VH1 : 100 Greatest Songs of Rock n’ Roll: constantly updating their hit parade of their ten biggest wanks, link courtesy of SwallowingTacks, who contrasts it to the Mojo list. And people wonder why Tanya thinks like she does….[…]

JOE MEEK
Joe Meek, eh? – what a cult. Time’s a funny thing – take a record like “I Hear A New World”. It was done in 1960, you know. And believe me you will know, because anyone into Joe Meek will tell you so, again and […]

Real player: here’s an interesting little interview with an A & R man at BMG, focussing on his views of MP3 and online music. Can you spot the contradiction here:
“How has the internet changed the music industry? What it is going to […]

Beatles head list of greatest songs: surprise surprise. This is the list that Fred linked to yesterday, but the Guardian helpfully provides the full 100. “In My Life” isn’t the worst song in the world but it’s still pretty clo[…]

There is nothing special to mark this track out from any other slow PSB track (ie – Chris Lowe had let the drum machine go down the pub). It marks the end of the Actually album like any other piece of introspective Neil Tennant nonsense. And I […]

Kathleen wants songs about people called Kathleen. Surely the Tindersticks did one, on some limited edition single. And equally surely it was a cover of something…..the name Townes Van Zandt crawls into my mind. Only one way to check: yes. I&#8[…]

Turn the fish up?smash the dish up
While there are bands like the Charlatans who falsely seek to underplay their dubious talents with an ironic name, there are those who try the other tactic of needlessly bigging-up their meagre musical resources. […]

I ALSO HATE NO MAN
In nineties Britain (which can be distinguished from eightees Britain largely through the proliferation of royal indiscretion) everything from the past was made new again. The fact that most people’s conception of the past do[…]

Paul Morley interviews Duran Duran: oh for the paragraph tag. One of his classic pieces, nonetheless.[…]

Samantha Fox reviews The Fall: and there’s a listing of Sam’s own work here. Naughty girls, you’ll recall, need love too.[…]