Pie Chart Topping

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Morningwood - Nth Degree 9
Sir Lancelot - Pan american way 9
Bodies Without Organs - Gone 9

Gene Serene & John Downfall - The Hours 7

Coldplay - Talk (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) 6
The Knife - Neverland 6

The Knife - silent shout 5
Cat Power - The Greatest 5
The Knife - The captain 5
The Knife - Marble house 5


Morningwood still at the top, but now sharing their slice of the pop pie at 9 plays each with Pop World Cup entries: Bodies Without Organs (yay the all conquering* swedes) and Sir Lancelot (plucky Trinidad/Tobago). England trailing behind in 4th place... BREAKING NEWS swedes swizzed as England qualify!! What mad science is this?

However winning on points - as predicted last week- are Teh Knife with FOUR songs. My that's almost an entirely new album there. I suspect that the mysterious TARWATER may feature here next week. SEE YOU THEN

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

She is in Poptimist chart = she is pop!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this chart is not POPTISMO-SÜKRÅTIST aligned!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sir Lancelot = only non indie song here.

Maybe BWO.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

BWO are COMPLETELY INDIE!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was intrigued by your hatred of BWO actually Lex.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I find them wimpy and bloodless - in fact given your own Robyn-hate I'm surprised that you like BWO as I think they commit all the same sins but even worse.

Gareth and I were talking last night about how a lot of the pro-pop people appear to have collectively decided that pop is a sonic genre rather than...anything and everything which cannibalises anything and everything else with an eye on the charts and sonic results all over the map, which is how I would want to define and approve of pop. And this sonic genre is Wimpy Bloodless Scandinavians - and with a few exceptions, I find myself unable to be very down with that. And BWO are basically the epitome of its worst aspects.

Do you think the above paragraph deserves a post of its own?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's only the "actually indie pretend pro-pop" people who think that ;)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge fan of BWO, some of their songs are good, some less so, on the whole where the material needs wimpiness (that one about the rain) the wimpiness works. I'm comfy with their style though, quite knowingly traditional. Robyn is more interesting but more annoying. Alcazar do similar things to BWO but 100 times better usually.

I think the pop as scavenger vs pop as style question is interesting enough for its own post and it touches on a lot of the stuff I've been mulling over myself. I am about to go to the most boring meeting of the year though so don't expect much from me.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes I'll do a post if I have time today - possibly tomorrow at this rate though!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i have to agree w.lex abt BWO: based on the PWC entry they seem very ploddingly by-numbers compared to their Most Obvious Forebear -- I know Abba carved FOR REAL into their eight respective arms by ACTUALLY brining the julia-lennon/fleetwood mac dimensions of their offstage lives RIGHT INTO THEIR SONGS but -- even if we treat this all as fake-em-out taTu-esque shtick -- they introduced this kind of pellmell resigned despair into their pitch-perfect design-sense

(disclaimer: aqua only have abt two good songs in togo toto so if you hit the wrong one first you wd never know their grebtness)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is another niggling qn for Dr Pop actually - why are there so few good bands who sound like ABBA (given the colossally huge sales ABBA had especially)

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Best parenthesis ever!

<i>Do you think the above paragraph deserves a post of its own?</i>

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Go on, then!

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

I'd like you to talk about wimpiness. I'm far more indie than you--possibly that's why wimpiness doesnt bother me so much! :)