POP WORLD CUP

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Votes on France/Japan and Togo/Czech Rep by noon today please!

SHAMELESS UNPOP WORD FROM OUR FIPA SPONSORS EDIT: I am selling a load of stuff on eBay - not much of it is pop but I don't care. Surely someone out there hasn't been suckered yet by wants a copy of Speakerboxxxxxxx?

bubbles = POP

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am very pleased to see from the last post that Ms Ellen Allien of Berlin and her album are getting so much love on Poptimists! I think she deserves a post of her own. Specifically:

1) what is everyone's favourite song or sound?
2) what are the two songs which weren't on the promo like?
3) everyone who hasn't got Orchestra Of Bubbles or heard any music by Ms Allien yet, I fully recommend her to everyone on Poptimists - I can't think of anyone who'll be disappointed by her music
4) how absolutely amazingly gorgeous is she, as well?
5) we can maybe give Apparat some credit at this point as it is his album as well, and his own stuff is good, though not as good as Ellen's
6) we can also talk about how great Ellen's record label Bpitch Control (this year's Boogybytes mixes by Kiki and Sascha Funke are totally recommended) is in general, and any bobbins pertaining to women-in-electronic-music you feel like mentioning
6) BERLIN

To further the cause of 3), ( here is the review I done did for Plan B of Orchestra Of Bubbles )

STOOR POWER

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

people the LotR animators based their design for GOLLUM on =
i. their skinny&muscly head of production or art design or something
ii. actor andy serkis
iii. IGGY POP!!!

apparently he had the "right skin ratio"!

The History Of Pop Part 48 aka Pure and simple, I'll be there for you

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

2001: A Pop Odyssey! As the Now series gets ever closer to today, a significant first - the first (modern) reality TV pop hit in the form of "Pure And Simple". Also debuting: Gorillaz, Bob The Builder, unlikely Poptimist icons Feeder, and nu-metal in the apologetic shape of Papa Roach.

All Saints' "Pure Shores" won Now 47 - hatas can reflect that it got one of the lowest winning %ages ever, with only 2/3 approval. Modjo second, Nelly third, and EVERYTHING got at least one vote - will we be able to say the same after this poll?

( Why don't you tell it like it really is? )

TICKY TO RIDE.

Now That's What I Call Reality Pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I tried this on ILM during the Rough Guide era - the object being to create a compilation CD that would showcase the best of reality TV pop. The rules being:

- only 1 track per artist
- only artists and bands who formed/rose to stardom through a reality TV show
- only ace pop please.
- nothing pre 2000 (interesting cases of pre-Popstars/Pop Idol RTV shd be cited in the comments though)

So help me out. I've done the easy ones for starters:

Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Will Young - Leave Right Now
Kelly Clarkson - Since You Been Gone
Hear'Say - Pure And Simple
Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)
...

Over to you! (Foreign entries particularly welcome)

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

The Top 40 Singles poll for March is pretty much done and dusted and it's looking good for the babes in red. Tomorrow I will publish the full first quarter results in exciting chart form and we revisit April - ah, was it really only a few weeks ago? Yes.

( To prepare you, here is a list of singles you may have missed (this is not the full list - many big fantastic well known hits for this one, hurrah!) )

I've also been thinking about putting a site together that lists and archives Release Schedules for singles in the UK properly - to perhaps also include archive listing of the top 75 singles week by week (although for some mysterious reason the Powers That Be are a bit funny about the idea of people publishing THEIR data freely, so we'll see about that). Any suggestions welcome in the comments box.

BIG M.C. FRIES TOGO

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Czech Republic 1 Togo 0 (aet)

This was not a match for the purists, but at the end of 120 minutes of attritional football a headed Czech goal broke Togolese hearts and put the Czechs through to next week's semi-final against Iran. stevem78's team had defended stoutly when called upon but looked a pale shadow of the team that had battled through the earlier rounds. In truth neither side had created many chances during the 90 minutes: this sparsely-attended game was more suited to the group stages than to pop's premier tournament.


"It's got a good beat"

The Czechs meanwhile continue their remarkable run and are now one game away from their first appearance in a Pop World Cup final. mostlyconnect was in tears as his big frontman's header found the net, and its his limitless reserves of belief that the young team will hope to draw on in the semis.

Final Scores

Czech Republic - 33 points (average 3)
Togo - 25 points (average 2.3)

Today I have mostly been listening to

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

LastFM's "poptimism tag" radio (only works if you have the lastFM player).

This works as a better way of picking out a poptimist playlist more so than "poptimists" own actual playlists - as in reality they all listen to indie rub:

Top Artists – Week of May 21 to May 28, 2006
Pet Shop Boys
Half Man Half Biscuit
New Order
Stereolab
Pavement
David Bowie
The Smiths
Manic Street Preachers
The Beatles
Belle and Sebastian
Saint Etienne
The Go-Betweens
The Futureheads
Ladytron

then finally...

The Human League
Girls Aloud
Nelly Furtado

However there is not much tagged up as yet, so it's a short listen. Thanks to whoever started, but I shall be tagging up a load more in future