Since the Facebook Liveblog application decided to finally crash and die and burn like so many other small independent app developments (due to Facebooks insistence in changing its framework every 3 months) I've decided to start using this Blogger page I made a year ago and have never posted in. At least google will make sure my blog posts won't fizzle into nothingness along with the motivation of the developer. Anyhoo waffle waffle waffle...
A sweet surprise though was discovering that 92 of you had signed up to that piece-of-crap application in order to read my pissy and infrequent posts which makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. But in truth, I feel a bit undeserving of this attention considering my last blog was... August 2009? Or even earlier? So if NY resolution's are made to be broken, I resolve to write blogs more frequently and with greater tenacity.
Seriously, living in Macau has made me more timid than an abused street dog creeping towards an outstretched hand with food in it. It may sound like an exageration - and it is, but everything is kinda behind this veil of fuckery. I mean, I've always lived in places where there's a relative amount of respect for personal and private life. Over here, things are different and it seems that everyone knows everything about everyone, or claims to. There will bea point when I decide to stop complaining and actually do something about it. So I've decided instead of mask who I am and what I do, what the hell, I'll just publicise it myself. So this is my place of complete transperancy. Ada gets drunk, acts stupid, occassionally plasters herself, Ada also pashes people, swears at random strangers and swears at people closest to her....
Anyhow, now that that's out of the way... Onto the point and title of this Post. Best Tracks of 2010::
#15 Not in Love: Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith
What could make a more perfect version of this original track (which I posted on my wall back in June/July) than a guest vocalist being Robert Smith of the Cure??
Discovering this song actually made me want to find out its roots, and actually I traced it all the way back to this:
Now I don't know which version I love more, but this isn't about Robert Smith or Platinum Blondes... It's all about Crystal Castles & how much I ♥ them and their self titled album release of 2010. You can get the full album by clicking here.
#14 I want the World to Stop: Belle & Sebastian
You know I always thought Belle & Sebastien were the names of the male & female vocalists in the band & despite numerous friends stating numerous times that it was named after a picture story book, I still insisted on saying silly things like "doesn't Belle have a beautiful voice?" When I first heard the Album 'Write About Love,' I initially fell in love with its opening track "I didn't see it coming" but after more than a few listens, "I want the world to stop" was definitely the superior track. There may have been a bit of outside influence on the selection of this song, but boy was it a ripper...
This clip makes me want to pull out my tambourine and start dancing like Ian Curtis on diazepam. I'm not sure about this entire album though, as it seems that they start to shit themselves after track 4. I know Norah Jones has a powerful ability to turn anything she touches into crooney jazz/blues/country/hick, but I can't hold her accountable for track 6-11. Even Norah's noise hole can't exert that kind of influence right?? Right?!? Find out for yourself and download the entire album here.
#13 Ready to Start: Arcade Fire
This is arguably the third most popular song on Arcade Fire's 2010 Album, The Suburbs. The first and second being Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) and the title track, The Suburbs. The album is pretty much perfect. It takes you on an epic 16 track journey through their mind holes. If you are not bored by the end of it, then you'll love it. That's really how I feel about Arcade Fire. I can't really conjure up any real emotional response from this album, but I remember like it, but not liking anything really in particular about it.
Get the whole album here.
#12 Guns and Horses: Ellie Goulding
There's something undeniably great about this song. Admit it, you're kind of bopping along to it, right? Right?? OR am I the only one? Well, if Ting Ting's was my 2008 guilty pleasure, Ellie is my 2010 aural equivalent of 'private browsing' on firefox.
By the way, how great is this BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge version of 'Only Girl in the World'??? I mean, despite the fact that when Ellie sings, she rolls her eyes back into her head like an asphyxiated cat, and she kinda sometimes looks like a crazy Evangelist at a full gospel church, but apart from that... ROCKIN!
I warn you: this album will make you wanna put on a skirt and skip around a playground full of kittens and miniture dogs with butterflies and dolphins (yes, earth dwelling dolphins) and burp candy floss clouds. If you can't resist, you can get it here.
#11 Boiling Water: Magnetic Man
Apologies for the poxy video. Can you believe this track isn't even on youtube?? Proposterous! Anyhoo, this isn't actually my favourite track off the album, but I think putting 'Flying into Tokyo' here would be a misrepresentation of this album. As you can probably tell from this track, Magnetic Man's a quasi drum n bass/dub step producer with a melodic sensibility. I've been really getting back into my dnb considering it's much more accessable than good electro. Strange that, but true... Anyhoo here tis...
Magnetic Man – Boiling Water (Feat. Sam Frank) found on Pop
And for the full album (which is awesome BTW), click here.
#10 Runaway: KanyeWest
Kanye's new ablum 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is disgusting.ly great. I feel a little soiled admitting that. But it is. Just when you thought that Kanye couldn't get more self loving, obsessed, egotistical, he puts this one out and now we need to all take Kanye in ours arms, hand-feed him soft chocolate cookies and sing an apology lullaby to him. Srsly. So I'm posting here Runaway b/c in my most indulgent pitiful moods, I could actually relate to this song... Try to ignore the fact this whole thing looks like a tampon commercial that wasn't supposed to air until 2050.
And if you're really feeling like gauging your eyeball with a screwdriver (I've done that before, srsly) then you can look at the uncut version of this clip which is 34:33!! YES THIRTY FOUR MINUTES AND THIRTY THREE SECONDS!! Gahhh!!! Masochists click here to watch. And for the full album, click here. But be warned that Rocafella is onto downloads as fast as Lindsay Lohan's onto a Betty Ford loyatly program membership card...
So that completes my #15-#10 peeps, I'll try to do the #9-#5 soon-ish but with the festivities over the next week, I doubt I'd be particularly articulate or witty etc etc.. Take care out there. Have fun & an outrageously good New Years!! Mwa mwa mwa
xxxA
