Check(box) On It

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

[Poll #726659]

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[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Despite voting almost exclusively for NINDIE and NALTERNATIVE tracks, the best one here is clearly Hi-Tack... a proper old-school "clubbing anthem".

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Is this all the January singles?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i left out a lot of re-entries. in fact Ordinary Boys and Kanye shouldn't really be in either.

January is always quiet tho innit. the March one will probably be twice as long.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Sorry about not 'cutting' this poll - first time I've done one and I kept messing it up. Next time I'll provide more space for the text entries too. Sorries!

Only one tick from the first lot (EDITORS!)...I prev. defended 'Munich' on my own 2005 list but lack the will to do so agane.

The Alan braxe & Fred Falke remix of Test Icicles is v good hence ticky.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hard-Fi, Editors, Jose Gonzalez, Richard Ashcroft, Ordinary Boys, Arctic Monkeys, Test Icicles, Forward Russia: WHY????

Crimea, The Kooks: WHO????

Bouncy, Kanye, Will, Sway: HEARTS!!!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You'd like Crimea and the Kooks, Alex, solid Plan B fare.

bouncy!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

to be fair to this poll i seem not to have been listenin very closely this year so far

however: bouncy!

Re: bouncy!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

bouncy = the only one I have heard kidz on the bus (and in hackney Library!) sing and play on their phones = the realest in this particular game

also it's a REALLY GOOD SONG.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

To be honest I can't remember the Sway track and only ticked it to show I'm not a rac1st because he's good. I should withdraw my ticky to make it more exciting!

It took great mental strain to tick the B&S track, but it sounded nice on the radi-HO.

Sorry for bumpin this down with the PWC 1/2 times by the way!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no probs Tom. i don't want this to encroach on Now poll (or indeed Shine poll) assuming there will be one later?

'Little Derek' is a real grower i think - and the way he does every last word in high voice is cute.

i could've ticked B&S but then he has to ruin it all by rhyming 'throat' with 'poet' or whatever it was.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I still haven't got the Sway album. Must rectify now that I can afford it (though tbh I burnt out on the mixtapes and am suspicious that the album will not live up to my expectations for it, these suspicions centre around that perennial stumbling block of UK hip hop production)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

not heard by me:

aaron smith
texas
the Kooks
forward russia

i think i've heard Crimea - i used to know the lead singer a little (he was in British Sea Power for a bit also)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Didn't the Crimea used to be The Crocketts? They were alright.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I think before the next Poptimist poll we need a long, chin-strokey discussion about the MEANING of the phrase "any good at all", 'cos I sometimes find that it makes me very generous with the tickies, to the point of "any redeeming features whatsoever even if I once gave it a zero in a review"...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

any good at all = if it comes on the radio and i don't want to switch it off or leave the room.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My criteria is "would I have it on my hard drive?" My hard drive is quite big, but not big enough for Editors or Hard-Fi.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OI WHY ARE YOU LOT TICKING THAT DREADFUL BLUNTIAN ACOUSTICA COVER OF 'HEARTBEATS'?????!!!!!!! wtf, poptimists.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Gonzales was a marginal for me - I thought it was both quite gimmicky and quite haunting when I first heard it, I've got a bit bored of it now though so no ticky. I think it would be a lame 'winner' though.

The one I really can't understand is Editors - it's dreadful, a weird combination of overblown and really unambitious-sounding, plus he can't hold a vocal line at all.

I don't like the Arctic Monkeys one either, because it's stoppy-starty and I never like that.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

oh dere, I've only heard 8 or 9 of these. Stevem did promise yesterday to provide YSIs on request but asking for a dozen or more is just taking the piss innit. I think I'll abstain.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

but if someone wants to YSI "Heartbeats", that'd be nice - just so I can potentially annoy The Lex too!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Belle and Sebastian fans in using the word "obviously" a lot shock.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's neccesarily their fans, considering the question in, er, question.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think these polls are a grebt idea by the way - talk about CURRENT pop music is grossly lackin on poptimists, and it's interesting how little agreement there seems to be, other than on the poorness of Ricky A.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ARSECROFT = less "current" than the "tradition of all the dead generations [that] weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living”

SIDE QUESTION

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Irrespective of which of these are "best", which of these songs are most "Pop". Which are "least"? Why?

Re: SIDE QUESTION

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i would say 'Check On It' or 'I'll Be Ready' (ah but which?) for MOST POP. because they're both bright and breezy, simplistic (altho production on Bouncy is kinda all over the shop but in a goodish way), fun and i would say memorable.

least Pop - Forward Russia? they sound v artrocky by name at least. Editors too perhaps because they're so conservative, broody and 'worthy' (but i still like the song!).

MR I-HATE-FUN SEZ

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Can we plz rein in the amusing mispellings slightly as it caused me to initial not tick the only really classic single on there? Who is "BOUNCY", I thought...

Re: MR I-HATE-FUN SEZ

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha me too except i ticked it in solidarity w.my avatar! and then realised what it is (= awesome) and who! REACH OUT WITH YOUR FEELINGS YOUNG ZENITH! THE FORCE IS STRONG IN THIS ONE

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I have heard of 0 of these :(

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Actually that's wrong twice: I have heard one (Will Young - it's obviously great) and heard of another (Jose Gonzales)

[pot80.livejournal.com]

Oh god damn it! I didn't notice immediately that BOUNCY = Beyonce. That would have been my #1 favorite.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I've not been this out of touch since the mid 90's! YAY! I bought the first Teenage Fanclub on CD the other day.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

ha ha, thank you for voting!