POPTIMISTS REVIEW OF 08: Most Horrible Pop Thing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As before* this is being done canon-style - you get THREE picks plus! whether you pick the X-Factor or not in the main poll you can take part in the special sub-poll.

[Poll #1312786]

*all polls will be open until the end of the year when official results will be posted.

And remember - send yr list of 10 top tracks to leagueofpop@gmail.com before the end of the year too.

Comments

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Oddly, several of the more bearable parts of the new GnR (parts of tracks 4, 10, 12, 14 - usually when Axl at least sings in his midrange) somehow make me think "Queensryche," who were hardly the most swinging dance band in hard rock history themselves. The one track that did hit me as rather funky -- also probably my favorite track, at least in part because Axl's singing reaches for the rafters, though I like the middle eastern-ish guitar parts, too -- is "If The World" (though its lyrics don't grab me any more than any of the other lyrics on the album have, which is to say pretty much not at all.) I guess I detect some quasi-funkiness in other places, but it tends to be so buried in ugliness that I don't care.