A Year In Pop: 45

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A somewhat bijou poll this - and maybe should be even more so if "Valerie" is the same "Valerie" that's at #4 in the charts, just on a different record so credited different - can anyone enlighten?

[Poll #1087141]

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

NB: actually a lot of it is crap but that bit where it gets all strutty is AMAZING. I heard it in Subway the other day and got so distracted I let them put cheese on my sandwich. Not the good cheese, either, the rubbish cheese that makes your sandwich taste of burger.

i'm with the pirate queen on this one

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

glad someone is standing up for this. i'm still not entire sure which of the kylie stuff i've been listening to is official and which is outtakes, but i'm quite happy with it (interesting discussion possible in which we really can just kylie not what she actually does (ie. the music we hear) but her creative choices thereof (ie. seems like nearly a full album of 'rejects' - what did she choose and why? and am i, the listener, free to evaluate her based on what I choose to be her 'new album,' as if whatever songs i don't like she didn't actually release.

Re: i'm with the pirate queen on this one

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I dunno if it needs "standing up for" - scorewise it's doing pretty well! There are a few vocal hataz - I don't think it's a throwback at all, there's often been a rock element to La Kylie and I've yet to hear anyone else make the Goldfrapp-y sound as immediate (Goldfrapp included).

Slightly wary of the album now though - I tend to trust the Lex when he's not got the guitar blinkers on.