A Year In Pop: 15

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness, aren't there a lot of miserable boys in the chart this week?

[Poll #968699]

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Busy day on Poptimists today - we have Pop Premiership results up later on.

Comments

Good lord that's a ropey lot

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Akon: lovely summery bounce, sweet lyrics, he convinces me. This isn't a song I would seek out particularly at any point but the kind of song which makes me smile inside whenever I hear it by chance, and then after enough of those chances I realise how much I love it

Nine Inch Nails: grinds, interminably and pointlessly

Klaxons: there is a really good remix of this. My official verdict on the original ("ROPEY OLD SHIT") stands

Muse: oh my god a Muse ballad. The video immediately below this on youtube has the description "Listen as Muse vocalist Matthew Bellamy gets magically transformed into Gwen Stefani with a litte help from a pitch shifter" - I THINK NOT

Elliot Minor: never heard of these people before, hope never to again

Bloc Party: hang on I'm sure the opening shot is of a train pulling out of a DLR station, I'm sure I recognise it, but the train itself is not only blatantly not a DLR carriage but not any form of tube carriage that I recognise! This mild transport geekery is a lot more fascinating than the song, which is the first where his voice doesn't cause my ears PAIN but which is also really dull

Gareth Gates: we can tell you don't believe in change, and also, I thought you'd been dropped? I don't believe in giving people second chances

Fall Out Boy: oh do fuck off

Re: Good lord that's a ropey lot

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

On a more positive note if it stays sunny for much longer I'm going to have to go back and tick 'The Sweet Escape'.

Hurray!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Weee-oo!

I still love it.

Re: Good lord that's a ropey lot

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Fall Out Boy surprisingly good, I thought (that's two highly tickable singles in a row - I may have to give the album a go).

Klaxongs get a tick mainly for the Cut Copy remix, despite my instinctive annoyance at the title (lazy cred-by-association attempt AND what's more it's the book that destroyed my capacity to enjoy any novel ever again). If Judge Pop ever gets around to bringing the Klaxongs before a jury of their peers, I may vote to acquit. Not a fan, but they're not the worst new band around by a long shot.

Re: Good lord that's a ropey lot

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Judge Pop is a busy man but rest assured the Klaxons are on the Mega City Pop Most Wanted List.

Re: Good lord that's a ropey lot

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

Do. The FOB album is really very good. So's their previous one. In fact, so's the first one; I think Cork Tree/Infinity are tied for them. I'm far too keen on them to be rational, but they're a great band alltold, and on Infinity they strike a nice balance between "being a punk band" and "being a pop band". MMRS is, at its heart, a big pop song.