A Year In Pop: Week 3

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Delayed by a day or so, and I *still* haven't heard any of the new tracks, so my actual participation will be limited!

I've included the Moyesian re-entry of Billie, though you'll notice that reissues are italicised and will be included in the final year-end charts for indicative purposes (this is stats speak for 'we'll ignore them'.

[Poll #913675]

Mika is #1, if you didn't know, with Just Jack and The View #2 and #3. Where oh where is the chart full of old fogeys I was promised, eh?

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I really like the Mason / Princess Superstar thing and the MCR track.

The Guillemots sounds like a His N Hers era Pulp track with much worse singing.

The Fray is just dull.

The Bad, The Really Bad and the F*cking Awful combines just about everything I hate most in the world: Damon Albarn's voice; fatuous supposedly 'political' gestures ("The country is at war") as ornament over fundamentally conservative (and far more 'political' style; all that Ackroyd London myth history bollocks.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Very disappointed by the mis/non-use of Tony Allen on this. Another one of those things that would've been better left on paper, like Plant & Page + Squire & White /sukrat-talk>

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I remember Jimmy Page doing a few sessions with Squire & White in the early 80s, but I didn't know Plant had been involved as well. Or you talking about a different point in time. Something recent?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

huh, my sukrat tags disappeared from that post :(

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

even on paper white is the weak link there surely

surkamp & page & squire & shannon jackson

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Shannon? (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Shannon)

[koganbot]

Shannon

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's what I'm talking about, the infamous "XYZ" sessions. Actually I may have been wrong about Plant, I don't really remember.

The young 'uns won't have an clue what we're on about.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

The Guillemots sounds like a His N Hers era Pulp track with much worse singing

It really does!

Apparently one of them has the rather splendid name Aristazabal Hawkes.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I dunno why MCR have this rep for being emo adolescents when THE FRAY do the sulky teenager go-and-tidy-your-room-SHAN'T thing quite so infuriatingly.

I'm not as keen on this MCR as the last one - it's a grower maybe but not a ticker.

Good work Mason.

You are absolutely dead on on the Guillemots! This has prevented me ticking them rly, well that and I got bored to tears before the end.