A Year In Pop: 18

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A new month, a new poll! Get that tick rate going again!

[Poll #982157]

All previous polls are still open, etc etc. if you've "got into" any of the year's pop platters since their initial blushing entrance to the charts.

Comments

[koganbot]

Beats the JoJo, even. Beats a lot of what's on White Light White Heat and Crown Of Creation and Live Through This, for that matter (if that tells you how I tend to hear that song)(will explain to Lex what this entails once he tells me he loves it).

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued. Will look forward to you spilling the beans.

I listened to Rumours on the bus into work after my last post, and it sounded really really excellent -- don't think I've ever paid attention to it, just listened out for the ones I already know. Apart from the bits where the mp3s are shonky and sound like a VVM remix.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(note valuable FK mode of listening -- compare and contrast for likeness outside expected zones of comparision -- is rendered critical outsider-speak by the pernicious dominance of the concept of INFLUENCE)

[koganbot]

"Expected zones of comparison" is indeed an influence - a negative influence, but negative influences are indeed within the meaning of the word "influence" (pernicious dominance of the (mediocre rock critics') concept of INFLUENCE is itself an influence on my use of a much better concept of influence; is also an influence on Mark's dislike of the word "influence").

(Seriously, I think "influence" is in a similar position to the word "irony": the word when used well is quite essential, but now is weighed-down by all sorts of lazy moronic uses that the word has been put to.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

hee! i wz sorta partly just yankin yr chain to ask if you'd got my l*c b**k email

[koganbot]

Deliberately haven't read my emails yet as I am supposedly going to do my League Of Pop writeup first, if I can tear my eyes from this thread.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh ok!