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

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Curse you for making me pick CSS over lovely, lovely Nelly.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There were quite a few good records that got 2 nominations in the track category, by the way. I will list them if I have time.

As for what did make it - The Knife I don't really get, Justice vs Simian I think is wretched caterwauling guff, Aly and AJ and the Veronicas I like a lot but not enough to vote for. Maneater seems too long ago somehow, so that leaves Cassie and CSS.

Cassie is the track that's grown on me most in 06, and CSS probably is the track that made the biggest initial impression. Neither are my favourite of the year, both are Top 5 or thereabouts. Could have been either, I went for Cansei cos the memories are better.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i gave the psbs the lifetime award because its also the implicit "and now please stop before you make it any worse" award. which startles me as i'm a bigger fan of them than madonna - but at least she's (getting together with ppl who are?) making stuff i can still enjoy

COLIN ME HIGH ON ZA TELLYFONE

[zenith.livejournal.com]

An early lead for my track of the year! I hardly believe it can win but I am still going to roar from the touchlines.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

As most of you know I picked my traXX0r of the year and CSS was luckily top! The first question was much harder but I plumped for Madge given that I would rather listen to the Immaculate Collection than the best of James Brown or Take That, even tho both of those are grebt. Timbaland is clearly the only candidate for Producer Of The Year so he should be happy with that.

Speech Made You Nervous That You Couldn't Eat

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know! Yay!

[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.

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'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many other people feel they can't vote GA for lifetime achievement after the "act of the year" shangles, I know I do :(

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Do people, in general, thing this was a good year, for pop?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

YES, it had 'Unfaithful' in it as well.

Greg what on earth happened to you on NYE?

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Lex yr presentimist fervour is pretty much the #1 thing that keeps me even considering 2006 as a sort-of-viable year, for anglophone pop!

NYE: Michelle was thrown out! She'd left her ID at home and "looked 12" apparently. There seems to have been some sort of communications breakdown after that, we went and got a meal nearby thinking dudes would filter information through to you etc, I guess this didn't happen :(

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)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It didn't, no one else knew where you'd went, the second last I saw of you was when Annabel, Marianna et al were leaving for the warehouse party - I assumed you'd gone with them until you turned up for about 5 seconds after midnight, semi-explained the above, and said you were on the way to Mile End to meet Cis and Gareth and Matt. Then they turned up at the warehouse party, said they never saw you, and I think I texted you the warehouse address...

Anglophone pop? British pop remains pretty shit but I don't think this matters because American pop is brilliant at the moment.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the worst pop year of the decade so far but it could well be that i'm going to say this about each remaining year of this decade as they whizz by. oh the cynicism...

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'm glad James Brown made it onto the hall of fame list - not just because of the timeliness, but because I think he's the most important musician of the second half of the 20th Century. I will understand on a pop-focussed community if the magnificent Pet Shop Boys win this category, but I'm glad JB is at least in contention.

The tracks list is very disappointing to me - none of my top 23 (just checked my list) made it! At least that left me a straight choice between Nelly and Cassie, and the former won out. I'm rather shocked at the big CSS dominance.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Why is American pop so into infidelity at the moment? It seems like a really big theme this year, I guess it could be T.I.'s influence?

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it was a fallow year? I totally agree with this analysis although 2000-ish seems to have had alt-country and um I can't remember what else, possibly that was worse.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I voted "Rush" because it was by far my favorite of the listed songs, and I'm hoping I won't be the only one because that will make me feel like a lone wolf. Actually I would have ticked "Not This Year" were it on the list. "4ever" is good but I still think "Sweet Temptation" (which I also would have ticked if eligible) is way better. "Maneater" and CSS are good but not great. The other three are meh.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Isn't it always a big theme in all pop? The motor of it, even! I guess this year there have been two ballads about infidelity which take strikingly original positions on it ('Unfaithful' and 'Irreplaceable') but I don't think it's been present more than usual.

[koganbot]

Cassie meh? I can see how someone might dislike it, but it's awfully striking! (What is the accepted def'n of "meh"? Mine is "kinda like so-what.")