Throw your hands in the air!

My Darling YOU! – Everything, Alright!?
This was one of the top five songs on the list I published yesterday, which obviously means I’m quite found of it. Actually it’s not that extraordinary, the length of it is only 1:25, and everything about it is just quite simply, but that is why I like it. It might be short, but it’s an intense catchy pop song, with joyful lyrics and interesting vocals – brilliant stuff! I don’t know much about My Darling YOU!, mainly because their crappy website isn’t very informative. But the songs I’ve heard by them are excellent so I’m anxious to hear more!

Bonus: Please Don’t Talk To Me I Fall In Love So Easily – weird lyrics, but I love weird, so. But seriously, what’s up with killing your friends because you hate love? Weird, weird.

The Sounds – Don’t Want To Hurt You
The new Sounds-LP isn’t as good as the last one, but it includes a couple of good songs. It’s half indie rock and half electro rock, and since I’m a sucker for electric sounds, I naturally fell for the electro-songs. “Don’t Want To Hurt You” is one of them, and as a change they’ve let one of the guys sing on it. The result is great - they should let him sing more! It sounds a bit like The Tough Alliance would if they did rock.

CTOS Classic: Drain STH – Simon Says (1999)
When you play this you’ll probably think what the hell we were thinking posting a bloody goth rock song, but you can relax, it’s actually a really quite good one. Here are some reasons to love it: 1) It’s written by Max Martin. 2) They were witches, or at least seemed to be. 3) It’s written by Max Martin. 4) It sounds a lot like Nu Pagadi, which is a good thing. 5) Between the verses there’s a guy saying “throw your hands in the air, and twinkle them around like you just don’t care”, and that’s quite pop, is it not? 6) The chorus is really good. 7) They were really ugly. 8) Did we mention it’s written by Max Martin? We did? Ah, alright. Well that should be reason enough for you to like it. Especially since it was released back in 1999 when Martin was at his “brilliance peak”.

posted by Chrille @ 3/30/2006