I can only walk past so many Nazis.

[alexsarll]

As is usually my habit I am posting this before reading my friendslist, but I'm guessing that at least half of it will be either Snow! :) or Snow! :(, so in deference to your jaded sensibilities I shall avoid the topic.

I've always known there was something bothering me about Klaxons, beyond the praise they were accumulating for fairly mediocre records. Then I read that they wanted to go R&B, 'Ghetto Fabulous' started playing in my head and everything slotted into place. Three post-indie kids who've done dance, done pop and have their eye on R&B? Klaxons are the rubbish Baxendale! And is is so often the case, they're snaffling all the plaudits and sales which eluded their vastly superior predecessor.

The Boys is back in town.

Further to yesterday, it seems I spoke too soon about the Lords: "A Church of England spokesman said: "We...acknowledge that in a house with reduced numbers consideration needs to be given to the appropriate number of Lords Spiritual. We also welcome and agree the recommendation that the wider religious make-up of the UK be reflected by the appointed element of a reformed House". Now, if they meant ensuring that representatives from the National Secular Society, pagan, Satanist and Jedi bodies got seats, fair enough. But why do I suspect that's not going to be the case?

Virgin was full of posh schoolgirls this evening. The world does enjoy its little puns.

Comments

Re: Wrongpop

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

They can be influenced by those things, if they understand what makes those things great and do them right. Just doing a half-arsed version of that thing and calling it indie isn't enough. Crap lo-fi versions of stuff that isn't supposed to be crap and lo-fi is pointless. Johnny Boy sounds like proper pop, though the girl needs the studio trickery to help her weak voice. Still, it doesn't hurt Kylie et al so let 'em get on with it, it's not unpleasant and offkey and yer man with the electronics hasn't chosen to use a VL-tone emulator to make the backing tracks. Talent and production values shouldn't fall by the wayside. The Associates were indie and yet proper pop, non? Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Bowie - all fully-realised versions of stuff, not half-arsed, and yet non-manufactured and full of substance (until they went shit).

McFly's first album was pop, as was their third. Their second was third rate Kendallindie, but we can't have it all.

Re: Wrongpop

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The Associates, like Roxy Music before them, had the good fortune to precede the deleterious 'pop'/'indie' dichotomy - just like Bogart or Powell & Pressburger were lucky enough to live before Hollywood split into 'the blockbusters' and 'the arty stuff', both of which were painfully incomplete.

I have heard plenty of McFly, and not one second of it belonged anywhere but third on the bill at the Dublin Castle.

Also, I love Johnny Boy live.