the BADCRAP BARFS more like

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. ok so out of "scholarly diligence" i watched the repeated omnibus about syd b last night
ii. and confirmed that barrett-era PF = post-barrett PF = post-PF barrett = ALL AS USELESS AS ONE ANOTHER
iii. except then i slept and dremt ALL NIGHT dreams soundtracked by barrett songs >:(

so this raises the deep poptimist question: is a tune that sticks in yr mind GOOD even if you HATE IT -- isn't the craft of melody a kind of nerve-glue to attach you to a ahem "work" so that yr feelings of some particular moment get externalised into it and there replayed?

anyway i am quite happy to grant that SB had an unusual facility with oddly shaped song-flow, burden and refrain* -- except i think i would also argue that the collective direction of the outfit he founded was increasingly at odds with this gift (cf also curtis and JD-NO)... they were fashioning a monumental high-volume drone juggernaut; his gift was quirkily quaint'Nquiet little broke-back ditties -- and that the split (as with joy div) was inevitable on musical grounds; the psycho-chemical context a pretext for sentimentalists and clueless romantics

ps the documentary itself was incredibly lame and lazy in almost every regard

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Every morning I awake with a particular song in my head. Usually it is something current, or something I've heard in the last week or two eg recent ones have included Lily Allen, T99, My Humps etc.

This morning I woke up with Jon Secada's Just Another Day Without You.

It's still in my head! I have not heard this song for approximately 8 years! Does this mean it is a good song?

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Do you live in Clapham? The taxi rank at the end of my friend's road was playing this really loudly yesterday, and I thought exactly the same thing.

I often get the first record I hear when I wake up stuck in my head. There's a bit in The Shoe which I really like, in which Archie is told by his older and wiser friend that you should never leave the house without listening to a good record first. 'One day he went through his day with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep stuck in his head. Never again.'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Nowhere near Clapham! Definitely the most random of my recent Alarm Clock Sounds.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

What disturbs me is when I have a dream and can hear the radio in it. I once fainted in a doctors' surgery and the first thing to return was hearing - Steve Wright in the Afternoon. The first thing I thought was 'I can't be asleep, though, it must be gone two...' I've dreamt whole music videos before.

They seem to be playing Anchorage by Michelle Shocked a lot lately in the mornings.