garbageology revisited

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

things my itunes just pointed out to me:
you can't have electric laDYLANd without DYLAN!

i have uncovered a CLUE to something-or-other -- but am i the first or the last there?

October RIP

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What happened on Poptimists last month?

Context and Anticontext - I get theoretical
Facebook - the terrible truth
Why Music Sucks
Sugababes, Gnash, etc in a "year in pop" commentaganza
Lex gets enthusiastic
Pulp revisited
Why Aly and AJ don't sell (and is radio the problem?)
Black and white unite not fight! (and dubdobdee talks centre and periphery)
Duet suet
Soundeylikeys
Albums
and Britney! Britney!!
BRITNEY!!!

MOST VITAL YET OVERLOOKED THREAD OF THE MONTH: This one.

Wow, we've been busy.

Here's the monthly poll, too.

[Poll #1080950]

Trends

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lets talk about TRENDS.

In fact, let's talk about the EXISTENCE of trends - on the Lex's LJ in a recent post dubdobdee said he basically didn't believe in them, or at least found them harmful as a way of thinking about stuff (dunno if he was specifically referring to music or what). Boyofbadgers agreed.

I am interested in this perspective - do you think that thinking about music in terms of trends is useful? Do you think the ebbs and flows of musical fashion as documented by journalists has any relation to real life experience? If anyone else likes it, is it a bonus? (Or a PENALTY?)

Am I being too vague?

She takes me into fantasy

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This young chap is called Darin Zanyar. He looks about twelve but is apparently 19, and this track 'Insanity' has been troubling the lower reaches of the German charts for the last couple of months. Darin had a chart-topper in Sweden a couple of years back when he still had braces. One to look out for, perhaps?