88. Jamiroquai- Synkronized- 1999
I have always liked Jamiroquai but I have never properly acted on this until I got this from a charity shop! This is probably my favourite style of Jay Kay more dance influenced with the big single Canned Heat. If anybody has seen Napolean Dynamite will love that song even if they don't like Jamiroquai. He of course still keeps all his best attributes though with Jazz and Funk still strongly present like 'Black Capricorn Day' for instance.
Every album they make is top quality so really just pick the one with your favourite musical direction.
Key Songs: Canned Heat, Deeper Underground, Planet Home
87. Arctic Monkeys- Favourite Worst Nightmare- 2007
Ok let's all listen to my Arctic Monkeys history. First single comes out 'I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor' and I think this is pretty good might check out this band. Then holy sh*t! NME, British Press and almost everybody hypes this band into the next universe. The climax of this was when NME put their debut into the top 5 best British albums ever.
That was it I had had enough already add to that I thought the songs on the album were very mixed and there was a lack of maturity mixed in there.
But then low and behold they destroy the first barrier of rock and roll, the second album curse. First of all they have got it out when they are still fresh writing whilst touring the first album and secondly it is actually quite a job well done.
The excellent single 'Brianstorm' opens the album with its 'do anything, go anywhere' attitude which is literally all over this album. Every song is good in its own way apart from maybe the bit where they did go a bit far on the annoying slowdown of 'Only Ones Who Know'. They finish the album with '505', which I can't believe they wrote when I first heard it, really good stuff showing a great maturity of music from the past but keeping it very much in the future and that is the ethos of the whole album. They have matured so much in a year in the process losing their bassist but if they can carry this up they have every right to ride the hype.
Key Songs: Brianstorm, Do Me A Favour, 505
86. LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem- 2005
I only heard them after the latest album which I also love in a different way but when I saw this for £5 in a shop with the bonus disk I lapped it straight up.
James Murphy isn't half a character, I read an interview with him in a music newspaper earlier this year and it was a mixture of depression, humour and happiness. This all comes out on this record but with the added music nerdiness he pocesses. 'Daft is Playing At My House' sounds exactly like it should sound like. Tribulations is a pick with its disco beat and great vocals. He even makes a lost Beatles song with 'Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up' and Brian Eno with 'Great Release'.
The bonus disc continues on with the brilliance where he parades the nerd within him in 'Losing My Edge' which has trendmendously well worked lyrics, 'I was there at the first Can show in Cologne' and 'I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids, I played it at CBGBs'. 'But I was there!' is the recurring line of insecurity. Another pick from the disk is 'Yeah' with its two versions the vocal one which they often play live named fittingly 'Crass Version' and the instrumental one 'Pretenious version'. Sometimes I feel like saying 'Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah' too.
Key Songs: Daft Punk is Playing at My House, Tribulations, Losing My Edge