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).

[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.

[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!)"

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

stop

[charltonlido.livejournal.com]

stop ticking things the whole time

Argh

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I lost on every vote :(