They’ve finally stopped trying to have hits, which strategy could go two ways: that way, into grooveless pitter-patter test card cul-de-sacs, or this way, into cold European not-quite-pop, the after-image of pop on the back of your eyelids. &#8[…]

Warning! Inter-blog battle continues! (except I do actually think I’ve got more general stuff to say too)
us|against|them replies. For what it’s worth again, I thought the British music comment might be a gag, but you never know on the ne[…]

us|against|them – an indie music weblog yo “I really don’t understand why anyone paid this list any attention because it is SO obviously focused almost exclusively on British music”. Sigh. As the list’s author, I have no[…]

The Freaky Trigger Pub Meet: FT contributor Ned Raggett (who did the other Top Albums List on the site) is coming to London for reasons I dare not ask about. But anyway, and I know this is short notice, on Sunday 18th June we are going to meet up in […]

Marksimpson.com on The Man Who Murdered Pop “Morrissey had to become an unperson in order for the Nineties to happen”. This is quite old now, but I started NYLPM in order to link to stuff like this, so here it is, now. Is he right? No of […]

Marksimpson.com . Interview “I don’t think that Morrissey titillates a straight audience, I think he implicates them. Hence, openly gay Norton and Winton come across as eunuchs; Morrissey the famous ambiguous “celibate”, is de[…]

For Pop Stars, the Same Old Song “Like Sting, Santana invites great guests – Lauryn Hill, Eric Clapton, Eagle-Eye Cherry”. That sound you hear is me chewing the flooring. And now you too can share my annoyance: I blog this for no ot[…]

Two more points about the Top 100 albums list.
i) I would happily swap every loud-but-melodic-indie-rock-songs-about-getting-dumped record in the world for one copy of Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque (#74), even if it doesn’t use any coo[…]

us|against|them checks out my Top Albums of the Decade list and finds it wanting. I’m not going to make any comments about Us V Them’s taste (or lack of it!) but I do find it interesting just how little common ground there is even among p[…]

cf. Coldplay.
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Not to be confused with: One Dove (dour Scottish pre-trip hop sonambulists), Watoo Watoo (Super Bird).[…]