Poptimist Round-Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have done the freebie CD for Friday - its theme is COVER VERSIONS. As a listen-to-all-the-way-through experience it works not at all, but every track is quite interesting and there is one you can't get anywhere else in the WORLD.

Feel free to use this lure in yr continued individual hype of London's Trendy Poptimism.

All Poptimists should make sure they download the amazing German hip-hop that steviespitfire put up recently, especially "Schwule Madchen" which will be played on Friday if the burner behaves.

I was thinking in the bath this morning, apropos of little, about 'Popist' thort, and I decided on the following as a basic principle of how I think about music. It's pretty obvious I think but a whole lot of criticism doesn't seem to accept it.

Most people have good reasons for buying or enjoying the music they do.

There.

Are Ideas Enough?

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

A thread that's currently languishing over at ILC[omics], could work here too.

Is just having ideas enough in pop? The answer is probably, "No", but it ties in with the Rachel vs Sugababes thing on the other thread: I think Rachel has more/better ideas than the Sugababes, but I'm not sure it's the reason I prefer the former. Similarly, for Lex, who prefers the latter, is this prefence based on the fact that the ideas on th RS don't hang together or make it muddled?

Thing is: "hipsters" into pop tend to go mad for the IDEAS; does the ordinary public, dya think?