by Jenny (London, UK)
RECORD OF THE WEEK
Dido - Sand In My Shoes: 'Sand in my Shoes' can be related to by anyone who wanted to get away from it all and then had to come back home after an enjoyable vacation. It's got some romance in it too... must have been a summer fling thing. 'Sand in My Shoes' is a very radio friendly rock/pop song that's bound to be the fall hit single.
I really like this track, it's a bit poppy and uplifting. "I've still got sand in my shoes and I can't shake the thought of you. I should get on forget you but why would I want to. I know we said goodbye... but I want to see you again." I can't get the chourus out of my head! A great pop song.
HOT SHOT RECORD
Joss Stone - You Had Me: You Had Me is Jossy's next single and I love to listen it on the radio or ineternet! Joss Stone, for those of you who don't know is a female UK Superstar who is a little different than the rest - mainly because she can sing!
'You Had Me' is a catchy tune that will probably ride high in the charts (thank God for the charts!) The song is taken from Joss' second album "Mind Body Soul" and promises to be another unique attempt to introduce the world to Joss' unique sound.
Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble: This track is one that supports their new album 'To The 5 Boroughs.' It's classic Beastie Boys! 'Triple Trouble' is the 'Three MCs and One DJ' of 'Boroughs.' Great lyrics ('What the Helen of Troy is that?'), a great piano-infused beat, changing it up constantly, all make up a stand-out track, that could turn into one of the singles. The song freaks the opening break of "Rappers Delight" in a totally original way!
Bryan Adams - Open Road: Bryan Adams isn't been fashionable since' Everything I Do' became a phenomenon, he teamed up with shouty spice and even his nickname sounds out of date. What people forget is that at one point he used to write decent rock songs, like "Cuts Like A Knife", "Summer Of '69" and "Run To You".
It's to the latter that he returns with "Open Road", the first single from his new album, "Room Service". Brand new studio album from Adams, his first in three years and produced by the man himself.
The Corrs - Angel: Another classic pop/rock driving track by Corrs. Produced by the Corrs only, this is a good song. A folk-rocky song dedicated to their mum that makes you sing and dance and if not dance, just wristle on the chair in the office! The lyrics are very touching, too. This is quality Europop music and it can stir emotion like a wild oceanic storm whips the sea.
Fatboy Slim - Slash Dot Slash: Taken from his new album 'Palookaville', 'Slash Dot Dash' was always Norman Cook's choice for first single. The biggest and dumbest track off the whole album. Repetitive samples and monstrous guitars. This is the right calling card. Fatboy Slim back in business! This should remind everyone what they have been missing.
Norman Cook comments: "'Slash Dot Dash' is a mix of old and new Fatboy. There is repetition but this time the track actually has live guitars! The plan was to throw in a bit of Buzzcocks and The White Stripes. The track is just a comment on this new language people seem to have - although I don't even own a computer. Well, I do, the Atari in my studio, but no one ever sent me an email on that!".
Green Day - American Idiot: The first original album since 2000 from modern rock superheroes Green Day, American Idiot is one of the most anticipated and controversial albums of the year. Scathing yet self-effacing as it tells the tale of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, American Idiot is the punk rock epic. "A bold, polished punk opera." (Entertainment Weekly) "They're the biggest, most successful, punk band the world has ever seen. What's more, Green Day's next album may well be their masterpiece." (Kerrang!)
'American Idiot' was released August 12 at No 1 on the US iTunes charts and already it has sold over 998,000 copies! Green Day on 'American Idiot,' descrives perfectly how the US nation is being controlled by the media. (Green Day speaks about US, because they haven't watched yet the UK media...)
In the end: BUY IT DEFINETALY, WHAT A GREAT SONG FOR ANY ADULT - ABSOLOUTELY NOT FOR KIDS (which are buying usually Westlife and McFly...)
Los Lonely Boys - Heaven: This is LOS LONELY BOYS debut album. Surprise? US radio stations played this track as an "hour to hour"! It's a cross between Mink DeVille, Los Lobos and Santana - perfect for the spring airwaves! This hype is real. These guys are absolutely the real thing.
Their sound is a little bit Santana, a little bit Los Lobos, a little Stevie Ray thrown in, and a whole lot of the Garza Brothers Rock and Roll. They play very tight melodies, the song-writing and lyrics are real and heartfelt. All of the brothers sing and their harmonies are right on. In the UK Official Singles Chart this track will fail - like all the LATIN music (genre) songs - even if it speaks in 'english' (lyrics). Do yourself a big favor and set this track in your playlist. Try something different and you will not regret it!!!
Rammstein - Mein Teil: After 3 years, the new Rammstein single is finally here. No one knew which song from their new album, entitled "Reise Reise" (Voyage Voyage), would be chosen as the first single. Earlier this year, the choice seemed to be "Rosenrot" (Rose Red). Not too long after, the group chose "Mein Teil" (My Thing/Share).
