POPTIMISTS TRACKS OF 2009: Nos 60-51

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The next ten. Something for everyone here I'd say.

60. ROYKSOPP ft KARIN DREIJER ANDERSSON - "This Must Be It"

Embedding disabled for this video full of neo-hippie oddness and DRUMS ON A BIKE.

59. NINA SKY - "On Some Bullshit"

This was the lowest-placed song to get 3 votes - sorry Nina and Sky. They do look like they're having an enormous amount of fun though so I doubt they mind.

58. THE BANGZ - "Boyz With Tattoos (We Jerkin)"

If the TRIBES OF JERK had united around songs any of these lowish-placed ones might have gone higher.

57. DIZZEE RASCAL - "Holiday"

This is a Club Tropicana pisstake no?

56. ELECTRIK RED - "Freaky Freaky"

Fan made stills vid for this E-Red album track.

55. LILY ALLEN - "Not Fair"

No embedding. It's not fair and I think Parlophone are really mean. :(

54. BUSY SIGNAL - "Da Style Deh"

Singles Jukebox sensation makes Poptimists crossover - a rare incursion for a dancehall track! No video though.

53. THE JUAN MACLEAN - "One Day"

So 80s it makes La Roux look like the Spin Doctors.

52. CAMERA OBSCURA - "French Navy"

You'd never have got away with a beard like that in the days of Proper Indie.

51. LITTLE BOOTS - "New In Town"

Little Boots in downtown LA. A significant chunk of points were for the Fred Falke remix.

Comments

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

A link for the 'Not Fair' video - http://www.izlesene.com/video/muzik-lily-allen---not-fair-hd/970392 - not sure if it supports embedding though.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Test:

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[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

ugh - never mind then!

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I have only just acquired the Electrik Red album today so missed out on voting for it. It seems, for some obscure reason, as if HMV has suddenly imported a whole bunch of them, so their shelves are full to bursting with copies of the album.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i guess this is entirely due to alexmcpherson's year end review in the guardian...

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Well yes, I somewhat suspect this is the case! Who else was reviewing anywhere in the UK media?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well done The Lex then!

Electrik Red is one of a few acts this year where a ridonkulous amount of tracks (6 i think) got nominated - Lily A is another. (Camera Obscura is a third but they were all nominated by the same person). At one point it looked like this would completely scupper them.

[cis.livejournal.com]

i had a real fit of 'oh noes must collude w/ other ER stans or the vote will be too split'. I guess it's just what happens when a band is TOO GOOD.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know - it happened with Scooter in the 2007 poll :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's what the expansion to 20 was meant to prevent, and to a degree it did I think! Though a couple of acts have been badly hit by it.

Also, from a "showing off the greatness" POV is it better to have one really high placing song or several lower-placed ones?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I sort of suspect that most of my choices will either be non-charters (1 pick only) or quite high, and none appear here.

I have been burnt by this multiple track nomination fannydangle in the past - I'm sure piratemoggy and I could have got Of Montreal much higher a couple of years back if I'd been more on the ball and picked the track she liked best. So this year I just avoided such artists!

I would have picked Holiday but I was operating a strict one-track-per-artist rule and went for a different Dizzee... Of course I then broke the one-track rule for another artist.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The 60-54 run here is excellent and I don't think I even voted for any of them!

Really don't see why the Juan Maclean are special, even if the keyboard flare at 3 minutes is good.

And I'm not convinced by the C Obscura track though I'm prepared to give it time, since I was really mean to "Lloyd, I'm Ready.." when it showed up in this poll a while ago and then ended up loving it.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

"Really don't see why the Juan Maclean are special, even if the keyboard flare at 3 minutes is good."

you're in a majority :(

'French Navy' is more like an anti-grower to me. There's a battle between the general sound (plus her nice voice) and lines like "you make me go ooo-oo-oooh" and i fear the latter might win out in the end and i'll be too fed up with it ('Lloyd...' is still great tho).

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I just really love that one Juan Maclean track. It's shamelessly retro I know, but I think the chorus sounds really epic and spine-tingly. Not so fussed about the rest of their album though.

On the other hand, fully agree on the Camera Obscura track - really surprised it made it in here. "Lloyd" was my #1 of 2006 and while I don't actively dislike French Navy it didn't make my 50 this year.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I just really love that one Juan Maclean track... Not so fussed about the rest of their album though.

Ditto, sort of. I like this track (but The Emperor Machine remix is waaaay better) and "No Time" and the intro to track #1. Also "Happy House" of course. But all those bits added together aren't quite enough to make the album a real favourite.