songs from 15 years ago

Thankfully, it got jacked up by producer Dave Fridmann for their debut album and built into some sort of symphonic New Order. Pounding at your subconscious’ door from the outset it’s a handful of minutes of frantic genius, split in half with one of those classic slow-it-down breakdowns that only serves to intensify its main thrust. I’m listening to it now and it still sounds like the most important call to arms since forever. OutKast played so far away from rap’s boundaries, it’s no wonder they were so warmly welcomed by the hipsters. (MW). And repeat. While others would let them sleepwalk blindly through life, here he’s urging them to be alert, to see and think for themselves, while the rest of the band while the rest of the band shout down his inconvenient truths with a chorus of “Lies! Bill Ryder-Jones turns in the indie-solo of the decade (Valensi on ‘The Modern Age’? He looks out for them. The US military wanted to use the track at the launch of a new stealth bomber but the steadfastedly anti war band said no. Timbaland would spend the following decade attempting to re-capture a moment as innovative as this. I'm looking for a song from ~15 years ago... And sadly I don't think the song is Korean but I'm going to spend the next few hours going through 90s Korean songs just to make sure. And it’s easy to see why ‘Yellow’ was Coldplay’s breakthrough song. If there’s one lesson to be learned from this post is of course to enjoy life and the precious moments that come with it. (PE), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXp1TQPf2pY, Few songs capture the urge of wanting to act stupid and be immature as well as this 2000 single does. (LL). But can you still remember the words to the best songs of the year? (MW). In life and in the song, her management wanted her to seek help, but the singer would have rather sought the advice of the masters: Ray Charles and Donnie Hathaway. The song that would become Kylie’s signature track (soz ‘I Should Be So Lucky’) was the musical equivalent of a roomful of minimalist Scandinavian furniture. But after hearing this, all skepticism was chucked out the window. Because life is short and we still don’t have the technology to go back in time. His soon-to-be-legendary character portraits were nascent but here he shows his flair for the cheeky and literary; a quick nod to Shakespeare here, a wink to Duran Duran there. Which is probably why it stuck with us for so long and earned a spot in the top ten. (RS). Lyrics to 'Fifteen Years Ago' by Conway Twitty. In hindsight, it was shrewd. All tied together with a hook that sounds like it should be a National Anthem. They’re tight as fuck – the true embodiment of what it is to be young, talented beyond belief and in love with the dustiest corners of 60s beatpop. The riff itself is pure NYC: a little bit VU, a lot Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They let Lego Rock Band take it though. Yea, this song probably isn’t a good one for that. Are we dancer? Sounding at once beaten and yet furiously optimistic (that’ll be Andrew Oldham’s strings then), ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ is one of the saddest rabble-rousers of the 90’s. Every bleep, twang and spasm of Timbaland’s minimal production blew a hole in the fabric of the pop tune as we knew it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0. (PE), Aided by a balls-in-the-air guitar riff the size of Australia and a production sheen that was the sonic equivalent of looking directly at the sun, Hole’s return showcased Courtney Love’s effortless way with words. But heralding the arrival of 2001 follow-up ‘Amnesiac’, ‘Pyramid Song’ showed that they could still toss off ghostly hymns of stunning beauty, Phil Selway’s spine-shivery patter and tish drums setting the bed for arguably Thom Yorke’s most darkly divine piano lines yet. So colossal you can’t even see the top, ‘Empire State…’ was the song of at least two summers. Sadly, but not surprisingly, though, no mention of Ultrasound, the 90s’ most underrated band. A Serge guitar lick so catchy it replaced ‘L.S.F.”s outro as the biggest bellow-along at the band’s shows, it demonstrated that you can keep things dark-eyed while still taking the roof off Wembley. Sure, ‘Electric Feel’ is probably the tune they’ll long be remembered for, but it was ‘Time To Pretend’ that really proved what MGMT had to offer. It ended up being NME’s album of the year, and can lay claim to being one of the decade’s most unexpectedly brilliant surprises. You know when someone catches you sitting on the back of a bus, with your headphones on full blast, as you’re singing along to whatever song’s playing on your iPod? On ‘Back To Black’ Amy Winehouse (aided by Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson) tied the sound of the past (“jukebox” as Winehouse called it) to the present with effortlessness. Flowers earned a spot in the Top Ten of our annual Cool List that year. Although, it sadly serves as a reminder of what the band could have achieved if they hadn’t imploded a few months later. An ode to Arab Strap’s filthy-mouthed frontman Aidan Moffat, the song, whose tune is nicked liberally from two Queen songs (‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ and ‘You’re My Best Friend’) is still a regular in B&S’s live sets, although God-fearing singer Stuart Murdoch is now somewhat reluctant to sing the line about “updating your hit parade of your 10 biggest wanks”. Despite being released to a Top 40 dominated by manufactured bands riding on a post-Spice Girls boom, it went straight to Number One and they’ve pretty much never looked back. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart, as "Celebration" reaches the top. A stately waltz that belies the dark shade of the lyrics; a troubled dalliance with a self-obsessed nihilist. by Jean Natividad Aug 7, 2013. Thank God for reunion tours then. (LL), At the peak of their powers with 2001’s ‘Discovery’, everything the duo did sounded so damn effortless. This track – an apology to the mother of Andre 3000’s baby mama (who happened to be Erykah Badu) – larked about with the preconceptions of what masculinity meant in hip-hop: from the surface (like the duo’s dandyish sense of style) to the depth (the track flew in the face of misogynist cliché in favour of something almost archaically polite). (PE), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zW9R9sj894, After a lengthy break, En Vogue returned with this track from the soundtrack of the little seen film Set It Off. (JF), How We Wrote ‘The Drugs Don’t WorkRichard Ashcroft. “Look at the shakies, what’s with the blush?/Fresh off the plane in my fuzzy rush.” Something about a balding 18-year-old? A beautiful mess, like all our closest relationships are. (AW), Listening back to everything Radiohead have done since ‘OK Computer’ is weird. “Our lives are changing lanes…You’re no longer laughing,” feel eerily prescient and seem to describe the current, passive aggressive mentality of the band. (PE), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvjK29Gpn0, Are we human? A pure moment captured perfectly on her first (and best) single. The way that Win Butler realized that the best thing he could do for that chorus would be to just get his whole band to sing “ohhhh, ohhh, woaaah-oh-oh-ohhhhh” over and over. Surely the best and most successful song to reference a Nazi symbol in relation to what singer Bobby Gillespie called “American international terrorism”. Penetrating those holes was Missy Elliot, a spitting, throbbing, eyebrow-arching caricature of ultra-bling and booty wobble that sent a shiver down your back and a heatwave to your loins. Again: how he rolls. New Music Reviews. Like a lot of Coldplay songs, the lyrics dissolve into nonsense when you listen closely, but Martin has the knack of communicating on a more instinctive level. (MW), Sure, it’s easy to argue against the idea of The Hives being a great band: pastiche, wackiness, ludicrous nicknames – they have them all in spades. ‘Overload’ was frontloaded with great, unexpected ideas: the sauntering rhythmic breaks, the sparse guitar line with pitches up like a hip Flamenco dancer, and of course the cool girl lyrics from Mutya, Siobhan and Keisha. There’s a reason every ad-buyer and TV soundtrack creative across the globe borrowed snippets of Florence’s true clarion call: it’s one of the most startling, original and simply powerful tracks in recent memory. One of Buckley’s most restrained vocal performances (vocal restraint wasn’t generally his thing), ‘Everybody Here Wants You’ must have soundtracked ‘sexy time’ for a generation of pasty indie types, but don’t let that put you off. 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