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.

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Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Loved the Cansei during the PWC, but I've gone off it now: the poor CSS album takes some of the shine off "Let's Make Love..." in context. (Would still like to hear the "proper" version of their album though - intrigued to know whether it really is significantly better than the Sub Pop version as everyone claims.)

"Maneater" I've never tired of. Can't decide if I like this or "Rush" more, but it stands a better chance of winning so tictac voting in full effect.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I know of no such poor CSS album.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah same here - there are a couple of other good tracks on the CSS album but 'Let's Make Love...' sticks out like a sore thumb in terms of greatness. The Sub Pop album even makes the original album worse in retrospect! You hear all these nods towards indie punk that you never heard originally.

Whereas while 'Me & U' is the best song on Cassie's album, everything else backs it up admirably.

[crackling.livejournal.com]

I've heard variations of both the international and local albums. The original is 10xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx better.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Concur. The Portuguese songs are ace and have been dropped in favour of rub spell-out-yr-name nonsense.