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Taking The Positives
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— 7 Oct 2012 Tom 11 comments

X-Factor 2012 Live Shows, Week 1
Last year I managed only two weeks of this before the faffery and tedium of the AGE OF BARLOW drove me away. So let’s see what happens this time. As usual I haven’t watched a second of the auditions, judges’ hou[…]

Departing From The Script
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— 1 Oct 2012 Tom 12 comments

It’s time for my quarterly listen to THE UK TOP 40. Actually it was time a week or so ago but I didn’t write it up until a plane journey yesterday. So this is the Top 40 from 2 weeks ago (when our New Gangnam Overlords had only just enter[…]

It’s The EDM Of The World As We Know It
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— 27 Jun 2012 Tom 11 comments

It is time for me to get back in touch with The Kids, by listening to the UK Top 40 and putting it in order of how much I like it as I go. Best to worst. (more…)[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2011
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— 28 Dec 2011 katstevens 7 comments

Unlike the rest of the internet, here at FT Towers we like to make our end-of-year list at the Actual End Of The Year! And we need YOUR help to do it!
Send your top 20 tracks of 2011 to poptimistspoll2010@gmail.com* by 1am GMT on 30th December and we[…]

What Was I Thinking? (Part 1)
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— 9 Dec 2011 Tom Comment

Today’s Poptimist column – up now at Pitchfork – is the last one: a decision entirely taken by me, quite a while ago. Being able to give up a paying gig is an outrageous privilege, but so was the whole column – I filed copy on[…]

What Is The New Rock’N’Roll?
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— 25 Nov 2011 Tom 20 comments

On the “No Limits” thread I was reminded that it’s been almost 20 years since first comedy and then computer games were the new rock’n’roll. Are they still, I wondered? Surely the meme has spread, mutated and diversified[…]

X-Factor Live Shows: Week 2
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— 15 Oct 2011 Tom 6 comments

(Crossposted to Tumblr)
This week – “Love and Heartache” – or as I anticipated DAWN OF THE BALLADOSAURUS. But was I correct? Well, not entirely… (more…)[…]

X-Factor Live Shows: Week 1
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— 9 Oct 2011 Tom 2 comments

(Originally posted on my Tumblr)
Tiny background detail: as with last year I’ve studiously avoided previous episodes, press coverage, etc, so I’m coming to these acts (and three of these judges) fresh with no knowledge of who’s who […]

Who Has Had The Most “Returns To Form”?
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— 17 Sep 2011 Tom 84 comments

Applied to pop, this question – discussed at some length in the pub last night – proves surprisingly complex. “Dylan” was everybody’s obvious answer* but the more we thought about it the less sure we were about this. So […]

A Crow Flies North
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— 9 Apr 2011 Tom 5 comments

I’ve been CHEATING ON Freaky Trigger over the last week with the One Week One Band blog, writing about the KLF. You can read all five days’ worth here.[…]

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