Another Year In Pop: 9

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Stagnation in full effect at the top end of the chart, with the entire Top 6 non-movers and the next four just shuffling about a bit. Is there anything going on at the back? See for yourselves!

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Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I think if I'd heard Alphabeat before I saw the video I would like it a lot more. In the video they look like Belle and Sebastian / Franz Ferdinand Glasgow indie hipster c*nts, which jars with the era which the song is harking back to and makes what could have been a pleasant romp sound hollow to me. I realised the other day that Vampire Weekend sound like Orange Juice, reimagined in a post-B&S world.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i played felicity then oxford comma on saturday to kind of make this point. unfortunately miss_newham didn't follow "you can call me al" with "cape cod kwassa kwassa" later in the evening...

[(Anonymous)]

Hah, I said "Haircut 100" the first time I heard Vampire Weekend. But Orange Juice'll do.