POPTIMISTS TRACKS OF 2009: Nos 24-19

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

24. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - "Hysteric"

Pop balladry from Poptimists' current favourite indie band.

23. KID SISTER - "Right Hand Hi"

Electro banger, the video for which is Vevo'ed (though maybe I can embed it, IDK, let's give it a shot eh)

22. FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)"

Hurrah! It's Mad Florence! Who I admit I was slightly better disposed to before her appearance on EVERY TRAILER EVER on channel 4. Lowest ranked song to get more than 4 votes. A handful of points for the Jamie T remix here.

21. SAINT ETIENNE - "Method Of Modern Love"

One of (I think) 3 singles on the list I actually bought for digital money. No video exists for this I think.

20. LITTLE BOOTS - "Remedy" (52 points)

Into the Top 20! I was a bit disappointed in her 2009: many of you weren't.

19. JORDIN SPARKS - "Battlefield" (53 points)

WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP. Embedding disabled though.

Now we're in the Top 20 it seems a good time to ask for your PREDICTIONS and GUESSES, before it gets too obvious :)

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I am lousy at guessing and some of my favourites have already gone, but surely Taylor Swift will do well (You Belong With Me especially) and I think Zero by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will attract votes from a particularly wide constituency.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in whether Bad Romance gained enough traction to make it a 2009 song, when it's been in the last week that I've noticed it blowing up (from "Oh hey I really like this" to "Oh hey I really love this but it's Everywhere All The Time".

I have no idea what would keep The Fear off No.1 here.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

didn't The Fear do quite well in last years' poll though? or is everyone just voting for it again (having said that, I did)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was #19 - and the rule is that if it gets higher than that this time it counts, otherwise it doesn't. Wait and see :)

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I'd guess at a Top 5 of be The Fear, I'm On A Boat, Bad Romance, You Belong With Me, something else - maybe in that order?

I am really annoyed to realize that 'The Loving Kind' isn't going to place even though Untouchable did - it's the second year in a row my favourite chart single of the year has been scuppered by coming out in January!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I put TLK in my ballot last year I think (and I don't think it got into the list)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Aw crap, the fifth is going to be Das Rasict, isn't it? And I was just enjoying having the Lex around again :)

If I Gotta Feeling gets anywhere near the top five when Boom Boom Pow ended up in the 85-61 group, I will be a very fucking sad panda indeed. Are people remembering the Two-thousand-and-late line and thinking it came out then?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Can't comment on how IGF did, but Boom Boom Pow's underperformance is one of the big poll surprises for me too.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Definitely Bad Romance, I'd say, and I'd be surprised if there weren't some Rihanna somewhere up there but I'm not 100% sure which track it might be. Also, obv Taylor, obv COMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL, obv Lily.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Russian Roulette, I'd expect.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think Combination On A Boat and Dizzee Allen w/ some Rihanna on the side.

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

I predict that no more of my nominations will appear in the list. Still, I've had two in the chart which seems dangerously mainstream.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I'm really, really hoping to see a showing from Royksopp & Robin, and also something from The Very Best, at least in the top 20. I was too busy to vote myself so hopefully some other kind soul will have read my mind!

Otherwise, I'll be amazed (like most of the other commenters) if Combination & Lily aren't in the Top 10.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

*y!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Surely the Blah Blah Blahs are in fact singing 'It's Derek!'?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

All the better!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha! well yes, the apparent disjunction did make me more interested in the song...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

No-one has mentioned Shakira yet, but I'm assuming She Wolf will be top 10 certainly, if not top 5.

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

yeah I'm holding out for Shakira at no.1. What makes me sad is Nneka isn't going to be in the top 85 :(.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dudes who like the Kid Sister track above would do well to check out this album track of hers that suddenly goes BATSHIT at 0.40:

[koganbot]

Yeah, what everybody said. If it hadn't split years, "The Fear" would win decisively, but now I think the contest is between "Bad Romance" and "You Belong With Me." And "Combination Pizza Butt/Taco Hell" comes in fourth. Not so sure about "Boat." I am confident that Jim Jones' "Na Na Nana Na Na" and Rihanna's "Photographs" aren't going to place, despite my voting for them.