A Year In Pop: 15

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

[Poll #968699]

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Comments

[koganbot]

Only tick was Fall Out Boy, which has a reasonably good tune.

Muse guy's voice is somewhere between mewling and self-important, isn't as bad as that description makes it sound, but the song is blah and being revved up with good blips and aggressive bass doesn't save it, esp. when bad quasi-prog wanking comes in and then they're all thrown together in a mess.

NIN is unexpectedly plodding. Had an idea from hearing 'em in the old days that they could organize their noise into rhythm: fuzzed and filtered horror and pushiness. But this is fuzzed and filtered dullness, and the chorus sounds horror-house in its inability to convince.

Elliot Minor, pretty good generic emo knockoff by a band that deosn't sound angsty enough to be emo - all this could be good but the song's not quite good enough (but better than most of what you guys have been ticking). Fast prog-metal guitar solo is likable for its inappropriateness.

Akon, one of my rare nonticks for him; goes to his immediate facile beauty but then just sits there with it.

Klaxons, haven't heard the vaunted remix but unless that's what the radio's playing and people are downloading, it doesn't count. Jury's definitely out on these guys: a while back they did a great job of making that Oakenfold/Grace song into a tense glammish rock song; but dull sore-throated singing on this, somewhat compelling sore-throated guitar playing, the latter not enough to make this a tick.

Bloc Party, surprisingly gentle, like old-style strumming Amerindie from the mid '80s. Boring, though. (Though?)