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[1] Missy Elliott, ‘Get Ur Freak On’
For all my efforts, Junior doesn’t quite have the weight of cultural history on her small shoulders, so true innovation won’t astonish her just yet. To her, ‘Get Ur Freak On’ has a slinky groo… more →
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[1] Missy Elliott, ‘Get Ur Freak On’
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jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: For all my efforts, Junior doesn’t quite have the weight of cultural history on her small shoulder … more →
[2] Daft Punk, ‘Digital Love’
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jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: No one actually realised that we needed a reworking of ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’, but need i … more →
[3] The Strokes, ‘The Modern Age EP’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: There was such a quaint furore about The Strokes those long seven years ago, loud voices on either s … more →
[4] Outkast, ‘Ms Jackson’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: Operating on some sort of mad, sickly, spandex level above conventional hip-hop, Outkast have the cr … more →
[5] Manic Street Preachers, ‘So Why So Sad (Sean Penn Mix – Avalanches)
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: Is this really the done thing? Heroes of the year, The Avalanches took the Manics’ dreary and slig … more →
[6] Kylie Minogue, ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’
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jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: Yes – shock and awe – the Greatest Pop Single of the Century is only the 2001 No.6. It’s a fin … more →
[7] Jay-Z ‘I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: He was already well-enough-established by this point, largely thanks to forever soiling his legacy f … more →
[8] Destiny’s Child, ‘Bootylicious’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: It’s all very well asking if the girls can “handle it”, but over the thrummy bass intro from … more →
[9] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, ‘Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song)’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: Good start, cool name. Terrific single too (their third, or thereabouts), that suggested a searing b … more →
[10] Madonna, ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: In which musclebound Madge tries to convince us that she’s really a sensitive little flower at Kab … more →
[11] Macy Gray featuring Erykah Badu, ‘Sweet Baby’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: 1999’s …On How Life Is was an astounding success, a must-have and a false dawn; the sort of shot … more →
[12] Basement Jaxx, ‘Romeo’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: A thoroughly appealing waft of nothing, featuring a pretty guest turn from whatever-happened-to Kele … more →
[13] Roots Manuva, ‘Witness (1 Hope)’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: And at unlucky number 13 we have the UK hip-hop industry. “Britain’s best rapper” – yes, sor … more →
[14] Sophie Ellis-Bextor, ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’
jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: Polite reaction for a polite girl; Junior shimmied her shoulders briefly before refocusing attention … more →
[15] Nelly, ‘Ride Wit Me’
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jukeboxjunior wrote 3 months ago: With his face covered in elastoplast and his general goofing, Nelly’s a bit of a maverick – or a … more →
[16] Fischerspooner, ‘Emerge’
jukeboxjunior wrote 4 months ago: I think we’re meant to laugh at Fisherspooner. The thing is, there’s a touch of the thrilling ab … more →
[17] Daft Punk, ‘Aerodynamic’
jukeboxjunior wrote 4 months ago: Daft Punk were all about da funk and da cut-up grooves and da samples and da general messiness – a … more →
[18] Nelly Furtado, 'I'm Like A Bird'
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jukeboxjunior wrote 4 months ago: It takes a newly minted three-year-old to join the dots. “Do you like this song?” I ask, witheri … more →
[19] The Avalanches, ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’
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jukeboxjunior wrote 4 months ago: Junior ran the rule over this yesterday, on her third birthday. She’s come a long way since she wa … more →
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