A Year In Pop: 47

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, that was easy - only four new entries, unless I've read the BBC charts wrong. I'm also guessing that this might be the last week in which our overall winners might be troubled, but let's see.

[Poll #1095062]

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Shd point out that the Gallows track features Lethal Bizzle, though it isn't credited as such on the Radio 1 site.

Anyway, four tracks, four ticks - with a certain amount of generosity towards Gallows I admit. If anyone could present a good argument for "Staring At The Rude Bois" NOT just being a punk rock equivalent of "The Tide Is High (Got The Feeling)" then I'd like to hear it - but I'd have ticked that too.

Soulja Boy's track is brilliant.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

if soulja boy does not get AT LEAST 15 ticks i shall be VERY ANGRY (if sadly unsurprised) - there was a small girl on the bus one morning last week playing this through her phone and singing along to all the YOUUUUUs - this alone would have made my day, the seething faces of the boring boring commuters around me were the icing on the cake. come on, poptimists! i know you hate americans but how can you resist this.

tangled up is largely a v boring album but 'call the shots' is magnificent (although when i listen to it i always think, hmm, you're no 'early winter' are you)

but it is DIZZ who takes the gold medal this week! with a hugely inappropriate summer anthem! slow, fast, up, down, bring it back...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

but anyway despite a terrific batch of new entries I think the real story is twofold:

1) T2 and Jodie at No 2 OMG I am so happy for them! I really, really hope this is the start of something great, maybe in the same vein as the golden era of 2-step. It's not as if bassline is lacking in more potential hits and it's so prolific...NOW GO BACK AND TICK IT, PEOPLE.
2) Spice Girls on the other hand manage to miss the top 10 with a physically released charity single :ooo (also, haha)

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I ticked all of them! First time ever!

Bit late, have been doing WORK all day, what's with that eh

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Girls Aloud - about bleedy time, oh man I still heart this LOADS and here's why: the 'ahh-berp' vocal samples, the microhouse backing (v similar bass&drums to track 2 off Michael Mayer's Fabric mix, not to mention the same melancholy in the chords), the girls seamlessly finishing each other's lines, the up-and-down chorus melody ("ti-ee-ii-ee-ime" etc), the beautiful middle eight from Nicola where they're grabbing the stars in time-lapse mode... ALL THE TICKS EVER. This is still vyeing with Avril's 'Girlfriend' for my single of the year.

Dizzee - cor, listen to those lovely warm wallop blips! With them and the bass it's like being underwater! Good video too - esp the Mike Skinner chap reading poetry from a book for his audition. Tick.

Soulja - Youuuuuuuuu! Youuuuuuuu! Ohhhhhhh! Ohhhhhhhh! These on their own would get a tick. Which is just as well as the rest of the track (sparse steel drums, tickling high-hat) is non-existent.

Gallows - my word this is an ugly, angry chap with a scratchy shouting voice. Yuck. The tune itself isn't bad at all, but lacks a really smashing chorus hook to pull it off. Under-impressed by Lethal B's rap as well, none of the humour or lyrical dexterity that made 'Police On My Back' so awesome. Hmmm, borderline non-tick. Nearly there but not quite!

alex

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

can you explain why souljah boy is any good?

[credoimprobus]

FLEX = SO AWESOME. I'd kinda forgotten how awesome, having not listened to Maff + English in a while; I think it comes into its own better as a single, too, in isolation from the rest of the album. Lets you notice it better, and all that!

I went completely off the Gurls earlier this year (suddenly this spring Wake Me Up & ilk sounded INCREDIBLY DATED to me; imagine my disappoinment when the new lead single followed the same old formula instead of moving forward), but Call the Shots absolutely redeemed them for me. Wonderful!

Why you should all tick "Crank That"

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE THE DANCE IS AMAZING (http://youtube.com/watch?v=sLGLum5SyKQ), if a little difficult for us with dance deficiencies. Much more so than the Chicken Noodle Soup, anyway. Once I did the Superman and the YOOOOOOU hop I thought differently about the song, even though I sorta liked it before that.

[ghettofuture.livejournal.com]

At times it makes me slightly sad to think that the only thing I seem to like recently is Girls Aloud, but I'd rather pin any sort of lasting responsibility on society and large and not my waning cultural tastes.