LISTED: 2010's Best
*This entry would probably be the last for the year before we'll start posting again next week. And since we're already done with counting down 30 best albums of the last decade, it's best perhaps for us to look at some of the highs that have made the year 2010 in music that is worth taking note.
Best New Artist - Janelle Monáe
Yes, she might have started her professional music career back in 2006, but it was only this year that she had started to enter our radar (and presumably everyone else's as well). And this time it's not some self-depreciating trashbag female singer audible only with the help of the Auto-Tune, singing about something that is at best deliriously incomprehensible (yes, it's Ke$ha if it's not already obvious). Janelle Monáe has that soulful voice and a unique delivery style which are very rarely can be found nowadays.
Best Album - Diamond Eyes by Deftones
I'm still scratching my head over some of the lines Chino Moreno sang in this album, but as far as I could work it out, for the entire album they were actually talking about sex. That should probably explain why there are lots of reference on 'blood' and 'shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes'. But lovemaking matters aside, Diamond Eyes are brilliant. After two frankly pedestrian albums, they have finally hit the right note and produced, what we dare to say, Deftones' finest album of their entire career (so far).
*Sorry for the shitty video, but copyright matters prevented us from embedding the official video clip for the song.
Best Song - Fuck You by Cee Lo Green
This is sheer catharsis at its' funky best. Should add that the year 2010 also was when we started to pay attention to the mainstream music as well, instead of just focusing on the indie scene. Cee Lo Green's came to us as a bit of a surprise because very rarely we've heard songs about being snubbed by a partner that is fun and not angry or sad. So fun indeed that the "fuck you" part is almost a delight to sing along with.
Best Old Song Given a Breath of Fresh Air - Monoloque's Tiada Kata Secantik Bahasa (P. Ramlee)
When the newspaper The Star ran an article covering about an effort among Malaysia's indie musicians to do what is basically a cover of Tan Sri P. Ramlee's songs, at first I couldn't care less of what the final product would've been. But reading at how all the artists involved in the project talking about the depth of emotion that permeates through all of P. Ramlee's works, and how they wanted to capture that exact 'feel' in their version of the song, that got me curious. Fair to say after listening to seven or eight of the songs, the only 'feel' that I can get from it was disappointment. None of what they claimed to be 'the troubling croon of a wounded soul' was evident in their cover, save for one - Monoloque's Tiada Kata Secantik Bahasa. Even if you don't speak the language, you could have a pretty accurate guess of what this song is actually about.
Best Song by a Local Artist - Gadis Semasa by Yuna
The guitar-straddling girl from Kedah has finally ditched her gloomy, somber past and embraced the fun and the hip with this one, a song that is both playful and groovy, something that is not very synonymous with Yuna. It's a real breath of fresh air, not only for Yuna, but for the Malaysian music scene in general as well.
Best Song To Sing Along When Frustrated - Law's Lover's Tiff
This underground band is so elusive in nature that frankly speaking, we had no idea who the Hell they are, where they came from, and how on Earth they got their materials to be played on national radio when even within the indie circle, they are almost anonymous. We can't even find a good gig in which they are playing. Which should explain the lack of a picture for this one. Real frustration we got here...
Best... Ok We'll Admit It We Just Fucking Love This Band - Law
And they have another song which they did a duet with Liyana Fizi (the bite-the-back-of-my-hand beautiful songstress but with an uninteresting voice) called "Fantastic Adventure", which is a real fun to sing along to. Damn it - who are these people?!
*This entry would probably be the last for the year before we'll start posting again next week. And since we're already done with counting down 30 best albums of the last decade, it's best perhaps for us to look at some of the highs that have made the year 2010 in music that is worth taking note.
Best New Artist - Janelle Monáe
Yes, she might have started her professional music career back in 2006, but it was only this year that she had started to enter our radar (and presumably everyone else's as well). And this time it's not some self-depreciating trashbag female singer audible only with the help of the Auto-Tune, singing about something that is at best deliriously incomprehensible (yes, it's Ke$ha if it's not already obvious). Janelle Monáe has that soulful voice and a unique delivery style which are very rarely can be found nowadays.
Best Album - Diamond Eyes by Deftones
I'm still scratching my head over some of the lines Chino Moreno sang in this album, but as far as I could work it out, for the entire album they were actually talking about sex. That should probably explain why there are lots of reference on 'blood' and 'shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes'. But lovemaking matters aside, Diamond Eyes are brilliant. After two frankly pedestrian albums, they have finally hit the right note and produced, what we dare to say, Deftones' finest album of their entire career (so far).
*Sorry for the shitty video, but copyright matters prevented us from embedding the official video clip for the song.
Best Song - Fuck You by Cee Lo Green
This is sheer catharsis at its' funky best. Should add that the year 2010 also was when we started to pay attention to the mainstream music as well, instead of just focusing on the indie scene. Cee Lo Green's came to us as a bit of a surprise because very rarely we've heard songs about being snubbed by a partner that is fun and not angry or sad. So fun indeed that the "fuck you" part is almost a delight to sing along with.
Best Old Song Given a Breath of Fresh Air - Monoloque's Tiada Kata Secantik Bahasa (P. Ramlee)
When the newspaper The Star ran an article covering about an effort among Malaysia's indie musicians to do what is basically a cover of Tan Sri P. Ramlee's songs, at first I couldn't care less of what the final product would've been. But reading at how all the artists involved in the project talking about the depth of emotion that permeates through all of P. Ramlee's works, and how they wanted to capture that exact 'feel' in their version of the song, that got me curious. Fair to say after listening to seven or eight of the songs, the only 'feel' that I can get from it was disappointment. None of what they claimed to be 'the troubling croon of a wounded soul' was evident in their cover, save for one - Monoloque's Tiada Kata Secantik Bahasa. Even if you don't speak the language, you could have a pretty accurate guess of what this song is actually about.
Best Song by a Local Artist - Gadis Semasa by Yuna
The guitar-straddling girl from Kedah has finally ditched her gloomy, somber past and embraced the fun and the hip with this one, a song that is both playful and groovy, something that is not very synonymous with Yuna. It's a real breath of fresh air, not only for Yuna, but for the Malaysian music scene in general as well.
Best Song To Sing Along When Frustrated - Law's Lover's Tiff
This underground band is so elusive in nature that frankly speaking, we had no idea who the Hell they are, where they came from, and how on Earth they got their materials to be played on national radio when even within the indie circle, they are almost anonymous. We can't even find a good gig in which they are playing. Which should explain the lack of a picture for this one. Real frustration we got here...
Best... Ok We'll Admit It We Just Fucking Love This Band - Law
And they have another song which they did a duet with Liyana Fizi (the bite-the-back-of-my-hand beautiful songstress but with an uninteresting voice) called "Fantastic Adventure", which is a real fun to sing along to. Damn it - who are these people?!
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