CUPDATE plus Bits of Poptimist Business

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I need your Group D votes by tonight please! The voting form is here and the tracks are available here. The group is a lot closer than it was on Friday, so your votes are v.crucial.

For Group E, I need tracks from alexmacpherson, julietk, boyofbadgers and "James B" to freakytrigger@gmail.com by tomorrow evening. MP3 format please or a link to an MP3 format download.

Speaking of freakytrigger, that email address is being spammed by indie record labels like never before, all offering me promos. (Your reporter made his excuses and etc.) I am guessing this is to do with the NYLPM valedictory in Pitchfork, though you'd think basic reading skills would have taken in the fact that I was closing the site. Will no man rid me of these turbulent Sufjan wannabes?

And speaking of spam, the Popular comments boxes are subject to a minor invasion of same - is there a way to IP ban from blogger comments, or even delete? I can't find one. It's mostly concentrated round older entries but I really don't want it overtaking the boxes and ruining the good thing I have 'going' there.

That Sugababes Canon In Full
1. FREAK LIKE ME (35 votes)
2. Overload (33)
3. Round Round (31)
4. Push Teh Button (28)
5. Hole In The Head (23)
6. Run For Cover (12)
7. New Year (6)
8=. Stronger/Angels (5)
8=. Too Lost In You (5)
10. Red Dress (4)

As atommickbrane rightly says I have a physical addiction to polls, so expect more of those.

Sparks!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Hello Poptimists, did you know that Sparks are doing an instore performance at HMV Oxford Circus, 6.30pm this Friday? Could be interesting...

The History Of Pop vol 23 aka Too many bombs in the world it's like a living mine

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 23 is the BIGGEST! NOW! YET! with 39 tracks - and looking at the tracklisting you can understand why. Not because that tricky 1992-1993 bridge was a particularly fertile time for pop (in fact it looks pretty awful on this selection), but because some of the tracks have featured in these polls before. Freddie and Monserrat get a 'lympic-driven second crack of the whip; Heaven 17 return in remixed form; Simple Minds return for no reason I can see whatsoever. Meanwhile we have toytown techno, a few dead pop stars, a truly disgraceful 'tribute' to one of them, and - something I had genuinely and happily forgotten before typing this poll out - The Farm covering Don't You Want Me.

How thankful I am to look back on Now 22, which "Rhythm Is A Dancer" won by a single vote from En Vogue. CeCe P3n1ston came in third, and then SL2 and Utah Saints with scores in the mid-60s. Given the staggering greatness of SL2 and Utah Saints this brings me sadface, but there's no accounting for poptimist taste. Nick Berry and Jimmy Nail shared the dishonours, though Jimmy also had several fans. A predictably wide set of highpoints for Carter USM, with decking Phil Schofield and "Bloodsport 4 All" (TOPICAL INNIT) roughly most mentioned.

( Anybody got any salmon? SORTED. )

Poptimism Pub Quiz - 16th March

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

POPTIMISM IS BACK - sort of.

The Poptimism Pub Quiz is booked for the 16th March - we have an upstairs room from 7 at the Grouse And Claret, 14-15 Little Chester Street, in Belgravia (nearest tubes Hyde Pk Corner and Victoria). It's a nice pub, a nice room and we get it free cos we hire it all the time for work (and I can borrow the work PA for it).

DUST DOWN YOUR POP/INDIE SIGNS - they will be needed.

More details soon. MANY PRIZES, both quality and booby.

Also - sorry to the people who would like a pub quiz but couldn't make this date - hopefully this will be a success and we'll have more.

I FOUND IT IN SOME STUFF I DON'T EVEN RECOGNISE THE WRITING

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

OK it is two pages torn from an exercise book and stapled together at top right, widely spaced thick blue lines horizontally, two red-orange lines vertically -- so the page is in three equal width columns -- with a red-orange square in the bottom right corner, and the following written in slim black felt tip

IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BRILLIANT CAREER

1. Nick Drake -- Don't think twice, it's alright
2. Belle and Sebastian -- Dirty dream number two
3. Cat Power -- Naked if I want to
4. Belle and Sebastian -- Mayfly
5. Johnny Cash -- The Wall
6. Belle and Sebastian -- She's losing it
7. Jeff Buckley -- Everybody here wants you
8. Belle and Sebastian -- There's too much love
9. Bob Dylan and the Band -- You ain't goin nowhere
10. Belle and Sebastian -- Roller coaster ride
11. Cat Power -- Sweedeedee
12. Belle and Sebastian -- I could be dreaming
13. Jock Scot -- Farewell to Ferodo

[page two]

IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BRILLIANT CAREER

1. Belle and Sebastian -- It could have been a brilliant career
2. Tindersticks -- Tiny tears
3. Belle and Sebastian -- Women's realm
4. Orange Juice -- Rip it up
5. Belle and Sebastian -- Expectations
6. Johnny Cash -- Greystone Chapel
7. Belle and Sebastian -- Simple things
8. Tim Buckley -- Wayfaring
9. Belle and Sebastian -- Seeing other people (live)
10. Sister Mary Nelson -- Judgement
11. Belle and Sebastian -- Just a modern rock song (live)

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