The Historiography Of Pop Part 4 aka A Point Is All That Two Can Score

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The dust has settled and 32 of 64 songs stand ready for the next round. Say a sad farewell to Ace of Base, Betty Boo, and - yes - Gorillaz among others. Then prepare for the next instalment of ALL OUT POP BATTLE.

i.e. pick which song you think is best.

In round 2 each song is facing one of its close contemporaries, the battle of the ages having proved indecisive.


[Poll #797787]


How the draw was decided:

i. Examination of real actual chart placing i.e. 2 for Human League, 7 for Pulp.
ii. Examination of tick % from revious now poll i.e. 79% for HL, 81% for P.
iii. These two things not being in agreement I just went for the one I liked best, seeing as it's me who's gone to the bother of polling these things. Bye Disco 2000!

Comments

Basketball

[koganbot]

By the way, are you aware that the NOW tournament has the same number of contestants as the NCAA tournament? But the NCAAs are seeded, which you could have done easily enough if you'd thought of it - either "objectively" by basing rank on % scores, or more intelligently by using % as just one factor in making a general prediction on how well you'd think a song would do. And you still could have adjusted things so that first round was old vs. new.

(The main reason I regret our not having seedings is that I don't want Britney vs. Britney 'til the finals.)

Round three has to be called "The Sweet Sixteen."

And round five has to be called "The Final Four."