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Pop Open Week 6
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— 17 Jul 2007 Tom 2 comments

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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— 16 Jul 2007 Tom 4 comments

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, […]

Ambushed by unexpected samples
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— 15 Jul 2007 Tom 2 comments

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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— 15 Jul 2007 mark sinker 1 comment

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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— 12 Jul 2007 Tanya Headon 3 comments

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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— 12 Jul 2007 Pete Baran 3 comments

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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— 11 Jul 2007 Tom 16 comments

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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— 10 Jul 2007 mark sinker Comment

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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— 10 Jul 2007 Tom Comment

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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East Meets Kanye West
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— 6 Jul 2007 Alan Comment

If you have seen the Kanye ‘Stronger’ video but never seen Akira, here’s what you need to know:

More screenshot comparisons here
I disagree with almost everything on that site. “There’s a lot of stuff in this music video th[…]

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