Bruce Springsteen: Poptimist?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

From an interview with A.O. Scott in the New York Times that dances around Bruuuuuce's feelings about pop without really saying very much about them:

“Pop is funny. It’s a tease. It’s an important one, but it’s a tease, and therein resides its beauty and its joke.”

The Pop Open Group J - THE SIXTIES

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's Pop Open group is themed around "the sixties" - though as before, this doesn't necessarily mean all tracks will be from the 60s. You have four tracks to listen to, and then you vote for your favourites out of the ones you hadn't heard before. Tracks to be revealed on Thursday - voting closes next Monday!

You can find the tracks streamed here, or you can go here and download them as a zipfile (about 20 Mb).

[Poll #1064664]

Thanks to infov0re, skillextrix, umlauts, and xyzzzz_ for tracks this week. What would YOU have submitted?

Let's make an ABBA CD!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A while ago koganbot said he was planning to investigate ABBA, and I thought, yeah, I could make him a CD! But then I thought - why don't WE make him a CD. If we asked the community to pick a track each, and cut it off when we reached 80 minutes, I bet we'd get a good blend of hits and rarities and classics and quirkies and whatnot.

So here we are - use the POLL to nominate one (ONE!) ABBA track and then I will make a CD (or a downloadable playlist thing more likely so everyone can have one).

If it works with ABBA we can use The Method on other bands too.

[Poll #1064712]

Obviously if you don't feel you know koganbot from adambot then just nominate something you think someone should hear. If you only know the hits then cool, just nominate one of the hits. And if you hate ABBA then, erm, well we'll do another poll soon I'm sure.