Freaky Trigger
Est. 2000
Est. 2000
Tom Ewing's Popular
Reviewing every UK #1ATOMIC KITTEN – “The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)”
Related Posts
- Album-A-Day 2019 #2: Hello Pork Pie Hat 21 Jan 2019 This is a document of my album-a-day listening project. Each entry originally comes out as a tinyletter and subscribers to that get intros and miscellanea as well as the LP…
- Great News For All Our Clients 11 Jul 2013 I was reading this piece on Ernst & Young and it struck me - not for the first time - that growing up reading IPC comics was the best possible…
- Beamslingers 5 Apr 2014 I have finally compiled Hazel and my posts about Young Avengers (and matters related) into a series - you should be able to see it there at the side when…
- THE BLUEBELLS – “Young At Heart” 6 Feb 2012 Another song where hearing the original changes your perspective on it: as a Bananarama album track, "Young At Heart" is fizzy but unusually thoughtful, a vignette of a kid growing…
- rah rah ragnarok* 22 Jan 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQl_RXC0gYg Beyond the hills the far horizon/In the purple evening sky/ You'll find the Valley of Valhalla/There when you die ^^^Actual Young Avengers/Old Boney M fanfic crossover aka 'By the…
- Album-A-Day #3: Dwellers Under The Stove 29 Jan 2019 This is a document of my album-a-day listening project. Each entry originally comes out as a tinyletter and subscribers to that get intros and miscellanea as well as the LP…
- MODJO – “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” 3 May 2015 “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” came hard on the heels of “Groovejet” as a revivalist disco hit. It also works as a despondent, pleading answer record: where Sophie Ellis-Bextor embraces the…
- The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #8: Dexy’s Midnight Runners – There,… 12 Sep 2011 It feels a bit wrong, me being the one to write about Dexy's. I have friends who are much much bigger fans, I have already written about the other Dexy's…
About the Author
Tom invented Freaky Trigger on a bus journey in the mid-90s. A page about what he's up to can be found hereFeatured Posts
I was a teenage dark elf priestess
1 Jul 2013 This article by Laurie Penny on the pervasiveness and persuasiveness of the manic pixie dream girl trope is really good. I’m the same age as Laurie Penny, so was plagued by the same cultural stuff as her- I don’t know if it’s just egocentrism for my own timeline but I feel like the 90s marked […]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 […]your own private quatre bras
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. […]The Pornography Of Nostalgia
15 Aug 2006 The Notorious Bettie Page is a film about the good old days of porn. You know, when it wasn’t exploitative, and all the girls portrayed within were not only fun loving conspirators in an art project, but believed in Jeebus too. Most film about porn are about the good old days. Inside Deep Throat told […]Rage vs X-Factor: Winners and Losers
21 Dec 2009 Well, that’s that: the machine has been given a good beating and we can look forward to “Bulls On Parade” on the festive Argos ad next year. I will admit I didn’t think the RATM crew could do it: I was wrong. But as the dust settles on this most fractious and increasingly entertaining Christmas […]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 […]THE VERVE – “The Drugs Don’t Work”
23 Mar 2014 #773, 13th September 1997 “Whenever we played that live there would be rows of grown men crying. It was almost like these guys couldn’t cry when they needed to cry, but that song operated like a pressure valve for them and it was okay for them to cry at a big rock concert.” – Richard […]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 […]FreakyTrigger on
