teenage Dream would've been a far better and far more daring lead-off track for the album.

 

 

The first World Cup-related track in this rundown (Shout For England will NOT BE FEATURING) is an incredibly classy affair - full of trancey sweeps and tribal rhythms with someone who looks like a WEAVED UP ESTELLE taking the vocals. Blissful.

 

155 / Katy Perry – Hummingbird Heartbeat

 

Hummingbird Heartbeat really shows off Katy Perry doing what she does best - evoking the 80s with driving guitars pumping out spectacular power chords and a fantastically rousing chorus. It's a shame bitch decided to stick with tit fireworks and choruses that sound like a dog being castrated sans anaesthetic for the third single.

 

154 / Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand

 

Much like We Ne Speak Americano, this isn't a track that lends itself well to comment. Just sit back and LUXURIATE in the genius of a track which really is nothing more than a Boney M loop and the odd shout-out to OLD BEAKY, yet somehow works spectacularly.

 

153 / Linda Sundblad – Let's Dance

 

If there was ever a track that shamelessly devoted itself to attempting to ape Robyn, it was surely this - not in the production, which is a driving, almost hi-NRG poptastic virtuoso performance, but in Linda's vocals, which really unsubtly go in for the kill on imitating Robyn's vocal sensitive edge. Just try and resist that chorus.

 

 

Was there EVER a more hot mess coronation for a QoL than Massive Attack? The whole thing sounds like the most horrific career mis-step ever on first listen, but you really have to try with this track to realise the insane, messy genius lying beneath it. Calls and responses that are merely a means to the ends of 'MANGO', an opening that discusses a lover's cock being as dangerous as one in Lebanon but moreso than one in Pakistan, and a breakdown heralded by a gunshot. FABULOUS.

 

151 / Viktorious – When We Were Ten

 

A rolling synth production is the perfect backing to this wonderfully emotional and nostalgic track - but what makes the whole thing worth it comes with the production sparkles in the second chorus and after. High-paced electropop never felt so luxuriant and majestic.

A couple of these are decent....

 

195 / Marina and the Diamonds – Girls

185 / Labrinth – Let The Sun Shine

180 / Travie McCoy; Bruno Mars – Billionaire

175 / Ellie Goulding – Your Song

174 / Plan B – She Said

173 / I Blame Coco – Quicker - REALLY?

172 / Usher; will.i.am. – OMG - This is far better than most of the years big sellers, I've never really bored od this, not that I like it that much

169 / I Blame Coco – Selfmachine

164 / Yolanda Be Cool; Dcup – We No Speak Americano - Just no

162 / Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed

160 / Nerina Pallot – Real Late Starter

159 / Mndr – I Go Away

157 / Katy Perry – California Gurls - I don't want to like this but I do

154 / Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand - Got boring quickly.

 

This is the lowest part of the list so I'm not really expecting critical acclaim for this bit http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/images/smilies/grin.gif Feel free to criticise me wholeheartedly for anything in my top 90.

Glad Cristal Snow made it!

 

Marina hasn't flopped by any means...Top 15 hit and Top 5 album selling gold. Sure, her success does not compare with the amazingness but that can be said about almost any quality pop act these days (Hurts, Pet Shop Boys etc)

 

She has a great fanbase already all over Europe. She's performed here twice since the summer and 'Robot' and 'Shampain' have been hits

Edited December 8, 201014 yr by SKOB

Surprised a couple of your BJSC entries are so low! The only one of mine not in my top 100 is Varsta Schlagern, and that's only because it's from 2007, which is why I've also excluded Den Vilda, even though I had a renewed obsession for it earlier in the year, I can't justify putting a 1996 song in a 2010 EOY chart :lol:

 

I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU'RE ALL JUDGING ME FOR THIS. Not gonna lie, rocking out a Bogle groove to this song (IN PARTICULAR the post-chorus trumpets) with the windows open makes me feel HELLACIOUSLY cool. Not to MENTION that he's quite the fittie when he goes swimming and ditches the fucking fringe that just makes him look like a BALKAN VERSION OF SIA. Not that that has anything to do with my rating of the song.

 

149 / Simon Curtis – Beat Drop

 

I LOVE how off-the-wall this track is. That sampling of the opera singer as a key hook is simply inspired, and words cannot describe how excited I got when he sampled BLOODY BAD ROMANCE. Disco eyes all around!

 

 

By and large, if it's sponsored by NME I don't have any time for it whatsoever, although with the whimpering death of the landfill indie Britpop revival of the mid-00s they were FINALLY forced to start liking decent bands. For my money, this is probably the most hook-filled and poptastic track we're ever going to get from a traditional NME band for a good few years.

 

 

Let's get past the painfully fatuous lyrics, the bizarre tirade against 'rap politics' (?!) and the claim that now B.o.B. raps to stay RELEVANT (was he in a COMA during 2003-7 in America?) - because at the end of it all, Airplanes uses the magical E minor-G-C-A minor chord progression that unlocks everyone and UNITES US ALL in appreciation for solemn yet determined pop which makes us feel optimistic despite everything ETC. next.

