Yet Another Year In Pop: 44

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cheryl's got the number one single AND album now, but there was only ONE picture of her in Friday's London Lite and NO pictures at all in the Evening Standard. Pull yr publicity socks up, Cheryl!

[Poll #1479756]

Halloween lower reaches watch: Thriller at 43, Ghostbusters at 57, Monster Mash at 61 Evanescence at 97.

2009 reckoning: Remember to go back and tick (or untick!) songs in all the previous chart polls this year so we can put together our poptimists chart entries of 2009 list in December (see chart poll results from 2008 and 2007 here and here). Look out for info about the 2009 Reader's Poll coming up soon!

Poll reminder: You have until tomorrow lunchtime to vote in Heat #2 of 2003 and pick your best new track to earn an extra tick in Heat #3.

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

what i've heard i've not liked. really i've actually been enjoying the charts this year (i know this may be a minority sport) and when i come back on here, hmmm.

Westlife h8tas to the left

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is ACTUALLY GREAT:



Must get round to my 'blog Westlife's greatest hits' project soon...

Re: Westlife h8tas to the left

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I should subcontract their entries on popular to you!

Re: Westlife h8tas to the left

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think it'd probably just be one essay-length post - also they're all ones with Bryan on which make them instantly less good.

Re: Westlife h8tas to the left

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Duck Sauce on the other hand = steaming pile of Mallard (http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1504)

Re: Westlife h8tas to the left

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Not heard it yet, but the Daughtry version is sh!t, sorry.

Re: Westlife h8tas to the left

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've not heard the Daughtry version but this has lots of OOMPH which is admittedly oft missing from the 'Loife's output.

Gaga

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Just listening to this now and it's proper Cascada-bosh (actually more like Tamperer ft Maya!). Plust it samples the VREEEEEEEER noise off 'Dominator' by Human Resource :O

Re: Gaga

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

That'd be the hoover noise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_sound), then?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Party In The USA" is properly good.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was at first but then it ate my brain.

What about then?

[koganbot]

We did Daughtry a month ago. Now you're making me not tick it all over again.

Re: What about then?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Doh - been quite busy at werk today so didn't bother checking.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Pull yr publicity socks up, Cheryl!

Erm, I gather she rectified that with her metal snail-boobs dress on X Factor. Not that I saw it, but they haven't stopped talking about it on the radio ever since!

Meantime, "3 Words" (the song) is ace on a stick. Much better than the current single, which I still liked enough to tick.

I also like the Duck Sauce track, but I didn't know what it was until it was played on the chart show last night. Where do I know it from? I'm sure I've heard it a lot recently.

Mickey Bubble: LOL central. For some reason, he thinks "Cry Me A River" (the proper one, not the Justin one) might work mashed up with a John Barry Bond-theme pastiche. So RONG it's out the other side and worth a tick.

Fat Em: do you think if we had a whip round, we might presuade her to retire now. Quelle disastre!

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Westlife seem to have reached the Cliff Richard type of level where the only major hits they get now are X Factor tie-ins (just as over the last 20 years or so nearly all of Cliff's major hits have been Christmas records or "100 Years In The Business/Thank You For This Marvellous Gold Watch"-type commemorative affairs).

"Anyway" and "3 Words" are both tracks of the year (the Cole album is perfectly decent, and sometimes a great deal more than decent, whenever the BEPs are involved; when they're not it is indeed a dreary affair).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I thought Cheryl's assets looked rather fetching...

[koganbot]

Jeff, really glad you pushed the Rishi Rich thing over on the 2003 Best Songs competition, so that I could see Jay Sean lively and mattering. Not that he doesn't matter to lots of people now, but that original sparkle was good to see.

[koganbot]

Westlife "What About Now": Daughtry's version was drowned by Chris's wet baritone. You'd think that Westlife would lighten it enough to partly redeem it, given the tune's bit of prettiness, but no: with their massed instrumentation they inundate it just as badly. NO TICK.

Jay Sean f. Lil Wayne "Down": I have an unreasonable hatred for this mildly pleasant track. It's just so typical of how the current r&b-dance amalgam is reducing itself to uncommitted goo. Lame, empty, awful. NO TICK.

Miley Cyrus "Party In The USA": At least this goo is made of raw sugar and goes all out, and Luke undergirds it with a hot lick. TICK.

Lady GaGa "Bad Romance": You guys can't accuse her of only hitting her marks this time. I'm quite flabbergasted, actually; different moments remind me of everything from husky Ashlee Simpson to hammy Jim Morrison, with some Madonna tossed in as garnish. We get yanked from here to there: reductive chants, then without warning into French, and finally a pretty chorus, as a reward. TICK.

Biffy Clyro "The Captain": Earnestness tries to dance. What a chore. NO TICK.

Duck Sauce "aNYway": Ersatz dance funk; fast and chilly. NO TICK.

Cheryl Cole f. will.i.am "3 Words": A love song with the jitters. I can't make sense of it: sounds more like crawling ants than hearts and flowers, but this week that's a good thing. TICK.

Michael Bublé "Cry Me A River": He enunciates. Very clearly. Each syllable. Setting himself against the grain of the song, while the accompaniment fires hard volleys. I wasn't expecting to find this song jarring. Not enjoying the experience, unfortunately. NO TICK.

Florence + The Machine "You Got The Love": Man, the word "love" has shown its mettle this week, with all the pummeling it's getting. Grating. NO TICK.