The House That Jackin Built

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's been no poptimist post or thread on the Jackin' Pop poll, which posted its results this week - I've put the top 30 tracks under a cut, and you can see the alBUM etc votes at http://www.idolator.com/?op=compiledresults


1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (169 votes)
2. T.I. - What You Know (89 votes)
3. Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. - My Love (79 votes)
4. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man (51 votes)
5. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (49 votes)
6. Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland - Promiscuous (45 votes)
7. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (35 votes)
7. The Raconteurs - Steady, as She Goes (35 votes)
8. Hot Chip - Over and Over (33 votes) 1 for Solid Groove Remix
10. Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (32 votes)
10. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks (32 votes)
12. The Killers - When You Were Young (29 votes)
13. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (28 votes)
14. Beyonce - Irreplaceable (26 votes)
14. Rihanna - SOS (26 votes)
16. Clipse - Wamp Wamp (What It Do) (24 votes)
17. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken (23 votes)
18. Kelis - Bossy (22 votes) 1 for Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix
19. Band of Horses - The Funeral (21 votes)
19. Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin' (21 votes) 1 for NYPD Remix ft. Papoose & Jae Millz
19. Lily Allen - LDN (21 votes)
22. CSS - Let's Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above) (20 votes)
23. Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice (19 votes)
23. Junior Boys ft. Andi Toma - In the Morning (19 votes)
23. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (19 votes)
26. Cassie - Me & U (18 votes)
26. Clipse - Mr. Me Too (18 votes)
26. Lily Allen - Smile (18 votes)
26. Nelly Furtado - Maneater (18 votes) 2 for remix ft. Lil Wayne
30. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (17 votes)
30. Prince - Black Sweat (17 votes)


Is this a recognisable 2006? Not if yr a Brit voter, most probably. (EDIT: I stand corrected, yrs Grandad.) I'm not sure I've ever heard TV on the Radio (who topped the JP albums list).

Comments

Re: Who are...

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's up there. Rock critics like them because it lets them vicariously experience all the cool stuff they didn't get to do when they were actual teenagers.

Re: Who are...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh is it whiny teenage stuff or jaunty teenage stuff? Is this why they like that terrible Art Brut song about seeing some poor girl naked twice, too? God rock critics are pathetic a lot of the time.

Re: Who are...

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

It's basically "We went to this party and it was crazy and there was drugs but then things got fucked-up and now my life is ruined and oh I am such a tragic romantic figure, unable to resist this libertine's life even as it consumes me."

I think rock critics liked Art Brut because it was closer to their actual experience--"OMG naked girl, this is a whole new thing!" The Hold Steady's more "world-weary."

Re: Who are...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. Sounds ominously like the kind of thing which might be successful here too.

Re: Who are...

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't have said they were anything like The Darkness, like one of the above comments (would have said Bruce Springsteen, which makes it sound even more horrible), but the rest is pretty spot on. I really liked the album briefly and then realised it was a bit shit and I was just wrong.

Can't see it doing well here at all though, it's too 'classic American rock' in its sound and not remotely danceable, which seems to be the indie thing these days.

Re: Who are...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also art brut are TEH ACES and lex is wrong.

Re: Who are...

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yes, agreed. (They were my #1 album I think.)

Re: Who are...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

:)

i think eddie should be my friend you know, i keep seeing him at gigs and he is fianced to someone i know. i just hope he actually WRITES the second alBUM (latest rumour, mute have given them a strict time limit to get some songs done, eddie has written 0 lyrics (apart from "my little sister", apparently))

Re: Who are...

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Ha, my girlfriend has a total crush on Eddie. She noticed the ring though thankfully.

That's too bad about the new album, I was kind of wondering actually. He should write it all based on people's myspace pages.

Re: Who are...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

importantly i ph34r i may have inflicted TEH CURSE OF CARSMILE on them. no band that i have fallen in love with before their first alBUM has come out have gone on to make a second (in fact several of them haven't got as far as the first album...)

Re: Who are...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hi dere.

Re: Who are...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(ha - not assume you lurved GK but you did come and see us more than once! CURSES)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Eddie is my friend (http://eddie-argos.livejournal.com/profile). He's a nice chap.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

well, yes, clearly he's my "friend", i'm talking about going to the pub together innit ;)

Re: Who are...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i side with Lex on the subject of Art Brut i'm afwaid

Re: Who are...

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

It's not really whiny, it's more "man I was fucked-up back in the day, let me tell you some stories about how fucked-up I used to get." Glory Days shit.