Top 40 Thread!!!!!

[Johnny C]

Top 40 is more of a singles thing, and has different metrics and implications.

[nufan]

Promotion doesn't just mean adverts. How do you think the music journalists, DJs and video music channels that built up the hype for these artists heard about them and got advance copies and press packs?

Doesn't every single label do this? If so why is it a problem?

[Nodaisho]

Top 40 is more of a singles thing, and has different metrics and implications.

Ah, okay. Wikipedia has lied to me, then. So just because Gods of War was in the 20 or higher on charts pretty much everywhere not America, we aren't supposed to talk about it here? Damn.

[tricia kidd]

grizzly bear, fleet foxes, pearl jam, nine inch nails, radiohead, and a bunch of others have had "top 40 albums".

yeah "top 40" for purposes of this thread is referring to singles.

[JD]

Top 40 is more of a singles thing, and has different metrics and implications.

Ah, okay. Wikipedia has lied to me, then. So just because Gods of War was in the 20 or higher on charts pretty much everywhere not America, we aren't supposed to talk about it here? Damn.

No, go ahead and talk about it

[Alex C]

but he rocks a top hat better than T-Pain

I have a lot of love for Alice Cooper, what with him being Alice Cooper and all, but when he wears a top hat, it's really just about the showmanship, because that's what he does. With T-Pain, I get more of a "Fuck it, I'm wearing a top hat," vibe and that makes me happier.

[beat mouse]

Top 40 is a term that describes radio play and music video rotation, not sales.

[a pack of wolves]

Not in the UK, top 40 refers to the top 40 selling singles in a particular week.

[beat mouse]

From what I have noticed those two lists are usually pretty damned similar. In any case was there really any confusion as to what was being discussed?

[Lummer]

I am just waiting for that soundbite from Inlander, to get that grind song going.

*ahem*

[Inlander]

Oh yeah, right. I'll get on it tomorrow.

Unless I forget again.

[Lummer]

No worry. It's meant that I've actually had the time to write some decent riffs. Drum programming will probably still be a bitch and a half though.

[a pack of wolves]

From what I have noticed those two lists are usually pretty damned similar. In any case was there really any confusion as to what was being discussed?

They can differ a lot here. UK radio is hugely dominated by the BBC, and unlike the US we have national stations. If a song were to be playlisted by Radio 1 and the biggest station Radio 2 it wouldn't need airtime anywhere else to get enough exposure to do well in the singles chart. Conversely, getting banned by the BBC from their stations would mean instant chart death if it was based on radio play, but the controversy surrounding the BBC's banning of Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood probably helped its enormous success. It also means songs can get pushed briefly high by their fans, like the recent Rage number one or Iron Maiden's sole number one hit Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter. Plus, you get the oddities lower down the chart, like Malcolm Middleton hitting 31 with We're All Going To Die.

[20 jazz funk greats]

so top 40 thread, what was the best pop single of 2009 in yr opinion? (note: "they all sucked lol" is not an acceptable answer)

[StaedlerMars]

day'n'nite remixed by crookers? Pretty damned catchy.

[a pack of wolves]

I'm kind of tempted to say Bonkers. Partly because if Dizzee is never going to give us an album like Boy In Da Corner again (which wouldn't even make any sense at this point) then him knocking out chart behemoths is a pretty great consolation prize, but mostly because it really was just a hell of a lot of fun.

[Lummer]

Bad Romance. Seriously.

[Reed]

Bad Romance. Seriously.

[nufan]

Single Ladies or Bonkers or In For The Kill, the latter simply for birthing this, which is the best song of 2009 by far.

Also, what's the deal with Lady Gaga? Leaving aside her videos, her songs are just terrible. They remind me of women tv quiz show presenter types; all polished and preened and made-up to look sparkly and "beautiful" but utterly dead behind the eyes.

[tricia kidd]

so top 40 thread, what was the best pop single of 2009 in yr opinion? (note: "they all sucked lol" is not an acceptable answer)

i didn't hear too many of them, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvOEzUJRL6c

[JD]

so top 40 thread, what was the best pop single of 2009 in yr opinion? (note: "they all sucked lol" is not an acceptable answer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrx6etMl0w

[nufan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrx6etMl0w

Fuck yessssssssss was gonna post this but didn't know if it was pop enough or not but dear god that song is so good. Saw her at Glastonbury and may be a tiny bit in love.

[JD]

day'n'nite remixed by crookers? Pretty damned catchy.

I prefer it over the original.

[Zingoleb]

I finally saw that Bad Romance video and part of it freaked me out.

Someone (BrittanyMarie?) had a still shot of it in as her avatar and that face creeps me out.

[Lummer]

That's what I like about it. Parts of Gaga's image is disturbing as fuck. The "Bad Romance" video is a brilliant piece of film, if you ask me. It perfectly complements and expands the already dark, creepy vibe of the song itself.

[Nodaisho]

In any case was there really any confusion as to what was being discussed?

