Comments on: Not The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 38

By: Michael Lee

Michael Lee — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:28:58 +0000

Punka isn’t even the 38th best Kenickie song…SK8brd Song, now that’s a classic…

By: Chewshabadoo

Chewshabadoo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:08:51 +0000

hurhur, barely even the 38th best Kenicke song.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:03 +0000

Ouch. Harsh. Millionaire Sweeper by Kenickie would have got my vote. “Hey Punka, I’ve got ambition” does make me wince, even if it was patently true – Lauren Laverne to replace Jonathan Ross?

By: SteveM

SteveM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:55:09 +0000

I put it to you that it is in fact this method of presenting (as opposed to compiling, this was obv. v sound) the list that has been proven rubbish by science.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:53:13 +0000

OK, nominations have closed. Lets wait for the poll to see which is the best…

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:39:00 +0000

I nominate… So many to choose from… ‘Sweet Takin’ Guy’ by The Chiffons. Very short, very bittersweet, very Bronx: both girlgroup sassy and northern soul springy.

Oh those girls just know how enticing he is; “Sweeter than sugar, kisses like wine – oh he’s so fine!” Even though he’ll send you flowers and paint the town with another guy, and all his sweet talk is mere sweet talkin’ lies.

Then the swoony, worldly wise question where all three voices suddenly unify; “Why do I love him like I do – ooh?”

And towards the end there’s a tremendous payoff. I know of few lines in pop delivered with the force of lived experience than the warning;

“STAY AWAY FRON HIM! STAY AWAY FROM HIM! STAY AWAY FROM HIM!”

There’s such a sense of life lived and lessons learned in this glorious song.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:31:05 +0000

You know it as the BT advert from back in the day. I know it as ‘In The Meantime’ by Spacehog. Somehow, in the mid-90s, glam had a brief re-emergence in the charts, and Spacehog, with their high profile celebrity girlfriends (Kate Moss and Liv Tyler at the time), along with Placebo led the revival.

By: Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:28:20 +0000

“Baby I Need Your Loving” by the Four Tops. Contains the lyric ‘When you see me smiling, you’ll know things have gotten worse’, which is the most emo lyric ever in one of the most non-emo songs of all time. Just because the Tops are drowning in a miasma of liquid loneliness doesn’t mean they need to stop snapping those fingers! You can’t lose your cool in that situation.

By: vinylscot

vinylscot — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:51:42 +0000

How about the Sugarcubes “Birthday”, if that isn’t #1?

By: Alix

Alix — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:18:13 +0000

I almost wrote you a review of Punka, but I got sidetracked by other things. Probably for the best as the ‘review’ was more a rambling description of an underage drinking, glitter eyeshadow and fishnet wearing and homemade miniskirted gig going me. It was different in those days.

Anyway, the 38th best song is clearly Tarzan Boy by Baltimora. Unless we’ve already had it, that is. I do not recall.

By: Kat but logged out innit

Kat but logged out innit — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:11:03 +0000

I nominate Punka, by Kenicke.

Just kidding!

By: Andrew F

Andrew F — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:06:16 +0000

I seem to recall that Punka was cynically nominated by a hater in order to fix it this low, lest it turn up in the top ten WHERE IT BELONGS.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:48:36 +0000

*applause*