A Year In Pop: January Round-Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Here's the top 10 for last month based on "any good at all" ism. I'm going to try a little poll experiment to see if thinking about ranking and worst provokes any more interesting debate or results. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Reissues excluded.

1. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
2. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
3. Kelis ft Cee-Lo - Lil Star
4. Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
5. Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene It's An Arms Race
6. Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
7. Mika - Grace Kelly
8. Guillemots - Annie Let's Not Wait
9. Jojo - Too Little Too Late
10. Klaxons - Golden Skans

[Poll #922510]

Was it a good month for pop music?

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

People seem to really be liking Fall Out Boy, who I am - in a totally unpoptimist way - resisting even listening to, because I find "wearing eyeliner" really just not that interesting as musical style. (I still remember Robert Smith.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A poor month in pop for me. But there's January for you.

[koganbot]

Was a good month for pop music, though not on the British charts. Don't we usually have a What Was Your Favorite New Thing During The Last Month poll? Mine would be Lloyd f. Lil Wayne "You," which had been kicking around for four months but only just soared up the hip-hop/r&b playlists in January. Astonishingly more scrumptious than the scrumptious Spandau Ballet song it lifts, and amidst all the sifts and folds and sighs of gorgeousness you have scrappy Lil Wayne floating like butterlies and stinging like bees. Could well make my next year's P&J, if I decide it's eligible. As for new stuff that's actually new (e.g., not "Too Little Too Late"), Linda Sundblad's "Lose You" is wonderful.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I ticked Just Jack in it's poll, but voted it worst this time. The difference is I had never listened/paid attention to the lyrics in the original poll.

Jojo the best by pretty far on this, even if it is a few months old in America. January always sucks for pop music.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

None of these songs are downright offensively bad or hateful imo but none of them are particularly great either. So a humdrum month for pop music it is.

[koganbot]

Also, how come people like Guillemots? Not to put anyone on the defensive - I've only heard three or four tracks - but they seem the essence of rock respectable dullness. Much worse than the reliably catchy (again, three or four songs) Kasabian, whom you lot seem to hate reflexivly.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

If we'd included this week's songs, Furtado would have been my favourite.

Disappointed that my top 3 = the general top 3. JoJo was pretty close to Kelis though.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I'm undewhelmed by all of this stuff, except JoJo -- perhaps people are confusing this with the other JoJo single, which is nondescript. Couldn't make it to three favourites, even, while lots competing for worst. But I'm puzzled that these came out on top in the polls, since I don't remember voting for any of these, but maybe my taste is just totally out of whack with poptimists at the moment. I've been working too much to check out much new music anyway, mind.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I think it isn't a bad time for pop at the moment - I listened to the radio fairly solidly over January and was glad that Just Jack and The View were popping up on Radio 2 just as regularly as bloody Paolo Nutini, and at least Mika is entertaining rubbish. I don't imagine I'll be looking back on any of these songs with fondness a year or two from now though.