Bar Humbug

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I wrote a lengthy piece about bar DJs only to have it wiped out when like an idiot I clicked on a link in an email. The gist of it is that they may have a thankless job playing music nobody really cares about it but they're still twunts who seem to think their tasteful funky house music is the most exciting in the world. I say 'funky house music' and of course I really just mean 'bar music', it has long since become its own genre.

Anyway it's Tuesday and the barometer of orgafun points to WIZZO. Three wins in a row for "Biology", increasing its average score to 7.68 and seeing off Kelly Clarkson's 6.96. So "Biology" stays on and its new challenger, still raiding the '2005 pop' drawer, is "Be Mine!" by Scando act Robyn, "this year's Annie" if you believe the pigeonholers. This one suggested by juror8. Which one will go through to Friday's meeting with the Frog? (or whoever else you suggest) YOU DECIDE.

[Poll #632917]

ALSO ALSO advent calendar bonus: THE SINGING DOGS! (direct MP3, not a YSI)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Jaysus this is horrendous: mediocre song from Best Band Of Our Time vs unusually amazing song from Chancer Cow. Gotta go with 'Be Mine' though.

I like being a bar DJ (at Lovelife mostly), it requires far less concentration than being a dancefloor DJ, and the pay-off if people do get up to dance is far greater. I don't play tasteful funky house though.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

Ha, Girls Aloud are 2006's Robyn, who was 2005's Annie.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love this Robyn track - the music is great, reminding me of all kinds of things including Annie and vintage Kate Bush. I can see her voice cloying over the course of an album, but I don't have a problem with it on that track alone.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

This whole thread is CRazEE TalK! Best Song of the 05 vs Best Song of One Of Best Albums of the 05. 9-8.

"If I want indie I'll listen to indie"??? hell no! Let Robyn's sugar drip into my ear, but keep the gooey phlegm of Doves away from me!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the YSI of Robyn. Another one I'd not even heard before!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, a good way of bumping off "Biology" is to pick one of the few singles of 2005 that beat it hands down. I have never written about "Be Mine!" is any great length, but shall be doing so SOON, when I do my Top 150 Singles of 2005. (Ho, this'll kill me).