The Pop Open Group B - RESULTS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As usual, a dripfeed of results from the Love group.

First place...Mira Craig - "Someofdathomemadepie" (9 first-place votes, 37% of total points) - anatol_merklich wins.

Second place...Boney M - "Silent Lover" (7 first-place votes, 30% of total points) - w3ft qualifies.

Third place...Nat King Cole - "Quizas Quizas Quizas" (3 first-place votes, 13% of total points) - xyzzzz_ qualifies.

Fourth place...Elbow - "Asleep In The Back" (3 first-place votes, 12% of total points) - fugitivemotel is OUT.

Fifth place...Stan Rogers - "Lies" (2 first-place votes, 7% of total points) - braisedbywolves is OUT.

From last week, kill_yr_idols has requested the NOUGHTIES group, and has put stevem78 into the FIFTIES AND BEFORE group. The randomiser meanwhile has sent mackromackro to the SEVENTIES.

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Aw bloody hell, lower than Elbow? You are all a bunch of anti-Canadian racists. Though 2 first places is nice - I wonder who?

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

Call it 'Cross Ye Pond syndrome, but I've never heard of Elbow until this past week! Is that bad even for an American? Are they like Snow Patrol here too, but I'm just THAT out of it? (Elbow got my #1, Mira Craig was my #2)

(Randomizer, i love you.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

bah it is driving me NUTS which version of the nat king cole i know -- it's in english (but i can't remember the english words) (i'm terrible with words, i just don't listen)

[cis.livejournal.com]

Doris Day's 'perhaps perhaps perhaps'? I think that's the most famous english-language one: it was carbon-copied by Emma Bunton. And Cake did a version, too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't know any other version other than D Day...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'stevem78 into the FIFTIES AND BEFORE group. '

BAH knew this would happen. although i don't really mind as i'll enjoy the challenge of finding a great 50s pop marvel as i know/possess little of the era.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

has it been said you actually have to draw a song from the 50s? perhaps there are other ways to interpret the group...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

SALTARELLO BOSH!

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

SCRAPING BY PPL!! (haha beat Elbow by 1% - I've 'made it' but AT WHAT COST?!)

Didn't know any versions until I heard it in the "In the mood for love" soundtrack. To coincide with Piratemoggy's mum poll I will now reveal that King Cole is my mum's favourite.

WAU WINN4R!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Thank you vot0rz!

And thanks to the Pop Open itself, which has made me check out much Norwegian music which has passed me by (I don't really listen to the radio, you see). Mira here is an example -- I've been aware of her existence of course, but from looks etc assumed that she was some kind of recordcompanyinduced bandwagonjumping attempt at making internationally-palatable Big Norwegian R&B Star or something, thus with high probability of being lame. Rong! Her debut album of 2005, from which this is taken, is a rather fun hotchpotch of urbanish pop styles, self-written, -coproduced and -released (ie INDIE haw). Sure, the DIYness sometimes makes it verge closer to clumsy than sleek, but for me the invention and exuberance more than makes up for this.

Here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crsPAvxhfJ0) for her debut hit "Boogeyman" by the way -- the selfproducedness of the clip I think is a real drawback here sadly, since with its Caribbean sunniness etc it doesn't actually capture the cartoon menace of the song at all.

Next round, right: Can I request to be put in the group -- NB apart from the Fifties one eek -- which has FEWEST participants assigned to it so far, or is that Not On? As for Julio, I think I'd like to hear him give us something from the Sixties -- dare I hope for some hidden bonedry hardcore Darmstadt serialism gem I wonder?

Re: WAU WINN4R!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Certainly you can - that's the seventies for you, then.

Julio in the Sixties, and the Randomiser puts w3ft into the Noughties (completing that group).

Re: WAU WINN4R!

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

I've been listening to a lot of Darmstadt bonkery from the 80s also y'know!:-)