the past was nice but i wouldn't want to live there

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am workin this mornin on a loll4rds 2.0 upgrade proposal and it fell into my mind that i needed to listen to a MIXTAPE that is 25 years old! made for me at college by m4tt bl4ck of c0ldcvt as he then was not yet -- so here IT IS

[Poll #1019980]

the text Qs are quite long (100 characters i hope) so be expansive if u like

The Pop Open - Love REVEALED

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hidden under a cut this time! Here;s who did the tracks and what I thought of them.

( Love makes the world go round )

You can vote here - http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/405429.html - until midday on Monday. Voting is a bit up on last week but that's not saying a great deal. Expect hassley reminders!

Next week is PASSION. The only track we are still waiting for is from zenith. And kill_your_idols needs to nominate which group they want to put themselves and stevem78 in for Round 2.

Random Song Thursday

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Lionrock - Call A Cab

http://www.zshare.net/download/2662181c2f8592/

From my recently 'rip all my cd singles' project. Welcome to my late 90s. I saw Lionrock live once at Reading and they were terrific fun. This song doesn't sound as energetic as i recall it from the time -- that's a universal issue with revisiting old favourites though innit -- but I still like it's loping around and mix of laid-back 'verse' between the big-beaty 'now you may dance' bits.

I tell you waht's bugging me now. There was a song around this time "Little England" who was it by...