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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jun 2, 2024 19:13:40 GMT
We land in the early 2010s on our CHUMY journey. Not enough songs for me to include titles in my set up this week - not a lot of quality in my LP collection.
My shortlists are getting less mainstream by the year!
But you never know, maybe some gems to be uncovered.
As ever, a few poptastic songs to get us going...
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Wake Me Up - Avicii
Get Lucky - Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars
Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
Please post your songs and any stories, and don't forget to indicate your favourite for the ballot paper.
Vote will open Monday 10th as normal service is resumed.
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Post by gazz on Jun 2, 2024 20:08:02 GMT
I'll get my choices in when I've finished my shifts later in the week, mate, as I'm really going to need to think hard again to find songs that I like!
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Post by archie on Jun 3, 2024 8:23:11 GMT
One for each year.
2010
Need You Now - Lady A(ntebellum)
2011
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye (ft Kimbra)
2012
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson
2013
Demons - Robert Vincent
2014
Hey Brother - Avicii
First pick would be Somebody That I Used To Know.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jun 4, 2024 16:57:43 GMT
Looked at 2010’s top 100 singles and drew a complete blank apart from Shakira’s World Cup song!
2011 seems a little better
Adele someone like you
Coldplay paradise
Lady Gaga Edge of glory
2012
Swedish house mafia don’t you worry child
Rhianna diamonds
Kelly Clarkson stronger
2013
Lumineers hey ho (another weak year)
2014
George Ezra Budapest
Passenger let her go
John Legend All of me
Final choice Passenger - Let her go
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jun 5, 2024 15:05:51 GMT
Not really an era for acts that put out long successions of classic numbers - although, to address Eppers' hope, there were individually some proper diamonds! Here are my 'fab five':
2010
Warpaint: Undertow
This female four-piece from L.A. went for substance over style, courtesy of their harmonic indie/psych-rock. Still going strong today, too - and this February brought out a new single, whose B-side, Underneath, provided a preposition-link to their breakthrough-track from 14 years previously.
2011
Lana Del Rey: Video Games
Gorgeous, doom-filled ballad with cinematic production. The strings and harps gave it celestial beauty. Utterly awesome.
PJ Harvey: Bitter Branches
I could have gone for practically any track from Let England Shake - to my mind, the best album of this five-year period, with its affecting take on accounts of war. 2011 was when I lost Father Macc, and, although he had not served at a time of conflict, PJ's body of work brought, and still brings, him to mind. That, and County winning things again!
2012
Savages: Husbands
Intense post-punk. Hearing them in 2012 felt like listening for the first time to the likes of Magazine, PiL and Siouxsie 30-odd years earlier. They also did a cracking cover of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream.
2014
Slaves: Where's Your Car Debbie?
A reminder, approaching 40 years on, that punk actually did happen. This outfit plies its trade by the name of Soft Play nowadays.
My nomination for the voting paper this times (presses 'Play'...): Video Games.
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Post by gazz on Jun 7, 2024 19:48:13 GMT
This is gonna be tough. I've used both the UK & US chart info here as I've really struggled to pick anything, so some choices may be off in terms of the year they were in the charts over here. 2010 All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor - I think it's more for its brilliant message than the actual song itself Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen - Again, not as much for the song. My Scottish niece went to see Justin Beiber In Manchester when this was in the charts, and CRJ was the support act. She got my niece up on stage to dance with her, along with two older girls from the audience, and it's actually on YouTube. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 Featuring Christina Aguilera - this one is actually for the song itself, which I think is pretty bloody good. Firework - Katy Perry - Not a bad tune, but it's more of a 'make do' choice to give my list some substance. California Gurls - Katy Perry Featuring Snoop Dogg - This one is actually pretty catchy 2011 Pumped up kicks - Foster The People - a pretty bloody dark subject, and that's putting it mildly, but it's a really good tune. 2012 Tried both the US & UK charts and found nothing. Jesus, this is bad. 2013 Nope, nothing. 2014 Script - Superheroes Bloody hell, that was like pulling teeth  I'm going with Pumped up kicks by Foster the people as my choice here. That was hard going, Eps! |
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jun 7, 2024 21:50:20 GMT
Agree, gazz, its a barren time!
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jun 7, 2024 21:54:30 GMT
Here's my shortlist - which are more just songs I really like, rather than all time belters...
2011
I've Been Gone Far Too Long - The Cassettes
Happy News for Sadness - Car Seat Headrest
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist - Ramshackle Glory
2012
Ode to Viceroy - Mac DeMarco
Doused – DIIV
2013
Avant Gardener - Courtney Barnett
2014
Moving On - James
Archie, Marry Me – Alvvays
That's all I've got 😕
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jun 8, 2024 10:53:54 GMT
Hmm, had a quick trawl year by year, posted and then it disappeared.
But my two choices are:-
1st Highway to Hell (re-release) AC/DC
2nd Blame it on Me - George Ezra
Cheers
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jun 10, 2024 18:03:50 GMT
Nice try, len, but I've consulted the rule book and re-releases are not allowed. If we did, we'd have the last 15 years full or sings from the first 15 years!
You can, erm, Blame It On Me...
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jun 10, 2024 18:06:16 GMT
And here we are at the antepenultimate vote. Here's the 10-14 voting slip:
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye (ft Kimbra)
Let Her Go - Passenger
Video Games - Lana Del Rey
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
Blame it on Me - George Ezra
You know what to do.
(And if you don't, 1st and 2nd choice by PM to me by the end of Friday 😁)
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jun 11, 2024 7:58:41 GMT
Nice try, len, but I've consulted the rule book and re-releases are not allowed. If we did, we'd have the last 15 years full or sings from the first 15 years! You can, erm, Blame It On Me... OK I was being a bit lazy. 1st George Ezra - Blame it on me 2nd Adele - Someone like you |
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jun 15, 2024 19:08:34 GMT
Here's the results of the vote for 2010 - 2014...
In 2nd place is:
Blame it on Me - George Ezra
And the winner, and next song on our Compilation is:
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye (ft Kimbra)
Thanks for taking part 😁
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