Binary Friday II!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Pop Trumps will be back...VERY SOON!

[Poll #1150379]

In your previous verdicts:

DUFFY trounced Adele 31-7
BRITISH POP beat US pop 23-18
TRIP-HOP beat drum and bass 26-16
SWEDEN hammered Jamaica 27-14
BEAUTY edged truth 21-20
"FEATURING" beat "versus" 25-16
VOCALS beat the rest w/ 48%
THE MOSHPIT edged the Corporate Hospitality Area 20-19
(Songs about) GETTING LAID beat (s.a.) not getting laid 23-18
WORKING AS A WAITRESS trashed standing in the doorway 30-10
TWEEMO crushed Screamo 26-13
CHICKS ON SPEED beat the rest w/ 41%

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hehe I was just about to post one! It can wait till next week though.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh OK well post it anyway! MOAR POLLS THE MERRIER! I will edit this.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

BRITISH POP beat US pop 23-18
SWEDEN hammered Jamaica 27-14

awful awful results. particularly disappointed at how decisive the second one is. laaaame.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

also if rock comes ANYWHERE CLOSE to beating soul, WORDS SHALL BE HAD.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Dude, it will TOTALLY win.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

that would be lame and awful and wrong though! I retain a tiny tiny bit of faith in poptimist tastes and this would wipe it away completely :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I mean it's the simplest one yet - mostly shitty genre vs mostly amazing genre, no brainer.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Neither rock nor soul have a great deal to do with poptimist tastes surely! (Rock more so)

[datura800.livejournal.com]

Well it depends what you're talking about surely? I think 'rock' can just mean so many different things as opposed to the more specific (but still broad) soul that it's just more likely to win based on that fact alone.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was the hardest one for me this time - I am in the mood to hear rock more often currently though, and that determined my tick.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Soul has direct links to r&b which IS pop!

and what the hell stop voting for "two-tone" ffs!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

whatever "two-tone" is it CANNOT be better than 2-step which is basically the pinnacle of british culture.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

soul is mainly used to beat R&B over the head for not being soul :(

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

currently you can map 16 and 23 exactly onto one another -- canada is SAFE BY SCIENCE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

you could replace 'soul' with 'rock' there and it'd still make sense, and at least soul is the FOUNDATION

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Oh no, we're aesthetes :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I hesitated over ticking CAN because I know there's a whole load of really terrible handwringing indie which comes from there - in the end I ticked it mostly because of kd lang and Avril. and because beyond les Minogues, who I don't think are amazing anyway, AUS has 0 to recommend it.

not true

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

= i ticked bass solo :D

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Avalanches, Severed Heads, Gerling, Cut Copy...er, Madison Avenue...

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Soul is way more po-faced about what is and isn't (or rather has and hasn't) soul than rock is! Admittedly this means viewing the rock-laughing-at-rock (hair metal, for example) as inside rather than outside rock, but at least it has a laughing-at-itself genre!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

The Presets!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

being po-faced >>>>>>>>> laughing at oneself

remember I hate comedy! and I REALLY hate hair-metal.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah I don't like any of those though!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dude, Canada gets a tick for M_nus alone!

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Rock has direct links to pop-rock which is pop! And also rock! It's right there in the name!

ORGAN SOLO

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hur hur hur.

Ahem, yes - I ticked this with the Stranglers' version of Walk On By in mind.

Re: not true

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I can't believe people are ticking anything else.

raisins

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Brown
- I think Brown just had the bigger/wider impact, and better dancing perhaps...altho 'Who's Zooming Who' beats 'Living In America' heh

Live Albums
- because the recent Daft Punk, Kraftwerk and Knife live CDs are big faves and I don't think I've been loving any particular remix CDs in that same time. also remix albums are pure convenience whereas live albums typically give you something you can't collect another way (apart from dodgy bootlegs)

Drum solo
- not sure, just felt right

Australia
- see bands list above - not actually that convincing but i can't think of that many from Canada i like either

Road To Nowhere
- i think Autobahn is quite a dull Kraftwerk track, important as it is.

FFWD
- i has ADD, next please...

1970s
- Quantick OTM

2-Step
- I love Two Tone too. Outling my personal reasons for liking 2-Step is tricky but could be coaxed as we go

Soul
- not really worth going into

Girl Power
- mainly because i don't know much RG stuff/it passed me by, whereas GP was far less avoidable as A Thing (for better or worse)

"Safe"
- I am so sick of the word 'bland'/it's frequent mis-use and never want to read it again. Blanned more like.

Passion
- not so into throwaway thrills

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

this is v true. Magda! Richie!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

No no no no no why are you voting for Girl Power dear god. :(

Hurrah for bass solo winning however I have just remember that this puts the great nemesis Muse in a position of approval. :( I was thinking more Death From Above 1979 at the time of ticking.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of DISCO.

oh ok I was thinking of Level 42 just like dubdobdee was

Re: ORGAN SOLO

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

blimey i think i did too!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Hurray!

Re: and what the hell stop voting for "two-tone" ffs!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Two Tone was the pinnacle of British culture in about 1979. Do you knows nothing?

Re: raisins

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Brown
- I think Brown just had the bigger/wider impact

Yes, certainly on his wives and girlfriends.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The 70s were lame. Dear ghod. Also live albumens >>> remix CDs, but only where the band are any good and actually a) don't use so many backing trax that the album is indistuishable from the orig CD, and b) do something different with the material.

Re: and what the hell stop voting for "two-tone" ffs!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

who cares about 1979?? no one was alive then. as you yourself say the 70s were lame.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

http://fredjourdain.com/wp-content/gallery/illustrations/jaco_pastorius_fred_jourdain.jpg

Re: and what the hell stop voting for "two-tone" ffs!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I WAS!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

terrible handwringing indie from CDN > terrible handwringing indie from AUS I feel pretty sure must be?

this evidence just in

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

alexmacpherson: "i am punk"

Re: and what the hell stop voting for "two-tone" ffs!

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

The toughies were def Live vs Remix (Live albums are horrible in pop, but most the amazing improv and jazz is recorded in a live setting), Guitar vs Organ (a few great gtr players able to sustain solo recordings but organ has Messiaen's wacked out imagination).

Easiest ws voting for 2-step, 70s, Girl Power (Riot grrrl has yet to find its way to my ears).

Surprised that Fashion is being trounced by Passion!

Went for bland, but its an interesting coupling.

Soul: Good Genre, Terrible Sensibility

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Rock versus soul, sensibility versus genre:

I dunno which I would choose genre-wise, since I dislike very little soul but also love-beyond-reason more rock than soul (even if I also hate a lot of rock), but the orientation toward "having soul" is one of the ugliest authenticity debates in music writing! The "soul sensibility" ("that is so soulful," "that is the real soul") is one of the stodgiest of all, whereas at least one could argue that the "rock sensibility" has long ago moved away from most of rock-the-genre. That is to say the idea of "being soul" is directly responsible for Lex's Winehouse-dilution rant!