A Year In Pop: 7

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A somewhat slack week for new entries this. Perhaps we could talk about something else?

[Poll #931262]

Any ideas? Actually, here's something - was anyone reading this into Snow Patrol before they were enormous - and how do they feel about the band now they are The Biggest Band In Britain?

Also, don't forget to vote in the Jop Tournament quarter-finals.

Comments

[koganbot]

The Omarion song has been around forever, no? Is currently the most-played song on AOL. Agree that it is good and quite tickable but missing whatever it is that it's missing. "Alfie," fine, funny, codependent. The ones I didn't tick are:

The Feeling "Rose" - A pretty piano intro, a minor chord, then totally terrible sub-sub-McCartney light singing with overprecise pronunciation. A nice enough sentimental tune, and the background vocals almost save this, but not quite.

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Desecration Smile" - Love the chord pattern; the singing is irritatingly negligible. I might grow to like this somewhat if I heard it a lot. So I'm going to avoid hearing it a lot. (Fwiw, I enjoy "Give It Away.")

Snow Patrol "Open Your Eyes" - I hate the little swell he puts in his voice when he says "anger swells." I don't like this style of tight-crotched, low-voiced passion, but the arrangement and the melody could have had enough beauty to put this over, except it builds and builds too the point where the tension, rather than being transfixing, is nonexistent. And then the payoff, four minutes in, is a total bore. Will get worse the more I hear it, so [see resolution in regard to "Desecration Smile"].

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I am now wondering how a Red Hot Chili Canon would be received and whether or not anything that isn't Under The Bridge would get any ticks at all.

I hate them.

[koganbot]

If "Give It Away" is in the canon I'd tick it. Not that it's great or anything, but it's funny and catchy. I called it "White dopes on punk" when I reviewed it in Radio On back in '91.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I actually quite liked Mothers Milk when I was a 14 year old sk8er boi. Blood Sugar Sex Magic was a massive disappointment when it came out and everything they've done since has been ruddy awful.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

As a sentimentalist, I'd probably vote for Californication.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Emphasis on mentalist there.