A Year In Pop: 1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A what in who? This is the first of a series of polls replacing the mighty stevem78's monthly Top 40 polls.

The Top 40 polls were an grebt idea because they put the focus on NEW pop, unlike the canons, P&Js, Now polls etc. But they were by all accounts a hassle to do and response was never great, partly because there were SO MANY songs to deal with.

By doing them weekly (hear the method in the madness) we have a much smaller number of songs to pick, so there's more chance of individual songs getting discussion time, and also more chance of people who haven't heard the new goodies hearing them via YSIs or YouTube or what have you. (To save my time and sanity I will leave it up to commenters to hunt these down).

Of course I will be keeping track of the scores on these!

[Poll #904685]

What about teh AMAZING NEW CHART REVOLUTION then? My arbitrary rule is that re-releases will be included but only if they weren't in Steve's polls, which I think rules out all of this week's.

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Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

A LIST:
*NEW* DUKE SPECIAL - Freewheel; MADELEINE PEYROUX - A Little Bit; AMY WINEHOUSE - You Know I'm No Good; NERINA PALLOT - Learning To Breathe; KEANE - A Bad Dream; NORAH JONES - Thinking About You; MIKA - Grace Kelly; U2 - Window In The Skies; GUILLEMOTS - Annie Let's Not Wait

B LIST
*NEW* SIMON WEBBE - My Soul Pleads For You; *NEW* ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - Latitude 88 North; *NEW* JAMIE PEARCE - More Than Enough; THE VIEW - Same Jeans; DJ SHADOW - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way); ANNA KRANTZ - Sweeter Devotion; LIOR - This Old Love; JOSH GROBAN - February Song; LOUISE SETARA - Wrong Again

C LIST
*NEW* JESSICA SIMPSON - A Public Affair; *NEW* KARINE POLWART - Daisy; *NEW* VINCE GILL - Album: These Days; LILY ALLEN - Littlest Things; RAZORLIGHT - Album: Razorlight; KOOP - Come To Me; JAMES MORRISON - Album: Undiscovered; JARVIS - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time

:O

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Amy W is the only good thing on that list!!!!!!

(NB: havbe not heard the new Simpson Sr.)
(NB: I love that Jarvis song on the Nancy Sinatra album of 2004, which he originally wrote it for. I can't imagine him doing it any better than her, and tbh if he's recycling songs he wrote for other people three years ago this is hardly a good sign wrt his own creative fertility these days.)

Re: :O

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

And DLHWYT is the best song on the album!

Re: :O

[avv.livejournal.com]

new Simpson = 80s Madonna

Re: :O

[koganbot]

Simpson Sr one of her best ever, sort of an (appropriately) summer-resort disco-smooth variant of Madonna's "Holiday."

Re: :O

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's actually amazing! Really amazing!

"I want to be so famous I'm the most downloaded person on the internet."
"I want to be more famous than the internet."

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

So regular radio 2 listeners would have heard 2 of these. I bet the Norah Jones single is better than the Amy Winehouse one (and I'm not a Winehouse hata). On the other hand -- Razorlight! Keane! James Morrison! ARRGGHH. Also: so that's what's happened to Jessica Simpson.

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I have heard Teri Wagon play in the last week on R2: Winehouse, Keane, The View, Guillemots, DJ Shadow.

Coo - new ELO record? Must listen out for this.

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Yes, ELO, wacky

Re: Radio 2 playlist (for reference, not recommending this!)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The version of the Winelodge that R2 play is the 'no rap' version btw