TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
Gin Soaked Boy – The Divine Comedy
This sacrilige on my favoured tipple makes me physically sick, unlike the lovely drink it is based on. The Divine Comedy of course was Dante’s recolections of his travels t[…]

THE FOUR TUNES – “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (aka PopNose 11) – bluesy doo-wop from 1953, the Four Tunes’ last RCA release according to this site. I love this record – it’s drenched in resigned sorr[…]

Why Superman is rubbish. Or to be more precise, a Time article on why Superman is rubbish at the moment. If one bypasses obvious small reasons like Chuck Austen writing one of them, the article misses out the real reason. Superman is, with one except[…]

Linkses:
Nick Southall’s review of The Streets is one of the more sensible ones.
Speaking of The Streets, comparisons pour in. The Specials, Serge Gainsbourg (duh!), Chas N Dave, Dexys, J.Pac, and Posey Simmons’ Gemma Bovary! Ive also see[…]

Coming to Club Popular? Stuck for suggestions…?. The contest (scroll down) is still open…[…]

Chants laureate appointed: If you thought the entire scheme to appoint a chants laureate was a misguided notion fated to produce ‘chants’ that are over-elaborate and not very funny… then you were probably right.[…]

Major Sidebar Revamp! Since downloads of our lovely PopNose files have declined rather I’m putting them on the sidebar (including new PopNose 14) – I’ll still put an entry here for the increasingly scarce comments and of course the […]

Transylvanian Blood Vodka
Produced in the foothills of the Transylvanian mountains to a recipe rputed to be the favoured drink of Count Vlad Dracula from the 15th Century, Blood Vodka is made with mountain spring water distilled twice for extra quali[…]

You’re listening to the…: The Streets’ new album is out today. Lots of people, me included, think it’s great. But what – or who – does it actually sound like? NYLPM presents its dinner-party guide to names to drop […]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Now if there is any nationality who knows about drinking, it is the Irish. Unfortunately if there is any nationality that knows about maudlin drunken sing-songs with instrumen[…]