I Love No.1's - 1962

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week Debbie Harry & Her Blondie Band romped away into the lead with 47 ticks, making Heart Of Glass your favourite number one of 1979. Close behind were Trev "Buggles" Horn & Gary Numan with 44 and 41 ticks respectively, but poor old Lena Martell languished behind in last place with only 5.

Today we trudge back to the eve of Beatlemania when Elvis was still King and Cliff was still er, Queen. It's 1962!

( Yes, it's the SAME Wendy Richard off Eastenders... )

a fight for the soul of poptimism...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...has broken out on this thread. Since I am now using 'poptimist' with scare quotes, it may be possible that I am about to publicly 'break' with 'the' 'movement'. :-)

how is THIS not the issue we shd all be hittin each other abt plz thx?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

a paramount desire for whitney

PopFite BlurbFite

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK barring any late surges it would appear that the final eight are as follows. I've taken the list of people who have asked to do blurbs for survivors (or for non-specifics) and assigned them where appropriate - they've all got something they voted for. If they could email freakytrigger@gmail.com with a 50-word explanation of why their track should WIN WIN WIN by lunchtime tomorrow, that would be amazing.

"All The Things She Said" - dubdobdee
"Always On My Mind" - byebyepride
"Toxic" - katstevens
"...Baby One More Time" - anthonyeaston
"Running Up That Hill" - alexmacpherson
"Can't Get You Out Of My Head" - STILL TO BE CLAIMED!
"Pump Up The Volume" - stevem78
"Common People" - braisedbywolves

...and if "Love Machine" manages to beat Kate Bush (it's the closest fite though still not very close), juror8 has it.

Frank did blurbs for all these, I think, so you can check them on the old thread for inspiration.

TABLOID POPFITE!

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

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