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]

I can distinguish between Carey, Aguilera et al! In fact whenever I talk about modern r&b to most people one of the arguments I'm often faced with is that the singers themselves are indistinguishable (via melisma or blandness), and succeed only due to Timbaland/Neptunes production - this happened on an ILM thread, but Tim and I couldn't really think of ANY r&b singer we classed as completely generic (apart from maybe Ashanti). And I think the stylistic differences between eg Mya, Ciara and Beyonce are def as great as those between Tori, Kate and Fiona - ie quite large.

I am tempted to say that the the former can sing 'better' than the latter - and due to its very nature technical proficiency will make people sound more like each other than technical incompetence ie indieness - but then someone like Fiona Apple has a properly good jazz voice whereas Ciara has only just slightly more range than Cat Power.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Possibly I might struggle in a "blindfold" "pepsi challenge" involving Brandy, Mya, Aaliyah, Ashanti, Kiley Dean and Ciara (depending on which songs you chose of course).

(Which doesn't mean I subscribe to the "succeeds only due to the production" view. Far from it.)

(And I'd have no problems spotting Mariah, Xtina and Bouncy I think)