A Year In Pop: 33

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Crikey, I almost forgot!

[Poll #1042782]

Is it just me or does it seem to anyone else that the Pigeon Detectives are releasing a single a month??

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i don't think anyone else cares, do they? ;)

they will have had a single out before the festival season starts and now at the end another. they haven't had one in the middle as well have they?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

What is Elvis doing in the charts again?

The Fiddy is OK. I predict I will be the only one to tick it though while some indie bobbins will pull ahead, ROLLEYES.

The video for the KT Tunstall is quite fun, the song is v boring as ever.

CLEVER WORDING CHEERS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha I had no idea that the Gym Class Heroes

i. are proper awful rappers like in the good old days
ii. have CUNNINGLY CHANGED THE WORDS to "We don't have to take our clothes off." to "We DO have to take our clothes off".

The old romantics!

Ben's Brother Must Die

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

absolutely rotten. i have been mocking to myself the way he sings "let meh ayoowt" a lot. worst album title of the decade also.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Gym Class Heroes - not as good as the supertramp one.

Elvis - still good. TICK

Hard Fi - the kerfuffle about their cover art is quite amusing. Mixed opinions on the song itself: good intro but boring verse, ok chorus. His eyebrows scare me. Marginal non tick as I couldn't be bothered to listen through to the end, though it's the best thing I've heard them do.

Pigeon Detectives - I'm trying to search for something redeeming about this. It's quite fast? If the guitars, bass and vocals were taken away that would definitely be some drums playing, over which a better song could be written? Gaaaaah make it stop.

Fiddy Pee - I quite like this! Fiddy's rapping is still a bit off the boil but the backing sounds like an old-school Amiga game and that's always good. Justin is wasted on the chorus though: "tired of technology"? Sort it out man! Marginal TICK.

Foos - good intro and reasonable build-up. Doesn't really grab me though. Marginal non-tick.

Tunstall - Yeah this is alright. Can't expand more as I have to leave work in a second to let the plumber in. TICK.

Ben's Brother - rub piano balladry. Come back Keane all is forgiven.

Athlete - low expectations, met.

Not the most encouraging week :-(

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Er, someone has ticked 'Not Heard Any'. Seriously? Which member of poptimists has not heard the new Gym Class Heroes Elvis single?!!

I only ticked Pigeon Detectives... haven't heard KT but I'm sure it would be a tick. New Hard-Fi song is alright I s'pose, not deserving of a tick though. Will almost certainly go top 5 at the weekend, and the new album will sell by the bucketload according to all reviews.

Don't like new Athlete, have only heard the new Foos once so can't really comment, and haven't heard Fiddy & Justin, although I'm sure it's amazing!

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Athlete's chances of lots of airplay might be a bit buggered, maybe? Not much call for a pop song about a hurricane at the moment.

Generation Eminem speaks

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Elvis is fucking shit. Can they stop re-releasing his stuff now PLEASE.