Comments on: C90 Go!: Radio Wrong

By: fivelongdays

fivelongdays — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:12:51 +0000

The Streets doing Ernie - best idea of all time (this week).

By: mike

mike — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:52:59 +0000

The Streets - Ernie.
I can completely hear this…

Natasha Bedingfield - C’est La Vie.
Now, this one could seriously work…

By: jeff w

jeff w — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:54:24 +0000

Groove Armada - Innuendo

This one made me laugh out loud

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:44:16 +0000

marcello for controller of radio 1 *NOW*

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:08:15 +0000

How I would have done it:
1967 Kaiser Chiefs I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman
1968 Fratellis Lily The Pink
1969 Amy Winehouse Oh Well
1970 Robbie Williams Groovin’ With Mr Bloe
1971 The Streets Ernie
1972 Sugababes Elected
1973 The Feeling Big Seven
1974 Foo Fighters Band On The Run*
1975 Kylie Minogue Funky Moped
1976 KT Tunstall No Charge
1977 Franz Ferdinand The Crunch
1978 Raconteurs Ole Ola
1979 Mika/Armand van Helden Wanted
1980 Kasabian …And The Birds Were Singing
1981 Keane Hooked On Classics
1982 McFly Theme From Harry’s Game
1983 James Morrison Snot Rap
1984 The Gossip Careless Whisper*
1985 Pigeon Detectives Lean On Me (the Red Box one)
1986 Lily Allen Snooker Loopy
1987 Stereophonics Male Stripper
1988 Mutya Buena Buffalo Stance
1989 Editors I Beg Your Pardon
1990 Razorlight Infinity (Time For The Guru)
1991 Groove Armada Innuendo
1992 Paolo Nutini Raving I’m Raving
1993 Kooks Exterminate!
1994 Mark Ronson Come On You Reds
1995 Calvin Harris Cliff Dweller Society
1996 Klaxons Throw Those Guns Away
1997 Just Jack Candle In The Wind ‘97
1998 Natasha Bedingfield C’est La Vie
1999 Twang Millennium Prayer
2000 Fray 21 Seconds
2001 Girls Aloud I Dream A Highway
2002 Maximo Park The Ketchup Song
2003 The View Ignition Remix
2004 Hard-Fi F.U.R.B.
2005 The Enemy It’s Now Or Never
2006 Corinne Bailey Rae It’s Chico Time
(*good enough to stand as they are)

By: mike

mike — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:41:57 +0000

Kaiser Chiefs: 5. Serviceable.
Fratellis: 6. Entertaining.
Amy Winehouse: 9. Immaculate.
Robbie Williams: 4. Lacklustre.
The Streets: 1. Piss-poor.
Sugababes: 4. Predictable.
The Feeling: 3. Disappointing.
Foo Fighters: 9. Shocked!!!
Kylie Minogue: 7. Slinky.
KT Tunstall: 6. Amiable.
Franz Ferdinand: 5. Reverential.
The Raconteurs: 2. Pointless.
Mika vs Armand Van Helden: 3. Ugly.
Kasabian: 3. Gormless.
Keane: 6. Pleasant.
McFly: 7. Cute.
James Morrison: 4. Boring.
The Gossip: 8. Original.
Pigeon Detectives: 5. Efficient.
Lily Allen: 7. Understated.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:06:04 +0000

All this reminds me that a much better 1986 choice for Lily would have been “Snooker Loopy.”

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:04:48 +0000

*GROAN*

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:57:53 +0000

are you some kind of rockist!?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:52:39 +0000

The thing is, surely Hendrix was more than capable of building his own tunnels out?

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:43:26 +0000

Exactly.

Also the Atlantic original of ‘Trane’s “Favorite Things” has future world snooker champion Steve Davis on bass!

