A Year In Pop: Week 11

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A NEW ENTRY at #1!!!! Well, OK, the new rules haven't really been in place long enough for us to get excited about that again, but it's the Comic Relief single straight in. Also: a chance to decide between original re-issue and comedy version of "500 Miles", and an astonishing tide of haircut indie.

[Poll #950304]

* left off last week's poll - in the case of Madness this single has now left the building/chart.

Comments

Re: Reasons For Tickys

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is the first Rakes track I've heard, and I really took agin the guy's voice - it somehow managed to be knowingly drab. The video irritated me too, and to be fair it probably suffered from being the fourth of four fairly generic new indie tracks I was listening to.

"Walk This Way" never stood a chance of a tick - could've been good; wasn't.

Re: Reasons For Tickys

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The guy from the Rakes sounds like he's trying to sound like the bloke from Maximo Park on this record, which is odd as he sounded quite different on the last album.

And the other reason to like the Twang is they have a 'Bez' - he doesn't play anything, just appears to dance around a bit and supply some 'oh-ohs' in the chorus.