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

My Verdict

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Mika: marginal nontick - I think there's potential but even ironically his ingratiation grates. Also does he have to telegraph his marketing strategy (nu Freddie) in the lyrics?

Just Jack: WTF??? Where did this come from and what is it doing at #4? Hookless, sour-faced moralising about celebrities - I know it's January but even so.

The View: passed me by without the shadow of a trace.

Freemasons: best thing here on first listen - completely standard issue house belter with plenty of gumption.

Klaxons: New rave my bum, this is a New Fast Automatic Daffodils 12". Arf arf but I ticked it anyway cos I quite liked that second-wave indie-dance sound.

Ordinary Boys: Predictably wretched faux-everyman guff from Preston.

Automatic: A sad decline from Monster, lyrics seem to be whingeing about how they mean it and everyone else doesnt.

Koopa: SPEAKING OF WHICH!! I didn't know the actual song was about how real they are! As Carsmile has wisely said, this sounds like the Mega City Four. Contains the amazing lyrics "The English scene is in the dump / Trying to improve on punk / In fact, they're slack / It's time to BRING IT BACK!". The thing to note about Koopa is that they may not have a label but they do have Sandi Thom's PR agency, who clearly specialise in getting chart action for grumpy dumbos.

Evanescence: Not feeling it really.

Akon ft Snoop Dogg: The version I downloaded says "fvck" instead of "love". I'm no Akon hata, but Akon wanting to shag a stripper doesn't make for a very interesting song.

Jarvis: Marginal nontick. National treasure and all that, but as Mcarratala said he sounds tired, and the music sounds like Rialto or some other awful late-Britpopper.

Jamie T: Don't mind the music on this but that voice! Like a drunk pestering you on a night bus. Nasty.

Re: My Verdict

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i liked the just jack caught randomly on realactual radio the other day.

Re: My Verdict

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I said that Koopa was just like Mega City 4. Carmsile may ALSO have said it, but I said it on poptimisits!

Re: My Verdict

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, yes he did.

and jel_bugle said that the automatic were the senseless things.