A Year In Pop: 5

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

First of two polls today (the second being a January round-up). The more familiar pop names are starting to wake from their start-of-year slumbers, albeit nearly all with later singles from recent albums. Have a sift through this lot!

[Poll #922486]

Comments

Re: in order

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The thing is when I listen to 'In A Gadda Davida' now I can hear the amazing riff, but if I'd heard it first...well, I'd have heard it, and then I'd have heard it dragged into this sludge of dreariness and topped with some really off-putting vocals.

People somehow manage to tease me for both a) being more indie than I say I am, and b) having an unfair kneejerk reaction to guitars - but they can't have it both ways! I have always liked rock done well: Hole, PJ Harvey, Ashlee Simpson. But I don't like it when other music forms make concessions to rock and in so doing lessen themselves, which is why I'm all "ugh guitars" when I hear them in dance or hip-hop. And above all else I don't like rock BOYS, I don't like their voices and I don't like their attitudes towards music and I don't like the way they iron out everything feminine from their music (and I hate it even more when they try to be feminine). The last boys-with-guitars album I liked was the first Interpol one!

Re: in order

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I always get 'In Da Gutter Davina' confused with 'Sunshine Of Your Love'. You'd like the Ella Fitzgerald version of that probably.

Re: in order

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i LOVE the Ella version of that! do you have an mp3 of it? i only have it on CASSETTE...

Re: in order

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i don't think i have it. i have a remix of it on MINIDISC tho.

have you moved yet? i want to dump these fab records on you.