January 21, 20187 yr Don't Be Afraid To Catch Fish x Honestly there is so many bops here especially You Don't Know Me, Anywhere, Havana, Ultralife, Hello Hello, Sign Of The Times, Cut To The Feeling, Humble, Green Light and Praying to name a few along with all the BJSC/Indie/other contests slayage.
January 22, 20187 yr Author 9 Perfume Genius Slip Away from 2014's "Queen" to this, Perfume Genius clearly knows how to open a new era with a statement. A theatrical anthem of love defying oppression, it's elegant but highly bombastic with it's post-chorus instrumental flurries -EVhFTw4igw
January 22, 20187 yr Author 8 Paramore Hard Times Already embracing their pop side on the likes of Still Into You, Paramore dive even further in with a colourful new wave corker HAAARD TIIMES. and it's hard not to love that perky guitar riff and Hayley's charismatic performance here, certainly the band's shining moment for me so far! AEB6ibtdPZc
January 22, 20187 yr Hard Times (and all the rest of their singles) should have done much better than they did officially! Really great songs!
January 23, 20187 yr Author 7 Ariel Pink Feels Like Heaven feeeels liiike HEAVEEEEEEEEN~ and boy does it ever, with the dreamy hazy psychedelic instrumental and a tune with enough melodic power to elevate it <3 nEN4qmE8QYY
January 23, 20187 yr Author 6 Drones Club Hurricane Trifoski topped the BJSC mountain once again with cryptic british group Drones Club and their futuristic house banger, it kinda sounds like if you took one of AlunaGeorge's dancehall jams from last year and filtered it with robot vocals. in a year full of dance songs with no real 'drops' it was refreshing to have this to rave out to! Ln_hOBTUCQg
January 23, 20187 yr Drones Club was the best BJSC winner by far last year! Love everything about it, just wish they were a bit more popular!
January 24, 20187 yr Author 5 Oh Sees The Static God usually best appreciated through a full album listen- Thee Oh Sees kicked down the doors, more menacing and nightmarish than ever with an awesome single that could easily stand on its own, the driving energy, catchy verses and a wild screeching guitar section made this an essential :w00t: JmQm285ZHeI
January 24, 20187 yr Author 4 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Holy Mountain it's good when artists come out with a curveball, and i can't think of a bigger surprise than this goofy stomper of a track from Noel and his crew of birds! a track so filled to the brim with instrumentation it almost overflows- the psychedelic backing, a tin whistle hook, the heavy sax riffs (this is where it starts to sound eerily similar to Plastic Bertrand's Ca plane pour moi!). It's so much damn fun though, and hearing this amongst the Top 40 that one week made it sound almost otherworldly by comparison. Today's musical landscape could stand to have a few more Holy Mountains i reckon ~ BIQdUJ04iNY
January 24, 20187 yr Author final three posted when i get back tomorrow~ a scotsman, a frenchman and a portuguese man walked into a bar... (yes i know they're not from portugal shut up)
January 25, 20187 yr Author 3 Portugal. The Man Feel It Still the fluke indie hit sweepstakes (to quote a Todd In The Shadows phrase) still going strong! an alternative rock band who've rolling on since 2004 without much recognition (some buzzjackers might remember their very good "Purple Yellow Red and Blue" track from UP), Portugal Dot The Man wormed their way into the brains of the public with Feel It Still- an immensely lovable track with a tight bass groove, little horn stabs and the falsetto vocal adds an extra spice to the mix. Playing almost like a rockier version of Pharrell's "Happy", this track has a sorta universal appeal that saw it cross over even to the UK Top 40 despite being sabotaged at almost every turn. Quality wins over sometimes folks x pBkHHoOIIn8
January 25, 20187 yr Author 2 Paradis Toi Et Moi One of Trifoski's big hits from 2017 (the song is actually from 2016 but i'm allowed to cheat and include it here) and i'm very glad i eventually settled on this for BJSC 92. a gorgeous little instrumental here with this sombre atmosphere and plucky hi-hat riff while the singer's voice melts over the track like it was MADE for it. And that doesn't even mention the haunting little synth breakdown (that melodically sounds lifted from a certain Skall entry, we may never know). dancing in the dark has never sounded this romantic, and with enough time to settle it'll make you want to memorise French just to properly sing along! 5H4ekRWiW6U
January 25, 20187 yr Author i might? i might ~ 1 Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos Slide the graphic at the start was a clue all along!! much like Sir Bruno last year, Calvin Harris brought some much-needed FUNK to the charts, and "Slide" was the big moment- it's undeniable how fantastic this sounds from those weird synth blasts that just storm in after the intro, Frank Ocean sounding right at home on this laidback sun-drenched groove, to the great little dashes of guitar that really elevate the second chorus, to Migos getting loads of time to shine, to Frank's pitch-shifted alias proudly splashing out on a Picasso painting or something. with all the emotions music can evoke, sometimes the most essential is a tune that makes you feel like you're fucking awesome and cool and shit. not that i needed any reassurance, but who am i to complain when it sounds this good? 8Ee4QjCEHHc
January 25, 20187 yr Fantastic top 4 all in all, Slide & Holy Mountain were fantastic switch ups for both artists and ofc. Toi Et Moi was one of my favourite BJSC finds of the year, that type of intimate French synthpop always sounds lush. Have been enjoying Feel It Still recently too, I wasn't sure of it at first but it's very unique and catchy, hopefully can finally become a big hit this year!