The song, itself, is probably the harder song Rammstein ever created, with the subject: The Cannibal of Rotenburg (to resume for those who doesn't know much about this story: there was a man, in Germany, that wrote a quote on the ent, searching for: a man between 18 and 30, to be sexually abused (SadoMasochism), then being eaten, alive... So I figure you can probably imagine the rest). Once again, the Germans Rammstein provocates us with poetically-chocking lyrics, and make us reflect about how the line between men and animals can be thin (for those who haven't seen the Clip about the song, we see the band members fighting each others (at the end), then being chained down as dogs... Pretty evocative).
Skinnyman - No Big Ting: If UK hip hop is the spiritual descendent of punk - and, in the hands of someone like the Streets, it is - then SkinnyMan is akin to rap's Joe Strummer, bubbling over with inner-city anger and full of the skillz to parlay that anger into a message that is wholly relevant to all age groups, even those that stretch far beyond his own. It seems Skinnyman has been saving up all his pearls of wisdom and rhythmic evidence of the intelligence he hints at in interviews for this concept album, of the council estate of mind. It's not the perfect Skinnyman single we were waiting for. But it's damned good and in years to come, could prove to be very pivotal.
OTHER SINGLES RELEASED THIS WEEK
September 13
22-20s - 22 Days
3T - Stuck On You
Acarine - Screw Your Head On
Annie - Chewing Gum
Athlete - Wires
Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble
Blues Explosion - Burn It Off
Bryan Adams - Open Road
Candice - Hello
Caspa Codina - Tell Me
Cassidy - Get No Better
The Corrs - Angel
Dark Globe - Feed
David Morales - How Would U Feel
Detroit Cobras - Cha Cha Twist
Dido - Sand In My Shoes
Eric Prydz - Call On Me
Fatboy Slim - Slash Dot Slash
Feist - Mushaboom
Fifth Avenue - Spanish Eyes
Girls Aloud - Love Machine
Gordon Haskell - Lady Wants To Know
Green Day - American Idiot
I Monster - Hey Mrs
Ian Brown - Get What You Want
Interpol - Slow Hands
Joss Stone - You Had Me
The Living End - Tabloid Magazine
Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
Mark B feat. Tommy Evans - Move... Now
Medicine - As You Do
Meow Meow - Sick Fixation
Michelle Gayle - Got To Be Me
Mike & Mechanics - Perfect Child
Mooney Suzuki - Alive And Amplified
My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
Nick Drake - River Man
Plump DJs - Soul Vibrates/Bullet Train
Rammstein - Mein Teil
Razorlight - Vice
Rhian Benson - Say How I Feel
Richard Cartridge - I've Found Love Again
Rupee - Tempted Too Much
Saint & Campbell - That Girl Can Dance
Scott 4 - Pop 'N' Roll
Skinnyman - No Big Ting
Status Quo - You'll Come Round
Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire
Way Out West - Anything But You
Weapons Of Mass Belief - Terrorist Youth/F**khouse
Winnebago Deal - Cobra
Single Release Schedule
September 20
Alcazar - This Is The World We Live In
Ashlee Simpson - Pieces Of Me
Beauty Shop - Monster
Big Brovaz - Yours Fatally
Bowling For Soup - 1985
Brakes - Pick Up The Phone
Chungking - Making Music
Cinnamon - Yellow Car
Client - Radio
The Concretes - Seems Fine
Donny Osmond - Breeze On By
Duran Duran - (Reach Up For The) Sunrise
Elena - With Those Eyes
Elefant - Now That I Miss Her
Ian Brown - Keep What Ya Got
The Knife - Heartbeats
Laura Veirs - Riptide
Lisa Stansfield - Easier Treat Me Like A Woman
Mark Knopfler - Boom Like That
Minimal Chic feat. Matt Goss - I Need The Key
Muse - Butterflies And Hurricanes
Night Breed - Pack Of Wolves
Ordinary Boys - Seaside
Paul McCartney - Tropic Island Hum/We All Stand Together
Shystie - Make It Easy
Spankox - To The Club
Special Needs - Francesca
Tom Jones feat. Jools Holland - It'll Be Me
Usher - Confessions Part II
September 27
Athlete - Wires
Beverley Knight - Not Too Late For Love
Butterfly Boucher - Another White Dash
The Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Flamenco
Danny Howells & Dick Trevor feat. Erire - Dusk Till Dawn
Dark Globe feat. Amanda Ghost - Feed
De La Soul - Shopping Bags She Got From You
Deep Dish - Flashdance
Dirty Vegas - Walk Into The Sun
DJ Casper - Oops Upside Your Head
Duke Spirit - Cuts Across The Land
Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster - Rise Of The Eagles
FYA - Bring It On
Golden Virgins - Renaissance Kid
Good Charlotte - Predictable
Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Shakin' That Ass)
Hundred Reasons - How Soon Is Now?
