Ride A White Poll

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

January's Top 40 Singles poll saw apparently everyone's favourite indie-pop stalwarts Belle & Sebastian clinch the top spot with 17 ticks and 54.8% of the vote, with Jose Gonzales, Mylo ft. Freeform Five and Will Young all languishing in joint second place with 13 ticks each. A traditionally weak month there, but things are starting to hot up a little in February, maybe?


[Poll #730533]

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Another largely rubbish crop then.

Quite a few aren't actually that bad (A-Ha, Young Jeezy, uh, Mogwai) but don't seem quite good enough to deserve ticks. I used to have so much mercy...

I just can't get Youtube to work AT work so still haven't heard many of these - will go back and tick any I end up hearing and liking though.

Things get better in March!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

The question posed was such that I had to take it literally. Ergo, an abysmal month.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Why are people tickying Goldfrapp? A particularly borin' song even by their standards. Nice video though.

Was Liz 'Nose job' McClarnon known for something else before this record?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The 'Ride On A White Horse' remixes are really good though.

I shall debate with myself whether this means I should tick it in the meeting I have to scoot off to :(

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Conversely I think it's a decent Goldfrapp number but the video is rubbish.

Liz McClarnon was known for something else but no-one knows what. Aha.

Working with Kerry

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I feel kind of the same way about the Go Team, one of their most boring tracks, except I *do* have it on my hard drive so I had to tick it really.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

It might be interesting to do a poll on Top 40 singles from the February of other years and see how they fare now. But really it may just come down to the year never really getting going until March.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Just to illustrate my post:


Chad Kroeger


Jerry Lynn

I'm just the nuts in your bed pong but you're just lying in salt

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Fall Out Boy = kings of pop.

Re: I'm just the nuts in your bed pong but you're just lying in salt

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

explain me them

Re: I'm just the nuts in your bed pong but you're just lying in salt

[juror8.livejournal.com]

The best pop group of each generation is the one that offends the members of two generations back most.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Is Analogue one of the Max Martin tracks?

Aiy!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Where is the love for Chris Brown & Juelz?

Re: Aiy!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

In America, where it belongs.

Re: Aiy!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

A positively Merrittian attitude.

Re: Aiy!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

People who don't like 'Run It' hate either a) pop or b) black people.

Re: Aiy!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well i do hate some pop but ahhhhhhhh but isn't it also racialist to suppose that this sort of song is characteristic/symptomatic of a racial grouping, regardless of whether the reaction is positive or negative. lots of people hate 'Run It' but love 'Banquet' etc.

Wait a moment, WHY AM I ENGAGING IN THIS ARGUMENT...

anyway, not heard 'Run It' yet but will try and do so tonight.

Re: Aiy!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've probably heard it, but if young person's radio doesn't bother ever saying who a track's buy it's going to severely reduce the number of tickys. How does it go?

GO ASHLEE

[avv.livejournal.com]

Simpson Junior = clearly the best in show

it's about LINDSAY LOHAN, how could it fail to be anything other than AMAZING*?

* n.b. still not as good as "La La"

Re: GO ASHLEE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ooh I haven't heard it (I ticked it out of loyalty to Ashlee's nose job or something); must get round to this.

Hilarity > Lindsay > Ashlee

('The Math' > 'Rumours' > 'La La')

Re: GO ASHLEE

[avv.livejournal.com]

For me:

'The Math' > 'La La' > 'Rumours'

BUT!

'Over' > 'Boyfriend' > 'Wake Up'

I do like all of those songs, though.

I have now befriended everyone who ticked Ashlee

[koganbot]

I have now befriended everyone who ticked "Boyfriend" (and I would like to apologize once again for overlooking Chris Brown and would hope that you would be my friend even though I forgot to tick him and I like the way Juelz too-elz his rhyme skillz).

But if you really want to show your friendship you will post on the rolling teenpop thread which has been suffering from your neglect (and if you search "Ashlee" you will find a treasure trove) and if you really really really want to be my friend you will befriend me here too and then post comments here and here.

Judging singles only:

Fly > La La > Shadow > Come Clean > Pieces of Me > L.O.V.E. > First > Boyfriend > Over > Drama Queen (That Girl) > Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father) > So Yesterday > Beat of My Heart > Rumors > Wake Up > The Math > Why Not > Alex the Seal.

"Little Drummer Boy" belongs in there somewhere. I actually like all of these a lot except "Why Not" and "Lips." I haven't heard "The Math" all that much so I am not yet disputing your sense in loving it. I don't know the remixes well enough to vote them, though I know "L.O.V.E." and "La La" had them (and "Come Clean" had a fine one but it wasn't a single).

Ashlee album tracks that are almost as good as "La La": "Autobiography," "I Am Me," "Love Me for Me," "Undiscovered," "Comin' Back for More," "Burnin' Up," [name of whatever Ashlee track I happen to be obsessed with at the moment]

Ashlee live song that I wish someone would boot, stream, something: "Celebrity Skin"

Lohan album tracks that are better than "First": "I Live for the Day," "Til There Was You"

Hilary album track that's better than "So Yesterday": "Metamorphosis"

Re: I have now befriended everyone who ticked Ashlee

[koganbot]

Er, "'Til There Was You" = "Nobody 'Til You"

76 Trombones Spice

Re: I have now befriended everyone who ticked Ashlee

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

You can go back and edit yr ticks if you click "Fill out poll" again!

I haven't heard half of those, which makes me totally sad - now that I have money again I might invest in some of this, though I can't decide whether to buy the Hilarity album which is some kind of greatest hits (sans 'The Math') or to buy the album with 'The Math'.

I don't post on the teenpop thread for much the same reason that I don't post on the minimal/electrohouse bobbins threads much - they move too quickly, and I can't download so I haven't heard half of what gets talked about.

However if you know any singles in the Ashlee/Lindsay/Hilarity vein which is scheduled for UK release at the end of July through August, please do send them my way: I'm doing the Plan B singles column for that issue and will be all about the pop. And dance. And hip hop. &c.