Pop Open Group L: THE EIGHTIES

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Eighties! We're living in the Eighties! Four tracks available at http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/pop-open-week-12/ in streamed form. My PC was erratic last night so I wasn't able to put them up as a zipfile - I will sort this out tonight.

Anyway, give them a listen, decide which you like best, vote below. This poll will run until next Monday lunchtime.

[Poll #1072847]

Thanks to the four contestants, though I've forgotten who one of them is so I won't name names.

Comments

[koganbot]

Don't know what this says about the Eighties, or poptimists, but all four of these self-consciously reference the pre-Eighties, often lightly for half-comic effect. (Track Three isn't all that referential, but surely, we would like to thank Blondie, without whom etc.)

Also, another thing that may say something about poptimists: my first reaction to Track Two was, "Lex is not going to like this."

Didn't realize you could download these a track at a time from where you stream 'em at FT. Wish I'd know this for previous matches, as this is a lot easier than wrestling with zip files.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yep, you can! We encourage the zipfiles for selfish bandwidth-saving reasons (though on this occasion download away as it's my fault there's no zip).

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'but all four of these self-consciously reference the pre-Eighties'

track 3 only just! but yeah it seems a shame in a way but there was so much of this going on at that point.

it's all 'early 80s' which is my minor gripe, but that's in keeping with average person's perception of the decade generally i guess.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is the first time I might let my perceptions of the decade influence my vote - I'm leaning a bit more towards tracks which remind me of bits of the decade where I don't think "oh, yes, eighties".

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't like it, no!

tbh I didn't really like any of them. the two I voted for were OK I guess but I wasn't moved to d/l any.