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

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Given how little I trust what Pitchfork recommends of 90s and 00s music, and how the site's overall aesthetic is about as far removed from mine as you can get, and how their 90s/00s lists pretty much disgust me, why would I trust them on ANYTHING? 1-2 individual writers excepted.

If I was to go back to the 70s I'd be more specific than "70s music" (I mean wtf is "90s music" or "00s music", they don't mean anything) - I'd want 70s disco, or 70s soul or something. And in those cases I would go to someone who knew and deeply loved those genres, certainly not Pitchfork.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

despite some sense of rockcentricity i'm not aware of a site as big as theirs with an outlook as broad as theirs (it could be broader but so could everyone).

it's not a trust issue for me given how much stuff they do cover.

i don't always want specific and overviews are usually good as this reflects my tastes and interests as both novice and dilettant. 70s music means music made in the 70s - it doesn't have to mean anything else.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh come it's totally indie/rock centric. A token here and there from other genres, usually the most "crossover" friendly, makes them LESS credible on R&B, garage etc, not more.

What kind of mood do you have to be in to listen to "70s music"? "Music made in the 70s" doesn't conjure anything up for me. I mean, does it make any sense at all lumping Joni Mitchell and Donna Summer together? Would it make any sense throwing Ashlee Simpson and Omar-S together as some putative "00s music" category? Music doesn't work like that.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

You're just criticising them for not doing something which nobody seems able or willing to do tho ie equal coverage and representation of all pop genres.

That would be nice to see but in the meantime they seem to be among if not the broadest.

Re your last point are you saying that no collective should bother doing any kind of list which isn't genre-specific or culturally narrowed (or 'focussed' if you prefer) in some similar way? Is this your 'team sports suck' thing again?!

Lumping Mitchell and Summer together makes sense in the context of me wanting to hear music by both - that is something they have in common and this connection is sufficient justification for a period-based list ft. both plus music from every other genre popular at the time.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I think The Lex's campaign to remove Andrew WK from poptimist history suggests that he's against tokenism from the other direction :)

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

You could be in a mood to be educated, if you didn't know anything about music from the 70s in general? This is much the situation I'm in too - my view of the decade is basically "dreadful then punk", and I should examine that at some point.

Re: there was a dog! he had two bones!

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Any view of the seventies which excludes Marc Bolan needs examination, yep.