A Year In Pop: Week Two

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

After last week's appetiser the chart gets back to feasting (on its young) - THIRTEEN new entries to rate and contemplate, we see now why Stevem's monthly polls were so huge. Possible points of interest include the BBC's "Sound of 07" Mika with the highest new entry, and nu-ravers The Klaxons getting their first proper hit. And of course download revolutionaries KOOPA.

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I have downloaded all of these and will give them an listen and report in the comments thread. But don't take my word for it!

Comments

URGH

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

what a ropey old bunch! last week's lot had two really properly amazing songs in it, this week's barely scrapes two ticks. I actually watched all of these on youtube last night and in most cases couldn't get past the first minute mark.

Jarvis was a marginal but ultimately a non-tick because Nancy Sinatra sang that song perfectly - as if she recognised her younger self in the girl she was singing to, or she may even be singing to her younger self from the vantage point of age and experience. And she's imparting wisdom, the stuff she's learnt because she's been there, but there's this sadness that she knows that the younger girl isn't going to listen to her (but she understands, because she didn't listen either), and also this undercurrent of "I used to be young like you" wistfulness.

Jarvis on the other hand sings it like yr dad bristling "you're not going out like that young lady". NO TICK