Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2015: #10-#1 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1 Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Rory https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1913849 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:23:15 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1913849 #26 I’ll second that! I also really appreciated the prompt to listen to Art Angels, another new favourite.

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By: cryptopian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1913646 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:57:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1913646 A word of thanks to any Susanne Sundfør voters for introducing me to my new favourite album.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1733222 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:56:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1733222 I was also incredibly excited about NEW MISSY but forgot to actually listen to the song until a month or so had passed, which is probably why I didn’t feel very whelmed by it.

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1733112 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:40:34 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1733112 I am feeling a little disconnected from music listening after reading this – not because of songs I don’t know (there’s lots of those), but because I remember going nuts when WTF came out, excited for more from Missy in the future. It was a very exciting afternoon, but then I forgot all about it – like, literally I had forgotten about the song by the time it turned up in this poll.

(this may also be “Andrew’s Getting Older”, of course)

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By: James BC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1733011 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:37:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1733011 I’d just like to add my thanks for doing the poll – the usual strange mix of the very well known and the (to me) incredibly obscure. I bought WTF so it must be a worthy winner, though I’m not sure I remembered to vote for it.

I think I was the one who put the Charli XCX / Giorgio Moroder song at number 1. You all should listen to it!

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By: dollymix https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1732337 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:44:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1732337 I didn’t expect any other votes for my #1 (Juliana Hatfield), but I’m sad my #2 pick, Grace Mitchell’s “Jitter”, missed out, since it seems like the sort of thing this readership would like.

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By: katstevens https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1731858 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:24:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1731858 #19: I love the whole album – ‘Airway Management’ to me sounds like late-90s Orbital have dropped a tea tray down the stairs = tick.
#20: I put ‘Barbarian’ in my ballot! Immensely silly & enjoyable.

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By: Cumbrian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1731828 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:43:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1731828 Thanks to everyone who voted in this. I am basically so disengaged with new music and new artists that things like this, curated by people who I at least am aware of through their writing (either articles or in the comments), are really helpful for me to find out about things that I wouldn’t otherwise hear. Big find for me this year is Susanne Sundfor – who squarely falls into the bracket of “I would never hear this in the normal run of my listening” – every track recommended here was a further push to just go and get the album, which I did over the weekend. And it’s ace. So thanks again.

Much more aware of what’s in the Top 10 than would otherwise have been the case. Unfortunately, with the odd exception, I don’t rate most of it. For instance, I have no idea what people see in that CRJ song or Can’t Feel My Face. Kendrick’s good, mind.

I didn’t vote – for the aforementioned reason that I hear nothing that would fit into this in the normal scheme of things – I spent most of my 2015 reconnecting with metal and other stripes of heavy rock, and no one needs to hear me unconvincingly advocate for Restarter by Torche, The Darkness’ latest track in what seems like a long running effort to put together a rock musical about the myths and history of East Anglia or the title track of AC/DC’s most recent album (the one track from their new album which absolutely stood muster with the rest of the set that they played when I saw them at Wembley back in July), when the rest of the world has long since moved on from that sort of thing.

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By: jeff w https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1730427 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:12:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1730427 Not particular taken with “Airway…” but have been sampling the Nick Höppner album on Spotify this morning and “Mirror Image” is twinkly loveliness.

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By: swanstep https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728614 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:14:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728614 @14, Apres Le Temps – The Revolutionary Army Of the Infant Jesus, which I just streamed from Bandcamp, is a pretty stunning beginning of something. Will now check out their other stuff to see where it goes…Thanks to whoever had this as their #1.

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By: katstevens https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728562 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:09:05 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728562 STATS CRUNCH:

Splitters Award: Jeppers with 7 different nominations, runner up being Susanne Sundfør with 6.

Total no. of songs nominated: 386

Track with most individual votes that didn’t make the top 40: “Can’t Stop Thinking About You” by Tobias Jesso Jr.

81% of the nominated songs only got one vote (about the same as previous years).

UK 2015 Singles Chart #1 Artists that didn’t receive a single vote: Wiz Khalifa, Lost Frequencies, David Zowie, Meghan Trainor, Rachel Platten, Sam Smith and the NHS Choir.

Lowest average score in the Top 40 (i.e. lots of people voted for it, but put it low down on their list): “FourFiveSeconds” by Rihanna/Kanye/Macca

Highest average score in the Top 40 (i.e. fewer people voted for it, but they all gave it a massive thumbs up): “Accelerate” by Susanne Sundfør.

