Anne Feeney's version of "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" or Gloria Jane's version of "John Brown's Body"
I'm guessing "Tenderoni" you mean the Chromeo song, since I've never heard of another such song, but I've never heard anyone mention that song before either.
Anyway, the next big hit is an oldie but goodie, Poe's "Hello". Because nostalgia for 1995 is just starting to build and this will be part of it.
There is a really cool song called Jessie's Girl. Its about this guy who has the hots for his friend girlfriend. His friends name is Jessie, which is why the song is called Jessie's Girl. And it has a really cool guitar riff that goes DEENER-NEENER-NEET-NEET-NEEENER-NEET-NEET!
Its a really cool song.
WHERE CAN I FIND A WOMAN LIKE THAT???!!!
Hey, you've been funny. You've been cool with the lines. Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?
4: The song makes more sense if you assume that he doesn't have the hots for Jessie's girl, but that he's jealous of her.
This is ridiculously catchy and more people should know about it. (And the group that does it is the source of my most unexpected phrase of the year: "independent hip hop team from Provo, UT".)
Nope, never heard that Bobby Brown song before.
This is one I've been trying to show all my friends. It's an important reminder that the titular spacecraft made several successful missions before that little glitch in early 1986. If you were an Italo-disco producer in mid-1984 and you were putting together a happy song about a spacecraft, that's the one you would pick. Plus the choreography and the track suits.
The ones that were sticking in my head today, were:
James Carr -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0FzDbo0DEc
Clarence Carter -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qI4_05874
But neither are hardly new. Fractionally newer:
Grimes (which I guess most people know anyway)@:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5H-YlcMSbc
Cate Le Bon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrU3jvj3K4Y
Yo, this here is my jam!
Except actually I can't think of anything.
Emily "IRocktheBelles" Lawson does her thing.
Sounds like the radio in 1997 but in my head...and with decent sound quality, come to think of it. That was a real "audio surprise" moment - this stuff sounds different without the multipath over the hills fuzzing all over the place.
oh yeah, some near-rickroll moments in there.
Also, as a general recommendation, Gemma Ray. If you like 50s-ish pop/prog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wz3Rt7eu0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeY8jqlSJdo&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Uglcf37fA
I got really into Call Me Maybe but I think I'm done now.
Oh, hey, I actually am listening to something contemporary:
Bobby Womack, "The Bravest Man In The Universe"
(produced, I think, by the same person who did Gil-Scott Heron's very good penultimate album I'm New Here)
19: I finally hard that song after hearing the NPR host dramatic reading. It is super earwormy.
AND SHES LOOKING AT HIM WITH THOSE EYYYEEEES!
AND SHES LOVING HIM WITH THAT BODY I JUST KNOW IT!!!
I just became a total sucker for this. Video worth watching. I got a little choked up when he turned into Kurt.
I wish that I was Jessie's girl! Do doo-doo doo doo. Why can't I be a woman like--oh, dammit, did I say that out loud?
I only just realized where I knew the song in 10 from (no, it does not sample Jimmy Webb's "Up, Up and Away") -- this AMAZING CRAY CRAY ROPE SWING VIDEO.
I like the Murmuüre tune "L'adieu au soleil".
DEENER-NEENER-NEET-NEET-NEEENER-NEET-NEET!
2012 is all about lions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0ijbSV9gI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5FdvRR4pQ
24: very amusing. Also funny when "Courtney" stumbles by in the background
25: You may be the person I picked up the interpretation in 8 from.
This is one of my main musical discoveries this year.
31: You are kind, sir, for not simply saying PWNED.
On the Summertime Pop front:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhtZXwkk5U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIA5e4esp1g
Also, this bit of funky goodness has been making me very happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e46erOfniw
I've had PRAWN on heavy rotation recently and love them.
when Jesse's Girl came out, i didn't know Jesse could be a man's name. it was a very confusing song for me.
36: I like it. Very late 1990s, Rainer Maria meets Built to Spill.
I always knew "Jesse" was a man's name, so the confusing thing was why the song was called "Jessie's Girl".
38: "Sounds like Built to Spill" was my immediate reaction as well.
The 1980s were special, because there were not one, but two famous Uncle Jessies on television.
1. Purity Ring - Lofticries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgKk8Eqyzkk
I thought Purity Ring was the song and Lofticries was the singer, but now I think vice verse.
2 The Chain Gang of 1974 - The Devil Is A Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olTdBymCmBo
in a 'people who liked 'Gang Of Four - Man In Uniform ' also like sense.