 

 

Now this is SO RIDICULOUS that I genuinely had no idea how I would judge it fairly. Xtina decided that the best way to crown her title as QUEEN OF QUALITY CONTROL (as received after Back To Basics) was to pump out a cunnilingus anthem with a chorus with lyrics that, even after hearing them many times over the past few months, still need reading to be believed.

 

You know you really wanna (HEY) wanna taste my,

You know you wanna get a peek wanna see my,

You know you wanna put your lips where my hips are, kiss on my, all over my,

All the boys think it's cake when they taste my,

You don't even need a plate, just your face ha!

Licky licky yum yum what a great guy, now kiss on my, all over my.

 

FUCK ME bitch must have some serious diabetes going on if her lady-garden tastes of bloody CAKE. And with the amount of SQUIRTING I have no doubt a ho like Tina would be purveying, I'm pretty sure you'd need a plate/bowl as well. Thank goodness she invited Nicki Minaj along to take it from the ridiculous to the sublime.

 

 

POOR, BRAVE CROATIA. Having farted out a couple of ethnic anthems which did a grand total of fuck-all at the end of the day for the last three years, they decided to invite along NOTED BOSNIAN TOP 10 group Feminnem to rip off Dima Bilan's winning track from 2008 almost wholesale. In a year where there were very few standout tracks, surely a guaranteed recipe for success? Unfortunately not. Drawn into the more difficult of the two semis (and also the one where Croatia had NO NEIGHBOURS whatsoever to leap over the language barrier), Croatia limped in at a weak 13th with just 33 points and failed to qualify. Better luck next year?

 

 

A true highlight of GAB's album, Robots represents a triumph of ripping off Lady Gaga (as opposed to weak attempts from The Sats/Cascada/insert other act of your choice), choosing to hit up the back catalogue and jack up Dance In The Dark's chord progression NOTE FOR NOTE in the chorus. Not that I'm objecting - Robots is gorgeously warm compared to Dance In The Dark, and I'm always a sucker for love songs that use the robot metaphor (which, as I'm sure you all know, is 100% CERTAIN to produce an amazing pop song).

 

143 / Joe McElderry – Ambitions

 

POOR BRAVE Joe McElderry :( Having not at all given a $h!t about him post-X Factor victory, he immediately stole my heart by releasing a cover of one of my favourite songs of 2009 (which had the Scandipop success hopeful in me SQUEEING with delight) and then banging out a video with the most fabulously shit choreography ever (I think I actually pulled a muscle from laughing at the ARM SHIMMY the first time I saw it). Unfortunately, everybody now decided to stop caring the moment I DID start caring and now Joe's pretty much consigned to having to spend the rest of his career living off G-A-Y and Butlins gigs.

 

 

M.I.A. is now, for me, an odd relic of my teenage years - nothing more sums up the pretentious nature of being a teenager than my memories of looning over Paper Planes as a 16 year old (and then again over a year later when advert placement got it to the DIZZY HEIGHTS of #19 in the charts), although Kala and Arular both remain up there with the best albums of the 00s. The underwhelming /\/\/\Y/\ album has led to me pretty much dismissing her as a fad of my youth who's now past her best, but XXXO with its hard-hitting percussion and annoyingly addictive hook ensured I'm probably still going to be paying attention whatever she does. Plus, has a lo-fi video ever been more visually stunning than the one for this?

 

 

POOR BRAVE Keri Hilson. Having finally shaken off the rent-a-rapper curse and gone out to do something on her own for once, and it actually turning out to be amazing and fully in keeping with the sound trend at the time of recording, Keri then released it to find that the sound she'd done well with originally was now back in vogue and I Like ended up turtling around the foot of the charts before disappearing FOREVER. She can't have another album deal left in her by now, surely?

Justin Bieber ahead of Kylie how could you :drama: death to the beaver

Pleased at the amount of Eurovision entries. Croatia & Slovakia really should've qualified. Albania - meh. Serbia was only really good when he performed it in Oslo, it was dreadful before the performance. But yes, very fit when he goes swimming :kink:

 

'Love Me' is probably my favourite of Justin's songs, nice to see it make an appearance. Nothing else has really stuck out so far (or rather, you've already posted quite a lot and I don't want to write a paragraph about every single song)

'Woohoo' :wub: I agree with you in how it's so ridiculous, but that's part of it's charm. It's almost novelty I'd say and Queen Nicki only adds to it's epicness.

 

From what I've seen I also like Kylie, Cheryl, Katy, B.o.B. and Keri.

 

Generally in 2010 we've been LACKING delicate, heartfelt and heartbroken electro-80s-disco, so plaudits all around to Groove Armada for DELIVERING WONDROUSLY with I Won't Kneel by giving us the above whilst seemingly channeling Sharleen Spiteri whilst doing so.

