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Friday Poll Special – The Great Britpop Sorting Hat!
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— 28 Jun 2013 Tom 216 comments

We are now firmly into the BRITPOP YEARS on Popular, oh yes, so it’s time to consider its musical legacy in the only language we truly understand, viz. a ticky-box poll.

We have selected 32 bands who someone, somewhere, might possibly have o[…]

what you see is what you !!THUMP!!
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— 5 Jun 2013 mark sinker 3 comments

As a kid I had a couple of picture books which visualised sound — natural and orchestral — as lines and brightly coloured abstract shapes and star-bursts. I loved them (and should look them out and scan some pages) but of course you couldn’[…]

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  1. Tom, thank you for such thoughtful reflections on Popular and the charts. I really enjoyed them, just as I’ve really…

  2. Congratulations on making it this far, and I'm enjoying it more than ever! And I have been reading for my…

  3. Yeah while I wanted to accentuate the positive there are some absolute horrorshows to come and Sheerangate is one of…

  4. It's great to hear that the new focus on pop's past didn't pull you too far away from the present.…

  5. Almost unbelievable achievement Tom! That many reviews, and all of them crackling with personality, opinion, taste and varying degrees of…