SHINE 7 AKA: I met this girl, she was a poll princess

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah canon, yeah yeah "what's in the charts these days", SNORE SNORE more like. As it's sunny today, I was reminded about the glorious SHINE POLLS that I stopped doing at some point last year - goodness knows WHY! I'm pleasantly surprised by how many of these songs are of course, BLUDDY GRATE, and I hope you are too! Fighting Fit! Beautiful Ones! And Lost Myself by perennial Shine Poll favourites The Longpigs could mean this is a tuff battle! I tried to wear slides like Manda Rin, but my hair is too tough and big for it to work properly, though it did mean that Claire's Accessories (Blackpool branch) made a lot of money out of my valiant attempt to buy cutesy hairclips. On with the voting!!

[Poll #942460]

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Ah - my lj-cut did not work! Oh well! All the better to see the voting with, my precioussssses!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh man, so many ticks from ME! Yippeee. Who on earth were Aloof? Also for some reason I have had Frog Princess stuck in my head for two days so obviously I had to vote for it. I sense tonight I might t0rr3nt some L0ngp1gz.

Fans of the Shine Polls may wish to note that the Pillars of Hercules was EXTREMELY Sheeeeyine friendly last Sunday afternoon.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

So err looking at myself and Kat's answer to the last question I conclude that she is the (p)optimist and I am the pessimist :(

[pot80.livejournal.com]

I won't lie to you, I really like that Soundgarden song a lot!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I think this could actually be the Shine Poll where it's not a super easy run for Pulp!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I don't remember it! but on the basis of remembering other RLY terrible songs of theirs I picked them, quite unfairly! The real worst I spect is Catatonia, I hav always loathed Ceryseses voice but I can't remember this song by them either.

SHAME SE7EN MORE LIKE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I loved Skunk Anansie so much! Except the ballads.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Poor Ktee! Cheer up! Think of Sci-Fi Steve's little face!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Eff me they all look TERRIBLE these days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bis_(band))!

[pot80.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of sympathy for all the major grunge bands, I listened to all of that stuff as a teenager. Soundgarden have their flaws, but they produced a whole bunch of songs that I like. "Burden In My Hand" isn't one of their heavy ones, though I wouldn't call it a ballad either. It's kinda mid-tempo, and it has a nice melody even though Chris Cornell is screeching and over-emoting to the point of absurdity.

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the release of their debut album The New Transistor Heroes, Bis are re-forming for 3 shows in Glasgow, Manchester, and London in April 2007. A Greatest Hits compilation entitled We are Bis from Glasgow, Scotland will be released on CD to coincide with these shows.

Re: !

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Jaysis the EDGE-O!

Hahah Manda Rin looks EXACTLY like my ex cow-orker K1m...

REPRESSED EARLY MEMORIES!!!one111!! GLEE!!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Nearly all of this is AMAZING. The rest of it I can't remember so is probably also AMAZING but did not lodge in tiny primary school mind under weight of SATS exams.

Actually, on that note, what year was this out? I can't have been more than about twelve at the very most because I got that Shed Seven song on, like, NOW32 or something in year six. Whatever year it was was possibly my formative one for muzak.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Aloof were some sort of "intelligent" dance band.

i blame the shineiness of the HoP for my STATE on monday...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's the one that goes:

YOIV GOT A LOT TO ANSA FOOOOR, BABY I LUF UUUUU (wow it's hard to transcribe a welsh accent), ask barnet_ape to show you...

Re: REPRESSED EARLY MEMORIES!!!one111!! GLEE!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

as a representative of 1997 (there's a couple of out of time blur/wasis songs on here to confuse you) i can only apologise (mind i love most of it too).

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

HA I blame your indie of the BAD sort of your state on Monday!! But we do not talk about THAT indie when it's Shine Poll territory :)

I don't even recognise the name Aloof! I shall rsch!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

actually the timing of this comp must have been APPALLING, there's like two "first singles off alBUMs" at most, all the rest are third or fourth singles...

also WHERE IS LEMONGHEADS LUF PLS???

(i haf given up hope of boo radleys luf...)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes but if there had not been shininess i probably would haf gone home and had PROPER TEA and three pints less...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

sorry, wrong icon, there.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

They saw us coming.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

yeah that's a good idea :)

AAAAAAAAAAIEEEEE

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh but the Lemonheads don't really COUNT on Shine compos do they!

Disco 2000 now level with Blurs but WAY more people are saying Girls and Boys is the best song!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It is their best song!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah despite my ENTIRELY ACCURATE statement that this is the low point of the entire century of human culture, I still would have ticked half a dozen more if the penny-pinching compilers had shelled out for the good singles.