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Pop Open Week 6
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This week’s tracks are on the theme of PASSION – please don’t ‘spoil’ what they are. If you want to join in the voting etc. then go here.[…]

Windbagpuss
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I was directed to this article by Rosie of Popular Comments Box fame (and actually a lot of this post was a reply on her LJ) – it’s a (spiked) Daily Mail piece by Oliver Postgate, creator of much loved kids’ TV icons The Clangers, […]

“i would go with you to hades — or even britannia!”
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i. this series of RHOME is much better written (and i loved the first series)
ii.  haha WOW to our first meeting with LIVIA* — this was an AWESOME ep all round, for sudden density of stress, ultra-perversity and OMG WTF did i just see that TV
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Ambushed by unexpected samples
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Playing solid Brit-soul outfit The Real Thing’s “Love’s Such A Wonderful Thing” for the first time and I’m stopped in my tracks twenty-five seconds in – “Love! Love’s such a wonderful thing – thi[…]

things we don’t do so much anymore #1346: link to “pop” stuff on the interwebz
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unexpectedly beguiling forum Q&A with of all ppl steve albini: eg from page 2, “I would have loved to watch Stevie Wonder play a whole album by himself”
(i found it via lawyers guns and money)[…]

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Bible Of Badness Special: 1 Corinthians 15:55
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Biblical scholars, have recently queried the standard translation of this particular part of the Bible. One of the more famous bits, this common exclamation was seen as a way of thundering against mortality, at challenging the heavens and claiming o[…]

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Moaning About Black Snake
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Black Snake Moan advertises itself as a pulpy throwback exploitation movie. There, in its stab at an authentically distressed poster, we have a masterful Samuel L.Jackson towering over a chained up, skimpily dressed Christina Ricci. “Come and see a[…]

Lollards Of Pop!
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Freaky Trigger and the Lollards Of Pop is gearing up for its second smash-hit season – keep yr peepers peeled for date announcements – and in the meantime we’re putting together a compilation of the best bits of Season 1, as an intr[…]

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since when has this bit been “angel”?
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ok so i went into islington this morning to begin changing banks, and was in the co-op where pentonville road meets islington high st — as i wz waiting to be seen i wz lookin round and there on the wall, complete with old-skool monopoly logo, […]

Pop Open Week 5
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This week we have five songs on the theme of LOVE. To take part in the voting, go here, or email your favourite two, in order, to leagueofpop@gmail.com (you can only vote for the ones you don’t already know!).

You can find the results for last[…]

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