League Of Pop Week 6 Nominations!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Two points of order.

1. It is EASTER this week. This will have no material difference on the running of the League Of Pop, as I'll do the tracks on Saturday or Sunday as per usual. But I won't be around to post on Monday, so the nominations for NEXT week will start later than usual.

2. I messed up! I looked at the wrong spreadsheet and asked jel_bugle for an intro, when the PP home player this week should have been inhibitorylinks. But Jel it is. This provides me with a golden opportunity to repost the SCHEDULE for the 2nd half of the competition, so you'll find that below the intros. And speaking of the intros...

( Introducing jel_bugle )

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Here's the nomination boxes - as usual, tracks by Friday PM please to leagueofpop@gmail.com unless it's something unobscure in which case I can find it. MP3 format if possible.

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AND NOW: THE SCHEDULE. If you are yet to play, could you check this and let me know if you won't be around to receive/review (i.e. in the second half of the playing period). If you're a player and you know you'll miss a week, it's fine to send me something in advance - more than fine, in fact!

( Revised schedule )

Alanis Morrissette Is A Funny Lady

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Who knew?

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Poptimists Quick Questions for Monday

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1. Is there a better Easter song than "Roll Away The Stone"?

2. What is that "ella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay-ay" bit in Rihanna's "Umbrella" really reminding me of? It's not R'n'B, I think.

3. Is the Apple/EMI announcement the end of DRM or the end of EMI (or neither)?

Oh and also...

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Comedy pop

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I was going to post the mp3 of Radio Free Vestibule's I Don't Want To Go To Toronto here, but I couldn't find it, and don't have time to search Slsk right now. Anyway, comedy songs. They shouldn't be Any Good At All, right? I'd like Tom Lehrer if he wasn't so smug. I'd like Python if it was a completely different record altogether. But this amused me. It sounds like a more grown up version of the Happy Flowers, where they abandoned punk tantrums for barfunk tantrums. The line 'I don't want a tax on my wicker goods!' amuses me more than it ought. Perhaps because the 'singer' sounds like Fozzie Bear. When I was younger and less wary I told an evil student journo editor that the White Stripes' Jolene (the only record I'd heard by them at the time) sounded like Korean businessmen in a late night karaoke bar gearing up for pinching the waitress's bottom in between rounds of sake and incidental singing. He laughed, but that was why I liked it. I was disappointed that the rest of their records were marginally more sensible.