A kung fu fighter in a disco

Since there's no Podcast Panel until Wednesday, what better time to put up the two* remaining fites in the Pop Open!

How to play? Easy: go to http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/pop-open-week-231/ and listen to the tracks. Then pick which from each pair (7 vs 8 and 9 vs 10) you prefer, and vote accordingly. EXCEPT - if you already know a track you cannot vote for it, you can only abstain in its favour.

The winners of these will go through to the final, which will be a special week of the Podcast Panel, voting on each of the finalists' songs in turn. They will join mackromackro, lockedintheatti and stevem78 (who knocked byebyepride out in the little-noticed Round 3.3 vote.

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*there is a third one, but I never got a track from umlauts (and to be fair I wasn't exactly chasing one!): if he sends one in I will run it otherwise anatol_merklich gets a bye.

Thanks to cis, infov0re, hauntedballroom and w3ft for these tracks!

After a somewhat epic gap - a new FITE! And this will be the last until the new year so you have plenty of time to listen to the tracks - http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/12/pop-open-week-16/ - and consider.

As before you can VOTE for either track five or six, or ABSTAIN IN FAVOUR OF one or the other, since you're not allowed to vote for a track you know. I will post regular reminders over the Yuletide season.

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Thanks to this week's competitors, byebyepride and stevem78.

Here's what these two tracks were (hear them at http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/12/pop-open-week-151/)

( Reveals and Reviews )

You can still vote, and indeed should still vote, in the poll: http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/485388.html - don't be swayed by my reviews.

And while you're at it go and do the year-end one too: http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/490362.html

There's another Pop Open ready to roll tomorrow, and I'll announce the results of this one. It's fair to say this will not "all be over by Christmas", specially as I'm still waiting on a few songs.

My intention of posting another fite on Friday collapsed because i. I took a day off and found that ii. My home internet was bolloxed. I will post one this afternoon. Meanwhile the voting deadline on fite #1 has been postponed until tomorrow noon, and here are the reveals/reviews:

( Spoilers )

Hear the tracks here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/pop-open-week-141/ (moggy - and anyone else who can't join in - they'll still be up on the FT server for a good long while)

And go here to vote: http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/482068.html - I'm not copying in the poll because you would miss out on all those lovely complex abstention rules.

Results for the 00s group - good turnout and very close:

FIRST PLACE: NOZE - "Remember Love" (8 first place votes, 35% of total points) - w3ft WINS.

SECOND PLACE: PENDULUM - "Hold Your Colour" (7 first place votes, 28% of total points) - piratemoggy QUALIFIES.

THIRD PLACE: RISKAY - "Smell Yo Dick" (6 first place votes, 23% of total points) - alexmacpherson is OUT.

FOURTH PLACE: GLASS CANDY - "Candy Castle" (1 first place vote, 14% of total points) - kill_yr_idols is OUT.

Congrats and commiserations to the excellent competitors.

The 3rd round will start later this week with mackromackro vs credoimprobus - both have got me their tracks, as have infov0re and byebyepride: thanks to all.

I need tracks, in MP3 format, no theme, pick anything you like, from w3ft, hauntedballroom, lockedintheatti, piratemoggy, cis, stevem78, umlauts and anatol_merklich - I will email to remind later in the week. Tracks to leagueofpop@gmail.com please!

I'll be moving through the third round at a fair clip. Winners of the 3rd round bouts will then have a very brief time to submit a track for the 4th round, where the theme is WINTER (including Christmas or not, as you wish). I'll probably do that as one big batch of six. The theme for the final will be VICTORY.

The much delayed NOUGHTIES GROUP in the Pop Open. I'll be doing reveals for this on Friday and closing date for voting is Monday.

Tracks are available to stream here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/the-pop-open-week-14/

In my humble opinion at least three of these are belters (I'm not saying which) so whether you are a louche pop open regular or a blushing poll virgin this is one to participate in. Remember you can't vote for any tracks you knew already!

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Thanks to alexmacpherson, kill_yr_idols, piratemoggy and w3ft for these tunes.

Sorry for the delay on these reveals and reviews for the Pop Open Nineties group! Work went a bit crazy at the end of last week and then my home interwebs fell over. The deadline for voting is, plainly, NOT this morning, but will now be tomorrow lunchtime.

( Reveals! )

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Tracks are streamed and downloadable here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/pop-open-week-13/

Results for the Pop Open 80s Group - 90s group up tomorrow!

FIRST PLACE: Geier Sturzflug - "Bruttosozialprodukt" (9 first-place votes, 46% of total points) - cis WINS!

SECOND PLACE: Berlin - "The Metro" (7 first-place votes, 28% of total points) - byebyepride QUALIFIES.

THIRD PLACE: Roman Holiday - "Don't Try To Stop It" (3 first-place votes, 19% of total points) - carsmilesteve is OUT.

FOURTH PLACE: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "Straight Into Darkness" (0 first-place votes, 7% of total points) - justfanoe is OUT.

Congratulations and commiserations where required - Cis and Byebyepride go through to the knockout round 3 which is of course THEMELESS.

Eighties! We're living in the Eighties! Four tracks available at http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/pop-open-week-12/ in streamed form. My PC was erratic last night so I wasn't able to put them up as a zipfile - I will sort this out tonight.

Anyway, give them a listen, decide which you like best, vote below. This poll will run until next Monday lunchtime.

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Thanks to the four contestants, though I've forgotten who one of them is so I won't name names.

*actually, being rather good in the seventies.

The Pop Open Seventies Group - revealed, reviewed, reminded. You have another 24 hours to cast your votes here!

( Reveal! )

The tracks live here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/pop-open-week-11/

And here's the poll:

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Keep on voting dudes! Next: the EIGHTIES.