POPTIMISTS TRACKS OF 2009: Nos 6-1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The top six! Thanks to everyone who voted of course, and have at it in the comments box. Surprises? In content perhaps not, in ordering...?

6. DIZZEE RASCAL & ARMAND VAN HELDEN - "Bonkers" (109 points)

Probably the biggest Poptimism floorfiller of the year.

5. TAYLOR SWIFT - "You Belong With Me" (123 points)

Nindie Taylor fights Pop Taylor! I had to get Matt Fluxblog to explain what "bleachers" were to me!

4. DAS RACIST - "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)" (125 points)

OK so where exactly are you again?

Some votes not for the Wallpaper mix, incidentally.

3. LILY ALLEN - "The Fear" (140 points)

Embedding disabled on this video, which is lovely as you should remind yourselves. The only carryover from last year's list, it placed higher this year and hence qualifies.

2. SHAKIRA - "She Wolf" (148 points)

Embedding disabled on this video, which is also in its way lovely, that way being a little more awkward to watch in an open plan office. About a third of the votes were for "Loba", the Spanish-language version.

1. LADY GAGA - "Bad Romance" (169 points)

It was very close between the top three until the last ballot, but "Bad Romance" was in the lead more often than not. Well done Lady G - especially for sweeping the poll with a record out so close to year's end.

Comments

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I guess we've already established none of these are a surprise. The top 2 are the same ones in the same order as my top 2. I suppose I also shouldn't have been surprised that ComboPizzaBell ranked as high as it did, as it was the lowest of these tracks on my own list (though it was *on* my list, pace Lex et al.).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good work everyone! I approve of all of these choices.

2004 polls will restart NEXT TUESDAY (see you etc) so feel free to start reppin for yr 2004 nominations L-N.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Tom, will you post the long list (under a cut obv) of evrything that got voted for, so we can play the "ooh if only I'd knoooown" game?

For the record my 4 punts that got no echo were: "Calle Ocho" (fairly surprised at this), "Chip Diddy Chip" (hopes were low), "My Love" by The Bird and The Bee (no expectations) and that Young Soul Rebels song (don't make me larff).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes as usual the full list (all 85 + the 250 or so one-voters) will be up in a post tomorrow.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

3 of these were high in my own ballot so I seem to have been much more in tune with poptimists than usual - but that doesn't surprise me since it seemed like a good year for pop so less fragmented. I guess that given Das Racist I know only through people on the internet and it appears to have no real world existence, I shouldn't count it as evidence of anything...

For comparative purposes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Popjustice's Readers Poll Singles of 09

1. Lady Gaga Poker Face (#10 on our list)
2. Cheryl Cole Fight For This Love (Did not place)
3. Lady Gaga Bad Romance (#1 on our list)
4. La Roux Bulletproof (#32 on our list)
5. Pet Shop Boys Love Etc (Did not place)
6. Jordin Sparks Battlefield (#19 on our list)
7. Little Boots Remedy (#20 on our list)
8. Girls Aloud Untouchable (#47 on our list)
9. Lilly Allen The Fear (#3 on our list)
10. Shakira She Wolf (#2 on our list)

Re: For comparative purposes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

3 of the Top 10 Pitchfork tracks of 2009 were in our list: "Zero" (6 in PF, 8 for us); "1901" (3 in PF, 29 for us), "Stillness Is The Move" (2 in PF, 38 for us)

Re: For comparative purposes

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

So that makes us officially 3.53% indie! We should put that on the userinfo page.

Re: For comparative purposes

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We bloody should.

Re: For comparative purposes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well no, if they were ALL on our list by that reckoning we would still only be 10% indie, whereas in fact we would have a Girls song in our poll and therefore be in reality ALL THE INDIE.

Re: For comparative purposes

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Now done.

Re: For comparative purposes

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

3.53% sounds better though.

Re: For comparative purposes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes I thoroughly approve of its status as a claim to make!

Re: For comparative purposes

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

congratulations us for no "My Girls"!

Re: For comparative purposes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Not even a single mention! Which I was honestly amazed by!

[koganbot]

Was the Wallpaper mix ever actually for sale anywhere? (I steer clear of iTunes so don't know this information.)

[koganbot]

I wrote a poem regarding two of these but can't post it yet as it contains a SPOILER.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Don't think I've ever voted for the number one in a poptimists end of year poll before!

Re: For comparative purposes

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I feel we have been saved rather a tedious discussion owing to the discretion of the voters. Perhaps everyone was warned off by the situation over at the jukebox!