Spoiler Spice

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Since the column's actually called "Poptimist", I feel I can pimp it here.

This month's column was inspired by an episode of top radio show Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop, incidentally.

Comments

Various slaggings

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

[Benny Hill's] deserved British No. 1

This is a BLATANT attempt to sell out to the American audience :)

(actually part of the reason I still dislike it is that when I went to look for it, I went of course first to YouTube, and the video is as terrible as I remembered).

exposing the horny itch under the Beach Boys' spring break innocence.

Yeah, but surely a lot of people's first exposure to this song was David Lee Roth's version, which is 90% horny itch.

More fool you for listeneing to Patti Smith. Was it on Poptimists that I read about her misgivings about being inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame? "Should an artist working within the revolutionary landscape of rock accept laurels from an institution?" (http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0312-31.htm)

A just-the-facts approach feels like a missed opportunity: I want spoilers replaced by a babble of voices, bustling, fighting, joking, and jockeying to get their angle on a record across.

Which is why you've written a 1300-word article with no comment box :)

PS I really liked it!

Re: Various slaggings

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Obviously I think P4K *should* have a comments box! But I can understand why they don't - for one thing their ex cathedra authority is a big part of their branding, for another the moderation issues would be eye-bleeding.