Another Year In Pop: 25

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Coldplay are straight in at number one, whilst Jordin S & Chris B have finally reached the top 10!

[Poll #1209419]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I don't have time to listen through all these right now as I'm off out in a sec, but I can say right now that the Billiam song truly is unmitigated shite with no redeeming features WHATSOEVER.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Why are the charts STILL so shit?

Coldplay - zzz
Busta - I thought hip-hop had got its nu-metal phase out of its system seven years ago? I don't want it back
Jonas Bros - why has that whiny emo boy voice become the default even for a band as cheesy as this? I can't stand it, it sets my teeth on edge, and I never did like Busted
Billiam - I am not sure how anyone involved in this project can actually be proud of what they've done? This is cheap, tacky crap and I assume Billiam have very large families, because I simply do not believe that any actual normal person could possibly like this enough to spend money on it
Cage The Elephant - I have been sent about 17 promo CDs by this band this year, my decision to send them all, unlistened, straight to the charity shop pile has been vindicated I feel

Sorry, I am not going to listen to songs by Nickelback or Weezer as they are guaranteed to be even worse than all the above. Well, maybe not Billiam.

[koganbot]

Coldplay "Viva La Vida": Pretty tune, voice sings in vast empty sweeps, as usual. Comic grandiloquence that he undercuts by moralizing against the grandiloquence. VASTLY NOT TICKED.

Busta Rhymes f. Linkin Park "We Made It": Band broods in the cinematic darkness. Busta and band applaud themselves for struggling up through life. This is bullshit. NO TICK.

Jonas Brothers "SOS": Pleasant pop rock, but I'm not caring about it. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Billiam "My Generation": My generation! No complication! Your words of wisdom are in vain! Well, that sure puts me in my place. For piffle, this is actually pleasing. TICK.

Nickelback "Photograph": Rote nostalgia w/ Vedderesque overemphatic vocals but the genial arrangement underemphasizes the overemphasis. Calling this "inoffensive" is more a compliment than an insult, but this is NOT A TICK.

Cage The Elephant "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked": Half-funk, unsettling slide, then dorky voice enters and saps the energy. AIN'T NO TICK.

Weezer "Pork And Beans": Man w/ excellent tuneful talent, his singing never does him justice, and he sabotages this further by covering himself in fuzz. "I don't give a hoot about what you think." These lyrics can't be serious, can they. Can they? BORDERLINE TICK.

Yikes!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Not heard any, but chances of finding something to tick out of that lot must be negligible. Still, I will endeavour to do my duty tonight...

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I do like the Weezer single, but I've never heard it away from the awesome video which is certainly a lot more inventive than the song. Otherwise, this week is pretty horrible.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Isn't that Nickelback song like eleven years old? (Yeah, I ticked it.)

[koganbot]

As far as I know it's only three-years old (so would be eligible to run in the Belmont Stakes, if it were a horse).

Is no older than Robyn's "Be Mine!" which charted for the first time in Britain this year, and Flyleaf's "All Around Me," which just last week entered the U.S. Top 40.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmm did I really just tick Nickelback and nuWeezer with a modicum of enthusiasm? (I did.)

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

The new Weezer album is brilliant! Especially "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived", it reminds me of Alice Cooper's "I Love America". You can hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32Yqft3E5w

And I don't even know how I got off the track

[koganbot]

My Weezer knowledge is spotty, but I've always been touched by "The Good Life."

(Piece of trivia, but Rivers Cuomo went to my high school, albeit years after I did.)

[pot80.livejournal.com]

That Weezer song is terrific. If you are inclined to like Weezer, it's terrific.

[koganbot]

I am inclined to like Weezer, but I still think Rivers gets in his own way - or maybe I'm inclined to like some of Weezer's tendencies and dislike some of the others. Never really liked his Sweater-Song voice, while I do like his Good-Life voice a lot. When I think about it, maybe "Sweater Song" foreshadows what I call the "dorkboy" voice. (Or maybe someone else foreshadows it much more. I haven't given thought to the foreshadowing until this second.) But with the tune and harmonies, "Pork And Beans" should have been a slam dunk and so far it's only borderline for me.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Sarcasm aside, I'm pretty happy to love a Weezer song when I can -- happier still to be interested in checking out one of their recent albums in full.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It's completely terrible. Musically, lyrically, the lot. Also I clearly don't hang around enough on YouTube to 'get' the video.

Don't Like Any it is then, although the Jonas Bros song is tolerable. Good luck to 'em.