FT Tagline Competiton

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Time will tell whether this is a competition in the 'Tom gives someone a prize' sense. Anyway, FT has modestly shuffled itself around a bit, and the Pop Music Think Tank tagline has been replaced. Much though I love "neurotic pop elitists", though, I don't want it to stick around too long. So I'm asking you for suggestions: I'll use the best ones. Surely that is prize enough! Ho ho.

Tom, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Guaranteed pop-tastic?

Pumpkins-free zone.

Indie-kids must die!

Warning: Simon Reynolds enabled site.

Where Craig David goes on his day off.

Better than Popjustice!

You think we hate you. We do.

Giles Foden is a cock.

alex thomson, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Warning: Simon Reynolds enabled site.

absolutely brilliant :) Bit in-crowdy though.

Omar, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pop- In the name of love

Mitch Surnamewitheld, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

POPularity thru Insularity

"Life, Music, Happiness"

We Know More Than You Do. (Apologies to Dr. Science)

We Like Bands So You Don't Have To

Hey! Old People! Music! (apologies to Ruben Bolling)

SHIT!

None Of Y'all Can Git Wit Dis.

Gooble Gobble.

Welcome To Our World.

JM, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Laughing with pop, laughing at indie

Making a meal of mealy mouthed music

Throwing the toys out of the pop playpen

Big words about little things

Putting the Club in S Club 7

Pete, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dissecting pop since...(fill with year of foundation)

Pop geekdom starts 'round these parts...

warning! Wannabe music critics ahead... (P.S. no offence meant ;-)

Pop will eat itself (actually a not-so-good band's name)

Pumping pop into our reader's veins...

Simone, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Play it backwards.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Surely you can work 'cockfarmer' in there somewhere.

Josh, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My favourites so far are 'Pop - in the name of love' and 'We like bands so you don't have to'.

Josh's excellent point suggests that 'Cockfarmer - in the name of love' is the ideal solution.

Nick Dastoor, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think it doesn't get much better than

"You think we hate you. We do. "

That and "Pure and simple as a hammer to the forbrain" but that one is taken.

Amber, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"What would you say if we put the word 'Cockfarmer' in a tagline?"

Phil Paterson, Wednesday, 7 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Your Powers Are Weak Old Man'

The Original Rough Guide to Cockfarming

'Givin' Up Da Funk': From Ace of Base to ZZ-Top

The Breast of Britney Spears

Where's The Beef?

Mr. Big - Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Neurotic Pop Elitists - Setting the Record Straight.

Michael, Wednesday, 7 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"We don't have a problem with you playing pop, but we have a little problem with you NOT playing pop."

May be a bit long, though, so "shake ya ass" should suffice.

Tim, Wednesday, 7 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It’s only pop when we say it is

Reapplies the torniquet to pop’s gashed forearm

Blows the fluff from the stylus of pop A wild elbow in the drooling chops of mindieocrity

2 Rad 4 Kodwo

Glib Scism Backdraft

Cataloguing the bubbles in pop’s water-cooler

Pins Pop Down We Think Therefore Pop Am

Peering through the perspex bottom of the pop catamaran

Seizing the pop controls after a sudden drop in cabin pressure

Du-ude, Where’s My Indie-Rock?

Sticky-mouthed brainiacs glug on the pop cordial

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Note to self: Things that look like HTML tags get zapped on the message board.

We got your pop right here!

Pop is a fist.

Pop has got a brand new bag.

We'll shag you rotten.

Fifteen click-throughs of fame.

Judgement: COOL!

Peace through choreography.

More fun than a barrel of boybands.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 8 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dissolving all cultural contradictions since 1999.

The Cutwater Band Liberation Front, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Here are some entries taken from a bemusing news story about how Pat Schroeder thinks libraries are EVIL:

We have a very serious issue with librarians. No one wants to go up against libraries. Battle against libraries. Jack up the noise. High teas and subtle politicking. Bending the ears of key policy makers. Image-based infotainment. Put people's fingers into light sockets. Clutch it like an AK-47. Schmoozing above the soothing strings.

I know of at least one person who likes "High teas and subtle politicking."

(The story itself can be found at http://washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html.)

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Err, for improved readability: We have a very serious issue with librarians.
No one wants to go up against libraries.
Battle against libraries.
Jack up the noise.
High teas and subtle politicking.
Bending the ears of key policy makers.
Image-based infotainment.
Put people's fingers into light sockets.
Clutch it like an AK-47.
Schmoozing above the soothing strings. I keep forgetting this is HTML-based. I'm a tool.

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You're soaking in it.

As seen on TV.

That sucks. This doesn't.

Kim, Saturday, 17 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like how all these suggestions have led to a change in taglines.

Kind Regards, --JM

JM, Saturday, 17 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

four years pass...
'Anything with a hook is fair game' needs a change.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Popfarmers
Even the Weasel Goes Pop
Pop, Do We Not Like That?
'Poop' Without That Pesky Extra "O"
We Have a Beat, and You Can Dance To Us

janni (janni), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link


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