The Pop Open Group Of Passion - RESULTS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Whose passions tickled yr fancy? LET'S SEE! (gradually)

First Place: MayBee - "Teen Mita Vaan" (Track 2, 9 first-place votes, 34% of total points) - credoimprobus WINS.

Second Place: Bappi Lahiri - "College Girl I Love You" (Track 1, 5 first-place votes, 20% of total points) - cis qualifies.

Third Place: Jewlia Eisenberg - "Dream Of Me" (Track 5, 3 first-place votes, 20% of total points) - mcatzilut qualifies.

Fourth Place: The Usuals - "Orange Boy" (Track 3, 2 first-place votes, 16% of total points) - ms_bracken is OUT.

Fifth Place: Dexys Midnight Runners - "I Love You (Listen To This)" (Track 4, 2 first-place votes, 10% of total votes) - atommickbrane is OUT.

The winner - that's credoimprobus gets to choose which group they go into next round (out of Fifties And Before, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties and Nineties - 00s is now FULL) and also which group the third place qualifier goes into.

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

will the 50s & Before be the first group up in the 2nd round? or will it be random order?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's going to be a break between the first and second rounds for everyone to get their tracks in (& for me to go on holiday!) - then when it starts it'll be in chronological order if we've got all the tracks in.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I have to say, "College Girl" really didn't do it for me.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I didn't like any of these much but I think I put 'College Girl' first

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Proof if proof need be that I'm not sure if Poptimists has anything for me gah :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was shocked by this result I have to admit.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I dunno, if people hear it and think "Smiths Lite" (!!) then... what the fvck huh :( Hey sodding ho. (This is me being very moderate and not throwing a Carlin-esque stop I hope you understand)!

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Well, you've sold me the album -it was the totally obvious first place for me. If that mitigates the potential strop at all.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Heh I am not in a strop REALLY, in fact I am very pleased you like it!! The album is a full on masterpiece :)

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I loved it, even though it's not my fave Dexy's, but I knew it. It would have been my number one otherwise.

[cis.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked as well! did loads of people already know it or something? (nb i did not vote ftb i was scared of knocking myself out ala poptasticuk)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A little more than other tracks but nowhere near Warm Leatherette levels - which I was also surprised by - when Brane submitted it I was pessimistic cos I thought everyone would already know it!

Dexys are a funny band in that they're an absolute touchstone for a certain strain of pop fans (which wd include me and Sarah!) but I always forget what an acquired taste their stuff seems to be.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I like Dexys ok, but I have never knowingly heard all of any of their albums (I have a copy of one somewhere). This track didn't say 'passion' to me, and the two tracks I voted for also sounded a bit more exotic. (only because I have not heard much Cali-Ska I guess, and was in the mood for it when I voted!)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I really like it but on its album it works slightly differently - you've had four or five long tracks, with lots of dialogue, instrumental bits, quite involved, odd, tortured-soul stuff, and then "I Love You" is a very concentrated, straightforward three-minute pop song - the message is "Sod all that stuff, HERE'S what I'm really trying to say".

[cis.livejournal.com]

I didn't know it, myself, but I knew it was Dexys (actually what I found really funny about being in this group was that I knew instantly who had submitted what! (she says with two to go and possibly prove her wrong)): I should really listen to them more, or indeed at all. For me, they are one of those canonical bands who you know you're supposed to know about, though I suppose not on the same tier as e.g. new order, so I expect everyone else, who surely must know so much more about music than I do, to be completely familiar with them.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i have never bothered with them in any depth probably because of the whole 'trad/nostalgic' thing that is projected either by them or by me onto them - or both! i suppose it is a relevance-to-my-world (or the world i want to be in) thing, altho i do like 'the celtic soul brothers' and their biggest hits - undeniably great. it seems as if further investigation would be rewarding provided you're interested enough in this kind of pop music and songwriting and how it works. i'm more interested in how the band fit the time they were successful in and what enabled this altho there's always some sort of 'throwback' force on the pop scene i guess, appealing to people's sense of nostalgia.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This makes them sound like Showaddywaddy! (Possibly not 100% untrue but at least 50%). I think the appeal is maybe more like Winehouse - classicist elements plus big emotional content plus a fierce but flawed individuality.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I had no idea they were a poptimist touchstone, I only knew that they had a famous song called 'Come On Eileen' which I don't even know if I've heard! (ie I probably have but not consciously.) I didn't like his voice :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lex EVEN YOU will have heard Come On Eileen!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK I just youtubed it!

