TOM’S TOP TEN!
ABBA – “Under Attack”
STEPS – “One For Sorrow”
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “Losing My Edge”
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – “Juicy”
MONTAGEM – “Vai Serginho”
WIRE[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 4: BLUR – Coffee And T(ea)V
B-b-but – says you the foolish music lover – the song is just called Coffee And TV. Well yes, but inherent in this clever word playing title is the contrast between Coffee (a breakfa[…]

EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS IT HAPPENS SO FAST
A hot Friday night, Summer 1985. Inertia everywhere – there’s not a lot left here for me, in 6 weeks I’ll be gone, leaving for London. But tonight something special – Factory Records ar[…]

The Balanescus’ severe and beautiful string arrangement of “Autobahn” sparks familiar questions: what is the point of a ‘cover version’? What makes a good one? Can a distinction – for once – be made between s[…]

The Jubilee Stuff is a five-part piece by The Pinefox, an 8,000 word quasi-diary of a week in June. It will be running every day this week on Freaky Trigger.
Also up on FT is His Wotanic Majesty’s Request, a very entertaining review of some Sca[…]

A subject which often comes back up here is that of televisions in pubs. We all know the horror of the TV showing MTV while the jukebox is banging out something completely different. And we are all aware that no matter what is on a TV screen the eye […]

NELLY — “Hot in Here”
This is how softcore porn works, right? Woman complains about the heat, woman takes off her clothes, woman wants to have…THE SEX! Or maybe Nelly just do some nasty dancing out on the dance floor. Or maybe[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 3: THE EGG
I am not a gready person. I have been known to share a bottle of Tanq or two with other like minded people. Never hear it be told that I did not stump up for someone’s birthday (though I some of my friends are g[…]

justin and janet?: he says “bye bye bye” to alleged virgin britney and runs straight to the arms of self-proclaimed (and proclaimed and proclaimed, u.s.w.) freak janet. they first met when n’sync opened for janet…when justin w[…]

That badly researched piece (London’s Rising pub indeed) probably refers to the Rising Sun on Carter Lane in the City – which would make a degree of sense. A little bit more about the initially spurious sounding St Andrew By The Wardrobe […]