Who needs Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, they're not our music, they're out of date

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Jaysis I'm ruined.

The pop quiz was somewhat of a triumph - £330 in the kitty for charity, pretty good result, bigger things expected of the auction on Friday tho. Nobody got the Bradford fire question; nobody got Chernenko; I think one team got Chumbawamba; nobody got I'd Rather Jack; almost nobody got ABBA; EVERYBODY got Busted, hurrah.

Does anyone want more bits and pieces questions?

Here is a question that's been floating around my brain a bit: is pop music a good medium for self-expression? When I think of records which have some kind of confessional or soul-baring component to them I tend to be thinking of records I think are a BIG BAG OF SH1TE. "Self-expression" isn't exactly the right words here, maybe with conversation I can work towards a better way of phrasing this...

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

lennon's famous massive two-part interview w.jann wenner in the stone at this same moment (ie of plastic ono band) is the virtual INSTALLATION of rockism ordinaire -- not to mention the rock'n'roll CANON -- in the critical discussion

so i think his WRONGNESS was part of a reactive project against "it has all gone horribly wrong"

(of course you also have to factor in the sheer topsyturvy HORRIBLENESS of 68-69 out in the world, when EVERYONE totally lost their bearings) (so i am interested in this record as a marker of that side of lennon -- as bellwether for the topical -- as much as using it as a tour-guide round the inside of a man's whiny heart)