Polling Without Context

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1018696]

Comments

Re: SURPRISE SURPRISE

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs albums came out a week apart in February this year. Franz Ferdinand's second album was in 2005, it's true, but then it charted higher than any of the other albums in question, and stuck around the US charts a lot longer. Does this chart cover the whole of last.fm's history or just the current top 30?

Re: SURPRISE SURPRISE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The last week.

Kaisers have zero traction outside the UK I'd have thought - too zany.

Re: SURPRISE SURPRISE

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yeah i've seen much discussion of bloc party on the us pol-blogs i read

Re: SURPRISE SURPRISE

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I disagree... catchy, easy to understand songs are just what the North American market craves. And they got a huge reception from the Spanish at Benicassim. Whereas Bloc Party write fairly political songs that are very England London-centric. I'd have thought the reverse was true - Bloc Party have zero traction outside the UK. Turns out I must be wrong.