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The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 7: FOUR LETTER WORDS Poll!
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— 6 August 2023 Tom

This is the Week 7 poll for the League Of Extraordinary Tracks! How do you take part?

FIRST! Go and listen to the songs chosen in the playlist post.

SECOND! Exclude from consideration any that you already knew!

THIRD! Work out which FOUR songs (or up to four) you like best!

FOURTH: VOTE FOR THEM!

This poll will run until Saturday 6PM UK time – plenty of time, but don’t miss out.

Then come back next week for the GRAND FINAL in which our nominators choose songs from 2023.

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Latest comments (of 23)

actualee simpson   16 months ago

On her s/t album, Asha Puthli is practically as affected as William Shatner, and about as ambiguously avant about it (similar to Shatner: is it that she's bad or clumsy at being avant, or that it's […]

koganbot   16 months ago

Turns out I first heard Asha Puthli 45 years ago when I bought my first Ornette Coleman album. Is an album I still play, Science Fiction, but I hadn't thought to check the album credits recently. Is […]

koganbot   16 months ago

Listened to the NewJeans EP ASAP, making "ASAP" ineligible. So voted Laura Jean, the 2 Bears, Pinkshift, and Lo-Fi-Fnk. But I thought about Asha Puthli more than the rest combined. Song starts like […]

Mark EC Morris   16 months ago

Voted NewJeans and Neneh Cherry & The Thing – ASAP is to me the best song here, Dirt the most sonically engaging? There's a fair chance I'd heard the Kristin Hersh song before but wouldn't have […]

The League Of Extraordinary Tracks 7: FOUR LETTER WORDS Playlists
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— 6 August 2023 Tom

Poll fans of the universe, I am delighted to return from holiday with WEEK 7 of the League Of Extraordinary tracks! This penultimate round is all songs with four letter titles and as with the original 4 Letter Words poll I’ve arranged the playlist in straightforward alphabetical order. Both Spotify and YouTube are complete but if there are gaps where you are let me know in the comments.

Once you’ve listened to these excellent selections make your choices in the poll post.

  1. NewJeans – “ASAP”*: From 2023’s Get Up EP
  2. Natalia Lafourcade – “Azul”: From 2009’s Hu Hu Hu
  3. Lo-Fi-Fnk – “City”: From 2006’s Boylife
  4. Neneh Cherry & The Thing – “Dirt”: From 2012’s The Cherry Thing
  5. Kristin Hersh – “Hope”: From 1998’s Strange Angels
  6. The Marias – “Hush (Still Woozy Remix)”**: Remix of a track from 2021’s Cinema.
  7. Laura Jean – “June”: From 2014’s Laura Jean
  8. Asha Puthli – “Lies”: From 1973’s Asha Puthli.
  9. Pinkshift – “Mars”: From 2021’s Saccharine EP.
  10. Michelle McAdorney – “Mona”: From 2000’s Whirl.
  11. Raavi – “Nora”: From 2020’s Don’t Hit Me Up.
  12. The 2 Bears – “Work”: From 2012’s Be Strong.

*- Abbreviations are fine if they sing it as a word in the song, which NewJeans do at least once.

** Remixes are fine as long as the title change is confined to the parentheses, as here!

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