Pop Open Eighties RESULTS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Results for the Pop Open 80s Group - 90s group up tomorrow!

FIRST PLACE: Geier Sturzflug - "Bruttosozialprodukt" (9 first-place votes, 46% of total points) - cis WINS!

SECOND PLACE: Berlin - "The Metro" (7 first-place votes, 28% of total points) - byebyepride QUALIFIES.

THIRD PLACE: Roman Holiday - "Don't Try To Stop It" (3 first-place votes, 19% of total points) - carsmilesteve is OUT.

FOURTH PLACE: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "Straight Into Darkness" (0 first-place votes, 7% of total points) - justfanoe is OUT.

Congratulations and commiserations where required - Cis and Byebyepride go through to the knockout round 3 which is of course THEMELESS.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

bah, curses. well done C and A.

maybe i should've gone for "the politics of dancing" after all...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

nah I suspect EVEN MOAR ppl would have known that one

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

wow, shocked at this - i was sure most people would know Berlin.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Well I knew it was a risk - I based my gamble on the fact that I'd never heard it until I downloaded it some point last year, which meant that the chances are most Anglo voters under the age of 33 were also unlikely to have heard it. But I've no idea how popular it was at the time - I vaguely had the impression it was a big tune in the US, but from looking at the comments when I posted it, mystification and enlightenment were fairly evenly distributed across the globe.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

also: YAY!! Thanks for the support, guyz n gals.

[lisa-go-blind.livejournal.com]

I was out-of-town, so I didn't have a chance to really listen to this set. I didn't realize justfanoe had submitted Tom Petty - I had considered using "Breakdown" as my pick for the '70s round (though it appears here that I would have fared even worse than I did).

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Clearly, my Tom Petty submission strategy did not unlock a secret door to organfun success.

[koganbot]

Well, it got my vote, and one other person's, I think.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Lex's vote, surely

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

The Tom Petty song was my favorite of the four, but I had heard it before.

It's easy for me to assume Berlin were huge globally.. and they did become big all over the U.S. with "Take My Breath Away", but the more tinny synth stuff from prior years was only well known, I think, in the West Coast, or maybe just California, or maybe just L.A.!

[cis.livejournal.com]

yayyy i am glad people love socially-conscious german ska-pop like i do. <3