A Year In Pop: 28

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A light-ish week with a few well-known names.

Last week's poll - http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/406271.html - got very very low tickage. Now, it wasn't a very inspiring selection but do pop back and have a look at it if only to tick the "not heard" box! The, ahem, delicately calibrated orgafun ranking system is in danger of being thrown out of wack.

[Poll #1022266]

There's another 20 minutes or so to get yr tick on in the Pop Open love vote, too. I have a terrible feeling it might be a draw as it stands.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What's Frankie Valli doing here, by the way?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

WTF is that Foo Fighters song doing back in the charts? Wasn't it boring enough the first fvcking time?

The Super Mal/Luciana is AMAZING, entirely due to Luciana being brilliant and skanky and trashy.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Groove Armutya: great 80s synth bibble noise & smashing chorus lyrics ("don't panic panic Mut-ee-er, don't drive erratic"). TICK

Mika: what exactly is he trying to prove here? I'm very confused and the song isn't good enough to overcome this. NO TICK

Supermal: I rly don't like Luciana and unlike the Bodyrox song the backing = WEAK BEATS. NO TICK.

Not heard the rest.

Good Ticknology

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Kings Of Leon - I am somewhat shocked to find myself responding to this, I like his broken squeaky voice a lot, it sounds confused and mournful. This is a bit of a surprise as I've always thought of the KoL as tools. A curious tick!

Groove Armada - This is my favourite single so far this year. Don't panic panic don't act so manic manic! Tick of course. Agree about the video - where's the tension? :(

Super Mal - I wuv Luciana's voice! Great stuff. Tick!

Bloc Party - seems a lot more urgent than their normal stuff though they still can't write a good vocal line and his voice is cardboard. No tick, though closer than usual. I probably agree with the politics but so what.

Travis - if there has been a worse pun than "Selfish Jean" in the chart this yr I want to know about it! Absolute busker cobblers as per. No tick.

Valli - OK tell all - what is "beardo disco" and what is the difference between a "re-edit" and a "remix"? Is it just a remix where they haven't done much to it, as seems to be the case here? Tick I suppose, it's an OK old pop song.

Mika - Really awful, what is he playing at? No tick.

Foo Fighters - NEIN DANKE.

Travis

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I was baffled when koganbot was praising their last single but I must say I really like this one. In fact, this might be the first ever 'any good at all' Travis song.

My like is based solely on the tune and the arrangement, mind. The lyrics could well be terrible.

Chart news

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also for TEH H8TAS, Fergie is now at number 2!