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 Children — Somewhere 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