| Various Artists / Homemade Hits, V.1 |
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| Album: | Homemade Hits, V.1 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jun 2004 | |
| Label: | Kittridge Records Usa | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-10-25 | Pull Date: | 2004-12-27 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 26 | Dec 19 | Dec 12 | Nov 28 | Nov 21 | Nov 14 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 31, 2019: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles Breathe, New Colors, Tu Le Jours | 4. | May 11, 2005: | Strange Attractor Want Me | |
| 2. | Sep 06, 2007: | Fiction Romance Oh to Love Phoneix | 5. | Apr 01, 2005: | Strange Attractor Want Me | |
| 3. | Jan 25, 2007: | Fiction Romance New Colors | 6. | Mar 17, 2005: | Strange Attractor Pig Im |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2004-09-28 | ||
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Varied styles of pop songs – 26 of them! The marketing blurb compares the variety to the heyday of cassette mix tapes but I would argue that the sounds themselves are also quite throwback-ish, being very reminiscent of various New Wave styles. Name that forebear! At times, I thought that was the game I was supposed to play while listening. 1. Feel of mid-70s glam Bowie 2. Oy, Vocoder and overdriven, swirly synths; very 1982 3. Synthesized falsetto vocals over a breezy groove 4. A bassline to make Kim Deal proud and snotty vocals and sharp guitars; nice 5. Lush female vocals singing humorously cynical lyrics; again, sharp guitars 6. 60s-ish pop but with whiny white guy guitar-n-singing and trashy recording 7. Point-counterpoint guy/girl singing; chintzy synths and organ; fabulous 8. Uh, The Wedding Present? 9. Great tune, pleasantly sparse arrangement, and equally pleasantly tinny recording 10. Giant balls of psychedelic gas 11. Hazy summer afternoon tune 12. Proto-synth a la Human League; clubbing-related lyrics; restrained vocals 13. Raucous, bombastic production; solid song; what, some sort of Tom Jones tribute 14. Emotionally cold love song; plenty of antecedents there – Ultravox, e.g. 15. Competent if thin bassline, wavering vocals; early New Order? 16. Lysergic 60s-style pop 17. Sloppy and thin drums and guitar, not-quite-sweet-enough vocals 18. Cure minus Robert Smith’s voice 19. Heavenly-style sweet vocals and semi-acoustic pop 20. Song about relationship spring cleaning by twee guy but then brash women bust in 21. Of the insanely breezy and catchy school of pop; pa-pa-paaa-pa-pa-paa, yay! 22. Too sweet vocals for the arrangement, too muscular guitars for the weak vocals 23. Lo-fi riffing and monotone singing; funny lyrics though 24. We want to be The Undertones 25. Choppy electronics and mechanized voice; again, funny lyrics redeem the song 26. Whoa, where’d the Krautrock synth swoops come from? Excellent! For comparison, think Six Finger Satellite’s dystopic synth blasts | ||
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