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

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Teh Knife = textbook definition of indie music which indie music fans like to think of as pop, shurely. Given it takes a sensitive acoustic cover of Heartbeats to get it into the pop charts it clearly ain't pop in its original form...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Heartbeats aside, I find the Knife pretty dire in non-remixed form - what off the new album should I hear to change this?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i doubt you'll like it as it's GOTHTRONICA with glacial synths a go go, tho i find it all quite marvellous

didn't you like 'Is It Medicine?' off 'Deep Cuts'?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Don't think I heard it, I only dl'ed a couple of tracks other than heartbeats, thought "right, I know your game mateys" and stopped. Oh and I heard a wretched Xmas song too!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am surprised again! I love The Knife - I think of them as a more songful offshoot of banging electro, rather than wimpy Bodies Without Blood type pop (also Karin Dreijer's voice is v definitely NOT bloodless and wimpy). I like 'Pass This On' and 'You Take My Breath Away' especially (haven't heard new album apart from 'Silent Shout' though).

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Tom, there was a Knife-thing on the ILM YSI thread which I enjoyed. I can YSI. Though, I too havent heard any Knife bar the RTD remix.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think by the third or fourth track I was hearing the vocal contortions as a boring gimmick rather than an exciting new thing. The backing was OK, none of the songwriting seemed up to Heartbeats though.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

You should give all of 'Deep Cuts' a listen Tom as there are fluctuations in style (obv. the voice and sounds used are fairly constant). You might like 'Listen Now' and 'Girls Night Out' for their uptempo Euro-y lean as well as the aforementioned 'Is It Medicine' techno-bop.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

knife = ladyton at 5rpm

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Off the new album: "Marble House".

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

NO WAI

indie has to involve guitars - simple golden rule #1 - The Knife don't use them. Kate Bush is indier than The Knife.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is preposterous.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

It doesn't mean everything ft. guitar = indie of course. Why do you think it's preposterous? Name me some Indie Music that's not guitar-dependent.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Magnectic Fields
Baxendale

.......

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

yes MAGNETIC FIELDS!!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Aren't all those wimpy synthy bands like the Postal Service still indie? Nitsuh is yer man for non-guitar indie.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I had always assumed Magnetic Fields were guitary, having never really heard them!

Baxendale are as Pop as they are Indie (the point, presumably), though I understand that attempting to co-opt the two makes you purely the latter according to some (EH?)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Robyn OH WAIT

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Rufus and Fiona and Tori officially NOT INDIE :D

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Rufus isn't indie! Come now! Lex!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

There is no sense in which Tori isn't indie. She may be that "good indie" that we were discussing yesterday Alex, I really felt we'd made a breakthrough there...

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

BOLLOCKS.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Lex, are you saying that rape victims can't be indie?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Stereolab.

I like ONE Stereolab song.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

But there is only one!