Poptimists Year-End Review: Most Awful Thing / Best Other Thing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Poptimists EOY polls are now boldly SPANNING the 2006/2007 divide because I was busy last week and nobody was online. Two more categories today, and then into the lifetime achievement, act of the year and track of the year categories for the rest of this week.

Today we voyage into the negative zone with the well-stocked "most terrible musical thing" category. To introduce the nominees:

Sandi Thom is the troubadour of Tooting whose "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker" topped the charts last spring.
Muse are indie-rockers who have given themselves a pomp-metal makeover.
Arctic Monkeys are the saviours of British guitar pop, apparently they were discovered on the INTERWEB.
Indie rock in general rumbles listlessly on.
The Streets third album was felt by some fans to be a bit ghastly.
"Before The Music Dies" is a fillum.
Westlife delighted grannies everywhere.

We also tackle the less well-stocked "best other thing" category - this was poorly explained by me, in that it was meant to cover 'other things there isn't a category for', not 'other things you couldn't fit into the other categories' boxes'. Anyway some items did get multiple nominations:

YouTube is a site that is NO LONGER blocked to me at work!
Beyonce's "Ring The Alarm" sleeve has alligators on it.
The Pop World Cup was a much-loved and little voted-in feature on this website.
Eurovision heralded the return of ROCK.

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You can still nominate in the three remaining categories, if you can be botherd to trawl through the archives and do so!

YAY! For NYE poptimism!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Thank you very very much to those of you who came down, we had a SMASHING time (once we got started, anyway. thanks there french family for taking an hour to drink yr coffee...). especial thanks to those of you who brought fresh meat ppl i didn't know, they all seemed to have a good time, even the mopey looking indie boys ;)

can i ask that if you do have any pictures and you put them up on flickr, can you put "poptimism" in the tags please, so that they appear on the magic feed (well done dansette and strictlytrue for doing this already :)).

the PLAN for the new year is to haf january off and then come back with a BANG on Feb 2 and then stick with first friday of the month, thus avoiding the bangface/b-movie problem.