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.

[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!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the revolution has no need of orgafun! to the TUMBRILS!!

[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.

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

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

I'D RATHER JACK, THAN FLEETWOOD MAC

best diss song ever.

[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.

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'.

Re: No more Pink Floyd, Dire Straits

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes there must be a dozen punk songs in this vein (inc. the pistols anti-sylvian rant "japan is a dishpan")

Re: No more Pink Floyd, Dire Straits

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

although, may well be exception proving rule?

[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

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

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

*slaps forehead*

[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

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

*explodes with rage at mere thought of Helen Love*

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

my plan worked brilliantly

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah 'watch me go' might be strong enough but it's more the time of year - GA aren't suited to the post-new year hangover months. Of course all of this could have been avoided if 'long hot summer' hadn't been the lead single! It should have gone Biology, Wild Horses, Whole Lotta History, Watch Me Go, Swinging London Town + electro remixes.

[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?

[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.

[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...

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Arguably, "Video killed the radio star".

[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.

I JUDGE...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

... "Rubbish" by Carter USM to be autobiographical