Pop Open Group H: DEATH

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh Death, where is thy tick? Five tracks from beyond the veil, available to you in a bijou 20Mb Sendspace download (http://www.sendspace.com/file/rjhg2y) or streamed over at Freaky Trigger: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/07/pop-open-week-4/ (make sure you play each track individually - the default seems to be track 5)

As ever, you can vote for your two favourites, but only out of the tracks you didn't already know. Reveals on Thursday, and voting closes at 12 noon (UK time) next Monday.

[Poll #1014583]

Eagle-eyed players might notice that this group was originally announced as having six players, one of whom was me. I have pulled out, because I think there's a player short in Violence, so I will fill that gap instead. Just as well for me, as I'd not have won against this lot.

Thanks to this week's players: kill_yr_idols, mackromackro, mippy, poptasticuk and stevem78.

And of course...what would YOU have entered?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not particularly keen on any of them really though I think picking my top two will be relatively easy. Two of them are definitely Any Good At All but something about each stops me LOVING them - all of the Injustice tracks were better than the best here! Another two outright irritate me, and the other one just passes me by w/out the shadow of a trace of an impact.

I haven't thought about what I'd pick - maybe Sinead O'Connor's cover of 'Ode To Billy Joe' which is absolutely gorgeous, definitely prefer it to the original. Or 'Playboy Mommy' by Tori Amos which is a lovely swooning country thing.

My favourite song about death, which I wouldn't have submitted b/c everyone knows it, is Rex The Dog's 'I Look Into Mid-Air'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Anyway I must remember to actually vote at the weekend - I know which two I'll vote for but not which order, need more time with them.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The Sinead O'Connor Ode to Billie Joe is gorgeous indeed, as good as the Bobbie Gentry version but a lot less surprising in some ways. For me, O'Connor has this eerie and dislocated air that suggests horror right from the start, where the original seems to be set against the pressure-cooker heat of a southern state summer and offers a queasy punchline amid snoozy and complacent gossip. A fabulous song by any measure.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'I Look Into Mid-Air' is about death??

(I had this same reaction to track 1 tho...i NEVER think about the meaning behind what's being sung ever :/)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I heard it was written when Rex's best friend died? It fits, anyway.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'sometimes i see you there...' *scales fall from eyes* ha ha