A Year In Pop: 9

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The SAP of POP is RISING with a staggering 12 new entries this week. Do I know anything about any of them? DO I BUGGERY. Apart from Ugly Rumours, with Tariq Ali on bass and Keith Flett on marimba and vibes.

[Poll #941771]

Fill me in Poptimists (and fill the rest of us in) - tell me where I'm missing out!

Comments

Re: A new winner!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

NOT HEARD ANY OF THEM is usually a strong contender every week, I've long wanted to ask how much effort Poptimists make in tracking down new music! Not that I can speak having heard a grand total of one this week, and with little to no desire to hear the rest.

Re: A new winner!

[koganbot]

I'd be curious what you think of the Cushh. It doesn't work for me, but I'm not sure why (doesn't help that the versions on their MySpace sound like mud). Seems like Cushh are trying to be will.i.am and Fergie, which is laudable. Also, you might well like the Camille/Fedde more than I do (actually, I think what I've heard is Camille without Fedde, and it's too spare, though since I often love spareness I haven't completely figured out what my problem is, except that to be successfully spare you have to play the most effective notes, or else you'll be boring; they do add effective squiggles and scrapes around the edges, but not enough to make it exciting).

Re: Cushh

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The only YouTube upload of Cushh is awful quality too. The song sounded promising, but it won't get a tick from me unless I can hear it properly.

Re: A new winner!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I prefer MP3s to YouTubing stuff, so I usually try and track down a torrent of the week's top 40 and d/l the new ones. But recently the torrents have dried up a bit, and I've been busy (or lazy) about making the MySpace/YouTube effort.

Re: A new winner!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't use to like hearing new songs first on YouTube but with a great deal of new entries that's all they're good for. Not that I'd even bother with that for eg the Horrors.

I wonder if there will be a song I hear for the first time after it's got in the chart and think is really amazing.

Re: A new winner!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Because I don't listen to the radio (and haven't been watching video channels much lately), most of the time the first time I've even heard of almost every songs is when the poll goes up. And I have no sound at work, otherwise I'd youtube them.

On average, I'd guess I check out at least half of the songs in the following week, however.

Re: A new winner!

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't have to make this much effort to hear new music, it should just reach you. Then again I'm pretty sure no one plays The Horrors on the radio.

Re: A new winner!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't listen to the radio or even have a TV! I dunno, I guess I just notice when popstars I have an interest in have stuff out - not hard given the promo efforts of most mainstream popstars. And then when I hear that P Diddy or Nelly F or whoever has something out I track it down.