The Nineties Revival

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delay on these reveals and reviews for the Pop Open Nineties group! Work went a bit crazy at the end of last week and then my home interwebs fell over. The deadline for voting is, plainly, NOT this morning, but will now be tomorrow lunchtime.

( Reveals! )

[Poll #1076031]

Tracks are streamed and downloadable here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/pop-open-week-13/

very weird records by very famous ppl #1

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. this is not a review proper (yet) cz i am tryin to do my taxes :(
ii. i put it on bcz i am reviewin the t0dd h4ynes dyl4n movie feat.c4te blanch3tt
iii. i have owned it for 30 years omg!
iv. given to me by my then gf -- hullo 3mm4 sorry i was such a tw@t to ü :( :( :(
v. DESIRE BY BOB DYLAN wtf
vi. "we want to pin this triple muhr-duhr on heeeeem/he AIN'T NO JENNULMAN JEEM!"
vii. hoestly it is QUITE BONKERS -- as a year-zero polpot-punker i "didn't approve" of dylan back in 78 and no doubt my pitiless dogmatism abt such things didn't help matters bein-a-tw@t-wise but NOW i am just how knocked out by how BIZARRE this record is ----------:0

Stylus RIP

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://stylusmagazine.com/ - Stylus Zine is ending after 5 years. I'll miss its Singles Jukebox feature, which I also wrote for (too) occasionally. Did anyone read it?

Blackout - track by track

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The back cover says "Executive producer: Britney Spears". Let's see what she can come up with!

( Blackout - track by track )

"do they mean us? they surely do!"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Experts who study political cults have observed that such groups thrive on an imagined enemy in opposition to which the group constructs it own collective identity."