Poptimists 2006 Poll: Lifetime Achievement / Track Of The Year

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I'm too busy to do the nice picture banner at the top of the post today, but here are the final two categories in the End of Year poll - as ever, multiple nominations gained you a place, in the case of "Track Of The Year" you needed a mighty THREE different poptimists to rep you, in the case of Lifetime Achievement, well erm yes.

The Lifetime Achievement contestants should need no introduction, even to the Lex. The Track of the Year nominees should also be familiar to most, though hopefully someone less hassled than me will get an opportunity to post YouTube/MySpace/etc links.

Thanks for nominating, voting, and especially commenting on the awards - they've been some very good threads. Normal services return next week, most likely.

[Poll #900272]

Comments

Speech Made You Nervous That You Couldn't Eat

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know! Yay!

LEESTEN TO DAMN GUD COMPANEE

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I suspect there is some tactical voting for 'Maneater' going on now.

I wouldn't mind if it was 'Promiscuous'.

Re: LEESTEN TO DAMN GUD COMPANEE

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

or considering it's TRACK of the year 'No Hay Igual' (i heard it in Skechers shop on Oxford St on Dec 27th and had a MOMENT)

KEES ME, I'M DRUNK, DON' WORRY, EET'S TRUE

[koganbot]

"No Hay Igual" is a single (or focus track, anyway), aimed at Latin radio. Of the six of this year's Nelly F. tracks I've heard (incl. YouTube bootlegs of her "Crazy," which I prefer to Gnarls'), all are quite good. ("Maneater" is my least favorite, actually.) Yet still, she irritates me. Maybe residual effect of those terrible Kumbaya songs from her last album. Or maybe it's the way she takes one emotion per song and grinds it into the floor. Or maybe it's that I occasionally notice her lyrics. Or that "Promiscuous" feels kind of craven. (Though I love her voice in it; it's Timbo's that seems wrong.)

Re: KEES ME, I'M DRUNK, DON' WORRY, EET'S TRUE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Have you heard 'Do It'? Not a single but possibly should have been, or should be, or something*; Timbo-produced but not so's you'd notice, it's kind of like this frothy, frivolous channeling of Madonna's 'Cherish'. It's on youtube here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVIU01ul9YI)...

*(Loose above all albums this year feels like a collection of great singles; it's not incoherent as such but each great track feels as if it exists very much by itself. There are some very bad songs but a four fifths is great. 'No Hay Igual' is definitely my favourite; also check out 'Glow' if you can, which is the most self-consciously weird'n'bleepy of the Timbaland productions this year outside 'SexyBack'.)