Binary Friday III

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Pop Trumps is indisposed so for the third Friday running...

[Poll #1154062]

Last week's verdicts:

ARETHA beat James Brown 22-14
REMIX CDs thumped Live Albums 28-10
ORGAN SOLO is the best of all the solos (surely some etc.)
CANADA beat Australia 26-12
AUTOBAHN is king of the road.
FFWD trumps RWD 21-14
THE 70s beat The 60s 23-15
2-STEP just beat Two-Tone 19-18
ROCK beat Soul 23-19
GIRL POWER and RIOT GIRL drew!! and are scientifically identical
"SAFE" thrashed Bland 30-7
PASSION pulverised Fashion 29-7

Comments

Re: Tussles

[koganbot]

but SW in his younger days was more 'pop'

But LC is more pop, even if not more 'pop.' He wrote "Suzanne." He lifted the chords from "Remember (Walking In The Sand)" for "Famous Blue Raincoat."

(Actually, I barely know Scott Walker old or new, except for "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.") (Also, have any other American artists had such a disproportionate share of success in UK as opposed to US? Maybe Scissors Sisters. Anyone else?)

Re: Tussles

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Kelis? 'Milkshake' aside I gather the US did not take to her AT ALL.

Re: Tussles

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

It would really be worth picking up any (or indeed all) of the albums Scott 1 through 4. He slowly went from Brel, Bacharach and David and Tim Hardin songs increasingly to his own weirder and bolder compositions. All four are wonderfully pop, and very beautiful to boot.

It was hard ticking him over Leonard, but I did. They're both fantastic.