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I linked to this on my blog the other day, but it didn't get any comments so I'm posting it here too - this is easily one of the coolest mp3 blogs I've ever seen. It doesn't seem to abide the "take the song down after 1 week" rule, which means there's quite an archive of music up there. I love the description of what kind of music he posts, too:

If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, toothy teen idols or candy-based metaphors for carnal acts, it's in.
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go check it out. And make sure you grab the awesome "China Nights (Shina No Yoru)" from week 92; its a country song with english and japanese(!) lyrics.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The world definitely needs more bubblegum music

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't quite get the bubblegum thing - Jerry Lee Lewis and Mighty Sparrow? But pretty fun, nonetheless.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh, this lee hazlewood-produced ann margret song is pretty killer. i think it's from week 2 or 3 or thereabouts

― mat, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bubblegum Machine

sorry, didn't make the first link clicky.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is easily one of my favourite MP3 blogs.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, this guy's great.
his comments are funny as hell; short, itense blurbs that just crack me up. don't get all the uk references, but good stuff all the same.
i like his writing better than most of the music he posts, but he does have some good tunes on there, too.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

his comments are funny as hell

Exhibit A:

Led Zeppelin facts: Led Zeppelin stole the black man's music. They did this by buying the black man's cds from HMV, converting them to mp3 then taking them back to the shop, claiming they had bought it for their Dad "who already had it", and asking whether they "could have an exchange or refund?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Exhibit B:

Yes, Thomas, women are airheads... and yet you are so clever. (click and keep reading)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 20 January 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i recently had a sudden and overwhelming need to hear robert palmer's "johnny and mary" and the bubblegum machine is where i found it. for that and plenty of other reasons, it rules.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 20 January 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

this made me laugh

Teenage death ballads aside, 60's pop, from Merseybeat to Altamont, can be split into 4 distinct lyrical themes:

1961 I love her - she's like a yellow balloon.

1964 The Sun looks like a big yellow balloon.

1966 That big yellow balloon looks like the Sun.

1969 Sinister balloons.

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 20 January 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I discovered the great and hilarious LUV on that site.

There is another kitsch pop obsessed blog (not mine) here: http://www.theinternationalhouseofpussy.co.uk/mp3/

― mnm, Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Flux has given prominent links to both of those, they're fantastic--I'm still really hooked on the Joan Jett and the Gore Gore Girls songs BGM posted a while back. Sasha was the first one to notice Bubblegum machine, AFAIK.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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