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

[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.)