#bangerz

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-07-27

youtube.com/watch?v=IJIOvgnJdr h

Holy crap lions, this is over 15 years old… my favourite Pet Shop Boys single of all time, ‘Love etc.’

#Bangerz #SaturdayNight

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-03-04

I picked ‘#Kylie says to Jason’ by #TheKLF for this week’s #MusicMonday Queen’s Book Asylum post. I bet this is the first appearance of the word ‘Kylie’ on the blog.

queensbookasylum.com/2024/03/0

#bangerz #classicalmusic #youdidntknowthisoneexisteddidyou

If you know what ‘The Manual’ by The KLF is, you might know or not that they took ‘Left to my own devices’ by #PetShopBoys as a template and failed to chart. Later, PSB used ‘The Manual’ (knowingly?) for ‘Go West’ and that one did okay.

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-02-25

#bangerz

I have no idea *why* ‘Shake Your Head’ by Was Not Was and Kim Basinger exists, but the world is better for it.

youtube.com/watch?v=xF86Iyrxpt

(The original demo had Madonna on vocals, but Kim Basinger was chosen as the better singer. As her surname suggests.)

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-02-23

I am currently obsessed with ‘Yes, And?’ by #ArianaGrande and I have no regrets. My favourite 1990s #house track since ‘1991’ by #AzaeliaBanks. Released in 2012.

#bangerz

youtube.com/watch?v=eB6txyhHFG

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-02-20

#bangerz

Probably the only song in German which I can sing (‘sing’) from the beginning to the end.

‘Arbeitsgeld’ by Nachlader:

youtube.com/watch?v=7aYdTWz7NS

Ich habe kein Geld, habe kein Geld. Habe keine Arbeit, habe keine Geld. Habe keine Arbeit. Möchte, möchte keine Arbeit, möchte, möchte nur Geld. Möchte Geld ohne Arbeit. Arbeit ist doof…

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-02-18

#bangerz

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ has now spent four consecutive weeks at UK #2. This must be so frustrating.

youtube.com/watch?v=hAx6mYeC6p

#1 remains ‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan and yes, I’ve played the album a few times, but I still can’t recall the title track. It’s very ‘album filler.’ How it’s been #1 for 2039 weeks is beyond me. (Mind, Ed Sheeran is also beyond me…)

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-01-14

#bangerz (well, using a very wide definition of the word) – Opus One orchestra performing the entirety of #MikeOldfield's #TubularBells for its 50th anniversary.

(Trivia: when Oldfield handed #RichardBranson the demo, which was basically side A of the album, it was called 'Opus One'.)

youtube.com/watch?v=8Wv3oDeO3M

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2024-01-13

Everyone + @nolank – I was SO hoping for #1! And I still do. It was #3 in midweeks. GO SOPHIE!!! #SophieEllisBextor #Saltburn #murderonthedancefloor #bangerz

youtube.com/watch?v=hAx6mYeC6p

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-31

#bangerz of #2023 – NUMBER ONE:

55 (fifty-five) years since their first release. Combined age of the duo: 153. Ideas: endless. Song: flawless. Album: (nearly) flawless. Video: flawless. #CateBlanchett: flawless.

'The Girl is Crying in Her Latte' by #Sparks, from their 25th (you've read this right) album of the same title:

youtube.com/watch?v=UTAxPhxADo

So many people are crying in their latte!!! (So. Many. People. Should hear this gem.)

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-30

#bangerz of 2023: #2

Old man yells about joy: a song about waking up from a coma to experience everything again. If you've been deeply depressed, or just like joy, you don't even need to know it's as good as 'Sledgehammer'. i/o is my album of the year, by the way.

'Road to Joy' by #PeterGabriel has given me LOTS of joy. The 'Bright-Side Mix' is THE ONE. Wish this got "proper" single treatment, even though I know no radio would touch a 73yo's song. World's loss.

youtube.com/watch?v=463mTTVFxl

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-30

#Bangerz of 2023, #3:

#PadamPadam is obviously THE #KylieMinogue song of the year, chart-wise and old-vumman-gets-radio-airplay-shocker-wise, but the follow up, #Tension went unnoticed.

It's brilliantly bonkers. Don't be scared, touch me right touch touch! *pa-dam-pa, pa-padam-dam-dam rhythm*

youtube.com/watch?v=8-aEr4WRPY

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-30

#Bangerz of #2023, #4

Was #IceSpice necessary on #TaylorSwift's 'Karma'? YES. 'FACT' at 2:27. LEVEL UP.

Karma's a relaxing thought, aren't you envious that for you it's not?

youtube.com/watch?v=XzOvgu3GPw

#Ye's talking shit just for the hell of it… but karma is Tay's boyfriend.

(PS. Karma is the guy on the #Chiefs coming straight home to me.)

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-30

#Bangerz of 2023 – #5:

#DawgYawp are a band that hates being noticed. Their FB is gone. Even their website doesn't mention the new album. It took me 8 months to find out and I'm a superfan.

If Badly Drawn Boy was still Goodly… and had an electric sitar… and incredible harmonies… 'So Much More' would have happened.

youtube.com/watch?v=uzaiVsBA0Z

Bandcamp: dawgyawp.bandcamp.com/album/so

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-30

#Bangerz of 2023 – #6:

#EBTG (#EverythingButTheGirl) put out a new album this year, 'Fuse'. Since they are Very Old and streaming is a thing that exists, it debuted at #3 and was out of the UK top 100 within four weeks. But it did not leave *my* top 100.

'No One Knows We're Dancing' is the slowest banger about dancing ever. I love it to bits.

youtube.com/watch?v=4YU4c1VRCG

'Fiat Cinquecento' is the best part. I'm lying. All of the song is the best part.

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-29

#bangerz of #2023!!! #7

#Babymorocco's 'I Wish You Would Make It Easy' has a blink-and-you-miss-it-if-you-are-deaf sample of #PetShopBoys' 'West End girls' (by which I mean it's the entire backing track) with soft rap on top.

youtube.com/watch?v=2smEoGuPyI

It's lovely, uncredited, and nobody knows about it. Give it a listen. 'West End girls #2 Minus the West End girls' is waiting.

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-29

#bangerz of #2023!!! #8

Padam.
Padam?

#KylieMinogue smashing top 10s everywhere at the age of VERY ANCIENT (above 25) with a song that became a dictionary entry. Padam? I say it and you know. #KamalaHarris knows. WE ALL KNOW.

youtube.com/watch?v=7JD69IlA9i (extended version, check out the 'Extension' album, if you loved 'Tension' you'll be ABOVE THE MOON with 'Extension')

Padam?

Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈bjornlarssen@toot.community
2023-12-29

#bangerz of #2023!!! #9

I remember #AlisonGoldfrapp reviewing new records for Muzik (RIP). 'I'm really trying to like something' (Alison) 'It shows' (Muzik)

Well, I REALLY LIKE THIS.

'NeverStop' by Alison #Goldfrapp:

youtube.com/watch?v=Xcsvgsedz2

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