The Historiography Of Pop Part 8 AKA Squeaky Bum Time

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

After a ferociously close fourth round, we say goodbye to both Britney tracks, Kylie and MARRS. It's now a straight fight - well two straight fights - to take us to tomorrow's final.

[Poll #805368]

Comments

[dansette.livejournal.com]

No Britney? Noooooo!

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

No Britney is very disappointing, I have to say. Now, where are the people to complain about how voting for "Common People" will be the end of civilisation as we know it &c...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

RIGHT HERE.

I really don't understand! It's an OK song but it got more ticks than PSB and Britney and tATu and Kylie and EVERYONE! It wasn't even one of the five best songs on its original Now.

IT'S GOT GUITARS IN IT FFS.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I don't think guitars are an issue, really. It's that you can dance to it -- in a spastic kind of way, granted, but many of us can't dance anyway... However, I would have picked PSB, Britney, tATu or Kylie over it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

You can dance to pretty much everything left though. I mean, I don't hate it, I think it's a solid 7/10, and I was fine with it winning its Now poll...but I don't understand how it's beaten the cream of the crop to get here.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I feel that dancing to Kate is more of an interpretative type thing which is fine for her, but not for me...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I really want some DJ to drop Running Up That Hill in the middle of a really hypnotic minimal set one day. The opening would work perfectly.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly, though if I were listening to a really hypnotic minimal set, I'd prefer some tATu.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer a lethal injection of Domestos.

[koganbot]

I'd prefer "They're Coming to Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Nocturn' or 'Aerial' would make amazing closers to mimimimimimimimal sets.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think the Lex may have been right about the Britney vote splitting. Love them though I do I was surprised Tatu made it this far.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I voted tAtu last round despite commenting in the previous round that I didn't think it was all that! my view of the song changes day to day.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite No 1 ever! It really is one of the best songs ever ever ever, it's immense.

[darkpigeon.livejournal.com]

for once, i agree with you

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Easiest poll yet.

Poor Britters!

lovely k8

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I thought so too, but I hav come back from lunch and it has all gone horribly wrong!

Re: lovely k8

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

omg it has as well.

BEAT PULP TO A PULP. COME ON K8.

Re: lovely k8

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Those two songs have something in common for me, which is that in both of them overall intensity seems more important than individual hooks. I will be sad to see RUTH lose but "Hounds Of Love" is a much more exciting pop record.

Re: lovely k8

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I prefer HOL too but neither should be losing to sodding Pulp. I do not understand the continued love for that band!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My poor Russian lesbians are going down here, I feel :(

Worthy opponents though. Better to lose to a proven champion than a fluke journeyman. Will be cheering the winner of this semi on all the way.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Yes, will be interesting watching the rock voters tear their hair out over Kate vs. Jarvis.

Go t.A.T.u.!!!

Surely the subtext to Poll A

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

GHEYES vs LEZZERS FITE!

Kate vs Jarvis

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This would've been a tougher call had last night's pub conversation not tipped the balance firmly away from Common People.

I make no apologies for my undisguised eyerolling disgust at sitting through yet another dissection of Common People and am looking forward to starting my 'Ten Songs From The 90s More Socially Important Than Common People' series.

Re: Kate vs Jarvis

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Summary please!

Re: Kate vs Jarvis

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

how on earth will you fit every song released in that decade into a list of 10?!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I suppose now is a bad time to admit I've never heard 'Always On My Mind?'

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Except the version the Cybermen and Dr Who did on Dead Ringers once, anyway.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, my four picks from the last eight made it through, and my two choices here are winning!

Lex, there is approximately one blokes-with-guitars band since about 1990 that I've given much of a damn about - and it is indeed Pulp, and as many days as not Common People is my favourite single ever. You don't have to be an indie or rock person to love it.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I was going to say on yesterday's poll, that it strikes me that these Now polls represent the best possible use of the internet and all of its resources. I can't think of any nobler pursuit.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Web 3.0 = All NOW polls, all of the time.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I think poptimists will be instructive in mapping out the future of the internet, and in defining its End.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow = THE END.

(Except not, because the History of Jop starts on Tuesday. I will spend an instructive long weekend working out the precise details of this orgafun.)

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Web 3.0 on Tuesday, then! Looking forward to it...