Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was something that I expected to strongly like or dislike, with that voice (preferably the latter, obviously, and I rather loved "Is This Love?") but it seems to be stuck in the middle for the moment. Apart from the horrible first track.
The Knife and Hot Chip albums are both kind of weird to listen to because they took such massive steps away from them for this year's breakthroughs - there is a bit of a sense of "is this really the same band?". Though the Hot Chip one, despite the "how the hell does Stevie Wonder see things?" and "blazin' out Yo La Tengo-ay-ay" bits is actually a lot less amateurish and jokey than I imagined. I'm warming to it rather fast, "Crap Kraft Dinner" and "Baby Said" especially.
The total lack of sinister on Deep Cuts is proving more difficult to adjust to. Even when Karin Dreijer's voice gets shifted and she's talking about shooting you in the face it still sounds way friendlier than Silent Shout. Still, even if I don't end up liking the rest it was worth it to have a proper version of "Heartbeats". Yum.
And the Britney one is interesting... the large handful of mainly recent songs that I bought it for are great ("I'm A Slave 4 U" is way better than I remembered and "Everytime" is easily my favourite pop ballad ever, not that that takes much as I still don't get many of them), but I actually find it impossible to listen to "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops" I Did It Again" and still haven't got through without skipping them. Far worse songs ("I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman", anyone?) have no such effect and are just kind of fascinating in their hopelessness. I guess through total overexposure (and past ideology?) I've built up some kind of instinctive repulsion as far as the megahits go. Perhaps I'll return to this with a better thought out reasoning soon.
Bonus link: All the versions of "Heartbeats" you could ever want!
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I am blogging that last link.
And yeah, I don't like those Hot Chip and Knife albums nearly as much as this year's crop, although both certainly have their moments ("Crap Kraft Dinner" is choice, as is "Shining Escalade").
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