Poll News - And A Culinary Diversion

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The first two instalments of the Now poll are now CLOSED (i.e. you can go and tick them all you like, I've already noted down the results). You will have to wait and see how I handle the only draw in there. The third one will be open until 2.

Meanwhile, please list some bands named after foods. You can blame the_roofdog for this.

Lamb (this is, as the roofdog rightly says, the only band named after meat)
Lard
Eggs
Cake

etc etc.

(Something else you may notice is that all these bands are rubbish.)

Video Saved the Radio Star

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I suspect it may just the incessant repetition that MTV subjects us to, but several songs that had previously seemed quite "bleh" to me have gotten much better now that I've seen the videos. For example, "Ain't No Other Man" is, in fact, better than "Deja Vu," although that was not my initial thought. (And, somewhat off-topic, Paris' "Stars Are Blind" is actually quite good, albeit not a stormer. You cannot imagine my dismay at waking up to a great new Gwen Stefani song, only to look again and see hawk-nosed, anorexic Paris tilting her head back in the California sun.)

Presumably this has been discussed many times before, but I'm curious how other people use or are used by videos in their pop consumption.

old music that you love

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

looking at tom's popular entry on louis armstrong -- whose 20s music i ADORE -- and thinking abt the lex's "b-but i am too young to know" device, i started thinkin abt CUT-OFF POINTS IN TASTE

ie do you or do you not have an EARLIER THAN THIS I CANNOT GO as part of yr listenin armoury? if so sa wot

the earliest piece of music i am aware of liking is SALTARELLO (warnin: may be locked to non-sukratlings) -- it is 700 years old!

I Beg Your Pardon!

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4D91ED292E9D132F

Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon

A pun, i suppose on Can Con, the body that enforces a certain amount of airtime be awarded to Canadian artists on their homeland airwaves.

We were all big New Order fans when this came out, and to us 15 year olds hooked on Technique, it sounded pretty similar.

Does it still stand up 17 or so years later? The chorus sample treatment is a bit dated, but as for the rest?

The Historiography Of Pop Part 4 aka A Point Is All That Two Can Score

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The dust has settled and 32 of 64 songs stand ready for the next round. Say a sad farewell to Ace of Base, Betty Boo, and - yes - Gorillaz among others. Then prepare for the next instalment of ALL OUT POP BATTLE.

i.e. pick which song you think is best.

In round 2 each song is facing one of its close contemporaries, the battle of the ages having proved indecisive.

( Round 2 - COMMENCE! )

How the draw was decided:

i. Examination of real actual chart placing i.e. 2 for Human League, 7 for Pulp.
ii. Examination of tick % from revious now poll i.e. 79% for HL, 81% for P.
iii. These two things not being in agreement I just went for the one I liked best, seeing as it's me who's gone to the bother of polling these things. Bye Disco 2000!

"I wear the big headphones"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

L@@K one of my favourite Russian tennis players is a) blogging and b) has ace taste in pop music! This is v refreshing after years of being disappointed to find that tennis players I'd hitherto thought of as cool were in fact propping up Sting or Green Day's careers. The young generation are changing everything.

Talk about other sports people who have good or notable taste in pop, if you want.

So after writing to you guys last night, I got ready and went to the Mariah Carey and Sean Paul concert. It was pretty good. My seats weren't that great; I wish I could have seen them from closer and lower down, but still it was really good quality. Mariah's voice was really good, as was Sean Paul. I went to the concert with Alicia Molik, one of my best friends on the Tour. She and Elena Likhovtseva are my two very good friends on the Tour. Anyways, Alicia and I really liked how good the dancers were when Sean Paul was on the stage. I'm looking to get some dancing classes for this kind of dancing someday!

I just saw that on August 26th there's a Pussycat Dolls concert here; it's a little close to the US Open, but I may fly back here to see it. I really like their songs with Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes. I like Rihanna a lot. I love R&B style music. My new favourite song is Deja Vu by Beyoncé and Jay-Z. They are unbelievable. It's very good to exercise to this music! It's very motivating.

I have plenty of iPods and mp3 players. I always have them with me, I'm always changing the songs around. And I wear the big headphones because music should be heard in very good quality. I also have a video iPod because I love music videos. Before coming here I had more time to download all of my music and videos but not anymore, so now my best friend in Spain does all my downloading for me. I have like 1500 songs on my mp3 player. I always listen to music. I can't imagine my life without always listening to it. It pumps me up.

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I'm already having fun doing this blog. Sometimes there are things, like music, that I just can't stop talking about. But, I think I'll stop here for now.

I'll talk to you all after my match!

Svetlana