Jop Tournament: Quarter Finals

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Shave your head and get ahead! Britney pulled level with the Pets on the final vote leaving NINE tracks still in the running for today's poll (with bonus diagnostic questions!)


[Poll #930437]


Have at it! The semi-finals will be on Wednesday most likely.

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

(for certain values of 'own')

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I actually have paid proper legal money for all 9 I think.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I took the "paid money" approach, too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

LEGAL MONEY: Into The Groove, West End Girls, Get Ur Freak On
PROMO: Toxic
STOLEN FROM LIBRARY: Don't You Want Me
ON OLD-SKOOL HIP-HOP COMPILATION I THINK I STOLE FROM MY SISTER: Push It
DOWNLOADED: Billie Jean, Buffalo Stance

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

haha I dunno how many of these I own. I feel as if I own them all though, even if it's only on obscure cassette compilations that I haven't played in eons

But def own Madonna, "Don't Stop Til...", Neneh (all on vinyl), plus Missy on CD. "Toxic" I copied & burned from a library CD of Britney's Greatest Hits.

Schoolboy Error!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

dubdobdee, that's "Work It" you're thinking of!

Re: Schoolboy Error!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

trudat = robincarmody is currently makin free w.my schoolboy years and i reverted :\

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i had to change my vote a couple times. into the groove is in the end better than don't you want me, but that (DYWM) has the best BELT IT OUT words. WEG has the best lyrics in the abstract.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They all have pretty good words! I think only Toxic and DSTYGE can be ruled out on that count. I chose Into The Groove on the basis that its lyrics = my life philosophy. Don't You Want Me and Billie Jean are the best narratives, West End Girls the most evocative, Get Ur Freak On the most linguistically inventive and nonsensical.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

stevem wins the worst cover q

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Do we get a prize for the official worst cover idea?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oof I can see why you're interested.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This was prompted by the fact I have actually witnessed the Eels covering Get Yr Freak On. It was horrendous.

It was either that or the Flaming Lips doing Toxic, which I am 100% certain already exists.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

You witnessed this...meaning you were at an Eels gig??!!!!!

YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING YOU GET.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I was walking past the stage at a festival and they were on it murdering Get Yr Freak On.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am finding this very difficult indeed! I don't know whether to go with my heart or my head (e.g. I *know* that I have enjoyed Get Yr Freak On more than Jacko but which do I prefer *today*?) and I might have to abstain on some of them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I actually am finding it easier and easier: the quality is so superlative now, only one song I'm meh on left, but I am very certain about which songs are x-x-x-x-x-x-xtra special to me, and luckily none came up against each other in this round. Really, I didn't hesitate about any of these.

Good q's today

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

btw! Not sure why I felt more engaged on them today, but there you have it.

Re: Good q's today

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Well, we haven't had them previously on this, have we?

Respectability

[koganbot]

Reason I chose Guillemots doing "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" as worst possible cover version is that I could not only imagine them hitting with it but also a significant number of you lot ticking it in a "Which one of these are any good at all?" poll.

For those of you who voted "West End Girls"...

[koganbot]

...If WEG hadn't been in the running, would you vote have voted "Toxic" or "Push It"?

Also, those of you (e.g., me) who voted WEG in the last round, whom did you vote for in this one? (I voted "Push It.")

Re: For those of you who voted "West End Girls"...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I also voted WEG last time, Push It this.

It looks as if Push It has taken votes off WEG but not off Toxic, which means the comments last week about there being a generational aspect to the fites are accurate.

(Or it could be the hottness of Baldney working its magic.)

Re: For those of you who voted "West End Girls"...

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'd have gone for Toxic ahead of Push It (voted WEG both times).

Odd fact

[koganbot]

As of right now, if you eliminate the first ten voters, "Billie Jean" and "Buffalo Stance" are in a tie!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Shave your head and get ahead! Britney pulled level with the Pets on the final vote leaving NINE tracks still in the running for today's poll (with bonus diagnostic questions!)

Turns out there's no such thing as bad publicity.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Push It' is the only song not to be mentioned in the "which is worst" box.

And it's not winning its poll!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Similarly:

"Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" is the only song to not get a vote for best lyrics. The votes for "Toxic" and "Into the Groove" I do not understand AT ALL.

Every song has been voted for best to dance to and worst cover, though why "West End Girls" for best to dance to I again do not understand at all.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I should say, the votes for "Toxic" and "Push It" I do not understand at all. I definitely understand the votes for "Into the Groove". My bad.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i was ABOUT TO SAY!

i don't understand people who don't like to dance.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Toxic has GREAT lyrics. Endless variations on a single idea (love is the drug), true, but that's exactly what I like about them.

The meter of the words also naturally fit the beat as well. (Contrast with the clumsiness of e.g. "either with or with A-choo" in "Don't You Want Me".)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The clumsiness in DYME works because the song is a guy cack-handedly trying to feel his way around why someone's breaking up from him. So it fits the mood, which is more important than fitting the beat sometimes. I don't think it's intentional, mind you: Phil Oakey and scansion were never particularly great mates.

I don't think Toxic has bad lyrics either.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I don't think it has bad lyrics, mind you, I just don't see why you would pick them over "Into the Groove" or "Billie Jean" or "Don't You Want Me".

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Why I am surprised that "Don't You Want Me" and "Into the Groove" are level-pegging?

Switching Analysis On Britney and PSB

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Of the 30 Britney voters last round...

13 stuck with Britney
5 switched to Salt N Pepa
2 switched to the Pet Shop Boys
10 have yet to vote.

Of the 30 PSB voters...

7 stuck with the PSB
11 switched to Salt N Pepa
1 switched to Britney
11 have yet to vote

Of the 4 voters in this poll who didn't vote last round, all went for Britney.

so much for the hot pop sound of 2007

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

three artists have received more than one nomination in the Horrible Cover Version category: James Rhyming Slang (obv), Morrissey (OBV)...and Mika! Heh. In yr FACE you smug bastard.