The Friday Canon: LITTLE STEVIE WONDER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's harmonica-wielding child prodigy Stevie Wonder! His 41 UK top 40 hits means thirteen ticks to show your Wonder-love.

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Aaargh!

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Behold the bizarre and somewhat eye-watering new video for the Sugababes' new single 'Change'. Heidi still manages to look gorgeous despite her hair resembling some sort of pine-cone. Shame the song is so plodding.

badly-phrased q bcs I am hungover and preoccupied, sorry!

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alexmacpherson says on his LJ that the Tori Amos album might make his top 5 albums of the year list, but "suspect[s] this is only because it's her". I thought this might be an interesting idea to bat about.

- have you ever bought a record by your favourite act KNOWING that it was going to be a bit crap, but "because it's them" had to have it? I guess this is a question really about dissecting yr loyalties - for example, I buy every album that Kristin Hersh makes. The last few haven't, if I'm honest, been all that good (though the most recent "Learn To Sing Like A Star" has some truly outstanding stuff on it) but I just sort of feel I OWE her for making some of the most important records in my life, and for being amazing generally. And because she has kids to support and is one of the few people around whose work quite literally IS their life, if you see what I mean, and I think she works hard and is dedicated in a way that, for example, Girls Aloud don't SEEM to (note I say SEEM to, I'm sure they work very hard etc etc). My Kristin-love does not extend to buying 50FootWave records though :(


- at what point do you STOP putting up with sub-par offerings? I bought every REM record up to "Monster" (haha I remember being off school that day and walking up to Woolworths to buy it on cassette even though I thought "What's The Frequency, Kenneth" was a bit sh1t). I tried and tried but really couldn't get into it (tho again, there were a few good tracks). The next time they released an album I didn't buy it and haven't bought one since - I don't know if they lost their magic, or if it was me that had changed, or what!

- who (if anyone) will you always ALWAYS buy every single record by, even if they release a Cliff Richard covers album?

Create yr own Kylie

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I am a sucker for pop viral stuff like this. Obviously the Kompakt Kittens app is the high water mark of the genre but please let us know of other great pop timewasting applications you have known.

Parlophone has launched a Kylie Facebook application to promote the pop princess' new album X.

The Kylie Robotics application enables Kylie fans to create and customise their own Kylie caricature.

Users can choose from more than 40 Kylie characters, all with distinctive Kylie outfits including the iconic gold hotpants from the Spinning Around video.

The application promotes Kylie's latest album, X, which will be released on November 26 on CD and a limited edition USB stick, which contains the full album, videos and a link to exclusive online content.

Kylie recently launched her own social network www.KylieKonnect.com.