Pop Open Group H RESULTS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Results for the group....OF DEATH. A clear winner and then a brutally close fight for remaining places. Reveals over the next couple of hours.

FIRST PLACE...Kavinsky - "Dead Cruiser" (13 first place votes, 45% of all points) - kill__yr_idols wins.

SECOND PLACE...Harpers Bizarre - "Witchi Tai To" (4 first place votes, 18% of total points) - mackromackro qualifies.

THIRD PLACE...Bob McFadden and Dor - "I'm A Mummy" (2 first place votes, 15% of total points) - stevem78 qualifies.

FOURTH PLACE...One-T ft Cool-T - "The Magic Key" (3 first place votes, 13% of total points) - poptasticuk is OUT.

FIFTH PLACE...Gunilla Thorn - "Merry-Go-Round" (2 first place votes, 9% of total points) - mippy is OUT.

The winner - in this case kill_yr_idols gets to pick which Round 2 group they're in (out of Noughties, Nineties, Eighties, Seventies, Sixties and Fifties And Before) and also which group the third-place qualifier is in.

Tomorrow's group is either LOVE or PASSION.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh did it? I hadn't looked back at the poll. In that case I wonder where everyone heard it b/c I had no idea.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Just fluke really - a lot of people know it because it gets played at Poptimism a lot, and it was a track I spread around a bit when I got back from honeymoon where it had been all over european music TV.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

That was just bad luck then for me cos I had no idea you knew the track, and it hasn't been a hit at all so it didn't seem that likely to me that people would know it. Grr! Next time (if I get through) I'll have to pick something no-one could possibly know.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's absolutely no reason why anyone bar the usual europop suspects would have known it. It would definitely have got a vote from me if I hadn't, it's a great record.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Oh poo, I'm out! This is so unfair :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Boo! I liked yours and v much disliked the two ahead of it.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Thank you! At least I have your seal of approval :)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I liked yours too, can't believe you're out so early, that's quite a shock.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Moi aussi. I gave it my first place vote.

Pleased for stevem though; I love "I'm A Mummy".

Not sure what anyone sees in "Witchy-poo" (or whatever it was called). Has put me right off checking out any more Harpers.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was the easy winner for me, even in the first group where I've liked all the songs - was the only one which seemed to have something really haunting and mysterious about it (tho Gunilla did a bit on repeat listenings).

[mippy.livejournal.com]

I Love You Alice B Toklas is an excellent slice of hippy bilge.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I know, grr! Did you know the song already?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

No, I voted for it in second place (behind the winner), although it was a very tough choice between the two. If I'd known it would be so close I'd have voted the other way round!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I probably shouldn't mention that if you hadn't voted, you'd have been through! (You'd have drawn on points with Track 2 and gone through on first-place votes).

Commiserations - like dubdobdee's entry the other week, a really good and not very well known record which got unlucky.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I was going to vote for myself but then realised that people would see what I voted for and say I'd cheated, cos you have to not know the song and obviously I know my own song.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I actually withdrew my votes when it was my group, as I was scared of putting myself out of the competition with my votes for someone else

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have never heard it at Poptimism!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It usually gets played quite early (on the grounds that "people don't know it" - verifiably untrue it seems!) before you tend to arrive.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I'd not heard it (or maybe at some inchoate level where I didn't really 'know it') until Pete played it on Lollards of Pop, at which point I forthwith downloaded it.