The Pop Open Group G - INJUSTICE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's group is the fiendish INJUSTICE - well done to all participants for finding their tracks. As before, you can download the tracks from sendspace - http://www.sendspace.com/file/o2sn93 (it's a 38Mb file) - or stream them at Freaky Trigger: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/06/pop-open-week-3/ (make sure you play each track individually so you know which they are!)

Pick your favourite two and vote for them below - BUT! you can't vote for any you already know. Closing date for votes is next Monday - 12 noon GMT.

[Poll #1010274]

I'll reveal what the tracks are on Thursday. This week's players are alexmacpherson, celentari, hauntedballroom, lockedintheatti, and ruudboy. (Also - can piratemoggy choose her group for next round? Thanks!)

Also - what would YOU have submitted?

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Didn't keep up with LoP like I shoulda, but what was interesting about it was how people catered to what (they perceived to be) an individual's taste, where there's a huge consensus factor here (1) limiting well-known tracks that many people might know (even if you know a specific Poptimist who probably won't know it, making it a good LoP play, e.g. "Teenagers") and (2) trying to feel out the crowd.

Interesting turning point in this was the LoP final, where koganbot played what would have been a great individual track but wasn't a consensus pick, whereas the other tracks were more like a bridge to the Pop Open, very feelgood but none that could really win me over like a surprise in LoP (from the scattered tracks I heard of it). One interesting criterion to emphasize in the PO future might be which track is the closest to a given category, which only factored into my decision making this time around. Not sure what that would do to the competition.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The way it's set up (3 qualify from 5) ought to mean that a great non-consensus track can get through on the enthusiasm of the kind of people who will rate it. This will be a bit less true of rounds 2 and 3 (where it's 2 from 4) tho.

One interesting thing about the Pop Open vs League Of Pop, speaking with my insider knowledge, is that I've known a LOT more tracks, proportionally, from the Pop Open. This is probably because as the community founder my tastes align with the community's more than most individual members' tastes do.

The proportion of great-tracks-must-keep is about the same too. Annoyingly, most of the great-tracks-must-keep seem to be in my own group.