Yes, it is still frustrating that when someone blogs about a song I would like to hear, I have to wait until the weekend to be able to hear it. I’ve always thought music, and pop in particular, was very much about here and now, about being in the mood to listen to a song at this very moment; not about building a playlist for next week, nice as the songs may be.

But well, those are the facts, and the current situation is good for a lot of other reasons. So let’s just celebrate the fact that there are some decent mp3-blogs out there. I thought I’m Not Always So Stupid deserves another mentioning for Nancy’s head-in-the-80s-heart-in-the-UK posts, most of which do have a couple of classic indiepop tunes linked with them. And this morning in the train to Oxfordshire, while me and my mp3-player were catching up with a few weeks of missed mp3s, I happened to really want to listen to The Flatmates, The Chesterfields and Aztec Camera.