What's on your iPod?
Kyle Dallman
Issue date: 11/6/09 Section: Variety
7. "Tocarte Toa," DJ Yamo featuring Calle 13
Let's start with what makes this song immediately ballin': violins. Thanks early 90's hip-hop for that brainchild. After that the Spanish dialect is abbreviated, and pretty much all slang, three years of Spanish couldn't even help me out in my incredible desire to try and sing along to this one, yet I keep crawling back. But here's the clincher, try and come to an ORC party for the rest of the year and leave without hearing it - it's impossible. So hot right now.
8. "Vicissitudes" Dave Holland Quintet
Want to hear one of the catchiest contemporary jazz heads in the world? You've come to the right place. Nate Smith and Dave Holland combine to lay down one of the tastiest grooves out there, which Chris Potter says hello then makes musical love to.
9. "Take on Me," a-ha
For some reason this song reached almost cult status last year in the Large/Small Exec crowd, and I was definitely one of the infected masses. Who knew that the highest vocal pitch I could possibly produce would be "I'll be gone in a day or Twoooo" There's no feeling like nailing that in a Karaoke setting.
10. "Robot Rock," Daft Punk
As I look back on my loving relationship with this song I finally know why I learned to love it - a really cool senior played it for me when I was a moderately cool freshman in his really cool room on his really cool speakers at a really cool volume. Ah, thanks Matthew Vitti. That hook? Timeless.
Let's start with what makes this song immediately ballin': violins. Thanks early 90's hip-hop for that brainchild. After that the Spanish dialect is abbreviated, and pretty much all slang, three years of Spanish couldn't even help me out in my incredible desire to try and sing along to this one, yet I keep crawling back. But here's the clincher, try and come to an ORC party for the rest of the year and leave without hearing it - it's impossible. So hot right now.
8. "Vicissitudes" Dave Holland Quintet
Want to hear one of the catchiest contemporary jazz heads in the world? You've come to the right place. Nate Smith and Dave Holland combine to lay down one of the tastiest grooves out there, which Chris Potter says hello then makes musical love to.
9. "Take on Me," a-ha
For some reason this song reached almost cult status last year in the Large/Small Exec crowd, and I was definitely one of the infected masses. Who knew that the highest vocal pitch I could possibly produce would be "I'll be gone in a day or Twoooo" There's no feeling like nailing that in a Karaoke setting.
10. "Robot Rock," Daft Punk
As I look back on my loving relationship with this song I finally know why I learned to love it - a really cool senior played it for me when I was a moderately cool freshman in his really cool room on his really cool speakers at a really cool volume. Ah, thanks Matthew Vitti. That hook? Timeless.
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