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Aug 09

JIM DIAMOND – “I Should Have Known Better”

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#541, 1st December 1984, video

This song marks a minor turning point in Popular: it’s the very last which I had absolutely no memory of ever hearing when I started the project. Plenty of later ones are forgettable – even more forgettable than poor Jim – but this is my final “here be dragons”.

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Pop World Cup 2018: Group A Match 1
17 Jun 2018 It’s here! The opening game of the Pop World Cup finds the four teams of Group A raising the curtain on the tournament. Pop football veterans Russia and Uruguay meet two Arab states – Egypt and Saudi Arabia – with less of a record at this level. Who will prevail? You decide. Spotify playlist and […]

ELTON JOHN – “Candle In The Wind ’97” / “Something About The Way You Look Tonight”
27 Mar 2014 #774, 20th September 1997 Every Popular entry starts with the same question: why this record? This time it’s especially loud. “Candle In The Wind ‘97” is the highest-selling single of all time in the UK, almost 2 million clear of its nearest competitor. This is as big as pop gets. But “why?” might strike you […]

The Greek Alphabet of Piss-poor Pop: Introduction
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 […]

SUGABABES – “Freak Like Me”
10 Jul 2017 #924, 4th May 2002 At The Disco A scene from Phonogram III: The Immaterial Girl, by Gillen, McKelvie and Wilson, published in 2015. It’s the early 00s, at a disco somewhere in the south of England. A group of people who love music so much it’s become their life and the tools of their craft […]

The Friday Fun Canon Discussion And Monster Poll
12 Mar 2010 People in the Popular comments boxes are talking about “the canon”. I’m always quite curious as to which bits of the canon have ‘taken’ with a broadly pop-positive audience such as we have here. So here’s a poll, very easy to fill in, just say which of the Top 50 albums OF ALL TIME EVER […]

Trashes To Trashes
1 Mar 1981 My name is Tanya Headon. I hate music. All of it. And I’m bloody good at what I do. Which is why, when picketing a gig of The Feeling I managed to get over 90% of the fans to agree with me that they are just soft rock bobbins and their new album is just […]

How clean is your band?
11 Oct 2006 The discerning televisual fan will be aware of the vacuum currently residing in the schedules between the 7.30pm end of Hollyoaks First Look and the 9pm commencement of Ghost Whisperer. There are only so many times one can flick between Puff Daddy jiggling next to the Lead Pussycat on TMF and the startlingly abhorrent animated […]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: No. 57 ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – “Oliver’s Army”
20 Jul 2007 I semi-remember just two lines from the NME’s (Charlie Shaar Murray’s?) review of “Armed Forces” (secret unused title “Emotional Fascism”). One was that one of the other songs resembled ELP “jamming in the bottom of an oil drum”! The other — more germane to this post, as well as being true — is that “with […]

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Which of the Number Ones of 1990 Would You Have Given 6 Or More To?
- NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK - "Hangin' Tough"
- KYLIE MINOGUE - "Tears On My Pillow"
- SINEAD O'CONNOR - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
- BEATS INTERNATIONAL ft LINDY LAYTON - "Dub Be Good To Me"
- SNAP - "The Power!"
- MADONNA - "Vogue"
- ADAMSKI - "Killer"
- ENGLANDNEWORDER - "World In Motion"
- ELTON JOHN - "Sacrifice"/"Healing Hands"
- PARTNERS IN KRYME - "Turtle Power"
- BOMBALURINA - "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"
- THE STEVE MILLER BAND - "The Joker"
- MARIA MCKEE - "Show Me Heaven"
- THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - "A Little Time"
- THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS - "Unchained Melody"
- VANILLA ICE - "Ice Ice Baby"
- CLIFF RICHARD - "Saviours Day"
- None of them!
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