Stylus Singles Jukebox

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=2107

It has me in it, a little bit, and some other poptimists too. Some poor records get props this week. I like the diversity of the new format but I also miss its parochialism, actually seeing where in the charts all these tunes got to, and the gritted teeth as we had to 'tackle' hopeless post-Libertines wannabes yet again.

Comments

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Dom Passantino's ability to be entirely right and yet so, so wrong will never cease to amaze me.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Explain further, boss.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

In the sense that I agree with you completely about Morningwood, abnd yet my reaction to your blurb is somehow still an "ewww". Similarly, a spot-on review of the Artic Numpties is ruined by the pointless pettiness of the "girth of an MP3 blogger" crack.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

"girth of an mp3 blogger" BAHAHAHAHA i didn't notice that before!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Dude the morningwood is aces.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Doesn't really do it for me.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The rest of the album doesn't sound much like that.

It sounds more like Republica trying to "do" Le Tigre.

I like it.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I wish there were another album of Republica doing Republica.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

can the pro-pop massive please move into this decade sometime soon?

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Will the indie massive please stop mocking me?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

*looks around*

i see no indie massive! unless you mean dom

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Lex, you're like the indie equivalent of self-denying homosexual men. You accuse everyone else of being it, but it is you who is the indie-est of them all!

Seriously! You apply an indie mindset to the appreciation of pop.

Though since Konichiwa Records _is_ independent, your assessment of Robyn as indie is quite accurate.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pop need not be "up to date" ---> viz lady in red is bigger pop than YOU KNOW HOW TO HANDLE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

but i know that part of the joke is that i know i like some indie! (which is not the same as being indie.)

[cis.livejournal.com]

haha I wondered who would be the first to call remioromen the japanese snow patrol! <3

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

apropos has anyone seen or got Snow Patrol's 'The Trip' compilation? The tracklisting is actually, genuinely fantastic.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I saw it in t'shops when it first came out. I didn't inspect it closely at the time but yes, the track list for the first disc looks alright (despite the presence of Four Tet in the middle).

Don't fancy the look of CD2 at all, although I am keen to hear some Hot Chip (I haven't checked out that mp3 you offered on yr LJ yet).

[cis.livejournal.com]

yes! i got it off the styowdent paper last year, it looked v good as I recall but I don't think I listened to it above once.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Ouch, was that so obvious? I toyed with a reference to that "Everything sounds like Coldplay now" song, and then saying "Even Japanese people!", but Snow Patrol.. well, it just SOUNDS like it, doesn't it?

Also: should I keep you up to date on the Partysquad's chart placing in the NL, Tom? ;-)

(Also: yes, Morningwood is aces. And so is Miranda. Have given up on trying to understand Hawley love)

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

(You all knew I was *that* Dutch bloke with the unpr0nouncable name, right? :)

[cis.livejournal.com]

no diss intended, dude, it really does! I love it tho because, er, Patrick McNally's blurb == about me. (it's the current no.3 in japan off the back of use in a very very sad drama.)

The Hawley thing is completely incomprehensible, innit?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

that would be Mitch Benn's "Everything Sounds Like Coldplay"

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Where's Winner Stays On, anyway? I want my Lambert fix.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sorry! WSO back tomorrow or Friday.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I like Hawley!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

You are all mentalists for not liking "Analogue". It's bloody Max Martin!

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Nightwish rule!! I love female fronted euro-goth meatl. It's the now sound. Get with the programme.

They cover "Walking in the air" and have songs about LOTR.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Yes, but "Sleeping Sun" is not great. It's no "I Wish I Had An Angel", that's for sure.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

yeah, I guess, but it's still probably better than Lanegan and her out of belle and sebastian. I read the open letter to the ex-singer of Nightwish from the rest of the band, harsh.