poptimists | Pop Premiership: WEEK 1 RESULTS

Here are

xyzzzz_'s comments on the tracks he got, with rankings and win/lose info added by me.

After my meetings this afternoon, I will come back and edit for track names, titles and contributors - look for them around 5. Over to Julio:

"Thanks everyone - for additional fun, these scribbles come in with some added guessing of who might've sent the particular tracks.

KNOW BEST - None. ALSO KNOW - None.

01.mp3 Twilight Singers - "Live With Me" - All this pleading..."Come live with me?" sounds very hollow when the strings happen to be nastier than the booze. 10th Place - LOSE: Tactical nightmare for

zenith

02.mp3 Patti Smith - "Because The Night" - Bonnie Tyler? w/ Elton John filling in on piano duty? Just so you know if my LPs were stolen I'd start again w/"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". 6th Place - DRAW: smooth performance by

strange_powers to avoid defeat.

03.mp3 Blind Guardian - "Turn The Page" - (Dubdobdee or jel?) "Come turn the wheel/there is nothing to feel/come turn the wheel/come turn the page" gets a ticky. No slow burner, this, very ON from beginning to end, with crunching riffs and pounding-rolling drumming. It sounds like the prog-metal that I haven't (unfortunately) gotten round to. 3rd Place - WIN: Attack! attack! attack! cries

jel_bugle

04.mp3 Ceephax - "Rolls Royce" - Drill n' bassy? (I do, just about, remember that one Aphex Twin album that isn't "Selected Ambient Works vol.II") Bob Hoskins isn't having a great time, by the sounds of it. I should be laughing harder at this than I am. 11th Place - LOSE:

katstevens on the wrong end of a hiding.

05.mp3 Miss Nicky Trax - "Acid In The House" - (Kat Stevens?) I'm so bad with words - I put in 'education..' after the 'don't need no..' on first few listens. Actually, wouldn't it be a GREAT idea to make a boshing cover of Pink Floyd's 1979 hit 'Another Brick in the wall' which has that same line? Better than its ranking. 7th Place - LOSE: battling performance but a cruel defeat for

hauntedballroom

06.mp3 Barobax - "Ali-Gholi" - So given how bad I can be w/lyrics its no surprise that I have a taste for the non-sensical. This is a bit like (sound poet) Isidore Isou crossed with an African Farmer reciting a 'cow-milking' song (I have this on an LP somewhere) plastered onto a boshing background. The funniest track in the whole collection. 2nd Place - WIN:

dubdobdee plays with a smile on his face.

07.mp3 Margaret Berger - "Elephant" - Could've been the grower. Purring engine electrics w/casio keyboards I find kind of uneasy with those tri-hoppy (?) vocals, especially at nearly 6 mins - the trumpet carries it nicely toward the end, but I don't know how much I can do with some of these lyrics/delivery. Maybe as weedy as those on track 3, except metallers know how to manage a ";-)" somewhere (?) 5th Place - WIN:

inhibitorylinks leaves it late to snatch victory.

08.mp3 Natasha ft Clipse - "So Sick" - (The Lex? Should this be a guess?) Its Natasha 'So sick'. Identified this cuz there is talk of it on ILM's Rolling R&B thread - meant to click on her myspace but didn't until after hearing it in here, therefore I can't say that I knew it...quite like it but its 2 mins longer than it oughta to be, and handclapping is usually a winner but it seems kinda over-used. So I'm gonna put this behind shoegazing in the ranking, but I'm only doing it as I reckon everyone involved can do better. 9th Place - LOSE: complacency costs

alexmacpherson's classy side dear.

09.mp3 Sonicflyer - "Sun In My Pocket" (Ben Graham? maybe jel?) "Every morning I wake up" - those riffs are very CONTENT (I'm quite happy to let them be by giving this a ticky), even if the words might be telling a different story. 4th Place - WIN: a good day at the office for player-manager

fugitivemotel

10.mp3 Oi Va Voi - "Ladino Song" - Lhasa or quite similar? Don't know this track, love the voice/arrangement, and there can never be enough multi-lingual singer songwriters. There could've been 3-4 winners. I threw dice. Chance procedures, etc. :-) 1st Place - WIN:

bengraham's cosmopolitan outfit romp home.

11.mp3 Xinlisupreme - "All You Need Is Love Is Not True" Its the year 2000. Spring-time. Mid-morning on the Docklands Light Railway. The singer (you all know who) of goth-folkeys Current 93 has just sat opposite me. Can't help but to look every now and again. He seems 'disturbed' by this and quickly moves somewhere. I'm disturbed that he is disturbed by this, so I get off at Greenwich, turn the corner to the record and tape exchange and go on to score a flying saucer attack compilation. Again, this is better than the ranking I've given it. 8th Place - LOSE: did

braisedbywolves get his tactics wrong?