ONE POLL TO END THEM ALL aka Jop Tournament Qualifiers 1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Right. So we did 27 (or 28) Pazz and Jop polls, giving ratings on all 820 or so songs to have been tipped the wink by the Village Voice and/or Idolator critics. We're now going to find out which is best.

You can see the comments boxes for details of how this brobdingnagian poll has been compiled. All you need to do now, though, is pick your favourite from each group of four songs. SO EASY!


[Poll #911602]


Howl at your fellow poptimists, or justify your choices, below!

I may well post another four groups later today. It takes my mind off the horror of the charts this week.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I would hypothesise the following reasons:
-Everyone can remember it
-Has a line about a supermarket
-Oh god I just remembered it was on the pub last night
-Jarvis Cocker is an interesting, articulate man who continues to make quite good music and has done a track with Richard X, which means he continues/moves into the pop sphere and the Pulp track is cemented as a classic
-The split between Pulp detractors and Pulp ...proactors or whatever the word ought to be means that people are forced to pick one of the marmite choices and the generally quite good nature of the song means a lot of people end up ticking it in these single-option polls, when initially it was just a tick out of a selection that got through because quite a lot of people are quite fond of it
-Some of Fall Out Boy's new album sounds a bit like it.

However, I have an annoying, furry hangover and so these reasons probably make no sense.