A Year In Pop: Week 4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Mika still #1, "Exceeder" in the Top 3, young person's indie music as far as the eye can see, and what's that coming over the hill? Is it an emo?

[Poll #916901]

Next week we'll do the first monthly roundup poll - how exciting eh?

In other orgafun news: We have enough league of pop entrants, I will start the ball rolling on this one soon, tomorrow maybe. I need to write the rules!

The last four qualifiers for the Jop poll: Sinead, Pixies, ODB, Salt N Pepa. The first round proper kicks off at lunchtime.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Are The Gossip in there because they're using that track in the Skins ads? Or are they actually re-releasing it?

Impressed that Kelis is in the top 40 already about a month before release, that song will probably be (deservedly) massive.

Little Man Tate particularly vile. Fall Out Boy beyond vile, I will never comprehend how any of you lot have time for them. Bloc Party surprisingly less bad than I was expecting but his voice remains really unpleasant to have to listen to, so not even a marginal non-tick.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I listened to this lot this morning over a bowl of healthy Optivita.

FALL OUT BOY: WTF it's some kind of attempt at a skank? Disappointing. No tick.

BLOC PARTY: FVCKING AWFUL. Terrible combination of dreariness and pomposity. Even half-praise entirely unjustified on this showing.

LITTLE MAN TATE: There was a time when a track called "Sexy In Latin" would have been a derivative funky house tune. Now it's a derivative fraggle track. Really atrocious.

KEANE: Right, I ticked this, in part because I was so ANGERED by Bloc Party that somebody tackling the same solemn epicry with a degree of, you know, dynamics and competence and melody needs rewarding just in contrast.

LARRIKIN LOVE: Really really reminds me of something, it's quite a bad memory though.

GOSSIP: Having heard a lot about this I was a bit disappointed - Beth's voice seems kind of floaty for once, on the verses at least. OK backing, the best thing in today's batch.

KELIS: Another disappointment, though if I'm ticking Keane I have to tick this. Cee-Lo's verses sound like a late-period whimsical Britpop track.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I don't like the ones I've heard, which isn't many.

[wholepint.livejournal.com]

*puts hands up as the person who ticked Bloc Party*

ok, ok... to be fair... it's not as good as anything off their last album. And the first time I heard it I wasnt impressed at all. So I probably shouldn't have ticked it.... but a couple of weeks ago I was at work, having a dull day and listening to the radio through headphones and it suddenly seemed AMAZING and made me feel all awake all of a sudden. But it hasn't done the same again to me since. It got a tick because of that memory...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is an atrocious haul, only The Gossip and Kelis are worth the time of day and even then its a combination of overplayed and underwhelming.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I don't like The Gossip but this is based on nothing at all (since I've only heard some kind of mix of 'Standing In The Way Of Control' on a Simian Mobile Disco CD that was free off the front of, err, NME awhile ago) except that Beth Ditto is an obnoxious little b*tch.

Fall Out Boy = brilliant. Also, the video is excellent. They are good because they do not take themselves too seriously. They are perceived as bad because a lot of their fans do. As opposed to My Chemical Romance where everyone concerned is COMPLETELY INSANE.

Bloc Party grew on me, despite the video resembling an anti-smoking advert.

Keane are strangely alluring these days.

Kelis is obviously ace.

Haven't heard the other two but Larrikin Love are a big old pile of poo and Little Man Tate probably are too.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The Fall Out Boy song = tremendous, as is the video. I had my doubts that they could find a song to match the grebtmess of the title, but they have. I was SHOCKED however to see that in said video most of the band look the wrong side of 30. I thought these dudes were the latest emo-for-teens sensations. Surely no self-respecting teenager can love anyone this old.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

there were lots of chirpy kids queuing 1st thing in the morning at the hammersmith palais yesterday, for (i assume) FoB tix.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed by the lack of hate for Keane, relatively speaking. I thought that the little band of hobbits were calculated to make people who like pop music angry.

[maura.livejournal.com]

there are way better songs on that fall out boy album. question for you uk types: is 'goddamn' bleeped out over there? this and the first panic! at the disco song had that 'feature' in their chorus and it just comes off as such an empty-rebellion gesture to me

also i can't believe that there is a band that named itself LITTLE MAN TATE

[alkennedy.livejournal.com]

I like FOB but the new single sounds like Maroon 5.