Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Readers Poll 2010 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010 Lollards in the high church of low culture Mon, 15 May 2023 22:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-769265 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:35:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-769265 Current standings: 459 tracks named, 104 with more than 1 vote. 4 artists with 5 songs named and 1 with 6.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-768466 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:28:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-768466 I’ve just tallied up the ballots received so far (for FT and Poptimists): gratifyingly the #2 slot on the FT poll is currently occupied by a track I’d never heard before!

338 tracks mentioned so far, 70 of ’em with more than 1 vote. 3 different artists have 5 nominated songs apiece. Keep them coming!

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By: Lex https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-768371 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:08:20 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-768371 I can’t imagine having to pad my ballot out with reissues.

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By: the pinefox https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-768293 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:59:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-768293 I cannot imagine liking 100 songs from this year!

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-768280 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:16:57 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-768280 I’ve sent my 20 so-called-pop faves but I don’t expect most of them to trouble the upper end of the overall results, so check out a youtube playlist of my full 100 if interested: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=66DD19CB8AE40E5B

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-768234 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:31:08 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-768234 #11 – I’d say yes, it doesn’t have to have been recorded in 2010. Reissues of stuff that was high profile at the time shouldn’t count though.

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By: the pinefox https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-768233 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:28:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-768233 Can one name tracks that were recorded years ago and have now been either rereleased, or released for the first time in 2010?

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764454 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:11:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764454 #7 Yes! If it’s unranked say so.
#8 I was actually harsher than P&J, in that if something had charted the previous year it needed to beat its position to qualify. So “The Fear” was our #19 in 2008 and then in our Top 3 last year. But “Bad Romance” was #1 last year and so there’s no chance of it appearing this time.
#9 Well we can sort it out! But yes each one will only be counted once. We might then have separate subgroups so we can work out what was popular among self-defined Poptimists and which among the FT voters…

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By: koganbot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764452 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:06:31 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764452 Oh, and I assume you very much don’t want us to submit our ballots both here and at poptimists, as you’ll be adding the two sets of submissions yourselves. Right?

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By: koganbot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764450 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:58:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764450 Do they have to be from 2010? You don’t have to go back and check the release dates or anything, if you think it’s a 2010 track we’ll take your word for it. And if it was from an 09 album but got a single release in 2010 that’s fine too.

Well, what I’m doing on my ballot, should it come up, is counting tracks from ’09 if they had their main impact in ’10 (which, by the way, is what the Village Voice recommends in its instructions for its Pazz & Jop poll); and I remember that last year over on poptimists Tom, like the Voice, had some formula for deciding when a track got sufficient attention this year to make its previous year’s totals eligible to be added to this year’s (this is so as not to penalize the tracks that get their votes split between the years, though I don’t think anything actually qualified last year).*

Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” would be an obvious example here, since it didn’t peak until 2010. Also, Coati Mundi’s “Bundas Bom,” which, if my sense of things is right, is going to get a sudden burst of attention in these parts.

Also, for my ballot, I consider leaks and boots and mashups very eligible.

*But this also means I won’t put anything on my ballot this year that I already voted for last year, even if its explosion of popularity was in 2010.

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By: koganbot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764445 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:32:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764445 Do I have to put them in order? No, but please indicate in the email if they’re not! We will probably do a mix of the top picks though, so if you do have a #1 at least tell us that.

In other words, it will be assumed that the entries are in order unless you say otherwise, so (for instance) your number 1 will be allocated more points than your number 20. (Some people were confused on this point over on poptimists, so that’s why I’m clarifying it.)

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By: swanstep https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764289 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:19:43 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764289 I sent in my list yesterday, fully understanding that there was a lot of stuff I hadn’t got around to hearing. A very subjective list in other words. Well, bloody hell. Just today in the light of the Guardian picking Janelle Monae’s album as best of the year I finally got around to checking out some tracks from her on youtube for the first time. Oh. My. God is she good. She’s gonna have to be my Ms 2011….

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764177 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:30:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764177 did my provisional top 100 last night and it was MOIDER

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By: punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764176 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:30:15 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764176 Southport shurely?

I do like the first Gomez album, especially when that Tom Ewing fella sings…

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By: Tommy https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764160 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:28:07 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764160 Kat @ 2: I linked to this thru yr comment and was expecting a photo of some Southampton shamblers in Millets student gear…

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By: Kat https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764133 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:19:07 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764133 That Gomez picture never gets old.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2010/comment-page-1#comment-764093 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:46:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20193#comment-764093 Thanks to the people who’ve already sent their lists in! There will be reminders aplenty I’m sure, particularly as deadline day approaches.

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