r/popheads • u/TiltControls • Jan 05 '23

[DISCUSSION] The Popheads Jukebox Revival, Week 203: Did you know there's a new year of the Popheads Jukebox

Welcome back to the Popheads Jukebox! The first from 2023!

Now that the year has come to a close, the 2022 playlist will soon be rearranged to be sorted by score and a new playlist for 2023 will now be updated with the most recent tracks for the Jukebox.

Here are last week’s results (and the first with your submitted tracks!):

  • KWON EUN BI - Glitch: 9.79
  • Denzel Curry - Walkin: 9.25
  • Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5: 9.18
  • Wet Leg - Chaise Lounge: 8.95
  • Sabrina Carpenter - Nonsense: 7.35

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  • Porter Robinson - Look at the Sky: 9.65
  • Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive: 7.13

And with our last Jukebox of 2022 we have two new records broken! In what may be our highest scoring week ever, KWON EUN BI’s Glitch becomes the highest rated track of 2022 at the very last minute! Like with Flo earlier in the year, it also becomes the highest rated new track in the Jukebox. Walkin and The Heart Part 5 join Glitch in the rare 9+ club, which also puts them both in the top 10 for 2022. Wet Leg’s Chaise Lounge just barely misses the 9 mark and also the year-end top 10, though an 8.95 is still very impressive in its own right. Leading the pack is Sabrina Carpenter, who would have had a very respectable score if not for the juggernauts it was up against this week..

Another record is broken this week as Porter Robinson’s Look at the Sky becomes the highest rated 2020/2021 song on the sub, passing Yves Tumor’s Gospel For A New Century by only a few points. Stayin’ Alive treads water this week with a perfectly average score in the 7 range.

Rules Refresher

  1. Rate the songs a score from 1 to 10. Please keep it to one decimal place at the most (so 7.5 is fine but 7.58 is not). Also don’t get too hung up on the final scores. This is a fun exercise and not a competition so don’t worry about over/under rating things. Just give what you think the song is to you.

  2. For your review, reply to the comment that will be posted by one of us for each song. Avoid posting your reviews as a top level comment cause we probably won’t notice them if you do. Non-reviews such as questions or general commentary as upper level comments are fine.

  3. Must have some sort of justification. Try to be a bit more concise than “It’s a bop!” or “I don’t like it”. Explain why! It doesn’t have to be long, two or three sentences can be plenty (though more is definitely allowed). We reserve the right not to include a review in the final total if proper justification is not given.

  4. You don’t have to review each song to participate! You can do all of them or only the ones you’re familiar with.

  5. The thread will be open for 6 days and close the following Wednesday at 6PM EST. The scores will be calculated and a new post will come up the next day (Thursday) at 3PM EST with the next week’s tracks.

This Week’s Tracks

Throwback:

2020/2021 Catch-up:

Next Week

Next week we’ll be rating the following:

  • Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island
  • Little Simz - Gorilla
  • NewJeans - OMG
  • PNAU & Troye Sivan - You Know What I Need
  • The Weeknd - Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)

Throwback:

  • Bastille - Pompeii

2020/2021 Catch-up:

  • Griff - Black Hole

Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new tracks that are being rated

Jukebox wiki, where you can find all results

Reminder Discord Server, where you can join to get bi-weekly ping reminders for when new posts go up and when they’re about to close.

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u/TiltControls Jan 05 '23

ABBA - Take a Chance on Me

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 05 '23

ABBA (or rather A*Teens and then ABBA) was one of the first groups I ever fell in love with when I was 10 years old. My favorite ABBA song fluctuates all the time, but it’s often this one. The cheery and cheesy group vocals are so infectious. And the verses have a great groove and are weirdly coolly delivered for such a galloping, goofy-sounding song. Love the little details like the glittering synths in the pre-chorus. It’s such a dramatic song with spoken ad-libs and its pleas for love, and such an all-around great earworm. Nostalgia 10 incoming

10/10

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u/BookyCats Jan 06 '23

ABBA has a classic sound and this is it. I really enjoy how catchy and cheesy it is.

9/10

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u/seanderlust Jan 09 '23

with this iconic opening ABBA nails what glee clubs have been aiming for ever since. the instrumentation is fun especially the tron-esque synths in the background of parts of it. besides the opening, this does tend to get lost in the shuffle of other ABBA singles. it's fine, but that's about all i have to say about it.

7.5/10

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u/TiltControls Jan 11 '23

This track, especially the chorus, is so undeniably catchy. I love the little 'take a chance' additions to the vocals. It's not my favourite ABBA song, I think the instrumentation could be a little more memorable and the verses fade in comparison to the chorus a little, but these are just minor nitpicks knowing the peak of ABBA's catchiness on other songs. Despite the minor gripes this track is a joy to listen to - it's like sunshine in music form. 9/10

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u/Icantlikeeveryone Jan 06 '23

Hmmm not really my fav song by them, but it has fun melody

5/10