Popped In Polled Out

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://pop.idolator.com/ - Idolator's critic's poll is up. Not a huge number of surprises in the main poll, to be fair (though I wonder if this year their critic base is different from P&J's - it feels more 'webby' (also not surprising).

A cool thing Idolator do is to ask individual critics to make an end of year mix, plus comments, which will be found at the link above (I assume!). I did one for them myself.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Bah I want to get to make a mix. You put Lethal Bizzle on yours but no actual grime :(

'What's It Gonna Be?' has been R1-playlisted so I assume a proper release is imminent; T2's 'Gonna Be Mine' has been 1Xtra-playlisted so ditto.

Matos's essay is great: somehow sums up exactly a whole load of stuff I hated about 07 (the suffocating consensus-fuelled resurgence of indie) and a whole load of stuff I loved (most of what he recommends when not dealing with indie). I continue to be disappointed by consensus taste though.

The playing cards are great! I want to rep even harder for artists I like, just so I can see them presented like that.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

If you pay me and supply the pics I'll do it.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am a bit ashamed of my attitude towards grime - I think I stopped listening to it in 05 or so at least partly because I felt so bruised arguing (not about grime) with people who had adopted it as a cause, so I threw the baby out with the bathwater.

But it's a mix of good conversations not of good tracks, and I didn't really HAVE enough about grime for anything to figure!