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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Hello, Kylie here, just to say that my friends at Last.fm have been working round the clock to bring you the latest poptimists chart. AND I DO MEAN LATE!!!!!!!

After the last couple of weeks of widely played songs, this week sees poptimists splintering with the new number 1 and 2 only just ahead by a nose of a swathe of songe with a reach of 3. I don't know what to make of this, especially as I've not heard #2 or #1:

1 Twenty 4 Seven - Leave Them Alone 6
2 vrooom - Budjenje 5

Joint 3rd with 3 plays
Johnny Boy - Wall Street
Johnny Boy - War On Want
The KLF - It's Grim Up North (Radio Edit)
Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve
Johnny Boy - Fifteen Minutes
Johnny Boy - Livin' In The City
Morningwood - nth Degree
The Knife - F As In Knife

Then ranked outside the 10 but also with 3 plays each:
Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves
Shuji to Akira - Seishun Amigo
Half Man Half Biscuit - Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo
The Knife - Like a pen
Johnny Boy - Bonnie Parker's 115th Dream
Marit Bergman Vs. Justus Köhncke - Rentcode
Girls Aloud - Wild Horses
Deepchild - Blackness of the Sea (Luomo)
The Knife - Na na na
The Knife - silent shout
The Knife - Marble house
Robyn - Be mine!


I can tell you that I've been listening to the last.fm poptimists radio* and it's truly lovely. A smattering of your pop favourites with a SUSPICIOUS amount of indie and esoteric listening thrown in for good measure. They've obviously extended their play list as Rex Teh Dog came out of it the other day. MMMMMMM. I was very struck by Melody Club which also popped up. Somebody tell me about em - and which album i should buy

Bye bye til next week, love Kylie

*that link only works if you have the standalone player - go get it! nb i am not actually being paid for this advocacy, i just love it

Comments

What to make of it

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I WUZ K-ROBBED

Re: What to make of it

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

If only Twenty 4 Seven had had a SHOUTY MAN, they would have qualified. One can never underestimate how much ver indie kids like shouty men.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Melody Club are brilliant! They are a Swedish electro-pop-rock group, very 80s energetic sort of sound. I think Face The Music is their best album (more commercially poppy, higher rate of good songs) but if you're into the electro you might like the first one better.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i went ahead and bought music machine (the one with 'electric' on it) and got an interested comment from the Virgin megastore cashier for my trouble. i am so down with the kids.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I would agree with Jessica that "Face The Music" is better, but that said, "Electric" is their absolute best song, worth the purchase of its parent album alone.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I once tried to buy Music Machine in Virgin but they wouldn't let me! I ended up getting it from the Internet. Do you like it so far?

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Half Man also robbed.

The best thing about Poptimists radio is the occasional Chinese pop track that pops up. Dig them ungoogleable names.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

Rentcode! Yes!