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What’s Going On With The FT Comments?
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— 17 Oct 2019 Tom 15 comments

Hi all –
We know some of you have had serious issues with the FT comments, both in terms of logging in on existing IDs and creating new ones.
This is because of something being imposed by our hosts to stop continued spam comment attacks. We&#82[…]

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All one can do is die (CRASH TEST DUMMIES – “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”)
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— 13 Oct 2019 Tom 5 comments

(#2 in April 1994)
Fortune is the issue here: the blind bad luck of the song’s kid subjects, the random chance of us ever hearing about them. “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” is a fluke, but a fluke brought forth from a particular moment, the end of the alt-r[…]

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how not to write about extreme metal, probably
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— 12 Oct 2019 mark sinker 8 comments

[This post originally went up at my PATREON: subscribers get to read posts and hear podcasts early — and help offset costs and time and help me do more of this kind of thing. Please share widely and encourage participation in the comments!]
“It m[…]

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It’s A Day For Catching Sun (LOUCHIE LOU AND MICHIE ONE – “Shout”)
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— 3 Oct 2019 Tom 2 comments

Less Popular is an occasional series where I write about hits that didn’t get to #1. It’s made possible by the Patreon – thanks to all my patrons.
Popular’s actual coverage of the ’93 Summer Of Ragga suffers a bit from the Numbe[…]

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