LOVE THIS. Totally deserving of a place in any year end top 200, their album was so underrated as it's easily one of the (if not THE) best they've ever produced.

 

 

Best of the chart so far:

 

195 / Marina and the Diamonds – Girls

186 / Groove Armada – I Won't Kneel

179 / Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love [short Club Remix] - Not as keen on the mix but the original is GLORIOUS

176 / Cocknbullkid – Cocknbullkid

175 / Ellie Goulding – Your Song - Grown on me loads since it was released, quite a nice little cover. Tasteful is probably the word.

174 / Plan B – She Said

173 / I Blame Coco – Quicker - One of her worse tracks for me but it's okay

169 / I Blame Coco – Selfmachine - Love this, the first 3 singles are all brilliant.

168 / Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way - a retread of her second glory days but okay enough

166 / Spark – Revolving - I preferred her debut

164 / Yolanda Be Cool; Dcup – We No Speak Americano - It managed to wear me down eventually

162 / Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed - Okay, still think Under The Sheets is her best.

159 / Mndr – I Go Away - Love it. One of my UP entries, although I'm sure you probably knew it before then

157 / Katy Perry – California Gurls - again, another one that chipped away at me until I could tolerate it.

154 / Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand - Guilty pleasure alert.

148 / Delphic – Halcyon

142 / M.I.A. - XXXO - decent enough, not a patch on her earlier singles but still one of the high points from a rather underwhelming album

 

 

Not bad. Definitely improving so I shall revert to looking forward to the top 100 a bit more... :D

Edited December 8, 201014 yr by Dandy*

This list is mostly dire. 'Get Outta My Way' is one of the laziest by-numbers Kylie has put her name to, and boy has she had some in her time. The whole 'Barbra Streisand' thing was just repungant, and only Tirren could ever be ridiculous enough to write a passage essentially slagging off 'WooHoo' yet still find room in his top 200 for it.

 

However he DOES quite rightly point out that Nerina's 'Real Late Starter' pisses over Joe's, so there is redemption.

Thanks for all comments thus far!

 

LOVE THIS. Totally deserving of a place in any year end top 200, their album was so underrated as it's easily one of the (if not THE) best they've ever produced.

Best of the chart so far:

 

179 / Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love [short Club Remix] - Not as keen on the mix but the original is GLORIOUS

The original was in my top five of last year and my top 30 of the decade!

 

This list is mostly dire. 'Get Outta My Way' is one of the laziest by-numbers Kylie has put her name to, and boy has she had some in her time. The whole 'Barbra Streisand' thing was just repungant, and only Tirren could ever be ridiculous enough to write a passage essentially slagging off 'WooHoo' yet still find room in his top 200 for it.

 

However he DOES quite rightly point out that Nerina's 'Real Late Starter' pisses over Joe's, so there is redemption.

That's because Woohoo is so ridiculous that it's actually amazing! QUITE RIGHT on the latter point as well!

 

GAYS UNITE. This slice of schlager sadly missed out on entry into Melodifestivalen and a near-guaranteed spot in Andra Chansen (and NO FURTHER), but more than made up for it by being so painfully generic it was fabulous. Give me that chorus straight in the veins please.

 

139 / Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Bittersweet [Freemasons Remix]

 

POOR BRAVE Sophie Ellis-Bextor! Just when things seemed to be on the up after casual release Heartbreak got huge airplay backing and became a modest hit last year, but Radio 1 truly abandoned ship on this one, leaving it to turtle in outside the top twenty despite it being the best single she's released since her heyday.

BEST BIT: 1:00-04 - the HEARTSTOPPING drum kick signals the chorus before it floods in with imperial electro glory, Sophie all the while trying her best to sound like she gives a shit about what she's singing.

 

 

I yearn for the day Taio delivers to the same level as he did with Come On Girl, a track which at once proved itself to be the most influential of the last couple of years in single-handedly starting the R&B electropop revolution. However, if he carries on punching just below that but sounding pretty damn anthemic anyway in doing so like he does here, I'm sure I can cope with him for a few more years.

BEST BIT: The middle eight. EMPOWERING.

 

137 / NS 윤지 - 춤을 춰

 

I have NO IDEA what the hell this track is about, not having the first idea about Korean, but it's chock full of electro confection so I'll let it pass.

 

136 / Robyn – Hang With Me (Acoustic)

 

Yes, I have split the acoustics from the originals - mainly because they may as well be different tracks given the completely different moods to them. The acoustic version of Hang With Me is far more vulnerable, taking on a far more pleading edge than the synthed and sped up single version. Just take in the majesty of those strings mixed with the delicate piano twinkles.

Robyn. :wub: Hang With Me hasn't held up over the year as well for me as the other singles have, it's still a great track but it's probably only about 8th on the album now. A sign of just how goooood she has been this year.

 

 

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