75 bcz that’s where the Nows are right now. The video’s from 2008 apparently — but if I put that you popkids would have ignored it and not clicked, right? In Bollywood terms I think this is a bit flimsy, but in legacy-of-Red-Chinese-Art terms?
MADISON AVENUE - "Don't Call Me Baby" 6 Mar 2015 For all my hyperbole, and for all that 2000 was the zenith of the Cheiron sound, it didn’t have the charts to itself. The glut of number ones in 2000…
ARMAND VAN HELDEN - "You Don't Know Me" 11 Sep 2014 The micropolitics of “featuring” credits on dance records is a fascinating world. Duane Harden – who wrote and sang the words to “You Don’t Know Me” – gets no sleeve…
#11: Leave your situations at the door 6 Sep 2020 This bracket shares very porous boundaries with Bracket 5 - the pop/R&B one - since R&B was a driving creative force in 2001 and we easily had enough nominations to…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2015: #20-#11 14 Jan 2016 "Hi readers, I'm Lionel Richie's Enormous Clay Head. You may remember me from the 'Hello' video where a visually impaired student nearly sticks her fingers right into my eyeballs -…
ROOM 5 ft OLIVER CHEATHAM - "Make Luv" 18 Dec 2019 The sound of a subgenre on its deathbed. We’ve had some good times with filter-disco, or French touch, or whatever you want to call this woozy sound. At its best…
#9: Sunshine in a bag 5 Sep 2020 I’m not totally sure this bracket ‘works’, in that it’s likely to feel unfair to one or both of the two streams of music I’ve pushed together here. There’s the…
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24 Jan 2010
Here at Freaky Trigger we have realised that January has been a bit slow with output. A new year can put new strains upon our writers and what with Tom’s Guardian column and me embarking on a year without cinema, pickings have been slim. What was needed was something that would galvanise all the writers, […]
1 Mar 1981
My name is Tanya Headon. I hate music. All of it. And I’m bloody good at what I do. Which is why, when picketing a gig of The Feeling I managed to get over 90% of the fans to agree with me that they are just soft rock bobbins and their new album is just […]
4 Jul 2018
An intriguing group for this third Pop World Cup match, with two of the sleeping giants of pop football – Sweden and South Korea – lined up against the always capable Germany and dark horses Mexico. Group of death? In a sense, they are all groups of death when YOU have the casting vote. Pick […]
5 Jul 2013
#725, 26th August 1995 BOXING? A “heavyweight battle”, the NME cover-billed it. And if “Country House” vs Oasis’ “Roll With It” was a title bout, the music press were desperate to play Frank Warren. Perhaps they had most at stake. It was, in a way, their last great fight. Many other moments define Oasis. Blur […]
9 Jan 2004
Independence Day. Isn’t it marvellous? Hurrah hurrah let’s kill the stripper and those hippies! That’s the kind of morals I WANT from my films! Until the aliens bugger up by deciding just to kill EVERYBODY. Where’s the subtlety, the art, the je ne sais quoi indeed about that? Who cares when we have plucky heroes […]
13 Aug 2008
#428, 18th November 1978 “Rat Trap” is billed – in the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles, no less – as the first punk No.1. I couldn’t recall it – my memories of the Rats themselves were vague; Geldof I knew for later good works. So I approached “Rat Trap” cold but with a frisson of definite […]
4 Sep 2009
#543, 15th December 1984, video “Do They Know It’s Christmas” is significant in one way, and insignificant in another. First, it raised a lot of awareness and money and established the pop single as an excellent mechanism for doing those things. This was significant. Gargantuan “supergroups” like this fell out of favour but charity records […]
75 bcz that’s where the Nows are right now. The video’s from 2008 apparently — but if I put that you popkids would have ignored it and not clicked, right? In Bollywood terms I think this is a bit flimsy, but in legacy-of-Red-Chinese-Art terms?
This only proves that the Pop World Cup should be extended to cover the whole qualifying tournament too.
Just you wait until the poplympics…
Oh Birdseed is going to LOVE the Poplympics.