The Pop Open Group A - PASSION

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's group has as its theme PASSION! The usual rules apply - listen to the tracks, pick your favourites of the ones' you didn't know, vote for them before noon on Monday.

Unfortunately due to home internet issues I've not got the sendspace file sorted out - just the streaming tracks on FT: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/07/pop-open-week-6/

Piratemoggy has put the individual tracks up here: http://www.box.net/shared/fvduhkv3af

I will try and zip them tonight.

[Poll #1022950]

Thanks to this week's players - atommickbrane, cis, credoimprobus, mcatzilut and ms_bracken.

Comment away! (And - what would YOU have submitted?)

Comments

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

Passion One: this reminds me of a song I'd find on one of those bootleg "Top Of The Pops Volume #X" cassettes you'd find somewhere in the dusty corner of a thrift shop. This would be one of those exclusive songs that wasn't already a charting hit, perhaps to give the cassette maker's cousin a break in the industry. I enjoyed this, but it went off my attention after a couple of minutes.

Passion Two: This is precisely the type of music I WANT to mine more. I call this "Baja Fresh!" music, because this is precisely the type of modern Spanish/Mexican pop you hear at a Baja Fresh! franchise... and if anything, what they play there in general sounds that a mixture of modern AOR like Radiohead or Coldplay mixed with late 80s/early 90s UK indie dance pop -- the blend of choice among latino/latino pop makers these days, I guess. This song in particular sounds like Curve without the fangs. Sigh, I've asked the people at Baja Fresh! so many times how I can find out more about the music they play at the store, and they always evade my question telling me "well, this is just.. Spanish pop. I have no idea what the songs are.. well, sometimes I do, but it's just pop music, teehee. Next" They think I'm completely mad for wanting artists and title tracks. I've emailed Baja Fresh!, but to no response. :( At least there's this song. GOT MY #1 Vote

Passion Three: I blame my tenure of living in Orange County, California throughout the 90s decade, but third wave ska with early Gwen shades sends me to sleep. (No Doubt and Gwen post-2K = wonderfulicious, however)

Passion Four: This is precisely the hole of early to mid 80s UK pop that evades me. If Beechwood put out those Pride Of Independents compilation CDs back when the CD first came to be, I'd imagine this song would be on it as a dark horse.

Passion Five: Not usually a fan of a cappella treatments, but this one is weird, without falling into the Laurie Anderson well. (I like Laurie Anderson, but I've heard a lot of bad imitations of her.) I like the odd harmonies in the "huh" "huh" "huh" "huh"s, and the vocals hover nicely above it. Some twists and turns, but a nice transcendental pop song that fits the theme well. Got my #2 vote