Can't get to Youtube?

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Channel4.com claims to offer "100s of free videos" on something called MusicBrigade. Of course, my work firewall has disabled mediaplayer video streaming so I can't look at these either, but it might be of interest to bored desk-bound types out there.

(Canon coming up at lunchtime!)

Pop Open (do not read if you hate orgafun musings)

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The League Of Pop final has proved interesting logistically in terms of how many votes (as many as the smaller PWC games so far) but especially in terms of the amount of commentary - very minimal, probably because there's a content post and then a vote post and no track reveal and and and where do you actually DISCUSS the stuff? (Especially as all 4 songs are good!)

So last night I came up with a brainwave for the Pop Open. 5 songs in a group, right? So post one of them each day during the week, let it have its moment in the sun, and on the final day put a zipfile up with them all in (for people who can't be botherd with separate downloads) and do the actual vote at the start of the next week. This still leaves a question surrounding reveals but I think it will work, so that's what we're going to do one idea that I am vacillating over.

Still on 21 out of 41 btw. The track I really need (to give me a full group to go with next week) is infov0re's contribution to the SEX group. The VIOLENCE, LOVE, PASSION and DEATH ones are also two away from being complete. MONEY is on 2 out of 5, RELIGION on 1 out of 5 and let us not speak of INJUSTICE.

The Friday Canon: GENESIS FAMILY TREE

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GEN-O-FACTS:
- Mike Rutherford invented the prog atom! Then he got bored of Physics (including LASERS) after watching the film Grease and decided to sing about fixing cars instead.
- The singer from Stiltskin replaced Phil Collins in 1997, but then they realised he was rubbish and Phil came back!
- Phil Collins dumped his second wife by fax!
- Peter Gabriel liked dressing up as Weed out of Bill & Ben to combat his stage fright! He also sang on the Babe 2: Pig In The City soundtrack.

The hoary old members of Genesis have had 64 UK Top 40 hits between them! That means you the reader get 21 TICKS to dish out between all of the songs below.

[Poll #999372]

East 17: (link)
1. House Of Love
2. Stay Another Day
3. Deep
4. It's Alright
5. Steam

RHCP: (link)
1. Give It Away
2. Under The Bridge
=3. Love Rollercoaster
=3. Scar Tissue
=5. Aeroplane
=5. By The Way
=5. Californication
=5. Otherside
9. Can't Stop
10. The Zephyr Song