Don't remember in my system at all

 

Love missing you

Missing You came at a time in my life where a substantial quantity of friends I'd known for a while decided to all go their seperate ways, so the song deeply resonated with me. Always been one of my fave Saturdays tracks.

 

Tinchy only released one brilliant song - Never Leave You - and everything else is bland filler, to the point not only do I not remember 'In My System' at all but completely forgot he was still having hits as late as this - even more so now I've found out he had a #7 single as recently as early 2012!

W/E: 28/08/2010

 

Roll Deep - Green Light

 

 

Roll Deep getting a number one was surprising, but getting a second three months later was a hell of a surprise to me. Especially as ‘Green Light’ has always just seemed an attempt to recreate ‘Good Times’ and continue enjoying the wave that track had given them

 

They haven’t troubled the top ten since, and that’s no big shame at all. To be fair, Green Light isn’t horrible to listen too but it’s certainly generic and not particularly memorable.

 

Green Light was much better than Good Times for me. Green Light was my favourite song for ages back in 2010 :wub:

Quite like green light (6/10) but good times is so much better (9/10)

Edited July 5, 201410 yr by Ultraviolence

W/E: 04/09/2010

Taio Cruz - Dynamite

:cry:

SO 2010 that it hurts, it’s easy to forget that Taio Cruz was actually killing it on the world wide stage three/four years ago. ‘Break Your Heart’ giving him a US number one and Dynamite returning him to the top two as well as having a very lengthy chart run there. With all that success, it does seem weird that since 2011 he’s just kind of vanished

‘Dynamite’ was one of my favourite records at the time it came out, just one of those tracks that I should find generic and uninteresting but refuses to be received as such and makes you want to listen to it over and over. A great track that will forever remind me of the end of a pretty great summer for me. Also, there were so many hilarious alternatives to the ‘I throw my hands up in the air sometimes...” line and even today if you started singing "I throw my hands up..." you'd probably have someone recite back the next lyric verbatim, a sign of a memorable track for sure

Katy B - Katy On a Mission



I have to admit I didn’t pay much attention to Katy B the first time she was around, not until I heard ‘Broken Record’ anyway, this one honestly passed me by a little bit at the time. Shame really, as I am really enjoying it now and as I’ve really enjoyed all the singles from ‘Little Red’ so far I’m going to come and out and say I have been converted into a Katy B fan

Brandon Flowers - Crossfire



Going solo now, Brandon Flowers deciding to do his own stuff whilst The Killers were on a break.... Because he NEVER got a chance to shine in the band (???). I won’t deny that ‘Crossfire’ is a good song, and probably the best one that entered the top ten this week, but it’s just such a Killers song that I do struggle to connect with it; it just sounds like an album track from "Sam's Town" to me.

Did people at the time even realize this was Flowers at the time, or did they just think The Killers were back with new music? Like I said, ‘Crossfire’ is actually a pretty great song and Flowers, as always, sells it all very well but I just think that if he wants to plan out a successful solo career for himself in a few years time, he maybe should do music that isn’t SO like The Killers music.

Don't remember Crossfire at all so no rating

Never liked dynamite- it's so overrated and generic [3/10]

BUT I LOVE KATY ON A MISSION [8.5/10]

Can only speak for myself, but while I knew Crossfire was a Brandon solo track I still enjoyed it for sounding exactly like a Killers song. Did well to chart highly given we're entering the least 'rockiest' era for the chart I can ever remember, barely anything indie or guitar-sounding charting for ages!

 

Katy On A Mission, first time I listened to it on Spotify I wondered what the hell was going on - we're still a few months away from the mainstream dubstep explosion of 2011 (and a few years away from the likes of Taylor Swift destroying it all) but my god did it sound immense in the clubs as I soon found out. Reminds me of a place called 'Cable' in London Bridge now long-closed down that played the likes of this and other dubsteppy-sounding tracks, even listening to it reminds me of being there at god knows what time of the morning. Always been a huge fan of Katy and was really happy she got another top 5 hit a few months back.

 

And Dynamite is just the epitome of bland, mainstream early-2010s dance-pop, but again, the memories improve it for me. Would never listen to it outside of a club night but in a couple of decades time when I attend 2010s nostalgia nights, I'll certainly be throwing my hands up in the air :P

Katy On A Mission - landmark.

