Poptimist Round-Up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have done the freebie CD for Friday - its theme is COVER VERSIONS. As a listen-to-all-the-way-through experience it works not at all, but every track is quite interesting and there is one you can't get anywhere else in the WORLD.

Feel free to use this lure in yr continued individual hype of London's Trendy Poptimism.

All Poptimists should make sure they download the amazing German hip-hop that steviespitfire put up recently, especially "Schwule Madchen" which will be played on Friday if the burner behaves.

I was thinking in the bath this morning, apropos of little, about 'Popist' thort, and I decided on the following as a basic principle of how I think about music. It's pretty obvious I think but a whole lot of criticism doesn't seem to accept it.

Most people have good reasons for buying or enjoying the music they do.

There.

Comments

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

The thing about canons, not just The Canon, is that they are constructed by people on the inside, so to speak, and I'm not sure people who want to buy into a certain canon are being conned necessarily.

There's some sort of thinking behind it, like, "Gee, I'd sure just like to hear some of these good records they're banging on about" with the attendant assumption that they like/have heard [of] some similar stuff. Though not always.

Wasn't there an ILM thread, recently, about posting ILM canonical tracks at someone's request? This guy wants to join "the club".

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

i.e. "Wanting to join the club" in this way seems an okay enough reason in my book, I guess.