Jop Tournament Round 1.4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another batch of polls - the last two Prince tracks (well, the last two Prince tracks performed by him) and several Now poll heavyweights getting another title shot.


[Poll #918473]


Coming tomorrow - FOUR 00s seeds up against Salt N Pepa, Xtina, the KLF and Cameo.

Comments

BEFORE THE LEX REPLIES

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I voted for Nirvana. SO THERE! :p

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I had to abstain from the last one - another of those ones where I'd gladly just have those two go forwards out of all eight (even Buffalo Stance).

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

In the end I felt a little joy when I checked back and SLTS had popped 1 ahead of EnVogue which I don't think I'd have felt the other way, so I made it 2 ahead.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Seedings:

Soft Cell is the #3 seed. Neneh is 19, Specials 11, En Vogue a somewhat vulnerable 27.

I have left two polls undone for the first time - can't decide yet, maybe not until I listen to the tracks. "Tainted Love" and "Kiss" are both totally iconic cold minimal classics, a great pairing really. Meanwhile "Ghost Town" is monumental but "Little Red Corvette" is Prince at his most gorgeously POP. I just don't know!

Elsewhere - love how the Spice Girls keep coming up against earlier or later girl-sass. Neneh gets this, just. The En Vogue track isn't a great favourite but nor is the Nirvana - Kurt will win this, I went for EV to keep the scores a little balanced.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Wow, looks like I might have underestimated the depth of En Vogue love.

I went for "Tainted Love" and "Corvette" - can't stand leaving questions unticked.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

En Vogue's best single by far - I remember picking it as my favourite on whatever Now! it's featured on.

I do not hate Nirvana.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha yet MORE Prince, and again I tick them both! ('Ghost Town' - botherd. 'Tainted Love' - really sick of this, if any song has been overplayed in my lifetime it is this. And it made Rihanna WORSE.)

'Buffalo Stance' beats 'Wannabe' through no failing of the latter but because the former is pretty much unimpeachable.

If I was to make a personal mix CD of my LIFE, 'My Lovin' would be a shoe-in for it. It's the best song here by miles, even more than Neneh. I will never comprehend how anyone could possibly prefer the other. It has the best harmonies maybe of ALL TIME! "Nevergonnagetit-nevergonnagetit; nevergonnagetit-nevergonnagetit; nevergonnagetit-nevergonnagetit; nevergonnagetit - nevergetit! (WO-WO-WO-WOAH!)"

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

buffalo v wannabe made my HEART STOP BEATING. i don't think i have ever voted against wannabe in anything. it came to this.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I think the harmonies on the 'Hold On' intro are probably better but I prefer this EV single to that all the same.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

shoo-in, surely?

Baby, baby...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I wanted to tick 'Kiss' despite it probably just missing out on my top 10 Prince tracks because it seems so geeeeenius...

but then I thought of the extended mix of 'Tainted Love' with the 'Where Did Our Love Go' bit and it was game over.

Re: Baby, baby...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I ticked "Kiss" cos Age Of Chance haven't covered "Tainted Love" AFAIK

*dubdobdee's head explodes*

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have never even heard the En Vogue track in question (I don't think I've heard anything other than the one on that Girl Power compilation by the Spice Girls wot was my capitulation to them cus it was quite good as tapes to take on school trips go and 'Don't Let Go') but I just ****ING HATE NIRVANA THAT MUCH.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

NB: I do think En Vogue are good, it's just generally I go for the track I know in this kind of thing etc.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

The En Vogue track is brilliant. You'd recognise it instantly if you heard it on the radio.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Cor, I agonised over THREE of these fites*. Specials was the only no-brainer pick here.

*I can see later rounds becoming torture.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Why DO people like that Specials song? I remember it won some massive ILX poll, and I'd never heard it, so someone sent it to me...and it's this weak, nothingy, faintly embarrassing white-boy skank which is OK I guess, definitely any good at all, but just...meh, completely meh.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Lex, you do not like ska, remember?

Everyone's favorite music journalist explains why

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Ska for the madding crowd (http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,,663359,00.html)

As a teenager, I read something similar explaining the song, and so for me it's probably always been an reflexive expression of Anglophilia. But you're right, the song itself really is just kind of meh (although I do like the solos).

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

For the first time that I can remember in my Poptimists' career, my favourites in the fites were the "most pop" track in each instance (in my opinion)... Prince x2, Spice Girls and En Vogue. Sadly, three of them seem to be losing to "more indie" alternatives. Boo to NINDIE.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

LOL at Neneh Cherry at indie. How times have changed

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Gosh you gave me a shock - En Vogue are still HOLDING ON! Go, go, go funky divas.

Quite shocked about Prince actually - certainly didn't imagine defeats so comprehensive. Maybe because there's been SO MUCH Prince so far, people have reached saturation point of Prince-ticks?

stop

[charltonlido.livejournal.com]

stop ticking things the whole time

Re: stop

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

NO! My late night tick has given Nirvana a two-vote lead.

And yes, I will be able to look at myself in the mirror when i wake up tomorrow morning.

Argh

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I lost on every vote :(