League Of Pop Week Seven NOMINATIONS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

HALFWAY THROUGH! This week it's the turn of braisedbywolves and lockedintheatti to receive your ripped offerings.

braisedbywolves says: "I'm Andrew, and I like pop. Specifically:

. Guitar music with 'smart' lyrics - Elvis Costello/Jags/Moutain Goats/Weakerthans, punk rather than post punk thanks.
. Gangster Hip Hop where I can convince myself that they don't really mean it (DMX/Eve/Jay-Z)
. 80s/90s UK indie. Even the terrible stuff. Especially the nakedly opimistic half - baked lyrically overclever stylings of Carter USM. But basically the Rough Trade Indie Pop complication is a good start.
. Female pop groups - En Vogue/Des's Tiny Child/Girls Aloud and to an extent the more credible roots they grew from. (obviously credible will always lose to incredible)
. The last Bob Dylan album, for no obvious reason.

lockedintheatti says: "I'm lockedintheattic, and I'm a 32 year-old South Londoner working in Clapham. After several years of intensive downloading I've finally recovered from the trauma of having my entire CD collection (500+ CDs) stolen in 2001 by a burglar in the days before I had my collection backed up on my computer. In fact I'm almost glad as my tastes have broadened enormously since I was forced to start from scratch.

Anyway, 5 things I like:

1) Uptempo music more than downtempo, vocal rather than instrumental.
2) Strings. Liberally used, in pretty much any genre of music.
3) Key changes in random places. Songs that have a change in time signature (or unusual time signatures). Songs with choruses on the wrong place. Or no chorus at all - basically anything that fucks around with the standard song structure.
4) Uplifting 90s trance music (this is my main exception to the 'no instrumentals' point from (1) above)
5) Foreign stuff (as you've probably noticed by my submissions so far).

Ultimately I like a little bit of everything as long as it sounds like it's got some kind of passion behind it, and I'm quite happy to be surprised."

OK, only four days to get submissions in this week, thanks to that whole Jesus thing at the weekend. Nominations below, tracks or links to same to leagueofpop@gmail.com, MP3 format if possible, you know the drill by now and are all getting quite good at following it!

Edit: O NOES I made the nominations poll viewable to all. Just send the tracks and say what they are in the email, OK :)

Comments

[koganbot]

Isn't it easier to steal a computer than to steal 500 CDs?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Everything is backed up now. I have learnt my lesson.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Now I know next time I rob you to steal both.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Because I want backups of the stolen CD's in case anybody re-steals them from me, natch.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I have set up Home Alone style traps, rather than back-up my CD's on a computer.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I own the David Sneddon album, so no-one will want to steal my CD collection. Phew!

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Actually, I lied. They nicked anything remotely 'credible' and just left all the 'cheesiest' records I owned. I was left with about 30 stock aitken and waterman CDs, a couple of erasure and a few ministry of sound dance compilations. So I doubt the Sneddon will save you.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Oh poo! But how strange that they bothered to go through and pick out what CDs to steal instead of making a quick getaway with all of them/

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

At least we know it wasn't a poptimist who did it - they would've taken the SAW, wouldn't they?

tough week

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

This was the hardest one yet - neither lockedintheatti's past submissions nor their "five things" seemed much help to me.

Interesting to note (esp. in comparison with braisedbywolves, that the five things were fairly minimally "genre" related (which we might think is a good thing) and mostly dealt with the actual workings of the songs.