I also had a column for Standard Deviation but no-one’s interested in that now, are they.

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By: thefatgit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728537 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:38:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728537 *rushes off to YouTube to check out AronChupa* Now I’m scared…that view count!

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728528 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:26:28 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728528 fuuuuuck i forgot i’m an albatross

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By: katstevens https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728525 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:23:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728525 Posting this v late last night meant I forgot to do a run down of people’s #1 picks that didn’t make the Top 40:

Airway Management – Nick Höppner (my top pick, v close between this and Missy)
Apres Le Temps – The Revolutionary Army Of the Infant Jesus
Bitch I’m Madonna – Madonna ft Nicki Minaj
Calypso – Dawn Richard
Diamonds – Giorgio Morodor ft Charli XCX
I’m An Albatross – AronChupa (This year’s CHALLOPS pick)
If I Could – Juliana Hatfield Three
Kitty Kat – Empress Of
Lemon Eyes – Meg Myers
March Madness – Future
Number One – Tove Styrke
Realism – Bodega Bay
Reason To Die Young – Le Butcherettes
Regret – Everything Everything
Somebody Loves You – Betty Who
Street Pastor Colloquy, 3AM – Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
The Legend of Chavo Guerrero – The Mountain Goats
?? – Ash-B

(If yours has not appeared then blame the spreadsheet)

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By: thefatgit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728486 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:34:11 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728486 @Swanstep, yeah I hear all that too. But it’s that thing in the back of the mix that harks back to Cyndi. In the end it’s all sugar.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728470 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:20:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728470 Hurrah for Kat for doing the poll.

The Top 10 was considerably less surprising than what had come before – four tracks I would have probably put money on.

Stuff I’d never heard before:
Accelerate – Starts off OK, gets a bit too big towards the end for my purposes.

Stuff I had heard:
Trap Queen – Catchy as hell, but annoying. Enough with this mumbly r’n’b half-singing. (As I write that sentence, Post Malone pops up on the TV. Grrr.)

I Can’t Feel My Face – Even more ubiquitous than Drake, but less hateable. I just find his stuff dull.

King – This hung around for ever. Bloke needs a decent meal. Nah.

I Really Like You – I get why people went big for this, but it never really clicked for me. Don’t think it’s the best of her tracks this year.

Cool For The Summer – Sleek and powerful. But baffled by the reviews that suggested this was some kind of radical statement and contrasted it with I Kissed A Girl – it’s still all curiosity and ‘something I want to try’. The difference is Demi appears to want a shag rather than a snog.

Black Magic – It’s a recreation of an idea of the ’80s, rather than the actual ’80s. Again, I know why people liked it rather than really enjoying myself.

You And I Alone – I’d totally forgotten about this. I quite like it, but then I always had a soft spot for D&C.

King Kunta – The big, graspable moment from what it is an impressive but dense and intense album. (My question: Do the kids like Kendrick? I’d be interested to know. What I do know pensioners with vivid memories of Sly Stone etc do – apart from David Bowie’s recently much-cited enthusiasm for To Pimp A Butterfly, I overheard Richard Williams, who is 68, raving about it at Lord Sukrat’s Underground/Overground conference.) Awesome.

WTF – Not surprised at its position, seeing as I got excited texts from friends when it was first played on the radio. Don’t think it’s extraordinary, just think folks are super-chuffed that Missy is back and identifiably herself.

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By: swanstep https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728431 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:22:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728431 ‘King Kunta’ was the only one I voted for here (my #8), and perhaps unsurprisingly (and with all due respect to Missy, Weeknd, and CRJ) I find that it towers over the rest.

@fatgit. ‘Black Magic’ is a kind of maximally irritating combination of cheerleader chants a la Hollaback Girl/I wanna be your girlfriend with Taylor Swift’s Blank Space chorus.

Surprised given Popular’s demo that New Order’s ‘People on the High Line’ didn’t show up somewhere. Hella good and a bassline beyond Hooky to die for – one of the year’s most pleasant surprises to my ears. I had it at #7.

My #1 was Empress Of’s ‘Kitty Kat’ (I had tracks by Tame Impala and Alabama Shakes at #2 and #3). It’s on spotify and youtube (with a lyrics vid. only), so check it out if you missed it!

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By: thefatgit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728410 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:31:31 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728410 So here we are, and what a trip it’s been:

Susanne Sundfør – Much as I really admire Susanne Sundfør, I’m wondering whether I’ll be pursuing her stuff in 2016, or moving on to something new. Time will tell I s’pose. One observation re: the video; where’s the schlong?

