It's Binary Friday!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when no pop trumps happen.

[Poll #1146541]

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

actually chicks on speed are RUBBISH except for their name :(

(also they shd be called CHICK FEET ON SPEED)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I know, I wanted to tick them but they really were rub even by electroclash standards (and I loved electroclash) :(

Not that Lamb are a great deal better.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Were they not ALAN MCGEE's deathless contribution to electroclash?

Certainly I think D00m13 had kind words for them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't think so so I looked them up on wikipedia and eek/omg I know one of them!

(wasn't a mcgee's contribution Portobella? they were shit too. Luciana used to be in them. I think. oh electroclash.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

surely they predate electroclash?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

apparently so! but I had never heard of them until 'lectroclash.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think EC was their second bite of the cherry -- their first was off at the edges of belgian nu-beat, which is where i came across em (at the end of the crimean war)

still, full marks for them being doughtily persistent when so lame!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oo blimey i'm talkin complete nonsense :D

i am thinking of the "chicks & speed: futurism" EP by lead into gold, who are an offshoot of ministry (so nothing much to do w.belgian nu-beat) (except for RUBBISH IS RUBBISH IS RUBBISH)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

chicks on speed deffo about long before electroclash though, were they not atari teenage riot related?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I bought a CoS album for £1 once and it still wasn't worth it. They were good at Reading Festival 200-and-something though!

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oy. I quite like 'em. They're patchy but occasionally ace.

Their cover of 'Warm Leatherette' was most unexpected!

wot no...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Calf Man Calf Biscuit

Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Why are people choosing "free punches in the head" over "free drinks"???

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I voted for CHA because I have never been in one! I've been in a moshpit, they're OK, but I'm curious about hospitality areas.

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have never been in a moshpit! (Though I have SEEN them, and I have no idea why anyone would...DO THAT to themselves.)

CHAs vary. There aren't always free drinks but there is usually a lot more space. Having guaranteed access to the VIP balcony at Fabric is a huge reason I tolerate the place.

(I guess CHAs aren't necessarily the same as VIP areas though!)

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, VIP areas would be less of a battle I agree!

There are trade offs:

Moshpit: physical discomfort vs closeness to action

CHA: free drinks vs far away, in company of The Man.

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

CHA usually has a good view of the act in question though.

The Man >>>>> The People (in moshpits)

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

company of The Man

There is absolutely no way in which I could be considered to have "not sold out" so I can't, in conscience, choose the moshpit (of which I was not a great fan at my most punk i.e. 15.)

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Obviously I have nothing against The Man but I consider his opinions on music generally suspect and if I was in the CHA I would worry he might tell me some of them.

pogo in yr bedroom! (but only when yr mum's gone out!)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the_man_can't_bust_our_moshpit.jpg

Re: Corporate Hospitality Areas vs Moshpit

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent point; after the exchange of opinions on music, he'd actually want you to develop a metric with which to measure the level of mosh ("engagement").

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

truth = beauty, beauty = truth. As any fule kno.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ode to a tweemo urn

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Dead heat central at the mo!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I know right! This is a great game. Duffy over Adele is the only clearcut result!

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

How could anyone choose truth over beauty?

I can't stand Adele or Duffy so I abstained.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Maths is great!

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

I was sure I would be alone on Kid Rock.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

my main divergence from the poptimist majority is choosing vocals over guitar/bass/drums. i'll choose... bass

[koganbot]

bass was my second choice.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

bass is the place, i agree

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Who is voting for featuring over versus? I don't understand this at all.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"F. Lil' Wayne" versus "v. Lil' Wayne" is kind of a no-brainer, right? (And as far as I can tell there weren't any other options for "f. _____" last year, so there ya go!)

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I cried a bit inside at having to choose American over British pop, but the last few years made it unavoidable...

Truth v. Beauty

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Damn, I get beauty all the time, but how often do you get some TRUTH?? Beauty's dime a dozen -- I mean my CATS are beautiful and they're really stupid!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

To everyone who ticked Sweden: well done for dismissing the entire history of reggae and dancehall!

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

It's racism, obvs.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Why bother with reggae when you can have Amy Diamond's endearing approximation of it?

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I remember when Kid Rock first happened, and I thought it was the end of everything, and now those seem like the good old days.