Top 40 Singles Of 2006 Poll #5: May

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Well predictably Rihanna was beaten off in the end by crazy old Gnarls Barkley and his three more ticks. 'Crazy' got more ticks (27) than any other Top 40 single this year and 87.1% vote share, making it the most popular chart hit of the year among Poptimist members. Who says we're not in touch with Joe Still-Buys-CDs / £50 Mang?

And so now to cast your minds back...way back...to those heady days of May 2006...


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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Total bafflement!

I've hijacked the office radio and put it on Radio 1 (it was on Magic) in the hope of hearing at least some of these. I wd have done your youtube thing yesterday but FM2006 got in the way.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

you can use iTunes to preview most of these as well - i recommend that if it's viable.

quite a few good tracks but nothing really exceptional perhaps - 'Say I' isn't quite up there with '1 Thing' etc. for anthemic status.

Kurd Maverick

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard this but want to tick Kurd Maverick just for his terrific name.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've not actually heard the Ultrabeat song I ticked either but I ticked it on trust cos "Feeling Fine" was so good.

I think when you factor in consistency of output, mass popularity, and pan-media playlist credibility the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are surely the worst band in the world.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Yes you are probably right. I feel some shame for liking RHCP as much as I did up until and including 'Scar Tissue'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They are usually dreadful yes but they can be listenable or at least ignorable in ways that have so far completely eluded Stereophonics, Oasis and Rhyming Slang Blunt!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OTM on both points actually. I was expecting to be underwhelmed by "Elysium (I Go Crazy)" but it's rather fine.

P.S. stern graph reminder. If youi can do this before you go on holiday I'd really appreciate it.

Christina Milian

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I bought her album yesterday - it's terrific. 'So Amazin', which I assume is the next single, might be even better than 'Say I'!

I don't understand why some people aren't ticking her? She is the greatest living artist of our generation after all.

Re: Christina Milian

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

80% of the people who have ticked it so far also said 'Say I' is the best. So I'm guessing most indiemists haven't heard it yet.

Re: Christina Milian

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Erm, because it's not actually that good? I mean, it's OK, but despite having seen the video three times over the weekend it hasn't stuck in my head at all.

which is everyone's favourite Busta Rhymes verse?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I assume everyone's heard the mental nine-minute mix with basically everyone of note in it (three-minute radio version not to be bothered with in comparison). I like Mary J Blige and Ne*Yo best!

Re: which is everyone's favourite Busta Rhymes verse?

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I always liked Busta until the video for "Touch It", when I was suddenly overwhelmed with a desire to punch him repeatedly in his big face.

Is it me or do they announce Sean Paul in the video and then never have a verse from him?

Re: which is everyone's favourite Busta Rhymes verse?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I heard a version without the sirens in it and it was lame.

important proper indie point

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that bloke off of panic! at the disco sounds JUST LIKE martin rossiter from them genes.

preston and sov are going to win this aren't they?

Re: important proper indie point

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I hope not! It is a TERRIBLE version.

Re: important proper indie point

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The single mix is a bit rubbish compared to the original remix though (which I think still features in the video) - it's almost all Preston and no Lady Sov in the new version, think she is effectively just doing backing vox. I was almost tempted not to vote for this in protest.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ultrabeat = disappointing.

Am liking LL Cool J and J-Lo more the more I listen to it.

"You got, you got, you got what it takes to make me leave my man."

Ahem.

Za-za-za-za-za! Za-za-za-za! Za-za-za-za-za-za-za!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

She licked! Off! Her lip! Gloss! Her hips! Tossed! Back! And forth!

More love for Captain dammit...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE PREFAB SPROUT FOR THE 00S AND PRODUCED BY TREVOR HORN - HOW CAN THIS NOT BE OKAY?

Re: More love for Captain dammit...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK I'm interested!

NO NO NO

[zenith.livejournal.com]

REJECT THIS MAN AND ALL HIS WORKS*.

*except maybe a couple of the singles off White Blood Cells.

Re: NO NO NO

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

WORSHIP HIM!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

May was a great month for singles IMO.

I love: Raconteurs, RHCP, Feeder (their best ever single, I reckon), We Are Scientists, Delays, Sigur Ros, Hot Chip.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

We should just rename this place Feedermists.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I am very confused by the Chicane/Tom Jones single (currently playing every ten minutes on Radio 2) because it doesn't sound like Tom Jones' voice at all. Can anyone explain this to me?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yeh it's very odd. i think he only sings the bridgey bit and chorus, and someone else does the verses. ODD.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

you're right. i really must stop relying on stupid everyhit - they've not added them to their database for some reason. so it's possible a few others have been omitted too.

i'll put Matt Willis, Futureheads and The Darkness in the June poll though.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Does that Sigur Ros track sound totally different to their previous material, or do we need to change the name of this community?

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

It is on the telly, therefore pop, surely!

Well Hung

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

What is the general english view of will young, because i really love him--clever, sincere, with a fantastic voice, and a kind of yearning desire, but im sure hes mocked across the pond, am i wrong?

Re: Well Hung

[(Anonymous)]

sort of. he is taken relatively seriously for a 'reality pop' winner and Cowell product. it also helps that he has terrific videos - well that just helps people like me i think (we start to associate him with great videos as opposed to the music we're less keen on generally). i think his fanbase breaks down like this:

31% 40+ mums and grannies
22% 40+ gay men
19% popist-yet-rockist types working in the media e.g. 'Dr' Fox
11% younger gay men
10% straight, 'true' poptimists
7% kids

but it might be wrong to distinguish 'gay audience' in this respect as i'm not sure he's really held up as a gay icon, despite the 'Switch It On' video - unless perhaps a modern mainstream model with stereotypical traits less in-yer-face. but it seems more irrelevant with him than people before him in a similar position (e.g. George Michael post-Wham).


stevem