Another Year In Pop: 37

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen we have a new number one! We truly are living in exciting times when Kings Of Leon can get to the top spot. Hmmm.

Elsewhere, Miley is slowly sneaking up towards the top 10, Skepta's Rolex Sweep enters at no.89, and Bonnie Tyler is this week's inexplicable new entry at 57 thanks to Total Eclipse Of The Heart being cheaply dubbed over that Phil Collins gorilla advert.

[Poll #1259888]

Comments

[spazhammer.livejournal.com]

is it just me that doesnt understand why everybody loves the KOL? they yodel too much when they sing. the new single is average at best.

which is more than can be said for katy perrys album i guess...

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

That Kings of Leon song has really grown on me. Extra bonus points for knocking that godawful Perry woman off the top of the charts.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's not hateful or anything but it's really meat-and-potatoes stuff, I can't hear anything distinctive about it at all.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

sonny J http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9e_4A7EKoA

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Sonny Go Team more like

borderline non-tick tho cos enough retro-yearning already (unless it's the 80s obv)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

mint jackson royale, even more like

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2008/09/at-last-caleb-kings-talks-sense.html

even the bloke out of KoL thinks the lyrics are rubbish...

have we had paper planes before (ie did it actually go top 40 last time)?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure it went Top 75 last time!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It didn't - though 'Jimmy' got to No 66. Its actual official re-release is in October so it's probably going to go much higher. I find the reasons for this quite depressing.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Is it featured in that Pineapple Express film? ISTR hearing it over a trailer on 't'telly.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

YAS, this is what has caused it to go actual TOP FIVE in the states as well...

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Haha I skim-read the poll and thought that Cliff had released a song called "Sex on Fire"!

*goes to tick MIA*

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ay ya ya the horror continues. Worst top 3 since the last time it was this bad, which was...a few weeks ago, probably. Seriously how and why are the Kings of sodding Leon popular now? Anyway.

Kings Of Leon - any time an indie boy sings about sex it is turgid and grim, this is no exception. Reminds me of Bruce Springsteen ughhh

Cliff Richard - continues to represent a massive amount of wrong things about the general cultural landscape of this miserable island

Iglu & Hartly - got 10 seconds in

McFly - charmless and pointless as ever

Basshunter - fuck OFF

Queen - hang on I thought they were dead? I have always thought that they were pretty much the worst band in existence

Sonny J - what a totally incompetent mess of a record. Go Team comparison otm. Why can people not just DO THINGS PROPERLY

thank christ for Flo Rida and MIA! even if the latter is like 94944 years old now and actually, thinking about why it's a success now is just as depressing as contemplating the artistic merits of the songs above.

Still, the Flo Rida is really terrific - all aboard the freestyle revival! It's all about the robot girl backing vox in the last few choruses. "Oh hot DAMN. This is my JAM. Keep me partying 'til the AY EM. Y'all don't underSTAND. Make me throw my HANDS in the ayer, ayer, AY-AYERRRR." My hip-hop dance tutor has taken to playing in our classes and it's really awesome to dance to. This should be mashing the competition.

[koganbot]

There's one I like unequivocably (even if it is from last year)! And I gave one a borderline tick that I gave a borderline nontick back in the USA! So life gets better!

Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire": Rhythm that doesn't lose its roll, dark chords, bits of dissonance, but the voice is dull. Lots of variation in the arrangement, crowded here, empty there, but the result is monolithic anyway, and monotonous. NO TICK.

Cliff Richard "Thank You For A Lifetime": Not enough voice left to deliver the triumph of the chorus, but the arrangement insists that he can, so the whole thing seems like an impersonation. NO TICK.

Iglu and Hartly "In This City": The beginning is unexpected: desiccated keyboards, weird high voice, sound effects, a very strange dance track is about to emerge. Instead, really mediocre rap 'n' rock. NO TICK. Ack! They're from Boulder.

McFly "Lies": Somewhere between rollicking and painful, this coalesces in a soulful chorus, high passion like the Dells. It's terribly over-arranged, however, weighed down by strings and horns and power chords. But they've got the song and harmonies, bless 'em. TICK.

Basshunter "Angel In The Night": This is my light in the dark, this is the beating in my heart, but it's not quite enough. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Flo Rida f. Will.I.Am "In The Ayer": Fast moody synths, happy hooks, nice combo of light and dark, but the rapping in the verses is so weak. There's no law that songs have to have verses, guys. BORDERLINE TICK.

Queen & Paul Rodgers "C-Lebrity": Tired.

M.I.A. "Paper Planes": Shoots bullets, makes us dance, takes our money. All I wanna do is TICK TICK TICK TICK.

Sonny J. "Can't Stop Moving": Nice chorus, the rest is nothing. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

KoL: It's not unpleasant sounding, and it's slightly better than the worst tracks on their first album. However I like them better when they do bluesy stuff rather than Killers-y stuff. No tick.

Cliff: BLIMEY he's nicked the hook from 'Downtown' for the chorus. My boss has just pissed himself laughing at this in the office. It's dreadful obv but quite endearing. If Cliff turns out to actually be the Messiah we're all buggered, but I'm still not ticking this.

Iglu: these people's voices are VERY grating. Chorus is insubstantial and the rapping is poor. I am turning this off right now.

McFly: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA dudes you have to watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySZt73Gcw4) it's hilarious. Post-apocalyptic Mad Max tastic! Actually possibly more like Tank Girl. Anyway, McFly must sing to earn some clean water. Song's ok, though I'm sure one of them just said 'fvcking' before the boogie-woogie fight sequence so I can't not tick this. Why don't more people make videos like this?

Basshunter: woez how I weep for 1995 :(

Flo & Will: Lame reworking of an ancient 80s electro hit that I can't quite identify. I am bored of Will.i.am's face.

Queen: I think I'll give thsi one a miss.

MIA: Yay! Bout time.

Sonny J: I do wonder sometimes why people sample the worst/most-annoying bits of songs when there is so much good music out there to use instead? And sometimes even in the same song? Anyway, this has been hanging around for Some Months Now and has shrunk on me even more :(

AMAZING X 10 BILLION

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Anyone who has watched that video and not ticked the McFly is DOING IT WRONG.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Cliff OWNZ.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Crap week. Basshunter got the only tick this week, and its nowhere near as good as 'Now You're Gone'.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Update: I went back and ticked MIA. I ignored it the first time (probably bceause I've never liked anything else from her), but I heard it on the Top 40 last week and thought "ooh, this is good".

[andthatisthat.livejournal.com]

I have not heard the KOL single, but it merits a tick in my book for knocking Katy bloody Perry off number one.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person ever who really, really doesn't like MIA?