A Year In Pop: 21

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This week's hitses! It is getting rly difficult to remember which I have or haven't done. Is this REALLY the first appearance for that Twang record? Everyhit seems to agree with me about this week's though.

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Last week's was a record-breaker for ticks, I hope some of the tickers will stick around.

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Better band names than The Pigeon Detectives

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The Pigeon Detectors, The Pidgin Detectives, The Pudgy Defectors, The Dodgy Perspectives, The Pigeon Directive, The Pig Detectives.

Those are the ones I thought up for Stylus anyway, but I think that naming even more better band names would be more fun than listening to almost any of these except "I'm a Flirt."

I don't hear disengaged in R. Kelly so much as someone so deeply self-obsessed -- and validated for this tendency -- that he's created a universe unto himself, where anything he can even think of can be sung to "great effect"...that is to say, the effect is great precisely because he's singing it (according to him). (So, Frank, part of what I actually like about R. Kelly is that he sounds like he doesn't NEED you to listen to him.)

Dug Julianne Shepherd's recent column on him (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/43195-column-interrobang-26)...his new album is great, too, tho "Flirt" isn't the best track by far. Try "Leave a Message," "Best Friend," and "Real Talk" (possibly a response track to Rihanna's "Breakin' Dishes." ) I might like his duet with Usher better than "Flirt," too.

Re: Better band names than The Pigeon Detectives

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Woop, "Leave Your Name," rather.