The Friday Canon: ROXY MUSIC/BRYAN FERRY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

In no way is the canon choice this week due to me purchasing their Best Of yesterday! First half Roxy, second half Bryan-solo, ELEVEN ticks to dish out overall. What's her name? Virginia Plain?

[Poll #1020657]

Donna Summer: (link)
1. I Feel Love
2. Hot Stuff
3. Love To Love You Baby
4. Bad Girls
5. Macarthur Park
6. She Works Hard For The Money
7. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) [ft Barbra Streisand]
8. On The Radio
9. State Of Independence
10. This Time I Know It's For Real

Frank Sinatra: (link)
1. Strangers In The Night
2. Witchcraft
=3. High Hopes
=3. Somethin' Stupid [w/ our Nancy]
5. Three Coins In The Fountain

The History Of Pop Part 65 aka Jumping In My Tutu

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Happy 2nd Birthday Poptimists!

As a celebration, here's a trip down memory lane - a NOW poll! For more recently arrived posters, the NOW Polls covered the first 64 volumes, and ended at around this time last year. There are now three more volumes, not that I'm intending to poll all three, but enough water has flowed under the pop bridge for a summer-of-06 lookback to not feel ENTIRELY like a pointless exercise.*

( Shakira Shakira )

*in a relative sense, of course.

Lazy Friday reading

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

It's a quiet and sunny Friday here in the land of popsa, and I've been catching up on my reading. Although I'm sure half of you refuse to read the Guardian's pop coverage on principle and the other half read it with needing me to tell you, here are a few recent things that I enjoyed.

Interview/profile with Sly Stone: http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/08/sly200708

I am definitely one of those people for whom the Sly myth looms large. Listening to his stuff manages to conjure up some of that 60s magic for me, even though most of the time nowadays it makes me cringe. There's nothing earth-shattering, but it's nice to at least take a little bit out of the mystery of the last, oh, 20 years of his life.

Kitty Empire: "We won the indie wars - but at what price?"
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/07/we_won_the_indie_wars_but_at_w.html

Did I miss the discussion of this? I guess we talk about or around it all the time, and I'm not sure Kitty's post add much to what we already know. Are we "embattled and tribal?"

How Billie Jean changed the world
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/comment/story/0,,2124636,00.html
I kind of vaguely remember this period, and so enjoyed someone writing a bit of big-picture cultural context around it.

"Billie Jean was groundbreaking because it introduced the idea that a single must be accompanied by a high-production video - preferably by someone who is a bit of a hoofer - thereby transforming a run-of-the-mill song release into an "event."

When did this period end (and why?)

Anyone else read anything interesting recently?