League Of Pop Week 1 REVEALS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm in a huge rush today and won't be near a PC again until tomorrow but orgafun must prevail! So here are the five tracks (and what I thought of 'em, very briefly). My views are of course not intended to guide your votes, which you can cast here: http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/387730.html

Track One: The Normal - "Warm Leatherette": Ballard-inspired track from 1978, the dawn of electropop. The key I think is the tiny shifts in inflection Daniel Miller gives the repetition of the title phrase. Not wholly unsexy.

Track Two: Marcy Playground - "Sex And Candy": I'd need a better knowledge of the minutiae of late-90s American alt-rock to work out how this was distinctive (or any good). About sex, but not to my mind sexy.

Track Three: Latryx - "Lady Don't Tek No": A little too porridgey and dour to be sexy, but I'm not sure "being sexy" is the intention here. My second placed song (discounting ones I knew).

Track Four: Sex Boots Dread - "Tickle Tune": Much-celebrated (though almost unknown outside blogosphere circles) gay rasta track, which unconfirmed but persistent rumours suggest was in fact made by Keith Allen (Lily Allen's Dad). Funny, filthy and -yes- sort of sexy.

Track Five: Candi Staton - "Sure As Sin": Sultry soul slides gently over my forebrain without making a huge impact but Staton has a tremendous voice and this would have topped my list of unknowns whether or not I was taking the theme into account.

But of course my votes MEAN NOTHING compared to yours, so vote away and I'll let you know who picked what and who ranked where on Monday.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I saw Allen on the Jo Whiley show talking about how he made a record under the SBD name. He then sang an excerpt of it. I take that as confirmation, though of course he could be laying claim to the track with 0 involvement. That would have been a strange choice since there was 0 mention of it on the whole of the interwebs at that time.

bopkids

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I find myself in a bit of a quandary here. I have no particular problem with KAllen, if it is he. But armed with the information that this may not be "authentic" (interpret that as you like) it does make me feel differently about the song.

I will listen again (to this, and the other 3 I didn't already know). Most likely my 1st place vote will ultimately stand tho'.

[cis.livejournal.com]

ah well, never mind.