THE POP OPEN GROUP I: Fifties And Before

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Pop Open is BACK for Round 2!

If you haven't played before, here's the setup - each week, we put up 4 tracks (each selected by a member of Poptimists). You listen to them and vote for your two favourites in the poll below. The only thing is, you mustn't vote for anything you already knew. Tracks are anonymised at first then revealed after a couple of days, and results are announced next Monday. Anyone can vote! (well if they're logged in to LJ)

This week's theme is "Fifties And Before" - you can get hold of the tracks either as a 13Mb zipfile here, or by streaming them at Freaky Trigger, here. Go go go, you crazy beatniks you.

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Thanks to stevem78, martinskidmore, inhibitorylinks and hauntedballroom for this week's tracks. If you are playing in Round 2 and haven't sent your track in yet, please do! :)

Comments

[koganbot]

Track Four is a Buddy Holly song, but this isn't Holly, obviously (Holly far more deft and sly than this bloke). Strange to have casually intricate New Orleans instrumentals accompanying such ragged vocals. Makes the song interesting but so far (first play) the singing just doesn't deliver.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The spluttering piano just rescues #4 I think. I've given it my second place vote.