What are some songs we have been listening to?

In the time since we last did one of these

:: 12 boybands have split up
:: Cheryl Tweedy has wiped a tear from her eye using a solitary finger 4,371 times
:: Sugababes have been in one dodgy shoe advert
:: Four bands named after sexual positions made the top ten
:: 470 amazing ideas have been considered by Brian Higgins (per lunchtime)

and about a million songs have drifted their way through the Hype Machine. Some other stuff happened, too. Probably.

Anyway. Here are some of the things we’re listening to at the moment.

Britney Spears - Womanizer (sic)
COME ON.

Esser - Saisfied
Moody new lip curler from the sample-happy little sparrow, which sounds like a music hall full of Turkish dancers having a whinge because they cannot make women happy. He has lots of other good songs, too.

No Wave mix
No Wave club night: nothing special. No Wave’s first promotional mix: packed full of amazing, off-kilter, weirdo-indie belters. From the opening doom rock rumble of S.C.U.M., via excursions to hits by Late Of The Pier and Metronomy, this doesn’t have one shit bit.

Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days
Brilliant.

Girls Aloud - Out of Control or whatever the new album is called.
It is amazing. And features use of the lyric: "Gimme da ting gimme da ting gimme da oh oh oh".

Fischerspooner - Never Win (Benny Benassi remix)
We found this remix knocking about in our loft the other day. Intense arms aloft potential. One for when the lights go down and the music drops out and everyone just knows what's going to happen and then BANG it all goes mental. Very good.

Glasvegas – Glasvegas (LP)
Don't tell anybody about this.

Late Of The Pier – Focker (The Shoes remix)
Focker, LOTP’s moment of mangled acid rock business, is probably the harshest bit of the band’s debut album and usually finds itself being melded by remixers into ear-punishing beastliness (imagine being hit round the head with a sockful of wasps). This treatment, by the brilliant The Shoes, sees the piano cupboard squarely raided, in an arrangement that sounds like being forcefully affronted by Gusto’s ‘Disco’s Revenge’. ALL GOOD, as they say.

Some other stuff
Too cool to mention here.

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