Poll 07 No.4: MOST HORRIBLE MUSICAL THING

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This was one of a couple of categories where one pick got a LOT of nominations, so we shall see if that translates into head-to-head success.



[Poll #1106005]

MOAR pollage on Monday though I don't know what it'll be. Details of the TRACK OV THE YEAR POLL coming later, or then, or at the weekend or something.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Of these:

Cuet Is What We Aim For released a really dreadful single but I was surprised the memory had lingered enough to get nominations. They are really bad, the unacceptable face of emogum I fear.

Kate Nash is awful and what's more inexplicably liked by public and peers, so there's the element of injustice too.

Panda Bear makes annoying music and the level of praise he gets in certain circles is deeply baffling but he doesn't really deserve to be here.

Pigeon Detectives - very tempting to vote for them as just a stand in for all the dreary joyless bad rock of 2007 but their badness is general as opposed to specific i.e. I can't remember anything BY them.

Westlife are as terrible as ever but I get the feeling they're a rapidly-spending force - they're by no means omnipresent, I think you'd have to look a bit before Westlife were in yr face.

Nash it is.

[andthatisthat.livejournal.com]

Oh God, Pigeon Detectives by FAR. I don't know enough of Cute is What We Aim For and Panda Bear to comment, Westlife I've just learned to blank out, Ka'e Nash is forgiven on the grounds of 'Pumpkin Soup', but the Pigeon Detectives are inexcusable.

[spazhammer.livejournal.com]

i voted nash, as i'm indifferent towards the pigeon detectives (they are easy to ignore, unlike nash, who is everywhere)

westlife would get my vote, but they have won it every year since they were put together, so they deserve a year off, besides, hopefully they will split up soon, its not like theyve really done much this year (have they? one single wasnt it?)

i hate kate nash. i'm not bit-ter, but her vocal style does my nut in.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I'm going to let Knash off even tho that photo of her is really bad and should be replaced with a still of her on Ross show.

Why are Panda Bear here? Ridiculous irrational Lexism.

Can't remember how CIWWAF and the PDs actually sound like so will have to, boringly, vote for the Wessies.

[koganbot]

I'm actually going to do some research here, as mcatzilut posted a passionate defense of "Curse Of The Curves", so I need to reevaluate that one and listen to some of the other artists nominated.

I guess I was the only one to nominate the View (who may not be the worst thing ever, actually).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/291925.html - Westlife were THRASHED in last year's poll.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Panda Bear is there cos someone nominated him and the randomiser threw him up as 5th pick. Someone else nominated "freak folk" which he is something to do with.

He might well get my tick in a "most overrated" poll though.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I can forgive Knash as I like Foundations despite her annoying voice, it's a great pop song, the strings in particular are really effective.

Westlife still deserve this, I find them as offensive today as when they first started, which is quite an achievement.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

The PDs are the type of thing that you CAN forget but as soon as you're reminded the red mist descends and YOU HAVE TO KILL (or nominate in a poll, as I did)!! GRR HATE CRUSH ETC ETC.

I've seen the video to "Home" by Westlife three days in a row now! If I see it when I get back from the pub tonight I'm worried Stockholm Syndrome might kick in??

Are you perspiring from the irony?

[koganbot]

It would be helpful if someone would list or link the low point (or high-profile moment of annoyingness) for each performer. Here's "Curse Of The Curves".

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that's "bi'-'er", inni'

oh look, now i'm going to have to go and look up the proper symbol for "glottal stop" now aren't i?

ah, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop) we are:

that's "biʔ-ʔer" inniʔ?

Beware of parisitical prepositions

[koganbot]

I guess the song's actual title is "The Curse Of Curves."

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I quite like the production on 'Pumpkin Soup' as well. 'Mouthwash' is the worst single of the year however.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

(I sort of like Foundations whatever shut up)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

most overrated of 07: the LCD Soundsystem and Dizzee albums! only 3 good tracks on either

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I'm making Pigeon Detectives a kind of scapegoat for all the shit British indie I've heard this year. I didn't nominate anyone because I didn't think Reverend & The Makers deserved any more attention.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I need post no comments b/c these are my thoughts to a tee - though I would argue that Panda Bear's music is dreadful enough to warrant a place here for certain.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't even nominate him! but it is MEET AND RIGHT that he is here.

[andthatisthat.livejournal.com]

MAI GLOTTAL STOPZ, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

When I went back to the Dizzee album after "Flex" charted I got into it a lot more! He never makes consistent records I think.

LCD I sort of agree with - only the title track is actually bad but it's doing incredibly well on all sorts of EOY polls based mainly on the two "ah but sometimes the party must END woez" central tracks. YOU'LL BELIEVE A HIPSTER CAN CRY!

(That said I think it ended up in my Pitchfork Top 25 based on that too.)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Foundations would be a great song if it weren't for about 50% of the lyrics and her BLUDDY VOICE. I reckon it is ripe for Karaoke reinvention.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Another point in favour of voting for her is I sort of feel like she's representative of that "my little feelings" thing that Tom was sort of talking about a while ago. The voice is a bit irritating but strangely for me who usually HATES this sort of voice, I don't find it so annoying - but then again I've managed not to be really overexposed to the song somehow. Haha - agreed that a certain barnetape rendition of Foundations NEEDS TO AND MUST HAPPEN.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In the idolator end-of-year thing I submitted I called it "my-first-blog". Sadly I did not think the critical masses wd understand the more technical term YOGHURT.

[koganbot]

Hah! Now Steve thinks you're the one who nominated Panda Bear!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

only one good track on the LCD!

disagree on Dizz: there are tracks I listen to more than others but the less-good tracks are rarely ever BAD. still, won't make my top 10.