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

Hold Steady 1

[koganbot]

Subthreads above are totally unwieldy at this point, so here's a Hold Steady point, next another Hold Steady point, then the Dixie Chicks.

Over the years I've voted for two Lifter Puller albs and the first Hold Steady but not the next two. Main prob I have with the recent two is that Craig's singing more than spieling - I'd originally put "singing rather than rapping" but then went with "spieling" because, though he's doing rhythmic speech, the rhythms aren't rap rhythms; more like this voluble lava flow hence the comparisons to Springsteen and Mark E. Smith, 'cept even more than Fallstein, Craig's sometimes packing the lava flow into his lines with a trowel, so the effect is this bubbling jumble, which in this case I happen to like. Singing, his voice is too much heavyset. (Springsteen's not my favorite singer either.) The two recent albums are more straightahead conventional rock and more accessible, which doesn't bother me in principle but it does subdue what I liked most about the earlier sound. Don't necessarily disagree with the characterization of Craig's lyrics, 'cept it hardly tells the whole story and or explains why such themes necessarily make bad lyrics. Seems to me whether you do well going on about your glorious/inglorious fucked-up subgroup depends on the details, what you actually say about those people in your subgroup, and how you say it: you know, events, imagery, meter. Also, don't think "youth" is a particular issue, any more than it's an issue in, say, Starry's or Kat's livejournal posts. (Just happens that they're in their twenties, you know. If Craig - now a bit older - is talking about how people got the way they did, naturally his account will take in what those people were doing when they were younger.) And what I said about "straightahead conventional rock" is a very relative comment - i.e., "more straightahead and conventional than Lifter Puller." I doubt that the primary audience for actual straightahead rock, or the patrons of actual bars with actual bar bands (as opposed to bars that book indie rock) would give the Hold Steady more than five minutes before booing 'em off. (I may be wrong here, not having kept pace with trends in bar bands.) Bar-band impression might be because some of the events in the songs happen in bars. And there's this famous line, from the first Hold Steady LP: "She said 'It's good to see you back in a bar band, baby,' and I said, 'It's great to see you still in the bars." Which I think is (1) a great line, (2) hilarious. (Btw, that particular song, "Barfruit Blues," follows the chords and rhythm to the Velvets' "Sister Ray," though gives it more of a galomph-rock treatment.)

Re: Hold Steady 1

[koganbot]

Don't necessarily disagree with the characterization of Craig's lyrics, 'cept it hardly tells the whole story and or explains why such themes necessarily make bad lyrics.

characterization of Craig's lyrics = the way you guys have been characterizing them on this thread

Re: Hold Steady 1

[koganbot]

But then - to give support that some of the singles voters were just doubling up on albums - I can't make sense of the fact that twice as many people voted for the Hold Steady's "Chips Ahoy!" as voted for Fergie's "London Bridge."

Re: Hold Steady 1

[koganbot]

I guess an album title like "Boys And Girls In America" does imply something youthical, despite what I claimed upthread. To tell the truth, I didn't listen to that alb more than five or six times and never really got around to noticing the lyrics, youthish or not.