The Poptimists 2006 End Of Year Poll: ALBUM OF THE YEAR

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Poptimists End of Year polls kick off with the unimportant, but still intriguing, category of Album of the Year. Thankyou for your nominations, which have been distilled to a shortlist (by the scientific means of "most mentioned") as follows:

Paris Hilton - Paris: The year's most controversial release - frothy R&B-pop from the heiress-turned-renaissance-woman.
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles: Luscious electronic pop and atmospherics from German boffinette and henchbeing.
The Knife - Silent Shout: Shrieksome electro artpop from Scandinavia.
Marit Larsen - Under The Surface: Scando singing-songwriting popstrel spans country, twee and Euro-pop.
Beyonce - B-Day: Quickly recorded relationship dissections from the reigning queenbot of R&B.

You, the Poptimists Voting Academy, can grace ONE of these with your tick. Do so!

[Poll #891029]

Another category tomorrow - if you didn't nominate you STILL CAN in the other categories by going here!

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

So not one of the five albums is by a British artist. Whither exciting British pop...why can't someone from this country make something like any of the above albums?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the entire British music press, every sector of it, seems DESPERATE for this to happen (hence way-too-early crowning of Jamelia as National Institution off back of rub album) - I have no idea why it matters!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Balance of payments innit.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Desperate nationalism is rather overlooked as a massive factor in the shitness of the British music press (from NME to Q to Popjustice). Who cares whether Americans rule pop or not?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is true. I'm a global citizen of the world innit. (I liked quite a bit of British pop this year tho, but yes the continual search for A BREAKOUT BRITISH R&B SUPERSTAR is feeble HOLD ON WAIT MAYBE IT'LL BE LEONA ect ect)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It happens with rock a lot as well! And of course hip hop. A lot of the fuss over Keane, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse is through the prism of nationality. It seems like a very bizarre way of looking at music.

I do like Leona though.

[koganbot]

Yeah, but current Brit rock nationalism makes more sense (though rarely music that's any good) 'cause back in the old days Britain had invented rock. (The invention of rock was called "The British Invasion" in America. It was something very different from the American rock 'n' roll and r&b that preceded it, even if it drew heavily on the American stuff.)