Here's what you've been listening to (and what I thought of them).
Track 1.
Derrick Harriott - "Black Skinned Blue-Eyed Boys": Spacious and spacey funk, I'm assuming early 80s tho I don't know anything about Harriott (could look it up but where's the fun?). This is good - long, but when I want to hear it I'll want to hear all of it. I like the interplay of drums, syndrums, house piano, whooshing noises, rubbery bass, good soupy mix of things going on. Injusticewatch: pleasingly cross.
Track 2.
Luke Haines - "Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop": Hadn't heard this but Luke Haines is very recognisable. He's a terribly weak singer but usually knows how to craft his material to use that rather than let it limit him: generally this means being sibilant and nasty, a slick of malice on top of whatever he's cooked up musically. This has grown on me since I first heard it - the music is a good, skew-wiff take on dance-rock - and it might be wrestling with tracks 1 and 3 for my second pick. Can't shake the feeling though that he's more pleased with the title than most listeners will be. Would quite like to hear Sophie Ellis-Bextor doing this! Injusticewatch: somewhat baffled.
Track 3.
Siobhan Donaghy - "12 Bar Acid Blues": Pretty, rambling, does what it says on the tin. My problem with it is that I'm much much more interested in the squelching acid noises than in the shaggy dog story, which could do with being leaner, so from the second minute I want her to shut up. Remix anyone? Injusticewatch: this is mostly bad luck, surely?
Track 4.
Kirsty MacColl - "Wrong Again": The only song I knew, though I hadn't heard it since 2000. Like track 3, this could stand to be shorter by a good minute or so - after a bit it just becomes a bit of a whinge. Very attractive voice but I prefer it a bit livelier and less mopey - the music is terribly pretty, though. Injusticewatch: fair enough.
Track 5:
Ms Dynamite - "Don't Stop": The easy, EASY winner here - who knew she could still pull this stuff off? Well, she did obviously, and reminds us of the fact. Frank dead right to single out the violins, tho I love the sample at the beginning, and the balance of pride and desperation in Dynamite's voice is awesome - you really get the feeling this is her last chance. Terrific track. Injusticewatch: erm her last album flopping was NOT INJUSTICE!
My opinions are as nothing compared to YOURS though - you can still vote here:
http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/397904.html and are encouraged to do so!
Next week's group: we have Death ready to go, but Passion is now only one off, and Love too. In fact I think we're down to our last half-dozen holdouts on track submission. Will post reminders tonight probably (if I can stop playing SPIDER PATIENCE).
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
byebyepride.livejournal.com![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jauntyalan for banging on about the Justice album. I live a sheltered life as a mild-mannered academic and would not otherwise have been exposed to this young person's banging 'house' music. I couldn't be bothered to read the ILX thread so I have no idea if this is a popular position or not. It sounds like Daft Punk put through a blender. 
