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Aug 09

JIM DIAMOND – “I Should Have Known Better”

Tom • FT + Popular • Pop • 61 comments • 6,715 views

#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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Resisting Entropy – Mars Planets and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Food Science Day 2007 Experiment #1)
3 Sep 2007 Mars Planets: the atomisation of the Mars Bar. An entropic dis-integration, the tendency of all things to become more chaotic, in confectionery form. I’m trying to resist the impulse to tie this stuff up to no-such-thing-as-Society atomisation because that’s not how we do things, right? And Mars Planets are better to share than a proper big […]

Selling In The Name Of
15 Dec 2009 One of the things that’s fascinating about the UK Top 40 is that a device designed to be a pure expression of popularity also works as a reflection of so many other things. People buy songs: if enough people buy a song it gets into the charts, or to #1. Simple! But so simple that […]

HIDDEN LANDSCAPES: THE PODCAST
8 May 2018 Eight episodes are now up: Hazel Southwell and Mark Sinker talking through the story of the UK music press from two very different angles (bcz I am old and she is not), to help start the conversation around my upcoming book. pod 1: the pilot! pod 2: uh merry memories of the nme! pod 3: […]

The FreakyTrigger 25 Best (London) Pubs of the 00’s : Intro
10 Nov 2009 Lists, lists, lists. Its what we do around here, and the end of a decade gives us ample opportunity to look back with fondness over a decade. Music, films, television were all thrown in the mix, and may pop up. But most important to us is the social. From a site that is run by […]

Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mini Mussolini?
22 Aug 2006 Despite a brief cameo by Michael Schumacher Car, the filum Cars steers clear of German cars. Oh, there’s a VW campervan, but that is a hippy, with a typical hippy accent (its your grandad’s idea of a hippy at that, straight out of early seventies films). Equally British cars barely get a look-in. So there […]

Pop World Cup 2010: The Final! Nigeria vs Germany
8 Jun 2010 Here we are, at last. Here we stand at the summit of Pop Football achievement, looking back at 63 matches: some wonderful, some perplexing, some illuminating, very few boring. We’ve heard so much pop, enjoyed so many marvellous moments, and we have 30 losing managers to thank for all their research and taste. Never mind […]

JJ BARRIE – “No Charge”
2 May 2008 #389, 2nd June 1976 I was aware of this song long before I heard it – as a young boy it was quoted at me by my Dad should I ever object to tidying my room. Since my room was rarely tidy, I became very familiar with the central notion of “No Charge”. Like my Dad, I […]

THE BOOMTOWN RATS – “Rat Trap”
13 Aug 2008 #428, 18th November 1978 “Rat Trap” is billed – in the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles, no less – as the first punk No.1. I couldn’t recall it – my memories of the Rats themselves were vague; Geldof I knew for later good works. So I approached “Rat Trap” cold but with a frisson of definite […]

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Which year of the 1990s was best for pop?
- 1990 ("Nothing Compares 2 U", "Vogue", "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny...", "Ice Ice Baby")
- 1991 ("3AM Eternal", "Black Or White", "The Stonk", "Any Dream Will Do")
- 1992 ("Stay", "Would I Lie To You?", "Goodnight Girl", "Please Don't Go")
- 1993 ("All That She Wants", "Boom! Shake The Room", "Mr Blobby", "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You")
- 1994 ("Let Me Be Your Fantasy", "Saturday Night", "Love Is All Around", "Come On You Reds")
- 1995 ("Gangsta's Paradise", "Dreamer", Robson & Jerome, "Love Can Build A Bridge")
- 1996 ("Wannabe", "Firestarter", "A Different Beat", "Forever Love")
- 1997 ("Mmmbop", "Your Woman", "Candle In The Wind 97", "Discotheque")
- 1998 ("Brimful Of Asha", "Believe", "No Matter What", "My Heart Will Go On")
- 1999 ("Baby One More Time", "Praise You", "Sunscreen", "The Millennium Prayer")
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