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

[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!