The Rough Guide to having too much time on your hands

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Spent a little time the other day tidying up the gargantuan Rough Guide index I compiled from three ILM threads in which people submit compilations of whatever nature they felt like doing or were necessary.

It's a (potentially) great portal and I only wish it could take you straight to the tunes themselves - but then again part of the fun is 'catching them all'. Truth be told I still haven't sat down and assembled any of these myself, not even the ones I contributed (about 30 or so), but like I say, the potential remains.

The guide continues to be updated and modified. Some sort of wikipedia style open-contribution system for it would be cool (but then all too easily abused perhaps).

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Rough Guide To Boybands

1. The Monkees – Daydream Believer
2. The Osmonds – Crazy Horses
3. Wham! – Freedom
4. A-Ha – Touchy
5. Curiosity Killed The Cat – Down To Earth
6. Bros – When Will I Be Famous?
7. New Kids On The Block – (You Got It) The Right Stuff
8. Take That – A Million Love Songs
9. East 17 – Deep
10. PJ And Duncan – Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble
11. Hanson – MmmBop
12. 2wo Third3 – I Want The World
13. Five – Let’s Dance
14. N Sync – Bye Bye Bye
15. Backstreet Boys – Shape Of My Heart
16. Blue – All Rise
17. Ronan Keating – Life Is A Rollercoaster
18. Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
19. Take That – Never Forget

What did I get wrong/right? (It should be The Rough Guide To Boybands In Britain, for starters)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well it needs to include the Osmongs etc because Brit girls went so mental over them. It also needs to include the ROLLERS tho.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

replace Curiosity with Big Fun, Brother Beyond, Indecent Obsession (the Australian effort!) or hell Bay City Rollers!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't include A-Ha. You seem to be defining "boybands" as "bands with cute boys," and although A-Ha were cute, they seem very different from the rest of the list.

If you include then, they of course you must include Busted, no?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this was the pre-Busted/McFly era (or *just* into the Busted era).

A-Ha were included cos

a) they were the nearest my wife ever came to a boyband crush!
b) to promote "Touchy!" (a longtime cause of mine)

They have a foot in and out of the genre really.

& the other one I can remember contributing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Rough Guide To Novelty Hits

1. Lord Rockingham’s XI – Hoots Mon
2. Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough
3. The Floaters – Float On
4. Chicory Tip – Son Of My Father
5. Middle Of The Road – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
6. The Wurzels – Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)
7. Los Del Rio – The Macarena
8. Aqua – Barbie Girl
9. Doop – Doop
10. Eiffel 65 – Blue
11. Mr Oizo – Flat Beat
12. The Timelords – Doctorin’ The Tardis
13. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Swing The Mood
14. Musical Youth – Pass The Dutchie
15. Aneka – Japanese Boy
16. Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

ha, as dubplatestyle noted, 'it's like the ultimate meeting place between showing off and helping people out.'

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Woo, that's ace, especially the 'Wu-Tang In The 21st Century' one, which has alerted me to the existence of something called:

Raekwon f/ Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck - Musketeers Of Pig Alley

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The prospect of me ever doing any work ever again has finally bottomed out at 0.

Rough Guide To Elastica
1. Connection - Elastica
2. Blue - Elastica
3. Car Song - Elastica
4. 12XU - Elastica
5. No Good - Elastica
6. Ba Ba Ba - Elastica
7. Line Up - Elastica
8. No More Heroes - The Stranglers
9. 2:1 - Elastica
10. How He Wrote Elastica Man - Elastica (EP version ft Mark E Smith)
11. Vaseline - Elastica
12. Lowdown - Wire
13. Spastica - Elastica
14. Rock And Roll Is Dead - Elastica
15. Hold Me Now - Elastica
16. Stutter - Elastica

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

you missed out Wire - Three Girl Rhumba (over which they paid money!)

[zenith.livejournal.com]

And Pleasure - Don't Look The Other Way!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd include their version (which is BETTER, and I wuv Wire) and put Lowdown on instead as they managed to get away with ripping off that.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

hence thus also therefore by same logic ==> no "I Am The Fly"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Exactlay.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I remember finding this really hard to do - either I became uncomfortably aware of HOLES where there should not be HOLES in my memory/awareness/collection, or I just had such a surfeit of goodness to choose from (eg Golden Age of R&B) that I simply couldn't narrow it down.

A Rough Guide to Grime would probably a) be totally ace and b) not have that much left over to be honest, though.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Haha, I contributed the 'Dutch rock' one. The 1960s choices are solid, but the 1995-present ones are...questionable, to say the least. But then what do I know about rock?

I promised to do Dutch pop and Dutch dance, too, but never got round to it.