Top Ten: GaoSalad's Favorite Albums Ever (Part Two)

So last Sunday I dropped the bomb on you (baby) by telling you some of my rather shocking favorite albums of all time. Some of them I know aren't the greatest, but I just can't help myself. Pop music is an addiction -- but not all of these bad boys are of the pop variety. Prepare for the shock and awe of my Top Five(ish) albums EVER! Well for now. It will probably change next week. Or maybe I had a brain fart. Anyway, commence the listing!

05. The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You

See! I told you that it wouldn't be all pop! The Sounds are basically my generation's Blondie, only without the massive fame and street cred. Their lead singer, Maja, was featured in that Snakes On A Plane Song that Cobra Starship did before they turned to crap, and from there I stumbled upon this album. As a matter of fact, all of their albums are really well done. The first two, this being one of them, were more rock focused, while the last two have really mellowed out. The only reason I chose this album, as well as placed it so high on the list, is due to me knowing every word to every song on this CD. Yes, people, I have my nostalgia goggles on right now. Bite me.

Top Five: Un-Christmas Songs

Welcome to Christmas! I'm not really as happy about it as the exclamation point would lead you to believe, but it's hard not to buy into the fake cheer of the holidays. It's time to hash out more celebrity X-mas related songs. Luckily, not all of them are your traditional tunes, some being downright anti-Christmas. As part of a month-long Top Five column of random crap I deem entertaining and relevant, I will be  Let me get at you with some Un-Christmas Christmas songs.


5. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI by Utada



Confession time: I LOVE Hikaru Utada's English albums. Back when I was a Weeaboo (Don't ask), I was all about some Utada, and she released her debut English album Exodus at the height of my Japan obsession. She released two English albums, this song from the second one. I placed it so high on the countdown mainly because it trolls you into thinking it's a Christmas song when it really isn't. She doesn't even mention the holidays at all. The only really seasonal part of the song is her saying "Jing-a-ling" a couple of times. Way to fool us, Utada. You win.
Edit: An Anon informed me she had to keep the title of the song she sampled for legal reasons. That still doesn't mean she isn't trolling you. I mean if she had to keep the title, logic dictates you should roll with the Christmas theme. She did not. Thus, troll.
(Warning: Lots of Hos under the cut.)

Space Cowboy + Dolly Rockers, New Gaga and More

A few months ago, I saw a tweet that made me really excited. It was a link to a picture of the British "wonky pop" group The Dolly Rockers with my future husband favorite song writer collaborating together. Now with any unsigned or recently signed band, a lot of things are going to be uncertain, so with the recent spike in activity with The Dolly Rockers, I took it upon myself to find out what is going on.

The Dollies have started a mailer with exclusive content including pictures, personal messages, and videos. Their first installment announced that they have been signed to RedWalk and having their entire album produced by RedOne, the hitmaker best known for his work with Lady Gaga. This made my heart sink as it looked like the tracks written with Space Cowboy might never see the light of day... So I took it upon myself to go to the source. While the Dollies were a little vague, it did sound hopeful.

I made a post about the picture and my excitement and the dollies replied!

"@Gaosalad we are signed to redone but have worked with the fabulous @spacecowboy x"

In an excited panic I replied to them asking if the songs will ever see the light of day and got yet another response!

"@Gaosalad ull have to wait and see whats on the album! there will be plenty of surprises x"

And with that Im going to remain optimistic.  And who knows? Maybe Spacey will post something about it on his twitter soon. Who knew I'd get addicted to yet another social networking site (sarcasm hurr).

In other news, Lady Gaga has released yet another song in an effort to draw attention to her already hugely anticipated album. Before I get on to talking about the song, let me make it clear that I am not the biggest Gaga fan. Go ahead and call the gay police but I think I might be the only homo on the planet that doesn't see her as the second coming of Jesus. Born This Way and Edge of Glory were nowhere near as good as they should have been. Judas is my guilty pleasure... and the new promotional single "Hair" is... kind of in between. The song has made me torn. It is looking like while half of the new album will be terrible, half of it has potential. I guess I may have to go against my OCD habbits and buy selected tracks instead of dropping fifteen dollars on the full album.

Other noteworthy releases this week:
Just one for this week. The return of Limp Bizkit. "Shotgun" is not only awesome but pretty addicting too.

And per request, I leave you with a picture of Katy Perry doing a rather convincing immitation of a certain 80's cartoon character.