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.