the...poll...that...counts...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

The Top 40 Singles poll for May saw the Pet Shop Boys and Hot Chip emerge as most popular hits with 'I'm With Stupid' and 'Boy From School' respectively, both accumulating 16 votes (but only 50% vote share) each. A gaggle of songs followed on 13 votes a piece.

Now the next Top 40 poll won't take place until the first Tuesday of July so in the meantime I am wondering, as we are now halfway through the year, what your favourite NON-TOP 40 tracks of the year so far are. Submit your choices (MAXIMUM OF THREE PLEASE) in the comments box and they will go into a poll next week, the results of which will combine with the existing Top 40 singles poll to assist us in establishing Poptimists most popular new songs of 2006. You had better believe this will be the most exhilirating experience of both yours and my life.

What are your one, two or three favourite songs from this year that DIDN'T get in the official UK top 40 singles chart?

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Woebot slagged this on his blog... oops that reveals that I've been reading woebot :-( But since Marcello mentions teh Lex on HIS blog in the same piece that he mentions Woebot, it all makes sense... But now I've revealed that I've been reading MC too :-0

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well i like it but i don't see the big fuss. it's basically just adding a beat to the original track and it just sounds like stuff Craig did ten years ago. is this the essence of Woebot's gripe too or something else?

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Sort of (http://www.woebot.com/2006/06/introducing_the_legendary.html), but he manages to throw in pointless but hardly unexpected gripes about "internet-approved music" in amongst saying that people who like this "haven't done their own fucking researches and... haven't the hard-bitten soul to feel what it is they're missing out on... They're a bunch of pussies in short" - just in case anyone was still in doubt about how relentlessly macho Nu Dissensian Rockism is!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Nu-Dissensian Rockism = shorthand for utter idiocy, yesno?

"your own fucking researches"!?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

10 years ago I was 12 and in the middle of Somerset! I don't care if he's doing it all over again because I never heard it in the first place.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

of course, and i don't expect you to care. but it explains why older people might not i guess. although i'm not sure this explains actual HATE for the track.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ooh I hadn't read that MC post. I feel vaguely irritated that the issue of Plan B I pointed him towards is the one I have most reservations about.

Does Woebot actually like dance music? These people would probably have slagged off 'Washing Up' and Vitalic as well. Sucks to be them.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

You would say that, because you a soulless young whelp who has not done the HARD GRAFT of RESEARCH. You are probably effeminate as well like as these COWARDLY INTERNET POPISTS!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Research = the most r*ckist thing evah

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

if you can't be rockist about Detroit Techno when CAN you? ;)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Although I understand your point, it's not too far from that to "most everything that was released before I started listening to music can't be that good, can it?"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i adopted the 'most everything that was released before i was BORN says NUFFINK TO ME ABOUT MAH LAHF' philosophy for most of my first 18 years on Earth.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

So do a lot of people (although I was somewhat perversely in the opposite camp - it took me a few years to come around ot anything current being worth listening to). But we are smarter than that now, aren't we?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

indeed. and i'm in a much better position to appreciate older music now than i was then.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

well, that's not an ideal outlook, but infinitely preferable to the current consensus in mainstream 'serious' rock crit which worships at the altar of the Canon, which has Stood the Test Of Time - I think we need more extreme voices the other way, saying "hey music RIGHT NOW is not too bad you know, fuck this Golden Age nonsense talk". Although you do end up with the current NME that way.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Isn't this whole group "rockist poptimism" then? Every week we get together and tick off the "disposable" tracks of Now that we predict will Stand The Test of Time.

Argh... I hate to leave off this discussion, but I have to get to the pub and root for Ukraine!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I dunno, there are several people who tick songs on the Nows which they loved then but not now! And about a quarter of my ticks each time are songs I loved then, still feel fondly towards, but don't particularly want to hear in 2006 - ie great songs which didn't stand the test of time, and it doesn't matter that they didn't.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i don't tick things ftb they will stand the test of time!