The Poptimists Top 40 Of 2007 Part 1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tenderly compiled from the votes of about 40 people.

40. FEIST - "My Moon My Man (Boyz Noize Remix)"

YouTube Video: here (I'm not embedding it cos it's not an actual video).

39. CASSIE - "Turn The Lights Off"

YouTube Video: here (as above except it's a picture of lovely Cassie not of god knows what).

38. KATE NASH - "Foundations"

Actual video footage of the Gnasher and wrestling toothbrushi!

37. RIHANNA - "Lemme Get That"

YouTube Video: here - this time we get an SLIDESHOW! Not a single yet (why? It's awesome!)

36. CORTNEY TIDWELL - "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan's Objects In Space Mix)"

NOT EVEN ON YOUTUBE! Come on somebody, make a Doctor/Rose fanvid or something.

35. ROISIN MURPHY - "Overpowered"

One vote here was for the Seamus Haji remix. Nightbuses! Kebabs!

34. MIA - "Jimmy"

Video as "re-enacted" on the dancefloor of Poptimism! (Which is on THIS SATURDAY pop pickers)

33. TIMBALAND ft KERI HILSON - "The Way I Are"

No embedding on this video but since it's been totally omnipresent on music TV this year you hardly need it. "You can still touch my knob, it's free"

Nos. 32-25 tomorrow!

SMALL PRINT:

1. I didn't bother checking if songs were released in 2007 or not. Some weren't (or haven't yet been, maybe).

2. If a song and a remix both got votes I combined them and gave the placing to whichever version got more points.

3. Points were alotted to placings Eurovision style i.e. 12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.

4. I won't be saying how many points tracks got till we get to the top 10 though.

5. Only songs with 2 or more voters got placed.

6. Placings were decided by: # of points/# of voters/remix bizness/highest individual score given/artitrary whim - in that order.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Great list so far -- the Tidwell remix was on one of the Poptimixes and I put a little "find this" star next to it. (Still not sure if this was attached to a bigger project or was just a one-off -- I did seek out the Fred Ball album that "Uptown" was on, though, and wasn't disappointed -- four or five really great songs on there!)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I went with the version of my list with "Lemme Get That" on it, so yay.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Of these, I voted for Tidwell. I searched for a 12" or CD of this remix - allegedly the Pearson remixes were supposed to be issued as a standalone single - but in vain; I had to settle for an illegal mp3 in the end. The 'objects in space' mix is on the recent double CD compilation of Pearson remixes however.

Not heard the Feist remix, but the original is the one very good track on The Reminder.

Some tic-tacal voting in the 10 tunes I submitted. We shall soon see how effective that was, I guess. But I figured Rihanna would do just fine without my vote, and so it proved.