Readers Poll 07: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT plus ARGUMENT OF THE YEAR

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A double-header today - the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award, one careless owner in James Brown, and the contentious Argument of the Year award. Astute readers may notice the effects of the randomiser in these.

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Meanwhile the TRACKS OF THE YEAR spreadsheet just keeps on GROWING. 118 different tracks named so far, with two acts getting FIVE different ones each. Send YOUR top 10 to leagueofpop@gmail.com before New Years to be counted.

Comments

The First Time I've Ever (Almost) Abstained from an Argument About Arguments.

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My lifetime achievement vote is maybe a little premature (for Max). I guess Tony Wilson probably deserves it, but I have no real personal history with him to draw from.

I hated all of these arguments, actually. I thought Britney at the VMAs was ugly all around, was glad to see the Death of Oink but certainly didn't want to TALK about it, thought the INDIE TOO WHITE (which I voted for) led to some interesting side-discussions that were related but was itself kind of misguided, or at least not really getting at any problems that I actually observe/recognize (enough to want to argue about passionately), no idea about Klaxons and Nu Rave, and Poptimists v. K-runk would require there to be an actual argument from the inciting/war-declaring side to count as an argument. All I got out of it was that he doesn't think I'm funny :(

PS - The title of my first post should have been:

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