League Of Pop: The Play-Offs

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My home internet has been down most of the weekend so I have cheekily done these at work: hence back to bad old YSI.

Anyway here, for your curiosity and perusal, are the tracks for the first round of LoP play-offs.

alexmacpherson and strange_powers pick for piratemoggy (18 Mb)

jeff_worrell and lisa_go_blind pick for katstevens (6 Mb)

Moggy and Kat (do I see a connection?) simply pick their favourite (assuming they didn't already know it) and send me comments to leagueofpop@gmail.com. Meanwhile the rest of you can hear the tracks, if you'd like. Once they've made the decision we'll have actual votey things as the winners take on the league champions in the final play-off.

Leagueofpop@gmail.com is of course ALSO the address for your Pop Open entries. We have 3 out of 41 in so far.

A Year In Pop: 21

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's hitses! It is getting rly difficult to remember which I have or haven't done. Is this REALLY the first appearance for that Twang record? Everyhit seems to agree with me about this week's though.

[Poll #993229]

Last week's was a record-breaker for ticks, I hope some of the tickers will stick around.

I Did Not Suspect Reverse Psychology

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( Warning: Bedingfield content! )

The Million Pound Radio Show

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Recent downloads:
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Eric B and Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
Jack To The Sound of the Underground by...somebody
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Adventures on the Wheels of Steel

I really don't know enough about hip-hop, y'know. I know I like De La Soul, and Oooh!. I have a song by Majic Most I quite like, even if it has a slightly unpleasant image of a mouth filled with jism, which I doubt is strictly biologically possible. I know I like singing S Club Party to the tune of White Lines (Don't Do It) and The Message still sounds as powerful as when I first heard it years ago, weirdly enough on Dave Pearce's show. I like Prince, who shurely must be hip-hop for pop fans?  I mix up NWA and Public Enemy, which I'm pretty sure probably makes me wronger than ten Hitlers. I had an ex who got really into one or the other not long before we broke up; in the flat we shared he;d play A Bitch Is A Bitch loudly and somewhat incongruously for a man from Norfolk who wore cardigans and had grey hairs at twenty-six. Never had a friend/boyfriend/relative with much of a knowledge of the stuff, so I haven't had anyone to hold my hand and guide me on this one, and I'm wondering whether there's a big hip-hop hole in my life. I once got laughed at by a wannabe student journo for saying I liked Common and Jurassic 5 in 2001, so either I'd be coming at it with an open mind or I'd have a whole lot to learn.