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After last week's total damp squib (lowest polling numbers ever, too) - this is more like it. Too much more like it you might say with 12!!! new entries as the charts have a big old spring clean. At least 3 tracks here which have had their own poptimists thread! GET TICKING!

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koganbot

The Linkin Park track is vastly vastly vastly vastly superior to the My Chemical Romance. Vastly. Actually haunting in its fake-goth-eeriness-stuffed-into-a-bag-of-emo way. Lots and lots of tunefulness. Not that I don't have serious issues with the coagulated whine of the singing, and if it ruins the song for you, I understand.

What was supposed to be so great about My Chemical Romance? (Their last single was a lot better, mind you, and would have been ticked. This one I've already deleted from my computer.)

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freakytigger.livejournal.com

I agree it's better than the MCR track but it's a lot worse than the Linkin Park stuff I really like - "Numb" and especially "Faint", with its terrific "Toxic"-style string sample.

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freakytigger.livejournal.com

As for MCR, the reason I liked "Black Parade" was its Queen-i-ness (a gothy update of Queen, not a homage a la Mika). Not heard that quality in the other stuff from them sadly.

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chezghost.livejournal.com

the MCR must be bad then because this is the worst Linkin Park single yet! none of the impact of even 'Somewhere I Belong'. at least it's not so whiney tho.

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jeff-worrell.livejournal.com

I could only take 60 seconds of this MCR song. They should release "Teenagers" as a single, I love that.

No ticky for Linkin Park either.

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piratemoggy.livejournal.com

MCR were AMAZING until I realised it was not all mad pantomime rock music and that they really meant it, which suddenly stopped it meaning anything to me. Which is a shame because I caned their first two albums for about eighteen months pre-university.

I ticked the Linkin Park but that may have been in relief that it wasn't the absolute rubbish of 'Qwerty' more than anything else, since technically can't remember how it goes. They get points for being Linkin Park and therefore allowed to sound like ridiculous idiots, anyway.