Pop Open 00s RESULTS & even MOAR details.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Results for the 00s group - good turnout and very close:

FIRST PLACE: NOZE - "Remember Love" (8 first place votes, 35% of total points) - w3ft WINS.

SECOND PLACE: PENDULUM - "Hold Your Colour" (7 first place votes, 28% of total points) - piratemoggy QUALIFIES.

THIRD PLACE: RISKAY - "Smell Yo Dick" (6 first place votes, 23% of total points) - alexmacpherson is OUT.

FOURTH PLACE: GLASS CANDY - "Candy Castle" (1 first place vote, 14% of total points) - kill_yr_idols is OUT.

Congrats and commiserations to the excellent competitors.

The 3rd round will start later this week with mackromackro vs credoimprobus - both have got me their tracks, as have infov0re and byebyepride: thanks to all.

I need tracks, in MP3 format, no theme, pick anything you like, from w3ft, hauntedballroom, lockedintheatti, piratemoggy, cis, stevem78, umlauts and anatol_merklich - I will email to remind later in the week. Tracks to leagueofpop@gmail.com please!

I'll be moving through the third round at a fair clip. Winners of the 3rd round bouts will then have a very brief time to submit a track for the 4th round, where the theme is WINTER (including Christmas or not, as you wish). I'll probably do that as one big batch of six. The theme for the final will be VICTORY.

Comments

[koganbot]

Finally listened to these too late to vote. I like all of them, don't think I've heard any, though "Remember Love" sounds very familiar, as if it were a cover or a joke remix with new words. I'm only on the second listen through; I don't think the Riskay track is particularly a joke; nastiness with prettiness attached is standard stuff in r&b these days. I'd probably put it third place simply because there's been prettier pretties and angrier angries recently. But it did make me smile. "Remember Love" might have finished last for me, owing to its weak vocals, but as it went on it built up the feeling, so later listens might make me like it more. Pendulum sounded impossibly static at the start, the repetitively circular piano pulling the music into quicksand, but then the beats come in and totally manhandled this, paradoxically making the beauty far more effective. Then there's Glass Candy, which finished last and is my favorite by far with its slow-motion fanfares and the out-of-tune sorrowful everywoman narrating. Warms me in many ways. So, this vote of thanks to kill_yr_idols.