CUPWATCH

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've got both the tracks and it's a very intriguing match, but I can't put them on the server until tonight.

Meanwhile more England song news.

( Fishwatch )

The History Of Pop Part 35 aka The mac's back with the flava of the year

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 35, and we're still deep in the heart of 1996, a year I didn't much enjoy on any level, and this compilation isn't exactly beckoning me back to it. The Spice Girls ended up equal second on Now 34, tying with Underworld and two votes behind shoXoR winner Gina G: they get another go this time, as do all-conquering Pulp (with an BALLAD). Beyond that....well, I'll save my fingers for the comments boxes.

( Tell me will this Deja Vu never end? )

BATTLETICKIES

The Real History Of Indie Part 1 (none of that Shine on here, mate)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

I've been threatening to do this for a while... This one is for all you young ppl out there - here's what we had to suffer through in order for you to live with your modern shiny pop. Be thankful you ungrateful swine, sit on jauntygrandad's knee and let me tell you of a time when "independent" music (for that was its name) was FOR REALZ and underachievers were exalted above all else, and there was choice of weekly inky newspaper (both largely crap) that you could buy with a fiver and still have change for a Red Wedge concert. A time when the "nobody understands me" crowd were sporting Mozzer quiffs, not slipknoot hoodies. Realactual goths stalked the world, and weren't seen outside of Leeds. THANK GOD THAT's GONE EH! A sad era that ended in the deluge that was the last great Indie-Dance wars of 1989. And it started something a bit like... this:

( Real Music Poll, not NOW, but FOREVER, maaaan )

(Thanks to http://snow.prohosting.com/ukband/indietop20s.htm ) (I nearly put this on sukrat, but naaaa, indie=pop AS YOU WELL KNOW)