A New Decade In Pop: Week #51

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Simon Cowell gets the Xmas #1 spot as predicted by everyone and their dog. Let's have a look at the penultimate entries for 2010, aka Stupid Week:

[Poll #1659188]

Remember to:

i) go back and tick any past entries from this year's chart polls (click on 'Poll#12345' and 'Fill Out Poll' to change your votes)
ii) send in your top 20 lists by the end of the year to poptimistspoll2010@gmail.com! (Details here)

Comments

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

what a terrible choice. Biffy Clyro and all their songs can fvck right off. Especially the one about talking to satan and god.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Biffy Clyro are surely an urgent case for JUDGE POPP y/y?

THE CASE, M'LUD:
1) Busted breaking up
2) now this
3) general loitering in the chart lobby

I recommend to the jury that Rebecca joins a band with Matt and James from the aforementioned.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Feel vague regret that if I'd 'got behind' the CATM thing a bit more, having been the first print hack to write about it, I might have been invited to take part and could have fulfilled, in the cheatiest way possible, a niggling lifelong ambition of being on a Top 40 hit.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And obviously Surfin Bird is any good at all, in fact it's very good at all in most circs, but am I not correct in thinking the impetus here is the ever-horrible Family Guy?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Yes, this was what made me feel extremely ambiguous about ticking it, even though it is evidently Quite Good Indeed.

Altho I do find it v hard not to mentally sing the Birdseye Chicken version, when thinking of it.

Papa Oom Mow Mow

[koganbot]

I didn't tick it because I don't tick re-entries (except when I do); but you shouldn't think my DON'T LIKE ANY refers to it.

Here are the Rivingtons:

Re: Papa Oom Mow Mow

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The Trashmen song has never been in the UK Top 40 before this week, so technically ticking it wouldn't breach your rule.

In checking this, I discovered the nearest was a cover of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" & "Carry That Weight" in 1969 by a band called Trash, which peaked at #35.

Re: Papa Oom Mow Mow

[koganbot]

Hmmm. I guess it was in the Top 100 though. It still feels like a... revival. Which of course makes it part of modern-day pop, grumble grumble. I still feel justified in not ticking it. Maybe if the Trashmen were still a viable act... I felt I was right to tick "99 Problems" on the heels of Glastonbury, but this one doesn't feel right. And if the Glee Cast ever cover "Surfin' Bird" I suppose I'll have to blurb it.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Ticked all of these (haf not actually heard "X-Mas" but tis the season, so free pass; if it's actually a Gary Jules or Hurts-like misery fest, do say and I'll untick).

We have actually had Biffy before, all the way back in Week #3 (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/758613.html). I was the only one to tick it then, mainly because it's not only a daft title but they actually managed to shoehorn said title into the lyric... just. There are two big problems with the Matt Cardigan version: the change of title and the key change (Note to S. Cowell: can we have an X Factor finalists/winner's song that forgos the key change just once plsthks?). But he makes a decent fist of it otherwise. I certainly won't turn it off when it next comes on the radio.

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John Cage - 4'33 (Cage Against The Machine Version)

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