W/E: 11/09/2010

 

Olly Murs - Please Don't Let Me Go

 

 

Good ol’Olly, probably one of my favourites of the X Factor alumni and ultimately I think it was VERY good thing that he lost to Joe McElderry in 2009. He’s had so many bigger and better hits that ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’ seems pretty forgotten now, and its not surprising that it has really especially with ‘Heart Skips a Beat’ and ‘Troublemaker’ to compete with

 

This isn’t bad, at all in fact it’s probably one of the better pop songs of the year, but it does slip a little too close to the dull side at points. There’s much, much, much better to come from Olly but this is a good starting point, and better than the nonsense Joe came back with a month or so later

 

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

 

 

In many ways, ‘Teenage Dream’ is probably the best song Katy Perry has ever released. It’s a glorious piece of summery pop fun, despite being a Katy Perry love song it stays away from being overly cheesy and it’s just an all round joyful listen. Especially when you consider how overly sexualised her songs have been in the past, hearing her sing about being genuinely in love here is very refreshing.

 

I’ll admit she has her flaws as a pop singer, the tendency her songs have of being way too cheesy being the main one, but when she wants to Perry can really pull it out the bag and she does just that here. Absolutely brilliant.

 

Pepper & Piano - You Took My Heart

 

 

I’m honestly not sure what to make of this one, I gather this duo came from some Sky1 reality show that didn’t make it past its first season. It’s not BAD but I’m not overly impressed by it either. Did they win? I don’t care

 

 

Olly gets exactly what happened with One Direction/Matt Cardle a year later - Simon basically ignoring the previous year's final completely and giving the killer songs/publicity to who he thinks should have won instead. I'm not a fan of manufactured X Factor but they keep giving Olly killer songs that I've always enjoyed.

 

Had to double take when I saw Pepper & Piano, gotta be one of the most obscure acts of the decade to get a top 10 hit!

I loved Pepper & Piano :wub: I remember Pepper's voice being (rightly or wrongly) compared to Adele's, and this was just a matter of weeks before Adele herself would make a surprise appearance in the top 10!

Don't have a clue or remember that song by pepper and piano

Please don't let me go was a nice song. 7/10 and one I didn't mind going to 1

But teenage dream is so overrated. I love literally everything Katy has done but this one of her worst for me. 4/10

W/E: 18/09/2010

Alexandra Burke - Start Without You



With a song that sounds like a weird mix of pirate music and reggae, Alexandra Burke is back with her penultimate top ten hit. This is honestly one of the most bizarre songs I have ever heard; I honestly can’t think of what genre to call this and it’s just very, very, very odd.

I mean, my ears aren’t bleeding as a result of listening to it or anything but it’s just odd. I feel like I need a lay down after listening to this, the fact it spent two weeks at number one is just as strange. Still if you enjoy gratuitous scenes of toned men dancing around in very small black underwear then I guess this is for you...

The Script - For The First Time



When they first arrived on the scene back in 2008 The Script quickly became one of my favourite bands of the year. Songs like ‘We Cry’, ‘The Man Who Can’t Be Moved’ and ‘Breakeven’ were all brilliant, beautifully crafted and carried messages that really made you care. The Script’s first album is bloody fantastic, but as with most bands with great first albums ever since they’ve struggled to maintain the momentum

‘For The First Time’ honestly sounds like some leftover track that wasn’t quite good enough for the first album – in fact the whole of ‘Science & Faith’ does with the exception of ‘If You Ever Come Back’. It’s just BORING, doesn’t go anywhere and I just don’t feel connected to the subject matter as I did with the first album. The Script have got worse since unfortunately, at least they’ll always have that great first record.

McFly - Party Girl



Hmmm. Back in 2004, when I was an innocent nine year old, I was a very big McFly fan. In the decade since their debut, I’ve outgrown their first few albums but they’ll always have that nostalgic element to them and I do like the simplicity of the pop songs on them to this day – ‘Obviously’ and ‘I’ll Be OK’ still being absolutely brilliant to me. By 2010, the boys had been around for six years and their original fanbase was growing up. The 9 year olds of 2004 were now 15, and the boys needed a change of sound to keep up

It was jarring, and the fact the parent album of this flopped says a lot but I don’t hate ‘Party Girl’. I actually found it refreshing at the time, their music had sounded the same for years and it was nice to get a different sound from them. Their gamble didn’t pay off; any remaining fans seemingly put off by the new sound which wasn’t quite good enough to attract new ones with Shine a Light’ of course being the exception, but more on that later.

