Pop Open - Passion REVEALED
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poptimistsSorry for the ungodly hour of these reveals - I have a feeling I might be a bit busy in the office today (as yesterday) so here are the tracks (and what I thought of them).
It was interesting having a group for Love and a group for Passion (and one for Sex come to think of it) - different shades of interpretation across the three, tho of course passion hardly has to be sexual or romantic.
Go below the cut for more...
TRACK ONE: College Girl I Love You - I appreciate that as 'reveals' go this one is somewhat lacking but that's all the info I have. Bollywood, it sounds like. 70s, it sounds like, though obviously after 1977! A little on the repetitive side but its repetition improves it, and the emotional climax point (borrowed, but the best ones often are) wouldn't work nearly as well in a three-minute track. Still not sure it would get a vote off me, though.
TRACK TWO: MayBee - "Teen Mita Varn" - Finnish(?) pop-rockers who certainly sound impassioned about something. This was my immediate favourite of the tracks here, it has that unashamed energetic heart-on-sleeve flamboyance that a lot of Europop does - never unafraid of big obvious instrumental gestures like the AXEWORK on display here. Probably would get my top tick.
TRACK THREE: The Usuals - "Orange Boy" - One of the first tracks I received for the Pop Open and I admit my first thought was "Oh christ Indie Pop". I really really don't associate this kind of thing with passion (or ska, to be honest, even though it is) - the Heavenly-ish melodic turn into the chorus places it exactly in my discomfort zone BUT to my somewhat surprise this grew on me a lot - I like the brasswork. Probably my second place in the end!
TRACK FOUR: Dexys Midnight Runners - "I Love You (Listen To This)" - Kevin Rowland is of course Mister Passion - on this, the only track I knew of the five, he doesn't turn it quite as fully on as he sometimes does: it's in some ways the most restrained (and certainly the most accessible) of the tracks on mentalist opus Don't Stand Me Down, and the conventional structure actually means I notice his limitations as a singer more than I want to. It's got masses of gumption, though, and I love the fiddle line and the breakdown - and that opening line is soooo Dexys. Sigh.
TRACK FIVE: Jewlia Eisenberg - "Dream Of Me" - Interesting, sure, but passionate? Nah - or so I thought, yes so I thought, until the last minute or so where it all gets FILTHY. Not quite sure what to make of this one - I admire the intricacies of the arrangement and it's the track that keeps me most on my toes of the five, but I'm not sure I'm enjoying listening to it that much.
The files are still available at Freaky Trigger and FINALLY in a sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rywhtj - you can vote until noon on Monday. Voting is pitiful this week, which I take some of the blame for what with the sendspace thing. Hopefully this will help.
And now I'm going to try that magic trick![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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It was interesting having a group for Love and a group for Passion (and one for Sex come to think of it) - different shades of interpretation across the three, tho of course passion hardly has to be sexual or romantic.
Go below the cut for more...
TRACK ONE: College Girl I Love You - I appreciate that as 'reveals' go this one is somewhat lacking but that's all the info I have. Bollywood, it sounds like. 70s, it sounds like, though obviously after 1977! A little on the repetitive side but its repetition improves it, and the emotional climax point (borrowed, but the best ones often are) wouldn't work nearly as well in a three-minute track. Still not sure it would get a vote off me, though.
TRACK TWO: MayBee - "Teen Mita Varn" - Finnish(?) pop-rockers who certainly sound impassioned about something. This was my immediate favourite of the tracks here, it has that unashamed energetic heart-on-sleeve flamboyance that a lot of Europop does - never unafraid of big obvious instrumental gestures like the AXEWORK on display here. Probably would get my top tick.
TRACK THREE: The Usuals - "Orange Boy" - One of the first tracks I received for the Pop Open and I admit my first thought was "Oh christ Indie Pop". I really really don't associate this kind of thing with passion (or ska, to be honest, even though it is) - the Heavenly-ish melodic turn into the chorus places it exactly in my discomfort zone BUT to my somewhat surprise this grew on me a lot - I like the brasswork. Probably my second place in the end!
TRACK FOUR: Dexys Midnight Runners - "I Love You (Listen To This)" - Kevin Rowland is of course Mister Passion - on this, the only track I knew of the five, he doesn't turn it quite as fully on as he sometimes does: it's in some ways the most restrained (and certainly the most accessible) of the tracks on mentalist opus Don't Stand Me Down, and the conventional structure actually means I notice his limitations as a singer more than I want to. It's got masses of gumption, though, and I love the fiddle line and the breakdown - and that opening line is soooo Dexys. Sigh.
TRACK FIVE: Jewlia Eisenberg - "Dream Of Me" - Interesting, sure, but passionate? Nah - or so I thought, yes so I thought, until the last minute or so where it all gets FILTHY. Not quite sure what to make of this one - I admire the intricacies of the arrangement and it's the track that keeps me most on my toes of the five, but I'm not sure I'm enjoying listening to it that much.
The files are still available at Freaky Trigger and FINALLY in a sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rywhtj - you can vote until noon on Monday. Voting is pitiful this week, which I take some of the blame for what with the sendspace thing. Hopefully this will help.
And now I'm going to try that magic trick
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Date: 2007-07-21 01:57 pm (UTC)Track 5 was my favourite by far - love the way the last verse ups the ante, both in the arrangement and the lyrics.
Track 2 was a bit much for me, it's the heart-on-sleeve flamboyance which ultimately turns me off. Track 3 pleasant but negligible. Track 4 was dreadful - what an awful honking voice that man has.