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]

my 3:

The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
El Perro Del Mar - I Can't Talk About It
Zeigeist - Tarheart

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Ellen Allien And Apparat - Way Out
Scritti Politti - Robin Hood
Scritti Politti - Petrococadollar

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The first three that spring to mind (which means I'm probably neglecting January-March), are:

Fox 'N' Wolf - In Yr Underwear
(This may have surfaced in 2005, I have no idea, the internet confuses me.)

TI - What You Know
(This hasn't been a single in the UK yet, has it?)

Spank Rock - Backyard Betty
(SO HARD to choose between this and a couple of other Spank Rock tunes, so if anyone else nominates a different song, I might switch, tactially...)

[juror8.livejournal.com]

TI is being released this week, and should just about sneak into the top 40.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Different song, with a confusingly similar title - that's Why You Wanna (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FP2GR0/qid=1150284613/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-7784584-3801469).

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I'm with boyofbadgers on 'Robin Hood', and I like 'Destroy everything you touch' by Ladytron really rather a lot, but don't know whether it charted. And also, um, I've forgotten.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Jo! I have been listening to yr Danish CD! I like the Superheroes track v much...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Destroy everything i think DID chart, but last year

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Is 'Why You Wanna' good? Do you have a gmail?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm going to hold off on The Knife as it's being released pretty soon and might go top 40!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it just missed the top 40, like every other Ladytron single :(

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it's the Crystal Waters sampling one so yes - quite good!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It samples 'Gypsy Woman'?!?!
wtf. G-G-G-MAIL!!!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

you can pick it anyway as this is just for first six months of this year.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

BAH - extreme badness.

also , i hear there's a Hot Chip remix of it. anyone?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ellen Allien & Apparat - Way Out
Booka Shade - In White Rooms
Uffie - Ready To Uff

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Actually scrap the Allien, Ricky T has already nominated it so it will go into the poll anyway. To replace it I choose:

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevée (Carl Craig rmx)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's pretty good. Rubbish video though.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

having finally heard Orchestra of Bubble i'm a little baffled by the strength of feeling for it. it's OK (and Way Out is a lovely choon) but it's not setting my world on fire - not that much else is. i described it in the pub as "good old fashioned electronica" which feels about right.

[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?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ellen Allieng has already been bagsied, so I'll go for:

Lily Allen - LDN (limited edition 7" release innit - I'm sure it'll be rereleased in the summer)

Ar5e. Can't think of anything else!

Oh I know, Troy Pierce - 25 Bitches.

[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]

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!

[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!