Ian Van Dahl - Where Are You Now
Jentina - French Kisses
Jessica Simpson - Take My Breath Away
Khia - My Neck, My Back (Lick It)
Kontakt - Sweet Dreams
Lisa Stansfield - Easier/Treat Me Like A Woman
MC Solaar - La Vie Est Belle
Mark Owen - Believe In The Boogie
Ma$e - Welcome Back
Melissa Auf der Maur - Taste You
Mia - Galang
Minnie Driver - Everything I've Got In My Pocket
Miss Kitten - Requiem For A Hit
Motormark - Eat, Drink, Sleep, Think
REM - Leaving New York
Ronan Keating - I Hope You Dance
Roxy Saint - Firecracker
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Big Time
Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A F**k
The Streets - Blinded By The Lights
Twen2y 4 Se7en - Where You Are
October 4
Alicia Keys - Karma
Amy Grant - Come Be With Me
Angel City feat. Lara McAllen - Do You Know (I Go Crazy)
Ash - Renegade Calvacade
Bellefire - Spin The Wheel
Brandy - Afrodisiac
Christina Milian feat. Joe Budden - Whatever You Want
Clor - Welcome Music Lovers
The Datsuns - Girl's Best Friend
Dirty Vegas - Walk Into The Sun
Eamon feat. Ghostface - Love Them
Estelle - Free
The Hives - Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones
Lucie Silvas - What You're Made Of
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus
Neo Cortex - Elements
Rachel Stevens - More More More
Robbie Williams - Radio
Rodney P - Trouble
Rooster - Come Get Some
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Karmageddon
The Strokes - The End Has No End
Sum 41 - We're All To Blame
Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe & Remy - Lean Back
Tippi - Boy
Tunde - Great Romantic
VS - Make It Hot
Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces
The Zutons - Don't Ever Think
October 11
Ana Johnsson - Don't Cry For Pain
Brand New Heavies - Boogie
Darius - Kinda Love
Decemberists - Billy Liar
Hidden Cameras - I Believe In The Good Of Life
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
Kasabian - Processed Beats
Kelis feat. Andre 3000 - Millionaire
Malibu Stacey - Invasion
Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
Maria Mena - You Are The Only One
Morrissey - Let Me Kiss You
N-Trance - I'm In Heaven
Nancy Sinatra & Morrissey - Let Me Kiss You
Norah Jones - Those Sweet Words
The Others - Stan Bowles
OutKast - Prototype/Ghettomusick 2004
Paddingtons - 21 Same Old Girl
Petey Pablo - Freek-A-Leek
Polly Paulusma - Over The Hill
Scissor Sisters - Mary
Tiesto - Just Be/Goldrush
Vanessa Carlton - White Houses
Wee Phillie vs. DJ Gotti - Bang On The Drum
October 18
All Eyes - She's A Vision
Christina Aguilera feat. Missy Elliot - Car Wash
Dannii Minogue feat. Flower Power - You Won't Forget About Me
Danzel - Pump It Up
Dr Goodsize - Pineapple Song (Turn Around And Let Me See)
Five Star - System Addict 2004
Hilary Duff - Fly
Intenso Project featuring Lisa Scott-Lee - Get It On
The Libertines - What Became Of The Likely Lads
Manic Street Preachers - Love Of Richard Nixon
Phixx - Strange Love
Placebo - 20 Years
Travis - Walking In The Sun
October 25
Bjork - Who Is It?
Daniel Bedingfield - Nothing Hurts Like Love
Delays - Lost In A Melody
Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
Ellements - Walk Right Now
Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out
Il Divo - Regressa Mi
Jamiroquai - TBA
Kings Of Leon - Bucket
Mania - Money In My Pocket
Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart - Old Habits Die Hard
Noise Next Door - Ministry Of Mayhem/Lock Up Your Daughters
R Kelly - Happy People
Rachel McFarlane - Lover
Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead
V - You Stood Up
Wee Phillie vs. DJ Gotti - Bang The Drum
November 1
Avril Lavigne - Nobody's Home
The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Mess With My Heart
Delta Goodrem - Out Of The Blue
Jamelia - DJ
Patrizio Buanne - Il Mondo
S Club 8 - Involved
U2 - Vertigo
Westlife - Moon River
November 8
Blue - Curtain Falls
Britney Spears - My Prerogative
Finn Brothers - Nothing Wrong With You
George Michael - Round Here
Gwen Stefani - What Are You Waiting For
Jennifer Lopez - TBA
Kristian Leontiou - Some Say
Paul Weller - Thinking Of You
Razorlight - TBA
November 15
Hoobastank - Same Direction
McFly - Room On The 3rd Floor
Raghav - Angel Eyes
The Music - Bleed From Within
November 22
Franz Ferdinand - Can't Stop Feeling
Keane - This Is The Last Time
Sugababes - TBA
The Thrills - All The Love In The World
November 29
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
