Bits of Poptimist Business

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How orga is my fun? How? How? HERE'S HOW - a new weekly Poptimists schedule so we can, "keep it regular".

Monday: Now poll (& Poptimists charts)
Tuesday: BOSH OF THE WEEK
Wednesday: Pop World Cup!
Thursday: Now poll
Friday: Winner Stays On.

Except I won't be posting this week's bosh until I get home.

I received my first Pop World Cup submission last night - IT IS EXCELLENT! I will not prejudice results by saying whose it was though. I have not yet decided which ridiculously complex fair and user-friendly voting system to use.

Bonus poll:
[Poll #653995]

Question of thee day: are there any really good songs about how other songs or music aren't good? "I Don't Know Where It Comes From" by Ride - unspeakable. "All The Records On The Radio Are Sh1te" by Ballboy - unpalatable. "Funk Pop A Roll" by XTC - erm chalk it down to guilty pleasures. WHEREAS songs about how other songs and music are GREAT are often good! i.e. "Music" by John Miles. Maybe.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

'16' by the buzzcocks: "and i hate modern music! disco boogie and pop! they go on, and on and on, and on and on, how i wish they would STOP!"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I now cannot find the lyrics to the Ballboy song. And in fact I've never heard it. My evidence is as follows though:

i. it is by Ballboy.

The prosecution rests mlud.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

It is not exactly bad, but it is not one of their best efforts either.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

It's actually aces, Tom. I can YSI if you like.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Also the lyrics to the Ride record are proving elusive. However it is one of the most outstandingly hypocritical songs ever so I might have to upload it just to quiet the bee in my bonnet.

The lyrics to Funk Pop A Roll however are available. Emphasis mine on the most r%ck!st line of all time!

Funk pop a roll beats up my soul
Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill
Of your radio
Into the mouths of babes
And across the backs of it’s willing slaves

Funk pop a roll consumes you whole
Gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco
Everything you eat is waste
But swallowing is easy when it has no taste

They can fix you rabbits up
With your musical feed
They can fix you rabbits up
Big money selling you stuff that you do not need

Funk pop a roll for fish in shoals
Music by the yard for the children they keep
Like poseable dolls
The young to them are mistakes
Who only want bread but they’re force-fed cake

Funk pop a roll the only goal
The music business is a hammer to keep
You pegs in your holes
But please don’t listen to me
I’ve already been poisoned by this industry!

Funk pop a roll beats up my soul

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

BUT CAKE IS NICER THAN BREAD!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

psb 'how i learned to hate rock'n'roll'! seminal popist tract.

i fear that 'wild horses' will go the 'wake me up' route - sounds fantastic in album context, completely irrelevant as single.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think all of them would really - maybe waiting or watch me go wouldn't. Still be nice to see them try.

Golden Oldies, Rolling Stones, We Don't Want Them Back!!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

I'D RATHER JACK, THAN FLEETWOOD MAC

best diss song ever.

No more Pink Floyd, Dire Straits

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Doh! What was I thinking?

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

"I don't like country & western.
I don't like rock music.
I don't like, I don't like rockabilly.
- rock'n'roll in particular -
I don't like much, really, do I?
but what I do like, I love passionately"

Also, obvious but true: 'Panic'.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah to both of those, well Paninaro I think is more a song about loving things than not. But "Panic" is a good example.

Another dreadful one - "Who Wants to be the Disco King?" Why do I even remember these things?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i know how much Helen Love winds you all up, so i'll chip in with "DOes Your Heart Go Boom". Not only bigging up ATR but dissing kulashaker and bush. rockism + fish barrel shooting ( + glass-house owners throwing stones IF YOU LIKE). also i dance very heartily to this and enjoyed them doing it live

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

*explodes with rage at mere thought of Helen Love*

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

ride lyrics (and yes chord tabs)

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/getsome.org/guitar/olga/main/r/ride/i_dont_know.crd

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

of course, if they turned on their radio at night, they were probably listening to STEVE LURPACK on the evening session, thus no doubt a load of sh!te...

but yes, even i can't defend ride after going blank again...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The work database has come up with:

"Bad Music For Bad People" by The Cramps (ok that's an album title)
"I Hate Dead Pop Stars" by The Hammers
"I Hate Alternative Rock" by some Japanese person

Also "Rubbish" by Carter USM mentions "rubbish on the radio" in the lyrics.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That's cos they're in a car, and it's messy, and they've stuffed some empty crisp packets on top of the car radio.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Arguably, "Video killed the radio star".

[zenith.livejournal.com]

'Rock'n'Roll' by Mos Def. Plus umpteen boring songs* about how "hip-pop" or modern rap is rubbish, by conscious conscious conscious rappers.

*And a few good ones.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Actually the entirety of hip hop, 'Beat Biters' by Missy Elliott springs to mind and of course innumerable "everyone else is shit but I am great" songs.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there are an infinity of f.zappa songs abt how everything ever is awful (zappa = the jazzrock carter w/o the puns)

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

'radio radio' by elvis costello. i'm not sure if it's 'good' or not.

i have always had a soft spot for 'one down three to go' by the meatmen released just after lennon's death (and pre-george-popping, obv)

lots of denim songs, eg middle of the road

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

and are we ignoring rap diss reckids here? JayZ's entire putdown of Nas is based on "yeah you're first album was ace, but it's all shit after that, la". or something like that

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think specific rap diss records are something different, generalised statements about "the state of music" are more what I'm looking for, rather Jay-Z calling Nas a big fanny.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

"Models" is, really, the last song I would pick as a single. (OK, no, "No Regrets" and "It's Magic" which has already been a B-side). It's so tinny, it wouldn't survive on the radio. Gotta be Wild Horses.

The real wasted single is "See The Day", STOP with the cover ballads! "Watch Me Go" should have been the lead single.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

I really don't know what UK radio is like, but I think "Models" is one of two songs on the record that could go over well in the US. (The other is "Waiting," which is also a far better candidate for a single than "Wild Horses," which is very good but screams 'album cut' to me.)

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Half Man Half Biscuit- Four Skinny Indie Kids. Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo (the first ever song about Pete Doherty"). Vatican Broadside ("the singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see the Pope..."). Arguably "The Ballad of Climie Fisher". About 80% of the rest of their catalogue.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this may not be fair but i have always taken HMHB's "disses" to be a kind of product placement of THEMSELVES in and around a title-mention of [insert other artist or item here], the conent being "anti" but carefully delivered so that fans of item treat it as "just a bit of fun" and think fondly of HMBM as a result

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

From the album of the millenium so far, we have Never Been To Memphis by Daphne & Celeste, explaining how terrible country and western is. In something like a pair of Brooklyn schoolgirls' approximation of country and western styles, complete with comedy Deep South accent-attempts. It is among the greatest things ever recorded.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I voted for Wild Horses but I think I like the Flying Burrito Brothers version better.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't follow the reasoning behind disallowing Jay-Z's "Takeover," but anyway, there's Schoolly D's "I Don't Like Rock and Roll" and Schoolly D's "No More Rock and Roll."

[(Anonymous)]

Previous post was me.

Frank Kogan

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I Hate Oasis And I Hate The Beatles by Teen Anthems is great!