Now 67

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Rite, I'm off to knit tofu with hippy children for the next week but we've got just enough time to squeeze in another quick Now poll before I reject all music save that made by free-spirited bongo weavers or something. If I die from camping, someone else will have to carry this on.

This motley crew of hits were assembled sometime last summer, from the look of them. There is an amazing section at the end but overall, this is a surprisingly quality edition of Now. In acknowledgement of the fact these are relatively recent compilations, I've added a question re: what was left out from the compilation at the end, since that should be fairly easy for ones so close to the present.

Edit: WHUPS, NOW WITH ADDED LJ-CUT
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Vanessa Hudgens Sells Out?!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

SEARS has gone all out with a super exciting promo campaign for Back to School Clothing with Vanessa Hudgens (a.k.a. Baby V, Vanilla Hudge, the Hudgester, That Other Girl from High School Musical). To the best of my ability I have culled the four best lines, which you can now VOTE ON.

[Poll #1228943]

(h/t Jimmy Draper)

Critical Hit Ratio

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Has there been any single track so far this year which you could see topping a critic's poll? (Pazz & Jop/NME/Idolator/Pitchfork/Poptimists EOY Poll/you name it).

There's not been any world-squashing summer hit like "Umbrella", but there's not been anything as crit-pleasing as "All My Friends" either. Unless I'm missing something really obvious.

(OK, I can see Ting Tings winning the NME poll)

Are we all still waiting...? (Obviously, I have my own favourites, and excellent favourites they are. But while I can see a few of them placing in EOY polls, I couldn't see any of them WINNING one.)