League Of Pop NOMINATIONS Week 8

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have got the poll right this time! (I think).

This week you're hunting tracks for Pop Premiership struggler katstevens and Championship title challenger skillextric. Here's what they have to say for themselves.

( Introducing Katstevens )

( Introducing skillextric )

Over to you!

[Poll #967415]

Tracks to leagueofpop@gmail.com by Friday please, I will try to be a bit handier with reminders this week.

Other admin stuff: both zipfiles sent out, will post links to them later. lockedintheatti's ended up 1 track underweight. Reviews up when I get them.

Rankings - and the Koganbot Teenpop Scores - both went up on my LJ, not poptimists. I will cut and paste the rankings and the Koganbot post in the comments here.

Still Too Soon To Know

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Three questions, which I will try and phrase right - all related though.

They're about importance. For once I'm not talking about importance to one's personal listening history, emotional development etc. I'm interested in how we as individuals perceive "music history" and "historical significance" while it's happening.

The question:

1. What moment, or trend or era in music have you felt was most important while it was happening?

2. Have there been any moments you felt at the time were important, which don't seem as important with hindsight.

3. When you first became aware of pop music as something which had a history, what seemed to you the most important things in the previous ten years?

oh noes what have they done!!!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

So after having the original version of the Robyn album on my PC since -- actually, I can check this -- the 24th May 2005, as pretty much the first thing I did was email it to a load of chumz, I finally bought the UK release from Fopp on Sunday. And... what have they done to Bum Like You??? :-( :-( I really liked the acoustic guitar, and the tempo seems all wrong on this new version too.

Somewhere kittens are crying too.

[EDIT: So the new version of Robotboy also backs away from the ballad side of things too -- what is the reasoning behind this? It's not that I don't like squelchy electro basslines, I just don't think this improves the song. Nice to have With Every Heartbeat on the record though. The sticker on the front of the CD case suggests they're hoping this will be the big single].