i) I have never heard this song before!
ii) The tune of the chorus seems a touch familiar, in the sense that...something I know must have ripped it off
iii) I like it better than this - love the violin all the way through, the chorus is good
iv) But still hate his voice
v) wtf are they wearing in the video. Dungarees??!!! Jaysus.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

ii) YOU HAVE HEARD IT BEFORE!!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I really don't think I have! It's just a bit of the tune which rings a bell, and nothing else about the song (lyrics/arrangement/voices/structure) is familiar...I think even if I'd just heard it in the background the too-ra-loo bit would have stuck.

[cis.livejournal.com]

you've surely danced to it at poptimism! however since it is usually played toward the end of the night you may have been RIDICULOUSLY DRUNK at the time, and so you may be forgiven yr amnesia.

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

i heard different parts of the song at different times over the years (including chorus during time-life compilation tv commercials!) so i was convinced i had never actually heard the whole thing, until finally i heard it on the radio once (even AFTER having heard all of 'don't stand me down') and realized that the song had like 10 different parts and they were all the same song!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

cis I am well proud of myself for working out that 'College Girl...' was you - I had thought that the Finnish one was yr J-pop initially, but the realisation that 'College Girl' is a Villalobos tool-in-waiting set me on the right track :)

disco + world music = HEARTS

[cis.livejournal.com]

Villalobos srsly needs to start coming to us for ideas!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The one that surprised me getting through - not because it was bad exactly, but bcz I didn't really think it would be the group's "thing" - was the Jewlia Eisenberg.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I voted for it in first place and it's not really my thing at all. It's just that I thought this was the weeakest week so far (for my tastes, anyway) and it was marginally more inspiring than the others.

[mcatzilut.livejournal.com]

I was more surprised by people dismissing it because it was acapello. Sure it's acapello, but it's so much more, too. And I thought it was poppy enough to appeal. (Lex's reaction was the one I was hoping for. Just being totally blown away by its weridness.) But I qualified! So I is happy lolcat!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Is Religion the last group left now? When will it run?

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

I think there is Violence to go, as well...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Religion is next week. Stand by for a special announcement about it tho.

I am streaming the tracks for VIOLENCE now.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

WAIT, is there still time for me to change my RELIGION pick I am having last minute remorse.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"Love" update, I found Mira Craig's album and am really enjoying it! Is it from last year or this year? (Google was a little unclear about it).

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I found Mira Craig's album and am really enjoying it!

Hurrah!

If it's Mira Mira (the one with the Love winner on it) it's from 2005 I think, while Tribal Dreams was released in the last two or three months.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

or wait the first one may actually have been released very very early in 2006.

[credoimprobus]

*pumps fist in air*

I will take 90s, pls. And mcatzilut can have 70s.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Fine - the randomiser places cis in the EIGHTIES.

[mcatzilut.livejournal.com]

70s! Awesomesauce! My blog project feels justified now!

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

cis how did you hear 'college girl'? I posted an mp3 of it on sukrat a while back.

[cis.livejournal.com]

I don't remember! I had it in my mp3 collection and suspected it came from someone on my friendslist, but then I also have this odd collection of stuff I had off the WFMU On the Dowload page (mostly neue deutsche welle and insect noises?), so it could have been either. Most likely I had it off you on sukrat, googled it to see if there was any more and found the WFMU page?