PWC14: Group G Finale (USA, Portugal, Ghana, Germany) 15 Apr 2014 Welcome to the final Group G game! Let's see how things stand. USA (managed by The Lex), Portugal (managed by Weej) and Ghana (managed by Jonathan Bogart) all have 4…
PWC14: Group G Match 2 (Ghana, USA, Portugal, Germany) 13 Mar 2014 Group G's middle game sees Ghana (Jonathan Bogart) in front after narrowly beating the USA (The Lex) last time. Behind them come Portugal (Weej) and Germany (Tak) who will be…
PWC14: Group G Match 1 (Germany, Portugal, Ghana, USA) 13 Feb 2014 Is this the Group of Death? That's what early pundits dubbed Group G, featuring pop giant the USA up against three nations with deep musical heritages of their own -…
WHIGFIELD - "Saturday Night" 24 Feb 2013 DEE DEE NANANA! "Saturday Night" has two big things going for it. The main thing is that it's one of those iconically simple pop hits, like a "Louie Louie" for…
ATB - "9PM (Til I Come)" 5 Nov 2014 The story of breathy trance* hit “9PM (Til I Come)” begins with producer ATB bringing his girlfriend to his studio to check out his instruments. And it continues with him…
Poptimism presents... Club Action POPULAR SPECIAL 26 Nov 2012 It's been 60 years since Al Martino was the UK's first #1 record*! To celebrate this sensational sexagenary, DJ Chlorine and The Barnet Ape will be playing only #1s all…
Pop World Cup 2014 - Groups List 6 Dec 2013 UPDATE: Finally sent out details. If you are a manager listed here and you haven't got them then a) check your spam folder and b) shout at me cos I…
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 […]
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 […]
21 May 2012
Huge weepy thanks to Bob, Pete and Sarah for immortalising us in song. And thanks to commenters past and present for making it worth immortalising.
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, […]
1 Jan 2003
This article was the author’s working notes for his since published book “Adorno: A guide for the perplexed”, available from Waterstones, reputable booksellers, and Amazon Introduction, by Alex Thomson In many ways Adorno exemplifies the image problem faced by critical theory today. Adorno is not a sexy figure. He comes over in his writing as […]
10 Jan 2012
Hi, I’m Lauryn Hill circa my breakthrough role in Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit, and it is a real pleasure to be able to present to you the top ten FreakyTrigger tracks of the year. When my mother told me I couldn’t join the choir run by a fake nun, I got really […]
5 May 2011
#667, 13th July 1991 Sixteen Listens For Sixteen Weeks: An Everything I Do Liveblog This song got to number one for 16 weeks, so I decided to play it 16 times in a row, writing as I went. Play 1: And we’re off. I’ve honestly hardly heard this in the last twenty years so I […]
17 Nov 2003
I notice elsewhere, in my absence, some young scamp over on NYLPM has started a concept piece, some say think piece entitled the Alphabet Of Pop. Now no-one knows more than myself the beauty of lists, as my Week Of Wank and Breakfast Of Banality proves. Its cheap easy journalism and also gives one a […]