Rrrrrrround Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Might as well put all this into one huge post!

You have until midnight to vote in the Pop World Cup Group F.

Group G starts on Wednesday - which means that freakytrigger@gmail.com needs MP3s or links thereof, and team talks, from braisedbywolves, darkpigeon, atommickbrane, and stevem78 - by midnight TOMORROW please!

Science research by boyofbadgers suggests that goths don't think the Cure are goth but that everyone else does. Here at any rate is the official Cure Canon:

1. In Between Days (25 votes)
2. Boys Don't Cry (23 votes)
3. The Lovecats (22 votes)
4. Close To Me (20 votes)
5. Just Live Heaven (19 votes)
6. A Forest (16 votes)
7. Friday I'm In Love (14 votes)
8=. Lullaby (10 votes)
8=. Pictures Of You (10 votes)
10. Why Can't I Be You (8 votes)

No support at all for High, A Letter To Elise, Mint Car or Taking Off. The old stuff is apparently the best.

Speaking of which, more hagiography of Guilty Pleasures. My top 3 reasons for disliking GP, in chart countdown order:

3. Residual distrust of the phrase "guilty pleasure" reinforcing a tedious hierarchy of music listening etc etc.
2. Going to their tent at Glastonbury and being a bit disappointed with the tunes on offer.
1. Intense soul-gnawing envy.

Meanwhile, you might remember Winner Stays On, designed to find the best track in the world right now, and you might also remember that there hasn't been one for ages. That's because for whatever reason doing it felt like more hassle than doing the other orgafun. Anyway instead what we're going to do is have a TRACK OF THE MONTH poll each month, so here's where you can nominate something for that:

[Poll #680984]

Simple innit!

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

clearly once we have a new venue we must PICKET guilty pleasures, with big placards and everything.

NO NEED FOR GUILT

WE ♥ POP

etcetc

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, speaking of guilty pleasures (HOHO!), high and letter to elise are quite good cure, but not worthy of a top 7 place...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was surprised (and disappointed) that An Forest didn't do better, and also surprised (and pleased) that Friday I'm In Wuv didn't.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's the hooky-esque bassline that makes an forest though, also jukebox-friendliness.

SPEAKING OF WHICH, in the swimmer on saturday afternoon there was ALL THE CURE on the juker, it was great :)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GUILT!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

NOW THE GUILT IS OFF THE GINGERBREAD!!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I will probably buy the two GP CDs some time (cos the music on them = mostly great and mostly not already in my CD collection) if I can find them selling cheaply.

But I hate the titles too, and obviously agree with your reason 3.

As for this:
David Essex is in. The Scorpions are out ("rubbish", reckons Rowley). Scissor Sisters are in. Girls Aloud are out ("too knowing"). S Club 7's Don't Stop Moving is in. ("There is an innocence about that record.")

Wuh? So basically, Rowley's saying he (his club) only plays records he likes? Revolutionary!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also WRONG!

it's STILL horrendously rockist, but i can't quite put my finger on why, and that is what annoys me most i think (and reason 3 obv.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The way they extend the metaphor with confession booths etc bugs me a bit too, but IT WORKS, their nights will be packed with people dancing and having fun to good music, as I've said before w.r.t. poptimists, someone dancing ironically is still dancing!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i thought the way rowley was distancing himself so readily from irony was interesting...

...is it because it's totally a nostalgia-fest that it annoys me?

i think we need a FIELD TRIP to observe at close quarters.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Nostalgia? Maybe. I think it's 90% that Rowley's taste is kinda rub.

I agree with the FIELD TRIP idea. Especially if we can do some SCIENCE.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

science and PICKETING!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Ah but then you're giving them MUNNY and they will use it to PERPETUATE their GUILTY POP.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Esp. as rockistism is much more a guilty pleasure than the mainstream pop. I mean, getting down to the Quo or a sneaky lighter wave at the Winds of Chang is much more a guilty ples than dancing to S Club 7.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Not only that - he vets the choices of other DJs who play there. You may be *this* guilty precisely, and no guiltier...

Gut prejudice confirmed!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh really? That is interesting.

I still think most of my antipathy boils down to "He has a club night and I don't" though. :(

Re: Gut prejudice confirmed!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, he did when an associate of mine guested, anyway. The Jarvs of this world may get more latitude...

Re: Gut prejudice confirmed!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

We *will* find a new home for the Poptimismists!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i cannot decide if they have really squared away irony into guilt.

I DO NOT TRUST THIS THING

anyone feeling guilty listening to aHa or s-club is an idiot of their own making. anyone who can't enjoy something that is "too knowing" likewise. IT DOES NOT MATTER.

bollocks to it.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

argh that "too knowing" thing has me really annoyed now.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haha, only cos he said it about the girls i bet ;)

oh, i should point out that this was ON THE FRONT COVER (column five) of the graun as well...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I'll send you my mp3 and team talk tonight Tom. Togo is HOT.

togo TO GO!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

>:D-

Re: togo TO GO!!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

ALL THE WAY

WEE WEE WEE...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

... ALL THE WAY HOME

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

No one will vote for Coheed and Cambria