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:36:52 +0000

the song is a bad-tolkien fragment really — or bad moorcock! — but this kind of dilemma is interesting territory: cf eg coltrane use of “my favorite things” as a vehicle; not a subversion, not a celebration, not even a redemption — more like a tunnel out, from a really unexpected place, into the rest of the cosmos

(i am not really a huge coltrane fan but i always liked that he did this)

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:21:25 +0000

“Power” bcz Hendrix gives it power: his version is more apocalyptic and awesome than the original.

“Undeserved” bcz I sort of wish he’d chosen a different song to give power to: Dylan’s sketchy song doesn’t deserve this treatment. (I like lots of John Wesley Harding but not this one)

“Hollow” bcz the not-liking the song overshadows the power so the power is wasted on me.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:10:18 +0000

I would like Tom to explain/qualify/justify “hollow undeserved power” apropos “Watchtower.”

By: byebyepride

byebyepride — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:28:21 +0000

also the thought of yr mum’s face when she realised that this was something he was actually going to do…

By: byebyepride

byebyepride — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:27:37 +0000

omg @ yr dad’s bungee adventures!

By: koganbot

koganbot — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:32:53 +0000

“served its purpose on this planet” - i.e., its job here was done.

By: koganbot

koganbot — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:29:15 +0000

I like the alb more than I was expecting, which isn’t saying much but is worth a clap or two as I hated it at the start and was deleting almost everything I heard. I mean, who needs to hear an OK version of “Lola”? Delete. Who needs to hear an OK version of “Band On The Run”? Delete. However, I’ll hang onto any version of “All Along The Watchtower,” apparently, despite liking the song less than I like “Lola.” Go figure. “Cupid” is just all wrong. The arrangement keeps tripping all over itself and stumbling into the singer, which must have baffled Amy (imagine her muttering, “who’s the one who’s supposed to be drunk here, anyway?”) as she struggled to make her slurs signify as music. Anyway, I was really tired and started fading while Kylie failed to convince me of either love or drug; awoke greatly cheered to hear Lily comfortably happy in her Lilyness. The Stereophonics trick of walking on their hind legs was intriguing enough for me to hold off stinging them with my vaporizer, at least for the time being. Mutya was fine though as you say that’s kind of what one would expect; Groove Armada got a growl in their groove, did a good job, I thought. Nutini, whom I’ve barely heard, sounded pretty good doing something I’d barely heard; ditto Morrison doing something I’d never heard. U.S. and Britain diverged sharply going into the Seventies and Eighties, so for me “Who needs to hear this?” is somewhat replaced by “What is this?” Bedingfield is the crazy card and I think she did it right by kicking over the rhythm and acting daft - possibly my favorite thing on here, the other candidate being the Klaxons “No Diggity”: the original stayed so much in its spare Riley rhythm that it never stuck between my ears. Klaxons strip it even more, find their way into watchful passion, which I’ll probably now hear in the original too. Just Jack just sounds thwarted and stuffed-up, but also manages to get me to attend more to the song than I had before. I’ll probably give him the raygun treatment, but not yet. The versions here of “Teenage Dirtbag” and “Toxic” basically confirm the greatness of the songs; the sex change doesn’t work at all in “Dirtbag” and the vocals aren’t nearly adolescent enough and this sounds good anyway. Hard-Fi catch fire when they do a Clash squawk before breaking into the Clash/Vince Taylor “Brand New Cadillac,” but carry that energy back into “Toxic” itself. Its juxtaposition of styles works for me but needs the melody, which fortunately it has. The Fray’s “Great Beyond” sounds sweet and emotional on first listening, on second listening the sweetness and emotions are just kinda there as the thing blands out and I decided that it had served its purpose on this planet. The View were as dumb and dorky as I expected, while the Kaiser Chiefs sucked far more than I’d expected. They’d been a good little neo new wave band for a while, hadn’t they?

Things like this are usually good in bits rather than overall, but that’s what the delete button is for.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:52:09 +0000

“they attack this song like puppies on a rubber bone” has made me smile for about half an hour now. Thanks, man!