I was assuming generic bland mass-produced shit that you could probably make with a computer and save a lot of money on writers, performers, and people with any talent beyond lipsynching, but I was hoping I would be wrong and there would be something interesting to discuss.

Does anyone know where I can find old top 40 charts? I really don't listen to the radio, so I have no idea what is and isn't "top 40".

[Zingoleb]

I've watched a horror movie where this guy looks in mirrors and sees a different world reflected in the abandoned mall he's working at (anyone care to tell me what this movie is? I forget). Anyways, at one point, it shows as a woman's mouth is pulled open to the point where her jaw is literally ripped off of her head and I just couldn't stop laughing watching it because it was so incredibly fucked up.


But I can't handle weird eyes like hers, they fuck with my head too much.

Nodaisho - have you tried wikipedia? I know they have a list of all the number one hits.

[StaedlerMars]

The Skream remix of In For The Kill is infinitely better than the original.

All of La Roux's songs are better remixed.

Bad Romance is a pretty wicked song & video.

[David_Dovey]

[KharBevNor]

That just reminded me that this exists.

Thanks Dovey.

Fuck this cover is so good.

[David_Dovey]

and that led me to this

What an age we live in

[Nodaisho]

I would be interested to hear what happened if Lady Gaga teamed up with Darkthrone. Hopefully it would be better than the Bjork/Carcass team-ups.

[Alex C]

I don't really like her videos; I find them kinda boring. The fetishy latex outfits don't really interest me and overall the whole vibe just reminds me of horror/sci fi movies where a character comes back to consciousness in a lab after some unknown event. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, I suppose, but it means nothing when stripped of a threatening narrative. It ends up boiling down to a kink that I don't share, so into the shit I don't care about pile it goes.

[Alex C]

Also, I had a bunch of friends who were pretty into or at least dabbled in rivet in the '90s and another friend who was big on visual kei and played waaaaaay too much Shadowrun. Vinyl, latex and weird eyeware just means that to me you look like something out of one of my goofier friends' sketchbooks. Again, this isn't necessarily bad, but it's hardly going to faze me.

[The Duke]

Autotune is also awesome.

I respectfully disagree!

Alice Cooper...rocks a top hat better than T-Pain

Slash too.


Hey, so I really liked "My Lucky Day" for best song of 2009.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, I guess.

[Lummer]

Oh yeah, right. I'll get on it tomorrow.

Unless I forget again.

Haaaarryyyyyy!?!?? 

[Johnny C]

are there people seriously not answering "party in the u.s.a."

[BrittanyMarie]

johnny you cannot like that song when it is not the biggie mashup. i heard it on the radio once and it was the biggest let down when there was no big poppa and you know this! you KNOW THIS.

I would say Poker Face instead of Bad Romance. Also anything Weezy was in that was a hit, it could be the crappiest song otherwise but then he pops up and I love it no matter what.

actually speaking of terrible, i really would like to use this opportunity to say what a complete suckfest video phone is. fuck video phone. the only redeeming quality is that there's a spot where beyonce sounds like level three in mario bros (i think level three, the desert one where the sun swoops at you)

[BrittanyMarie]

Someone (BrittanyMarie?) had a still shot of it in as her avatar and that face creeps me out.

i had the creepy gaga in the bathtub face, tender had the one where she's singing in the mirror. mine was way more terrifying.

[BeoPuppy]

I think this thread has gone on long enough without mentioning that awesome, awesome Brit'ny Spears track: If You Seek Amy. Seriously, how did that not become a bigger hit and/or an anthem for a generation?

[Johnny C]

wasn't as good as "three," also my second answer for single of the year is probably "empire state of mind." song is massive.

johnny you cannot like that song when it is not the biggie mashup. i heard it on the radio once and it was the biggest let down when there was no big poppa and you know this! you KNOW THIS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg2eqe8Tq0A and also yes i can and i do

[tricia kidd]

I think this thread has gone on long enough without mentioning that awesome, awesome Brit'ny Spears track: If You Seek Amy.

that's a good track but the novelty was somewhat dispelled by my having already heard velocity girl's "if you see kay" a million years ago.

[BrittanyMarie]

I think I like both those songs better when not mixed together on that one. When it's the Miley part it just feels really uncomfortable
(i really do like empire state of mind a lot though)

[Zingoleb]

Someone (BrittanyMarie?) had a still shot of it in as her avatar and that face creeps me out.

i had the creepy gaga in the bathtub face, tender had the one where she's singing in the mirror. mine was way more terrifying.

That one. Yes. God damned.

[JD]

Another good single

[Scarychips]

The Kenny:

Another good single

Even Better

Even Worse

[JD]

So there is nothing worse than that? yay

[JD]

Also I like Regina Spektor but Soap and Skin beat her imo

[Scarychips]

Oh hey, I like that Soap and Skin song, but the cuteness surrounding Regina Spektor's music attracts me much more.
Thanks for the link though, I'll check out more of her stuff another time.

[JD]

Check the mediafire threaddddd

Also look for Coeur de Pirate