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#2: My head’s to the wall and I’m lonely
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— 1 Sep 2020 Tom Comment

A bracket dominated by indiepop – some established at this point, some emergent, some doing things a little differently. There was a lot of this stuff about in 2001; it found a natural home on internet mailing lists and proto-blogs, and if the […]

#1: La la la la la la-la-la
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— 1 Sep 2020 Tom 1 comment

This bracket is for what you might call ‘pure pop’, though in the 2001 context that has very uncomfortable overtones, since the stuff in here – Kylie, Steps, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and others – is mostly music that’s resisting the pul[…]

2001: A Poll Odyssey
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— 1 Sep 2020 Tom 1 comment

As you probably know, I’ve been entertaining myself – and others, it seems – by running themed music polls on Twitter. The next one is based on the year 2001 – participants have picked 256 tracks which I’ve divided into 16 rough[…]

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