an amorous party at a farm

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of freakytigger and indeed FreakyTrigger, apparently we have all resolved our generational difficulties and become one big happy Radio Two family since 1966. Blimes.

Arbitrary Woodstock reference WTF

Of course you can't have an innaccurate and limited poll carried out without poptimists getting involved, with our great experience in POLL SCIENCE and superior democratic methods. Err. Anyway, I'm clearly not the best mod for this task but away we go.


[Poll #1443342]

It would be more thorough but I appear to be experiencing mild 'stealing wireless fail' so thought I'd just shove it out here quick.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I love Patrick Wolf's music, but cannot understand what the young folk see in Bloc Party. Then again, nor could I understand my own generation making a fuss about the Strokes, or any generation making a fuss about the Beatles, when both had peers who were vastly more deserving of the attention.

And my parents like the Chemical Brothers, who bore me rigid.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha I once bought my (at the time, seventeen-year-old) brother 'The Magic Position' to go with 'Weekend In The City' (which he'd asked for for his birthday) because I thought 'young(er) persons might like this but it is at least BETTER THAN THIS OTHER THING.*' Next year he asked for Scouting For Grills so I gave him As Heard On Radio Soulwax and discarded him.

*nb: I was RONG about Bloc Party, who are actually grebt. 'Intimacy' is a proper goth thing & the Burial remix of 'Where Is Home' is ridiculously gorgeous.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'd rather just listen to Burial. I found Bloc Party's music boring from the off (their first release was on an Angular compilation I bought for some other, better bands featured thereon), and do not feel any progress has been made since. Meanwhile, it has become clear that Kele is a precious berk on a level rare even in indie, and a hypocrite to boot. DO NOT WANT.

Radio Soulwax: something else loved by my generation and the young folk, but the point of which utterly eludes me. Just play one of the songs and then the other one! Or, if one of the songs is less good, omit that entirely!
(Though one mash-up I have liked in the past five years is the MGMT/David Bowie 'Stardust Kids')