Baby, That Tongue’s Not Welcome Around Here

Rachel Stevens “Sweet Dreams (My L.A. Ex)” – How did I miss this? I really ought to pay more attention to the UK pop charts in the future. I wish that someone had tapped me on the shoulder and told me about this song earlier. (If you were curious, I sampled this song because it ranked highly on Troubled Diva’s year end list.) Anyway, this is a perfect pop song, and I loved it immediately after hearing the first three or four bars. Of course, it only gets better from there – the “what planet are you from…” pre-chorus, the chorus itself, and the middle-eight are all impeccable. Maybe we’ll get lucky, and this song will become a hit in the US too.

Heiko Voss “I Think About You (Original Mix)” – This is taken from Fabric 13, a compilation put together by Michael Mayer of Germany’s Kompakt dance label. This song is like dreamy disco bliss, basically. It’s one of those songs that just sounds like love.