Fetty Wap – Forgive my dirty mind, but whenever I hear this guy’s name my subconscious does that Spoonerism thing, and I chuckle every time.

The Weeknd – Gotta admit, I preferred “The Hills” to this.

Years & Years – I was going to make some snarky comment about the room in the video needing a feature wall, but then I realised Years & Years ARE THE FEATURE WALL!

CRJ’s I Really Like You – Undeniable. Inescapable. Irresistible.

Demi Lovato – Never knowingly heard this. That’s the first time I’ve said that in this top 10. Sounds like a lot of other stuff, on first listen. Maybe I’m immune to Demi’s charms.

Little Mix – There’s a bit of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” running through this like “BLACKPOOL” through rock.

Daphne & Celeste & Max Tundra – I was wondering if Hannah Diamond or S.O.P.H.I.E. might feature in this poll, but why bother when D&C come along and show these young ‘uns how it’s done. They ran the piss gauntlet at Reading* for you, kids! Show them all due respect.

Kendrick Lamar – I know nothing about Kendrick Lamar. This must change soon.

Missy Elliot & Pharrell Williams – As one might say on Tumblr; I can’t even. “WTF” makes everything else around it sound inadequate somehow. How the fuck do they do that?

Not featured, probably would have voted for: “Marvin Gaye”, “Out Of The Black”, “In2”. I must vote in 2016. No excuses.

*I assume this is a matter of historical fact and not just an exaggeration from those “I was there” bores.

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By: jeff w https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728394 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:57:30 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728394 Thanks for running this Kat!

Voted for #1 and #3 but they were last and third-last on my ballot respectively. The only other things I voted for in the whole top 41 (or 42) were “Coffee” and “Sunday Candy”. (Figured Kendrick needed no help from me.)

And for all the Sundfør here, her best song (“Fade Away”), the only one I voted for, didn’t make it.

#bah #idontknowupeople

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By: Tommy Mack https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728362 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:15:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728362 The bloke from the Black Magic video is a proper douche. Why are Little Mix trying to snare a chap who a) has a ponytail and leather jacket in 2015 and b) is so uptight he can’t handle the idea of a woman farting?

Yay Kendrick, probably would have been my #2 after vote-rigging #1 choice. If I had got round to voting.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728311 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:11:56 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728311 I like the fact that the “next video” screen at the end of D&C offers you a choice of their early funny stuff or Grimes – a great choose-your-own-pop-adventure decision.

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By: flahr https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728287 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:30:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728287 I voted for three of these (and SUPPRESSED PEOPLE’S CHAMPION MTMOTN). Daphne & Celeste! Maybe next year Junior Senior will be comfortably Top 5 with a comeback single.

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By: flahr https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728275 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:09:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728275 “….she’s released a song that sounds over a decade old and is *still* better than 2015?s combined musical output (as scientifically proven by this poll!)”

Maybe that just means the voters are all BORING OLD FARTS like what were in the Little Mix video

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By: weej https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728248 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:22:13 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728248 Very happy to read this one, especially as it seems that my taste gels well with the FT hivemind this time – WTF was my #1 and You & I Alone was my #2. No chance of my D&B stuff getting in there, but I was well-enough prepared for that. If anyone’s interested my top 75 with playlists / downloads / unfortunately no blurbs is here

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728112 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:34:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728112 I did a Spotify playlist (sadly missing Taylor and JME but what can you do) – in countdown order, naturally https://open.spotify.com/user/freakytrigger/playlist/48HEx5SIGjEZP0gzg0iFd2

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By: byebyepride https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1728021 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:10:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1728021 Massive thanks to Kat for taking care of the poll! Definitely one of the highlights of January for me.

Voted for this Kendrick, so I am clearly partly in tune with the Freaky Trigger massive; have heard 6 of these, but only 3 during the year – including CRJ, as I tried to work out what the Singles Jukebox were seeing in her.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2015-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-1727722 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:35:20 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=29698#comment-1727722 Gosh! Well, “King Kunta” was my #2 as well – and I filed our winner firmly away under “awkward attempt to recapture past glories”, so I think Kendrick got robbed a bit here. But that’s pop for ya! Also voted for: D&C, Demi and Y&Y. Almost voted for: Fetty Wap. Pointedly Did Not Vote For: This particular CRJ track.

Thanks Kat for doing the poll!

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