Monday Round-Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Poptimists will be a bit quieter from tomorrow cos I'm going to France for a week - obviously this should not prevent many of the rest of you filling the space with joyful noises, polls, etc.

Germany vs England in the Pop World Cup - vote by TONIGHT. I'll do the result tomorrow before I go and then there's a wait of a week until Trinidad vs Ecuador - can the managers of those fine nations send me their MP3s in the meantime?

Now when you're asked Kylie's best song, you can answer in total confidence.

1. Better The Devil You Know (30 votes)
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (28)
3. Spinning Around (25) (this one is actually not true, surely!)
4. Confide In Me (23)
5. I Should Be So Lucky (22)
6. Hand On Your Heart (18)
7. Come Into My World (17)
8. Step Back In Time (16)
9=. Shocked (15)
9=. I Believe In You (15)

"If You Were With Me Now" is the only Kylie not to get a single vote.

Oh the hilarity

Chart History Shocker!: people like opera. (Also note the return of the 'climber' to the singles chart, k-blimey, it is Orson what nobody knew in the pop quiz lyrics round). Anyway, opera eh?

[Poll #694396]

Comments

[cis.livejournal.com]

Sung classical music != opera, dude!

I like classical a great deal and cannot stomach opera in the slightest (okay except the pop shiz like carmen which isn't even real opera anyway). I mislike the kind of mawkish tenor-aria bobbins pavarotti used to come out with, which I suspect is what these hit-album dudes are doing, but some classical singer albums can be k-amazing, even if there's a lot of stuff from operas on there.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Cis OTM

Good opera = Mozart arias, Peter Grimes, Carmen, Porgy and Bess, Love For 3 Oranges and that's it.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

also: LULU and the luvvers!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Berg does decent opera too. "Wozzeck" and "Lulu" both pretty good. Sorry, Alban.