Chart Championship Week 10 RESULTS - NOW WITH REVEALS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

koganbot takes the witness stand:

"OK, here's where I tell you why if you're someone who doesn't download and listen to the League Of Pop zip files you're an incredible chump: It's because - for instance - the three songs I would excitedly collar people and tell them they have to listen to, and let's form a band that sounds like this, are TRACKS FOUR, FIVE, and ELEVEN, none of which took a winner's spot, and one of which even finished in last place! League Of Pop is even better than the Pop World Cup for prying open my sense of what's possible in the world of music. (Also demonstrates that Brits be strange, but that's a different subject.)

People have said here that the tracks early in the mix have an advantage over the others, tend to have a stronger impact. I find just the opposite: I like whatever I've heard most recently. So what I do is reorder these on my player in what I think is my order of preference, listening last to the ones I supposedly like least, then realize I like them more, move them up over the tracks that precede them, listen to those again, realize I like them more, move them up, listen to the others, then realize I like those others more, and round and round. This is why December year-end lists are total madness for me. Right now TRACKS ONE, THREE, and SIX are in a dead heat for the final winners' slot. Think I'll end up choosing the one least likely to knock me out of the playoffs with the most immediate emotional impact, but I won't know for sure until I hit send.

( The Verdict )

Admin: We are low on tracks for this week! Also my net connection at home is currently very erratic - if it stays that way I'll be able to download everything but may not be able to Sendspace it until I'm at work on Monday, sorry Mark and Mike. I will send reminders out today or tomorrow, and blue_russian and fugitivemotel, you need to get me the - gasp! - FINAL INTROS for Monday too.

Reveals shortly after Frank comments on the thread for the first time, since it's only fair he gets to see what everyone makes of everything before the curtain is pulled back.

Begging Note

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Does anyone fancy writing a hundred words or so about why "Upside Down" by Diana Ross is grebt, for quaint old webzine Freaky Trigger? I can't think of anything, my brain is much and I'm trying to write about Alice Cooper anyway.

Ten of you can write ten words each if you'd prefer!

Also: four more slots in the Pop Open.

The Friday Canon: DEPECHE MODE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

MODEFAX:

Dave joined the band after hearing them rehearse in a scout-hut!

They used 'People Are People' as the theme tune for agreeable children's telly programme It'll Never Work!

Dave technically died for 2 minutes in 1996!

You get THIRTEEN ticks across all these UK Top 40 hits. Blimey!

[Poll #982839]
Rod Stewart: (link)
1. Maggie May
2. I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest
3. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
=4. Young Turks
=4. You Wear It Well
6. Stay With Me [w/ The Faces]
7. Downtown Train
8. Reason To Believe
=9. Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
=9. You're In My Heart

Internet killed the video stars: PROMOZONE Pilot episode

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Nostalgic as I have been for a Chart Show style show back on normal TV I decided I would have a go at making one myself, to see if the format can still work today. Digital music-dedicated channels and sites like YouTube provide the content but the problem is there's no decent filter. I'm convinced a concentrated hour long programme dedicated to showcasing brand new pop music videos is still useful for this reason. So I had a look at the release schedule for singles in May via chartsingles.net, searched youtube for each song to see if there was a video already up (this took a few hours), picked what i thought were the best ones (as either songs or videos - whilst wanting there to be a fairly decent balance genre-wise but with more of an 'edge' more of the time unlike The Chart Show), found a nifty mechanism online to download the vids from youtube and used Premiere to put together a rough and ready demonstration (ft. animated title sequences 'sampled' by some awesome Japanese dudes) which you can watch on DailyMotion (YouTube doesn't allow clips over 10 minutes long bah) here:



Promozone part 1 (features Dizzee Rascal, Mutya, The Harrisons, N-Dubz, Ultra Nate)

Promozone part 2 (features LCD Soundsystem, Bonde Ro Role, Grizzly Bear, snippets of 10 other singles out this month inc. Therese, Kelley Polar, Modest Mouse and R Kelly, Mims vs Toto)

Promozone part 3 (features Husky Rescue, The Cribs, Chung King, Hellogoodbye, Justice and Mr V)

More details on the website. you can also download/stream the original wmv clips here (i'm going try and make shorter versions for YouTube and also ipod-friendly downloads ideal for commuters). This is just a demo for now and there are creases to iron but let me know what you think. Complain about the music if nothing else ;)