Rrrrrrround Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Might as well put all this into one huge post!

You have until midnight to vote in the Pop World Cup Group F.

Group G starts on Wednesday - which means that freakytrigger@gmail.com needs MP3s or links thereof, and team talks, from braisedbywolves, darkpigeon, atommickbrane, and stevem78 - by midnight TOMORROW please!

Science research by boyofbadgers suggests that goths don't think the Cure are goth but that everyone else does. Here at any rate is the official Cure Canon:

1. In Between Days (25 votes)
2. Boys Don't Cry (23 votes)
3. The Lovecats (22 votes)
4. Close To Me (20 votes)
5. Just Live Heaven (19 votes)
6. A Forest (16 votes)
7. Friday I'm In Love (14 votes)
8=. Lullaby (10 votes)
8=. Pictures Of You (10 votes)
10. Why Can't I Be You (8 votes)

No support at all for High, A Letter To Elise, Mint Car or Taking Off. The old stuff is apparently the best.

Speaking of which, more hagiography of Guilty Pleasures. My top 3 reasons for disliking GP, in chart countdown order:

3. Residual distrust of the phrase "guilty pleasure" reinforcing a tedious hierarchy of music listening etc etc.
2. Going to their tent at Glastonbury and being a bit disappointed with the tunes on offer.
1. Intense soul-gnawing envy.

Meanwhile, you might remember Winner Stays On, designed to find the best track in the world right now, and you might also remember that there hasn't been one for ages. That's because for whatever reason doing it felt like more hassle than doing the other orgafun. Anyway instead what we're going to do is have a TRACK OF THE MONTH poll each month, so here's where you can nominate something for that:

[Poll #680984]

Simple innit!

The History Of Pop Part 27 aka Life is demanding without understanding

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There are many tracks on Now 27 which I simply can't remember, so many in fact that I should probably have let alexmacpherson write the blurb. It seems to be another wide mix, and some of the things I do remember probably represent blind alleys - Credit to the Nation's agit-rap, Prml Scrm "going rock", and so on. A squib of ambient from Deep Forest and Enigma, belated acknowledgement of US alt.rock with Smashing Pumpkins and (ahem) the Gin Blossoms, and I'm still guessing it's going to come down to a straight fight between Swedish reggae and US dancefloor mentalism.

Pet Shop Boys' "Go West" won Now 26 comfortably, the third PSB track to win and quite probably the last. DJ Jazzy Jeff came in third with a surprisingly low percentile score (though with 45 or so voters the number of 90%+ crowdpleasers is surely dropping), and then a trio of Radiohead, Culture Beat and Take That. REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" is, scientifically, exactly as good as Meat Loaf. EVERY track got a vote. The Levellers got seven!

( B1tches keep bitchin', clap keeps on itchin )

Over to you...

YOU JUDGE THAT...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

The morality of this passes me for the now. I just cleared out lots of deactivated "Home" accounts on our work mac server which is where we encourage users to keep their personal stuff. Here's the list of .m4a files i found in there.

YOU! Yes you! Pass judgement on our "so called" designers:

( They design for life? )

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[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

If you liked Torgny Melins, you will LOVE THIS!

Blog 27 are a teen girl duo who are becoming very popular in Poland. They look like extras in an early Avril Lavigne video, but their music isn't rock, it's just great fun silly pop. They seem to have only released 2 singles so far: Hey Boy, the Teddybears Sthlm cover for which the video is above, and another cover of Alexia's Uh La La La.