[Z]

Originally Posted by Salman!

never heard of it

Saint Petersburg is known as the Venice of the north.

[Shaun]

always on my mind, tho.

-shall have to give IM a look-in-

[Z]

Also this list is amazing so far and I expect it'll remain to be all the way until the end

[Stu]

forty one.
CSS//City Grrrl

Youtube video

sounds like.
Bubblegum and hotpants.

it's here because.
We all need a song that makes us want to be a hooker. This is mine. My enduring fascination with Lovefoxx aside CSS must be one of the funnest groups around. They preside over that part of your mind that sometimes just gets a hard on for this high energy, trashy sound and candyfloss aesthetic.

They do this one with Ssion who I assume is the bloke in the video who looks like paedo Freddie Mercury. It's bouncy bouncy. Can you feel the bounce?

I play it at gatherings in my house all the time and every lad sings along to the bits about lipstick and not giving a shit. It's fierce. There. I used the word 'fierce' in an honest context.

[Stu]

forty.
SANTANA//Soul Sacrifice

Youtube video

sounds like.
Being marooned on a desert island made of acrylic paints. Timothy Leary's brains are strewn about the place and somewhere I don't think I can do this bit justice.


it's here because.
Also not as big a fan of the sixties as you might imagine, given the decades incredible importance. Jefferson Airplane are great at the psychedelic rock thing I wanted to represent too but the fact that White Rabbit gets played constantly in clip shows put me off it. Every time a BBC Three documentary shows a clip of a hippy in the mud trying to feed a burrito to his stash tin there it is. White Rabbit.

Santana? Wicked, though. This could trip you out all on it's own. The pace and instrumentation on offer are almost out of this world. Almost. Watch it with the video. This was the groups first time taking acid and it shows. Their facial contortions are priceless and you can see them struggling to control the rhythm. Somehow they do. That's what this is. A group of tripped out men trying to control a rhythm. Like snake charming.

Special mention goes to the drummer. Look at him. He's having the best time anybody has ever had.

[Stu]

And that's our bottom ten as it were, brothers and sisters. And that's also your lot for today. However I will leave you with a special little something something in the form of ...

HONORABLE MENTIONS
NORTHERN LINE//Run For Your Life

Youtube video

malofflebehemith 1 year ago
this song makes me wanna kill myself

It's a shame really that people don't give Northern Line their due praise. Whilst Boyzone, Westline, Take That et all have shot to the moon in the realms of boy band stardom it's been up to Northern Line to hold down the fort with their catchy lyrics, cheeky videos and striking compositions. They are craftsmen. Here's to the boys.



RATING : FOUR OUT OF FIVE ZIGGYS

[GiRTh]

From Eek a mouse to Girls aloud in the first 10. This should be a good run down

[Shaun]

santana

only got the Abraxas album... dunno why i never branched out

[Z]

I've never been a fan of the Pet Shop Boys and there were a couple of unknowns on that list for me (I'd heard of Infected Mushroom but never heard any music and reggae is a total unknown quality to me for the most part) but everything's been good so far! I like the Ziggy rating system. Shaun you get 3 Ziggys/5 for your posts today. 5/5 to you Stu.

[Shaun]

*doesn't know why i get some but thank you anyway*

[Marc]

-expects Scott's top 50 male torsos very soon-

[Shaun]

as if he'd compile above the waist

[Z]

Originally Posted by Shaun

as if he'd compile above the waist

he'd probably go for a come pile though

[Stu]

RATING : ONE OUT OF FIVE ZIGGYS

[Shaun]

yeah that was weak

[Z]

It's been a long day

[Stu]

thirty nine.
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON//We Have Explosive

Youtube video

sounds like.
Electroshock treatment.

it's here because.
Play it now as you read. It's a quick hit so you might like it, who knows. Future Sound Of London is one of those dozens of British electronica acts I got into through the videogame series Wipeout. This one - from Wipeout 2097 - is real head music. A fast paced romp that encourages you to draw pictures in your own head instead of letting psychedelics feed you them. As their name implies Future Sounds do that whole looking at 2015 from 1995 thing. Listening to this tune to me doesn't conjure images of dancefloors but rather of tube stations, advertising billboards and those shiny suits from The Running Man. Beats the pulp of of Sash!, amiright?

