JUDGE POP is back

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another week, another case for JUDGE POP. This time he's investigating an outbreak of TWEE on the streets of MEGA CITY POP. The good Judge has his suspects - Belle And Sebastian, ten-year indie pop veterans who regularly turn up high on the Poptimists last.fm charts. Are they a credit to pop - or a menace?

[Poll #965057]

If Belle And Sebastian are cubed, they will join PATRICK WOLF, who was narrowly found guilty last time the good Judge's services were called upon.

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Absolutely - if anything they've gone more pop as time has gone on.

Jonathan David - one of the great lost pop hits of our time - channels the uber-pop spirit of The Kinks, and it's not even a Murdoch song! It's punchy pop underdog Stevie Jackson who turns the singles out, I reckon.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My problem with the non-Murdoch songs isn't the songwriting so much as the singing. On Jonathan David for instance there's that wretched quavering "you're still kiiiing" bit that always always throws me out of the song. Murdoch seems to have a much better idea of what his voice can and can't successfully achieve.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

He sounds like Ray Davies to me, and so the quavering is sublime. But I can understand the opposition.