2009 poll lobbying

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Um - I don't know if this is even eligible? But it's amazing - a year of pop I didn't much care for, reinvented as something really moving and special!

Yet Another Year In Pop: FINAL RECKONING

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's been a long twelve months in the charts - SIX different Lady Gaga singles, plenty of female singer-songwriters scuffling for Elbow room among the X Factor graduates, more electro-grime than we could shake a glowstick at. But what did YOU LOT think of it all?

( 2009 Chart Poll top 50! )

As for the 2010 chart polls, I decree that the weekly polls will continue, but the 'NOT HEARD ANY' box will disappear. I will try and do regular monthly round-ups of the top 100 but I'm not promising anything :) As there was only one new entry this week, I'll tack it on to Monday's poll.

Tracks of 2009 REMINDER #1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

20 tracks! (or less if you want)

leagueofpop@gmail.com

by Sunday!

Couldn't be simpler!

Turnout is somewhat low, which means it's EVEN EASIER to get your favourite tracks in there.

Delphic: Behind the times already?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Just wondering if anyone else saw this article about Delphic on the BBC today.

While this isn't any sort of comment on Delphic's music, I found some of the remarks frustrating:

They are not, they say, a bog standard indie band of the sort that was in plentiful supply when they formed in 2007. They are not one of the many electro acts that, they feel, caused dance music to lose its soul. And they are definitely not one of those groups still desperately clinging to the Madchester glory days.

Are we *still* fighting these battles? Do we still have to "prove" that dance music can have soul, and that guitars have something to offer? Really?

I dunno, what do other poptimists think? Am I getting mildly irked over nothing?