Et cetera. Anyway it's a great tune and that's why it's here, isin't it.

[Stu]

thirty eight.
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN//The Killing Moon

Youtube video

sounds like.
One of the better parts of Donnie Darko.

it's here because.
I heard my dad listening to this song I'm sure a gazillion times before it fully resonated with me when I heard it in Richard Kelly's dumb, overrated but nonetheless entertaining Donnie Darko. There underpinning Jake Gyllenhaal having a cycle around at dawn looking vulnerable and sexy was where it first grabbed me. I was reminded by ever dour Ian McCulloch of course that I had heard his haunting intoning before but man ... such a good track.

The line "faith, up against your will" is amazingly powerful in this vague sort of way - that's the song right there - and apparently it's the line Ian had in his head that spurned him to write the whole damn thing. I'm glad he did.

[Roy Mars III]

[Kate!]

Champagne Supernova and Surburbia

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Stu

thirty eight.
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN//The Killing Moon

Youtube video

sounds like.
One of the better parts of Donnie Darko.

it's here because.
I heard my dad listening to this song I'm sure a gazillion times before it fully resonated with me when I heard it in Richard Kelly's dumb, overrated but nonetheless entertaining Donnie Darko. There underpinning Jake Gyllenhaal having a cycle around at dawn looking vulnerable and sexy was where it first grabbed me. I was reminded by ever dour Ian McCulloch of course that I had heard his haunting intoning before but man ... such a good track.

The line "faith, up against your will" is amazingly powerful in this vague sort of way - that's the song right there - and apparently it's the line Ian had in his head that spurned him to write the whole damn thing. I'm glad he did.

[Stu]

thirty seven.
AZTEC CAMERA//Somewhere In My Heart

Youtube video

sounds like.
Nostalgia.

it's here because.
Nostalgia seems like a cheap way out. It's the easiest way I can describe so much of this music which seems to paint my heart in a colour that I cannot name yet which is oddly familiar. I first heard this song when me and my dad used to drive to the hospital to see sick mummy back when I was a smallie. Mummy is okay now thankfully but this song made those moments bittersweet. You always remember hospital visits, don't you. More often than not they're miserable affairs but there is that word again. Resonance.

It twinkles like any good pop song should yet kicks me in the gut at the same time. How I love it so.

[Stu]

thirty six.
NICKI MINAJ//Pound The Alarm

Youtube video

sounds like.
Another curveball.

it's here because.
I'm not taking the piss, either. Trinidad art attack Nicki's first outing in this countdown is her only one. Forget the the lush Superbass, the nauseously catchy Starships or the instant turn off ego massage that was the otherwise blissed out Freedom. Pound The Alarm is her best song and was last summers real summery sounding song.

It's bright, fun it's got riddim and it might be the best pop song since that part of all our lives where Lady GaGa was a pretty good Madonna getting screwed by eurosynths. It also soundtracked about two months I spent last year in the same gay club every night of the week, letting forty year old men buy me shots of aftershock on the promise that I would go home with them.

I didn't. I was still dancing to this. I even own two T-Shirts. Plasticity has never been this much fun.

[sooty]

Stu is here!

[Stu]

thirty five.
THE JAM//Going Underground

Youtube video

sounds like.
The real cool Britannia.

it's here because.
Paul Weller was a man on a mission. An epoch unto himself the original Modfather was the prince of no nonsense, well dressed, somewhat clean living, cut through the B.S. How refreshing compared to some of the cartoon psychopaths that often reside in and out of the charts.

A hero, in short. His solo albums are bloody good too but they don't really crack the list. At least no particular song does. This Jam number storms in just as the chart heats up and we race to the halfway point though owing to how bloody infectious it is.

The soundtrack to TiBB's Fritzlfest season, too. What more could a girl want?