Meeting In Cafés

I think my computer issues are just about over now (to recap: blown motherboard, new motherboard with incompatible memory slots, and a fatal fall to my iBook), so perhaps the weblog will be updated with a little more regularity from now on. No promises, though.

Anyway, here's this week's music selection. This time, it's AN ALL—EIGHTIES—EXTRAVAGANZA!!

Prefab Sprout Appetite

I'm not quite sure how to explain why I like this. I suspect it has something to do with the female vocal that's keyed to the synthesiser. Or the line "If you steal - be Robin Hood". Or maybe it's this: "Wishes she could call him heartache / But it's not a boy's name." Download it and see what you think.

The Railway ChildrenSomewhere South

More jingly-jangly pop that owes more than a little to Orange Juice and Aztec Camera, with a dash of New Order thrown in for good measure (the group started out on Factory Records, the record label of Choice, after all).

Current thread at a music board I frequent:

Lauren Laverne smiled at me, which pretty much made my year

"The Internet fans are the scariest." — Lauren Laverne

currently playing: Happy Mondays — Hallelujah