The League Of Pop: THE FINAL

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another experimental format, but of course. Check back every half hour as I count up to the WINNAH. 19 voters in total - about as much as for the Pop World Cup later rounds. I am hoping for higher totals in the Pop Open! But my workload caught up with my marketing (and reviewing!) skills so this was more of an epilogue than a climax to the League.

In fourth place...: TRACK 4: M2M - "Our Song", chosen by koganbot: 2 1st place votes, 4 2nd place votes. In his email when he submitted the song Frank mentioned that he'd sent it to a lot of people before, and indeed this was the only one I even theoretically knew.

In third place...: Track 1: DESTRA - "Independent Ladies", chosen by alexmacpherson: 4 1st place votes, 5 2nd place votes. A bold choice from the Lex, I thought, though this isn't as frenetic as most Soca. I was pleased to see it do well - led the field when I counted the first ten voters.

In second place...: Track 3: COOKIE CREW - "Born This Way", chosen by jeff_worrell: 6 1st place votes, 3 2nd place votes. My personal favourite of the four, keeps its infectious momentum going to the end.

In first place...: Track 2: HERBERT - "Moving Like A Train", chosen by inhibitorylinks: 6 1st place votes, 5 2nd place votes. The best individual performer in the League of Pop and so a worthy winner here, this was the most interesting and more-ish of the tracks for me, but ran out of steam (boom boom) towards the fifth minute. Even so would have got a 2nd place from me.

Well done Scott and thanks to the other three finalists.

Tomorrow you'll get five sexxxxxy traxx (ahem), anonymised and ready to vote on. If I can sort out some streaming media nonsense I will but I'll put them up as a zip too. GIRD YR LOINS.

Comments

My favorite League of Lex/Jeff/Scott songs

[koganbot]

My favorite League Of Pop songs submitted by Lex, Jeff, and Scott that I hadn't previously heard were:

Lex: Tori Amos "Datura"
Jeff: Beenie Man "The Thing"
Scott: Edo Maajka "Prziii"

Koganbot counterrankings are loping along at their own pace.

(Totally unrelated thoughts - or maybe they aren't - but I may end up deciding that Natasha's "Hey Hey Hey" is better than "Umbrella." And I'm preparing to gush over Unklejam tomorrow.)

My favorite League of Pop tracks

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I have just compiled my fourth(!) and final 80 minute "best of" CD-R.

...and this excludes
(a) things I already owned or plan to buy;
(b) the 11 tracks where I was the home player, which got their own dedicated CD; and
(c) a few other tracks that have been set aside for genre-specific mix CDs.

Basically, what I'm saying here is good work everyone! :) Keep up the standard in the Pop Open.

Correction

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Not the fourth mix CD in fact but the FIFTH! Blimey. Over 100 tracks worth keeping.