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

[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!