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

[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.