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?

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Obviously I HAVE heard the Billie track, but I will tick it along with the others (or not) when I listen to them tonight.

Who are Mason and what is an Exceeder?

[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.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Moylesian re-entry of Billie

Oh god, the images...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really don't like that Mason song because a) heard the Bodyrox/Luciana one first and prefer it (since essentially, they are the same song, to my ears) and b) heard Mason for the first time in conjunction with Zane Lowe so gut-instinct hate response hard to override.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Re: The Fray, some of their album is quite good, specifically, 'Trust Me' and 'Heaven Forbid' although it's only good in that sort of singerwriter-songing way which is occasionally pleasant and frequently maddening. It's nice comfort music, like Death Cab For Cutie with more listenable vocals.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Brickwork seems the key to enter charts in 2007 innit? "Another Brick in the Wall" thingy in wk 1, Freemasons last week and now regular Mason? Is there a new "Wonderwall" cover on the horizon I wonder (dere god no)?

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

BTW Tom, I know these polls don't close as such, but when do you usually register the results? Is it too late to listen & vote on e.g. Saturdays or something?

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

The US version (new singles in the US top 40 this week):

Fall Out Boy - "This Isn't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
Corbin Bleu - "Push It to the Limit"
(Yup, that's all)

Bonus list of new to the US top 20 this week:
Daughtry - "It's Not Over"
Gwen Stefani ft Akon - "The Sweet Escape"

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

"Famous Last Words" is my favourite MCR track ever!

I wish I was a teenage emo kid sometimes!

[genie22.livejournal.com]

PS JT's new song is bobbins.

Fancy doing a JT poll sometime?