Mike from Troubled Diva offers mp3 downloads of three interesting Scottish bands from the early eighties. I hadn't heard any song by any band before. Josef K and Orange Juice (led by Edwyn Collins) who both were on the mythic Glaswegian Postcard label made jangly pop-rock whereas the Fire Engines did funk-punk quite similar to the Pop Group:

Josef K - Sorry For Laughing (1981) Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (1981) Fire Engines - Get Up And Use Me (1980)

Hurry up! I guess they will only be online for a couple of days.

Unfortunately the remember me feature for users with login has been changed by the Antville programmers due to a security leak. It only works with a static IP address now. The automatic login of dial-up modem connections like mine at home doesn't work anymore and I have to log in each time anew. The nice Antville people are looking into possible solutions for this though.

Thanks for the many subscriptions. I think there are 24 people who have subscribed now. Up till now the subscription makes sense for you if you are subscribed to several Antville weblogs as you then get a list of all weblogs you have subscribed to in order of last update. Maybe there will be an e-mail notification one day though. Another side effect of subscribing is that I can see who reads my blog and I will surely visit your site if you entered it in your profile.

I closed the poll for the favourite album of 1988. The winner didn't come as a surprise for me. It was The Pixies seminal Surfer Rosa followed closely by Leonard Cohen's great comeback album I'm Your Man. My choice didn't get any votes.

Thanks to Paul for the link to the latest poll which directed a sweeping 19 visitors here. Someone even voted already for my favourite. More on that tonight.

I changed the titles of the posts in the 40 years, 40 albums series so that Google should be more friendly to them in the future.