The Friday Canon: ROXETTE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

18 UK Top 40 hits means you get SIX ticks for Per and Marie. Where's me peroxide?

[Poll #1077799]
Pulp: (link)
1. Do You Remember The First Time
2. Common People
3. The Sisters EP
4. This Is Hardcore
5. Disco 2000
6. Mis-Shapes / Sorted For E's And Wizz
7. Sunrise / The Trees
8. Help The Aged
9. Something Changed
10. Bad Cover Version

Blackout

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Agreeing with Alexis Petridis' Britney review is surprise enough - but I'm even more amazed that the Guardian has devoted an ACTUAL LEADER COLUMN to go on about how good Blackout is!

In fact, even speaking as someone who really likes the record - the Guardian is overstating things a lot: this is really good, up-to-date, dance-pop and it'll appeal to Europeans more than Americans I guess because of that, but it's not an outrageous sideways step for pop or anything. It's no MORE fresh sounding than Madonna's Music or the first Girls Aloud album or Rachel Stevens' second one were when they came out - coherent, consistent, filler-free pop albums have been a regular feature of this decade, if anything Britney's catching onto that a bit late.*

(I don't necessarily want this to be a big Blackout thread tho cos lots of people haven't heard it yet)

*this is unfair - her last one was pretty consistently good but less coherent I think. Anyway Blackout is better.

Aqua update!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Hoorah! It's now official - they're back and they're touring and maybe releasing a greatest hits album! ("Why not just re-release Aquarium?" - a cynic.) So that's all right then!