A Year In Pop: 46

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another slowish week and the charts are starting to silt up a bit - labels holding fire on new releases in the run up to Christmas I guess. Some interest this week though: 1. Niche! 2. Has that Spice single not had a physical release yet or is it genuinely a huge flop - first time I can remember a Children In Need track going DOWN in charity week!

[Poll #1091138]

In other news: huge apologies for the continuing non-appearance of the Pop Open. My home internet was down last night though I should of course have done it earlier. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't heard this Zep track in years - I ticked it cos I've been listening to a lot of their other stuff so speculatively thing I would enjoy it now.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

My views on Zeppelin are becoming entrenched, I think: the 60s stuff is good, Presence is great, everything else is massively overrated. But "Stairway" is certainly any good at all, so I will go back and tick it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

why IS it in the top 40, anyway? I think it's tedious crap anyway.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's a remastered best-of out, and for all I know they've not been available digitally before. Or else it's just people seeing the best of and thinking "Oh I know, I like that Stairway thing."

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Latter doesn't sound v plausible - must be the former.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I hope it is, as it suggests that the anticipated Beatlegeddon won't be quite as dramatic as feared.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh dear christ what is this anticipated Beatlegeddon!

(ps if it's not too late i would like to change my pop open track! i can send an mp3 early evening...)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK fair enough!

Beatlegeddon = the supposed 'all-Beatle Top 10' that'll happen when their songs are eventually released on digital.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

You should have it now...

I have a brilliant idea for eg the Pop Open semifinals, when we get there: one semi can be BANGERS and the other can be BALLADS!

[koganbot]

"Stairway To Heaven" goes on boringly for months and months before arriving at a pretty good guitar solo. But I actually think you might possibly like several other Zep songs owing to their total mentalism: "Immigrant Song" for its Tarzan yells and "Black Dog" for dropping and adding beats and in general partying like it's 1925, and Plant sings like a female gospel singer. Did you know that two of their albums got onto the U.S. black music charts in the late '60s and early '70s?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Back when I thought I ought to listen to the canon I listened to a Led Zep best of - 'Immigrant Song' is the only fond memory, you are right.

(It wasn't fond enough to keep or to seek out now though.)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

That's because they hardly ever released singles. And the ones that were released were often without their consent.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Still, only one more needed and we can do a canon on them!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

We could bend the rules and do a poll based on the Mothership track list. (I'm not particular bothered if we do or don't have a Zep canon tho')

[koganbot]

They had six Top 40 hits in the U.S., however, not including "Stairway," which was never released as a single.