Favorites 05: Books

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, The Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life















Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Favorites 05: Albums/Songs

Albums:

Goldfrapp, Supernature
Choice cuts: Number 1, Ooh La La










Madonna, Confessions On A Dancefloor
Choice cuts: Hung Up, Get Together, Sorry, Forbidden Love, Push, Jump, Fighting Spirit (Special Edition Bonus Track)







Mysterious Skin [Soundtrack]
Choice cuts: Snowfall, Loitering









Brazilian Girls
Choice cuts: Don't Stop, Pussy, Lazy Lover, Sirenes De La Fete









Fischerspooner, "Odyssey"
Choice cuts: Just Let Go, Get Confused, Never Win, Cloud









Röyksopp, The Understanding
Choice cuts: 49 Percent, Only This Moment, Sombre Detune








Imogen Heap, Speak For Yourself
Choice cuts: Goodnight and Go, Hide and Seek, The Walk, Just For Now









Coldplay, X&Y
Choice cuts: Fix You, Talk, Speed Of Sound, Swallowed In The Sea









Sigur Rós, Takk
Choice cuts: Glosoli, Sæglópur, Takk










Emiliana Torrini, Fisherman's Woman
Choice cuts: Heartstopper, Sunny Day, Nothing Brings Me Down










Songs:

• Natahsa Bedingfield, These Words (I Love You, I Love You)
  
• Billy Corgan, To Love Somebody
  
• Brazilian Girls, Don't Stop (Album Version, Riton Re-Rub), Lazy Lover (Album Version, Free Mix)
  
• Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
  
• Daft Punk - Emotion, Make Love
• Depeche Mode - Precious (Sasha remixes and Calderone & Quayle Damaged Mix), A Pain I Am Used To (Jacques Lu Cont Remix and Goldfrapp Remix)
  
• Fischerspooner - Just Let Go (Joakim Mix), Never Win (Mirwais Alternate Mix), Get Confused, Cloud
  
• Garbage - Run Baby Run, Why Do You Love Me
• Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (Tieschwartz Mix), Number 1 (Album Version, Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Club Remix)
• Gorillaz, Don't Get Lost In Heaven, Demon Days
  
• David Gray - Life In Slow Motion, Ain't No Love
  
• Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
• Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing, Breakdown
  
• Madonna - Hung Up (Album Version, Tracy Young Get Up and Dance Groove Mix, Chus and Cellabos Mix)
• Damien Rice - Eskimo, Cold Water, Blower's Daughter
  
• Moby - Snowball, Blue Paper, Chord Sounds
  
• New Order - Krafty (Album Version, Phones Reality Mix)
  
• Novuelle Vague - Just Can't Get Enough, Making Plans For Nigel
  
• Röyksopp - 49 Percent (Album Version, Ewan Pearson Glass Half Full Mix, Angello & Ingrosso Mix)
• Scissor Sisters - It Don't Come Quickly Enough
  
• Gwen Stefani - Cool (Album Version, Video Version, Richard X Mix)

Videoclips (Director):

• Goldfrapp - Number 1 (Phil Heyes)
  
• Madonna - Hung Up (Johan Renck)
• Gwen Stefani - Cool (Sophie Muller)
  
• Emiliana Torrini - Heartstopper (David Lea)
  

Favorites 05: Film

1. Closer by Mike Nichols









2. Crash by Paul Haggis









3. Mysterious Skin by Gregg Araki









4. Sommersturm (Summer Storm) by Marco Kreuzpaintner








5. La Marche de l'empereur (March of The Penguins) by Luc Jacquet








6. Saving Face by Alice Wu









7. Pride and Prejudice by Joe Wright

AuralAssualt: Goldfrapp's Number 1 EP

Goldfrapp
Number 1 EP

With the stellar first single Ooh La La from Supernature, Goldfrapp returns with #1 and what a deserving title it is.

#1 is a frisky, 80's inspired track with a digitized soundscape that sparkles in all the right places. Moving on with a semi-pulsating beat , the song is draped in Alison Goldfrapp's incredibly sensual vocal. The Alan Brake remix of the track adds a faster beat and extends the #1 goodness to 7 minutes, looping over Goldfrapp singing You're My #1, certainly something to fulfill your craving after listening to the short album version.

Beautiful, a Japanese-only bonus track, is a synth-pop track like it could have been anything from Black Cherry. All Night Operator, a B-side on Ooh La La, is a slow, trippy track that screams beautiful luscious.

And the last audio track is a dub mix of Ooh La La by Tieschwartz which turns the retro-electro track into a monster club anthem.

Finallym the perfect treat to end it all, the very funky video of Number 1 where Goldfrapp gyrates withher brood of doggie pals in an operation theater with ultimate sass and candour, making her look like an irresistable pussy cat. (A)