poptimists | Mitherings

- You have until midnight tonight to vote in this week's Pop World Cup game. Which means that by TOMORROW night I need contributions from

poptasticuk (Ivory Coast) and

thebopkids (Portugal).

- LLOYD WEBBER: The best two Lloyd Webber/Rice/either songs, locked in a death struggle, are "I Know Him So Well" and "Don't Cry For Me Argentina". We'll give the prize to "Argentina" cos it has ALW and Big Tim on it. Well, not on it, but you know what I mean. This Friday we will do a canon with a bit wider appeal.

- Speaking of musicals, I was waxing on this topic on Friday, and was blaming/crediting Andrew and Tim for the shift in the conception of an musical to X: THE MUSICAL!! where X is anything or anyone. Jesus and Eva Peron must have been pretty crazy subjects for musical theatre in the 70s, no? Is this an earlier trend though?

- Anyway linked to this I was defending the "rock musical", i.e. We Will Rock You! et al. My defense here is stoutly theoretical because there is no chance in hell you would get me to go to We Will Rock You, but this is much more down to B.Elton than Queen: in theory the attempt to find an overarching plot within a back catalogue is a very noble one - make every Greatest Hits a Concept Album!

- I have been downloading some of the things you recommended in yesterday's poll. "Hmmmmm" is largely what I have to say on that front. And "Ah."

- It may be time to admit that "Mr Brightside" is a good song even without JLC's ministrations. Sorry The Lex for leaving you to hold the line alone on this.