Poptimists Year-End Review: Most Awful Thing / Best Other Thing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Poptimists EOY polls are now boldly SPANNING the 2006/2007 divide because I was busy last week and nobody was online. Two more categories today, and then into the lifetime achievement, act of the year and track of the year categories for the rest of this week.

Today we voyage into the negative zone with the well-stocked "most terrible musical thing" category. To introduce the nominees:

Sandi Thom is the troubadour of Tooting whose "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker" topped the charts last spring.
Muse are indie-rockers who have given themselves a pomp-metal makeover.
Arctic Monkeys are the saviours of British guitar pop, apparently they were discovered on the INTERWEB.
Indie rock in general rumbles listlessly on.
The Streets third album was felt by some fans to be a bit ghastly.
"Before The Music Dies" is a fillum.
Westlife delighted grannies everywhere.

We also tackle the less well-stocked "best other thing" category - this was poorly explained by me, in that it was meant to cover 'other things there isn't a category for', not 'other things you couldn't fit into the other categories' boxes'. Anyway some items did get multiple nominations:

YouTube is a site that is NO LONGER blocked to me at work!
Beyonce's "Ring The Alarm" sleeve has alligators on it.
The Pop World Cup was a much-loved and little voted-in feature on this website.
Eurovision heralded the return of ROCK.

[Poll #898962]

You can still nominate in the three remaining categories, if you can be botherd to trawl through the archives and do so!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Youtube has totally changed everything, much more than myspace ever could.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of "Before The Music Dies" before the nominations for this poll - however it swiftly SURGED ahead of Sandi T (who lets face it has vanished) to take my tick.

YouTube should win the 'other' category, though for personal enjoyment (and a good idea actually quite well realised for once) the PWC got my vote.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Sandi Thom's song was in the Virgin Radio Top 500 Of All Time. I know Virgin Radio is like Kerrang! Radio taking itself more seriously and having a cup of tea but honestly, WHY, PEOPLE OF BRITAIN, WHY?

I once made up some new, historically corrected words to '...Punk Rocker' but I was drunk at the time and the only line I can remember was 'In '77 and '69 Agent Orange was in the air,' which is itself historically inaccurate I suspect so it's probably just as well I've forgotten them.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also kids, the #1s poll will be back at some point this week. I know it's meant to be Tuesdays but aargh.

2006 success

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have still never heard even one note of any Arctic Monkeys song :D

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Noooo, the crocodiles cover is possibly cruel and at the very least a bit silly.

I Am Dismayed That No One Else Nominated Prog's Takeover of Prague

[koganbot]

I am dismayed that no one else nominated ProgRock's takeover of the Czech charts in the "Other" category. But also, I think asking us to vote for the "best" Other thing undermines the beauty of the category as I chose to conceive it: the winner shouldn't be the Best other thing but the Most Other other thing. (However, I went along with your instructions, so voted PWC. But perhaps I should rebel and vote the crocs.)

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I wish Muse would win this. They are truly evil for two reasons:

1) Having first concert at nu-Wembley
2) Their co-opting of metal