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- The Man With No Name’s Name! 11 May 2009 Thinking about the reasons for the utterly futile X-Men Origins: Wolverine, made me consider the above point. We don't care what the Man With No Name's actual name his. The…
- THE POLICE – “Every Breath You Take” 22 Jun 2009 I guess the mid-paced slog of a rhythm which dominates "Every Breath You Take" is meant to suggest its narrator's implacability - the unresting patience of a stalker. Rock is…
- CHARLES AND EDDIE – “Would I Lie To You?” 21 Oct 2011 Classicist pop often sacrifices quality for vibe. Shakin' Stevens might have had the moves down but if "Oh Julie" had fallen back through time to the 50s it would have…
- Lost Property Office 2: The First Days Of Disco 14 Mar 2012 Welcome to week two of the new FreakyTrigger podcast (in association with SOAS Radio), the Lost Property Office. This week my guest is Sarah Clarke who did not get her…
- FT Advent Calendar Of Christmas TV Specials: December 3rd 3 Dec 2011 Christmas is a time for the children, which means it's also a time for endless kids' TV specials. More than ever, in the age of the "DVD movie" stocking-stuffer. But…
- RICHGIRL – “He Ain’t With Me Now (Tho)” 15 Sep 2009 I was playing this record quite a lot while I put the final edits on my "Decade In Pop" piece for Pitchfork: now I wish I'd mentioned it. It's producer…
- New for the health conscious: composted greens 9 Jun 2010 There are a lot of stupid things that supermarkets do to food that upset me. Wrapping cucumbers is of course everyone's least favourite example of stupidity at work and washing…
- Hackney Empire’s New Act of the Year – Audition #4 18 Nov 2009 One oddity about this year's hopefuls* is that not one has done political material. What are the chances? This is a fairly catholic smattering of forty or so comedians from…
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Tom invented Freaky Trigger on a bus journey in the mid-90s. A page about what he's up to can be found here.
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YOU SAD BASTARD! – Carter Reconsidered
1 Sep 2002 I don’t think much of the idea of ‘guilty pleasures’ but there’s guilt and there’s guilt, isn’t there? There’s guilt for something you might be doing wrong – breaking some invisible law of taste, maybe – and that guilt you can and should kick aside. But then there’s guilt for the things you have done, […]The Bible Of Badness: GENESIS
14 Nov 2006 In The Beginning There Was Nothingness. IF ONLY. In The Beginning There Was The Word. NOT THE BIRD FROM L7 PULLING DOWN HER KECKS AGAIN. But neither of these are strictly true. Because the first book of the Bible Of Badness is Genesis. And if you were ever to question how bad this Bible could […]Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mini Mussolini?
22 Aug 2006 Despite a brief cameo by Michael Schumacher Car, the filum Cars steers clear of German cars. Oh, there’s a VW campervan, but that is a hippy, with a typical hippy accent (its your grandad’s idea of a hippy at that, straight out of early seventies films). Equally British cars barely get a look-in. So there […]Andrew WK: I Get Wet: Pitchfork Review
9 Jul 2002 Andrew WK: I Get Wet: Pitchfork Review: Remarkable write-up of the Andrew WK album from Ryan Schrieber, Pitchforkmedia’s editor-in-chief. Remarkable because it gets Andrew WK’s music so descriptively right – “Nothing could penetrate a sound that dense. I was overcome. I tried to remember the last time anyone dared to push rock so poppily over […]Pika! Pika! Chu! Chu!
10 Jul 2000 The Pokemon Phenomenon This piece was going to be an unabashed paean to Pokemania, explaining what a cracking game it was and how the mass tweener hysteria which greets every fresh Pokegame, cardset, pillow-case, or doily was a good thing inasmuch as ten-year-olds are natural obsessives and it wasn’t like they were wasting their time […]MICHAEL JACKSON – “Billie Jean”
18 May 2009 #516, 5th March 1983 Michael Jackson came to the title “King of Pop” in the style of a medieval ruler, carving out his realm piece by piece across a hard year of campaigning. He won some of his new subjects when he performed this song as part of a Motown anniversary special: others when he […]BAND AID – “Do They Know It’s Christmas”
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 […]Do You Feel Real, And If So I’d Like To Know…
30 Jan 2000 I. The cod-philosophical question at the centre of pop fandom is this: is pop a genre or a state? Not all records designed to be ‘great pop’ – in the sense of being good for the feet, the heart and the bank balance – make it to the Top Forty, or anywhere near. But not […]FreakyTrigger on