The music video for this one is weird, and very disjointed. It's also just full on fanservice if you fancy Harry Judd.

Emma's Imagination - This Day



Another song from the axed Sky One music show that I’ve now found out was called ‘Must Be The Music’. In all honesty, I actually quite like this one and at least it doesn’t sound like watered down Adele as the previous entry from the show had done.

‘This Day’ is nothing unique but it’s quite a happy little folk song, not all together memorable but quite nice to listen to all the same.

Edited July 21, 201410 yr by James Silkstone

I had completely forgotten about those Must Be The Music tracks & amazed they reached the top 10!

 

As for Start Without You, that's one of my favourite X Factor contestant tracks. So incredibly catchy, but let's forget that video existed...

Don't remember how any of those songs apart from start without you

 

It is possibly burke's weakest track but I still love it (BROKEN HEELS IS THE BEST)

Edited July 21, 201410 yr by Ultraviolence

Another song briefly big only to completely disappear from everyone's memory after a few months with Start Without You - amazingly it even held on for two weeks at #1. I always liked it but you're right, it is a really bizarre mix of c.2010 cutting-edge electropop and children's nursery rhyme. But the weirdness of it is what I think both made it work to be a #1 but also hindered it to catch on to a wider audience in the long run, hence its vanishing from public consciousness since.

 

For The First Time is nice if unspectacular, typical end-of-indie era track when we'd heard way too much of this before going back about six years by now. Looking back you can almost predict rock's brief disappearance from the charts around the early 2010s as this sort of Coldplay style stadium pop-rock sounded really tired by then. In a musical era hinting at the future with the likes of Katy On A Mission and I Need Air, FTFT sounds too much like it belongs in the previous decade, maybe around 2006 when you couldn't move for songs like it.

Another song briefly big only to completely disappear from everyone's memory after a few months with Start Without You - amazingly it even held on for two weeks at #1. I always liked it but you're right, it is a really bizarre mix of c.2010 cutting-edge electropop and children's nursery rhyme. But the weirdness of it is what I think both made it work to be a #1 but also hindered it to catch on to a wider audience in the long run, hence its vanishing from public consciousness since.

 

For The First Time is nice if unspectacular, typical end-of-indie era track when we'd heard way too much of this before going back about six years by now. Looking back you can almost predict rock's brief disappearance from the charts around the early 2010s as this sort of Coldplay style stadium pop-rock sounded really tired by then. In a musical era hinting at the future with the likes of Katy On A Mission and I Need Air, FTFT sounds too much like it belongs in the previous decade, maybe around 2006 when you couldn't move for songs like it.

 

Which makes my disliking of it even weirder when you consider I was eating all that up completely in 2006

W/E: 25/09/2010

 

Usher feat Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love

 

 

Now, considering as I was so vitriolic about Usher’s foray into dance-pop with ‘OMG’ I risk making myself look like a massive hypocrite when I state that I frankly love ‘DJ Got Us Falling In Love’. It’s just such a good dance song, and the most I’d enjoyed an Usher song in a good five years. I shouldn’t like it but I do, I’m not even sure why I like it so much when its not a million miles away from songs I utterly despise.

 

I will say that Pitbull slows it down a little, but other than that I have no complaints here.

 

Shontelle - Impossible

 

 

I like this a lot, and I was more than surprised when it became a second top ten hit for Shontelle as her previous top ten single ‘T-Shirt’ the year before seemed to scream one hit wonder. ‘Impossible’ will now predominantly be remembered as James Arthur song, and thats fine with me as his cover was one of the more decent winners tracks, but for me this original version will always be the more superior

 

Arthur’s is a bit too shouty for me, and Shontelle’s restraint really makes this what it is. She’s all but disappeared now, a two hit wonder so to say, but then again it aint easy being the second biggest star from Barbados.

 

Absolutely hate that usher song

 

Impossible was one of the best songs of 2010. Absolutely beautiful, amazing and fantastic. It is one of those songs I still listen to regularly over the last few years. James Arthur's version is awful- less said about that travesty the better.