January 25, 20187 yr Love all of that Top 4! Slide took a while to grow but it is a nice song, and Feel It Still is still going strong for me now - looks like it's going to get itself a healthy chart run officially!
January 31, 20187 yr Author thank you to all who have followed along and commented! see ya next year SINGLES RECAP 1 Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos - Slide 2 Paradis - Toi Et Moi 3 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still 4 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain 5 Oh Sees - The Static God 6 Drones Club - Hurricane 7 Ariel Pink - Feels Like Heaven 8 Paramore - Hard Times 9 Perfume Genius - Slip Away 10 Calvin Harris feat. Pharrell, Katy Perry & Big Sean - Feels 11 Bleachers - Don't Take The Money 12 Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug - Havana 13 Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D. 14 Spoon - Hot Thoughts 15 Haim - Little Of Your Love 16 Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling 17 Rex Orange County feat. Benny Sings - Loving Is Easy 18 Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE. 19 LINES - Weekends 20 MGMT - Little Dark Age 21 Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear? 22 Dutch Uncles - Oh Yeah 23 Lido feat. THEY. - Not Enough 24 The Horrors - Something To Remember Me By 25 Sofi Tukker - Fuck They 26 Selena Gomez - Bad Liar 27 Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny 28 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Rattlesnake 29 Django Django - Tic Tac Toe 30 St. Vincent - Los Ageless 31 alt-J - 3WW 32 Sir Sly - High 33 Everything Everything - Can't Do 34 Kesha - Praying 35 N.E.R.D & Rihanna - Lemon 36 Lorde - Green Light 37 Sigrid - Strangers 38 HMLTD - To The Door 39 Jax Jones feat. RAYE - You Don't Know Me 40 TR/ST - Bicep 41 Ariel Pink - Time To Live 42 Fickle Friends - Hello Hello 43 Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl 44 Robin Bengtsson - I Can't Go On 45 ionnalee - Not Human 46 Kendrick Lamar - DNA. 47 Charli XCX - Boys 48 Stormzy - Big For Your Boots 49 J Balvin & Willy William - Mi Gente 50 Miley Cyrus - Malibu 51 K.I.D feat. Cupcakke - Boy 52 Oh Wonder - My Friends 53 Lana Del Rey - Love 54 St. Vincent - Pills 55 Danny L Harle - 1UL 56 Jens Lekman - To Know Your Mission 57 Amber Coffman - No Coffee 58 Confidence Man - Boyfriend (Repeat) 59 Mura Masa feat. Christine & The Queens - Second 2 None 60 MUNA - I Know A Place 61 Rina Sawayama - Alterlife 62 Vince Staples - Big Fish 63 Grizzly Bear - Three Rings 64 Rita Ora - Anywhere 65 The Drums - Blood Under My Belt 66 Charly Bliss - Glitter 67 Norma John - Blackbird 68 Arcade Fire - Everything Now 69 Oh Wonder - Ultralife 70 Disciples - On My Mind 71 Grouplove - Good Morning 72 Lorde - Supercut 73 The Horrors - Machine 74 Guerilla Toss - Skull Pop 75 Rationale - Loving Life 76 Algiers - The Underside Of Power 77 Post Malone feat. 21 Savage - rockstar 78 Spoon - Can I Sit Next To You 79 Ezra Furman - Driving Down To L.A. 80 Harry Styles - Sign Of The Times 81 Ariel Pink - Another Weekend 82 Blanche - City Lights 83 Kelela - Waitin' 84 Oh Sees - Animated Violence 85 Liam Gallagher - Wall Of Glass 86 The Killers - Run For Cover 87 Everything Everything - Night Of The Long Knives 88 Bleachers - I Miss Those Days 89 Playboi Carti - Magnolia 90 Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill 91 CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola 92 LPX - Tightrope 93 Big Shaq - Man's Not Hot 94 Billie Eilish - Bellyache 95 Alex Cameron - Runnin' Outta Luck 96 Now, Now - SGL 97 Marmozets - Play 98 Jamiroquai - Automaton 99 N.E.R.D & Future - 1000 100 MUNA - Crying On The Bathroom Floor
January 31, 20187 yr Some absolutely amazing songs here :cheer: :wub: Slide as #1 is well deserving, one of my favourite songs of 2017 too and was constantly on my playlist :lol: Feel It Still #3 is amazing too :dance: I really love Portugal. The Man and their whole album is brilliant, but nothing quite beats Feel It Still. It's my most played song of the past year for good reason! Hard Times is much similar to above :lol: I've always had a soft spot for Paramore and 2017 was the year of Paramore for me. I like all of their albums but usually there' only 5-6 songs I regularly go back to. But no. After Laughter is an album I can play over & over again without getting bored and without forgetting any of the lyrics to any of the songs. It's grown on me so much and even outranks The Killers' Wonderful Wonderful as my favourite album of 2017 (despite The Man being my favourite song of 2017). Speaking of The Killers, lovely for Run For Cover to be here too! :D 2x Lorde, N.E.R.D., and Oh Wonder great too :wub: Brilliant EOY :D
February 1, 20187 yr OMG SIR CALVIN HARRIS WHAT A LEGEND amazing that he bookends your top ten this year when you hated his 2016 output :o Slide and Feels are both proper tunes. I'd also put Rollin on the same level as those. Also like Feel It Still, Havana and Humble from your top 20, basically all the commercial hits (shoutout to Little Dark Age and especially f*** They though). Good to see You Don't Know Me in another top 40 too.
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