OLD Orgafun Status Update

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now Kat has launched the amazing NEW orgafun here's a quick update on the status of OLD Poptimists orgafun.

POP OPEN: This will conclude at a brisk pace when I get home internet access (current due date, 29/01 but this has already moved back twice.) A 3rd round fight is still open - expect reminders, reviews and reveals on that before the next one starts. (If I haven't got the remaining 3rd round tracks by the 29th then I will annul those fights.)

LEAGUE OF POP: The new season of the LoP will either be in the Spring or Autumn depending on other factors.

POP WORLD CUP: It is the Euro 2008 foopball tournament this year so in theory we could do a Pop World Cup style orgafun. I have no great enthusiasm for organising this personally - if someone else wants to do it, they have my blessing. If there is a huge clamour for it, I will.

NOW POLLS: For completism's sake I will do #s 66-68 at some point when I'm really procrastinating at work (i.e. even more than now). I was going to do a Pazz And Jop style Idolator poll too but I'm sick of 2007 really!

ANOTHER YEAR IN POP: Business as usual. Do please vote, won't you?

NUMBER ONES POLLS: We really can't have many of these left! I am happy to run them if Kat can't be arsed.

CANONS: Artist canons are taking a temporary rest. Special canons will no doubt resurface from time to time.

JUDGE POP: Eagerly awaiting new cases in 08.

VIDEO CLUB: Open to all comers!

WINNER STAYS ON: A blast from the past! Won't be resurrected but once I get home access again I am thinking of doing some kind of daily-MP3-plus-scale-rating orgafun as a way of stimulating talk about stuff not covered by the year in pop or video club features (i.e. older, or foreign, or odder stuff)

ANY OTHER BUSINESS? Can't think of anything I've forgotten but who knows!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have the list of #1 years yet to be polled somewhere on my werk computer *cue scrabbling around*. We haven't done one for a while so I'm happy to re-start from where we left off.

Ah, there we go. We're about 3/4 way through!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i must resurrect the wiretappers

(i ran aground on the analysis which i think i will officially postpone)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Is it still stevem vs byebyepride in the league of pop? Longest fight ever!!!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

also - was marcello's deleted comment on the ft post anything other than a spoiler?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No it was just a spoiler!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The new season of the LoP will either be in the Spring or Autumn depending on other factors.
Hurrah. I am looking forward to defending my title third-place-spot-in-league-playoff-triumph-runner-up-in-grand-final erm wvs

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to this too, despite being relegated! Perhaps I will do better this year :)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The playoffs were a bit anticlimatic so I may well drop them this time or do something even more complicated

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

In terms of turning up good stuff, LoP worked out much better for me than Pop Open. I hope we'll get a bit of vaca between the two, though - keeping up is a lot of work

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I would've revived Album Science by now (with only two 00s albums left to rank to complete the original plan) except my next choice was going to be Discovery and i feel sick of ranking/discussing that.

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

YES!!! (the other day while 'micro-managing' a pile of discs I found I had Wire Tappers Vol 10-18 but none of the first nine - they must have gone in a previous purge - but if you are missing any of the later nos i am v. happy to post em on)

Prague was into prog

[koganbot]

One thing that umlauts liked to do on his blog was to take some country's Top Ten for a particular week (The Czech Republic or Sweden or Croatia) and have everyone rate and write about the ten tracks. Might be hard to organize, since someone would have to get hold of the ten tracks, and hard to get people to participate. Perhaps top fives?

Re: Prague was into prog

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

We could do something like this for the euro 2008 orgafun.