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Sclerotica
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Before I start writing about Number Ones again, a quick bit of stattery around the current state of the charts. This is an extremely wonkish post, so reader beware.
The official Top 100 Streaming chart was launched 30 weeks ago. Let’s see what&[…]

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American Poll
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In what is not remotely an attempt to fill in space before Popular comes back at the weekend, we present an important POLL concerning the word “American” as used in film titles. Obviously this is topical, thanks to the Oscar nominations r[…]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! The Soulful And The Arcane
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We promised we wouldn’t write about the Freaky Trigger #1 comic of 2014 any more, but luckily a MUCH MORE AUTHENTIC AND REAL comic has come along for us to write about instead, thanks to this interview falling through a dimensional gateway from[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Not-A-Poll Films Of 2014: 11: Two Earnest Musicals
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The difficult joint number eleven post.
The very placement of these two extremely problematic films will suggest cowardice to you. And you would be right. I did not want a top ten that officially had these films in it. They are both too flawed to be […]

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This week: free book cover mount worth 79p*!!!
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Freaky Trigger Top 100 Songs of all Time ebook

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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2014: #10-#1
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“Well, an early finish to the snooker tonight has left me twiddling my thumbs here at Alexandra Palace, so I’ll take this opportunity to introduce my plans for world domination the final part of this year’s Freaky Trigger Poll. I&#8[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Comics Poll #10-#1
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Breaker breaker, Trigger Digger buddies! You got the Big A, Ace Garp, the tucker trucker so tumshy they had to croak him twice, comin’ in atcha with the top ten of the Freaky Trigger comics poll, no bluberoni! You voked your votes and now you c[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2014: #20-#11
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“Greetings! I’m Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. You may remember me from one of this week’s University Challenge bonus rounds where one of the teams failed to recognise me at all, let alone answer questions about me a[…]

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Popular Crystal Ball: 2014 – The Arse End
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Back in July I had a quick listen and rate of the first half of 2014’s number ones. Here’s the sequel, picking up where that left off. As before, this is based on very few listens, and you can confidently expect my opinions and order to c[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Not-A-Poll Films Of 2014: 15-12
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BONJOUR Mes Amis!!!
I’m Audrey Tautou, the spoon faced ingenue who everyone fell in love with in Amelie even though I was basically playing Mr Bean. But hey Mr Bean is also really big, in Europe, which is ideal for me as I am French which is also i[…]

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