Pop Open Group M: The NINETIES

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's theme is the Nineties - tracks available to stream or download at http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/pop-open-week-13/ - and we'll be running the poll until next Monday lunchtime with reveals on Thursday.

[Poll #1076031]

Thanks to credoimprobus, katstevens, lockedintheatti and mcarratala for this week's tunes!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hooray mine is the best :)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

You lie. Mine is far better :)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is the weakest group for me but also the hardest - all four tracks are about 6/7 out of 10.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think all the tracks would benefit being played REALLY LOUD.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I will try this tactic! Quantities of w33d/disco biscuits/Red Stripe and jerk chicken/RIGHTEOUS ANGER AT AMERIKKKA (delete as applic) might also help.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'This is the weakest group for me but also the hardest - all four tracks are about 6/7 out of 10.'

Agree with this altho track 1's rhythm is going to get me...

Think I recognise the first two artists but don't know the songs.

In the end I went for 4 and 1 tho 2 and 3 aren't particularly bad as such.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite so far! I mean, I wasn't into two of them, but the two I ticked I loved better than anything else so far.

it's the 90s :-)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

This might be my favorite round so far. The 90s are a big black-hole to me as far as pop goes because I began and ended the decade deeply entrenched in college radio and the underground music scene.

It was between the two hip-hop tracks. Both are excellent. I think I know the release that spawned Track Three. It smells "collaboration" which I think this release was famous for, and almost a 90s cliche at this point (HOWEVER I could totally be wrong, and I probably am!) Now that I had a good listen, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Track three. It probably reminds me of what would happen if J Saul Kane/Depth Charge polished himself and got a big name rapper and a dose of drone rock for his arsenal. This got my #1 vote.

Track Two easily got my #2 vote.

Track One was swell. It just ended up with strong challengers. Track Four didn't do much for me.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

I'm anything but a hip hop fan, and the last track was dull, so I voted for Track One only.

[credoimprobus]

The turnout genre-wise this week almost makes me regret I didn't submit Sunscreem's Chasing Dreams instead to rep for the vocal 90s dance camp, heh. Surely that's one of the first things people think of when they think "90s", after all? (Of course, I could be wrong there!)

I think I may have to vote this week, imprudent strategy as that may be, because I love one of the tracks enough to potentially mess up my own chances for it. Second time that's happened already!

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

OK, here's my question. Are we allowed to vote in the rounds in which we submit tracks?

I was under the impression we were not, although it probably wouldn't be a biggie either way.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You're allowed to vote, but of course the rules prevent you from voting for your own track (unless you picked it blind without ever hearing it!)

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Yes, despite the chances of helping to eliminate myself, I've voted for my favourite other track(s) in the rounds I have been in.

Alternative strategies I considered this time around: a bit of retro-mainstream country, probably Sara Evans. Or maybe appealing to the significant closet schmindie vote with something like Small Factory or Action Painting!

hmmm

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I ticked the know "none of them" box, but there's an outside chance I own a copy of track #2. Even so, I'm not voting for it - it's the sort of hip hop I find particularly irritating (see also: Cypress Hill).

Track #3 by contrast I thought was pretty good. The shoegaze-positive rap combination worked well. Decent rhyming too. I'm guessing this is mid-90s i.e. before conscious/political rap completely lost the plot and became required listening for W!re mag readers.

Track #1 was pretty feeble by the standards of its genre, I thought. So track #4 got my second place vote by default, even though it kinda went in one ear and out the other. I may withdraw my vote if it fails to grab me after a second play.