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…
LIVIN' JOY - "Dreamer" 23 Jun 2013 A dance music confession: I never, quite, intuitively grasped what counted as House and what fell under Garage. The bumping, cut-up rhythms and vocals that begin the remixed “Dreamer” feel…
#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 OUTHERE BROTHERS - "Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)" 2 Jun 2013 The Great British Public has a long and warm relationship with smut – stuff that is somehow about sex without making anyone actually want to do it. A part of…
OLIVE - "You're Not Alone" 2 Mar 2014 “You’re Not Alone” walks a line between the mind-expanding and the tediously polite, a nexus point for a handful of mid-90s trends and ideas. There’s trip-hop in the mildly skippy…
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10 Mar 2015
This is a post listing the records I’m listening to for my YEAR OF ROCKISM**, as outlined here (cut and pasted from Tumblr): I’m going to listen to one album on a once-a-day basis for a week, a different one each week. Not in order to write about them or anything, unless I decide I […]
26 Jan 2004
“Black Man Ray” is Ray Charles, who China Crisis apparently believe in. Now Ray Charles’ blackness is not a secret, so why did China Crisis see fit to remind us of it on their incomprehensibly awful single? My theories: i) They were talking about the photographer Man Ray, and asserting that he was black. Which […]
24 Nov 2006
Tarmac? What kind of a brand is that, its just the pavement, right? Wrong my friends. Tarmac is a brand and an awe-inspiring dominant one at that. I love brands whose names are synonymous with their main product, it shows an awesome degree of brand dominance when the brand name becomes subsumed into language. But […]
18 Aug 2006
The man who invented the Gala Pie is a hero of mine. Not just because he took one of natures nicest foodstuff (namely the pork pie) and made it even better. He made it better by the addition of the hard boiled egg. But not just any old hard boiled egg. No, not only did […]
9 Jul 2010
So we get a winner, down on Brewer Street in Soho, the Glasshouse Stores was voted the number one pub of the noughties by those of us who voted. A nice pub sure, but so much better than the others? To find out why it scored so highly I thought I would canvas a number […]
20 Feb 2007
“[John Thelwall] also had the misfortune to be a mediocre poet — a crime which, although it is committed around us every day — historians and critics cannot forgive.” —E.P.Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class* It was called The Battle of Waterloo, and it was one of the plays offered by J. K. […]
17 Oct 2019
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’ve taken the actions requested (updating wordpress etc) but there’s […]
19 Jan 2002
Everlasting Pop and Dexys Midnight Runners There is pop, and there is popular, and then there’s popular. And there’s also “timeless”. Sometimes when people say that a record is “timeless” – let’s pick on, oh, a U2 album – they mean it will be listened to and loved say twenty years from now. What they […]
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.