Cross Site View

FreakyTrigger
  • Omargeddon #53: Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar
    Hooray for me! Also several others, but it’s hard to get excited about that. Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio, the long-awaited Mars Volta double album I totally manifested is here at last, and it is a delightful compendium of traditional Puerto Ric[…]
  • Omargeddon #52: Solid State Mercenaries
    The Jeopardy! category is “Before and After”: ANSWER: They’ll use semiconductor technology to amass an army for hire, if the remuneration is right. QUESTION: Who are Solid State Mercenaries? Why yes, I have been sitting on that one for near[…]
  • Omargeddon #51: Omar Rodriguez
    I’m inclined to think of Omar Rodriguez as the first official ORL solo record, even though that’s not technically correct. And yet, my predilection for proving myself to be the best kind of correct is overridden when I consider a couple of fact[…]
  • Omargeddon #50: Mantra Hiroshima
    Labelling music as ‘psychedelic’ is about as useful as labelling it as ‘progressive’. Both are wildly subjective terms, and both are frequently deployed when defining Omar Rodríguez-López’s extensive catalogue. I’d like to see a handy […]
  • Omargeddon #49: Woman Gives Birth to Tomato!
    Friends, this year is going to be a doozy, one which will require mental fortitude on par with the strength of Hercules combined with the flexibility of Gumby. And yet there’s only much loin-girding a person can reasonably do, so instead I’m dete[…]
  • Bec’s best books 2024
    In the ancient times, when I was old enough to know better but young enough to believe it didn’t matter, when LiveJournal was the central focus of my socialisation, at this time of year my reading feed was dominated by a popular end-of-year survey.[…]

  1. Halfmoon Packing & Outfitting offers customized horseback camping trips in Colorado's Holy Cross and Buffalo Peaks Wilderness areas. These wilderness…

  2. The bsky account changed its handle. You can find it here https://bsky.app/profile/deepcuts.blog/post/3kpfcmrvehl2v

  4. Haha, this is savage! So many accurate observations about indie kids. I feel slightly attacked, but also kinda seen? Good…

  5. Wasn't sure I'd be able to find this thread again after all these years, but here it is. Today we…

Popular
  • CRAZY FROG – “Axel F”
    In 2004 I took on the worst project of my professional life; worst in the sense that it was miserable and time-consuming and also in the sense that I did it very badly. A certain mobile phone company wanted to know what their rivals were doing online[…]
  • OASIS – “Lyla”
    The long twilight of Oasis is reaching its end, at least in Popular terms. The 00s took them from the kings of English rock to a drab fixture and finally a running joke, bigmouths promising a return to form which never comes. This is almost the last […]
  • AKON – “Lonely”
    This is going to be one of those annoying reviews which takes the billion-view signature hit of a highly successful artist and picks away at production choices which – objectively! – have been extremely successful. “Lonely” is not a o[…]
  • TONY CHRISTIE ‘ft’ PETER KAY – “Is This The Way To Amarillo?”
    The success of Elvis’ reissues – a promotional gimmick which actually managed to hack the charts – made a strong case that the new pop of 2005 simply wasn’t able to capture the wider public imagination. This record makes it inarguable[…]
  • McFLY – “All About You”/”You’ve Got A Friend”
    McFly’s biggest hit, crossing the 500k sales barrier partly because it was the official Comic Relief single. The Carole King cover is doing most of the hard work on that front, with a video involving the lads helping out in Uganda, and the song sto[…]
  • STEREOPHONICS – “Dakota”
    “Dakota” has a curious reputation. A lot of music fans I know see it as Stereophonics’ best song. That in itself is hardly unusual. But many of those people also see it as the band’s only good song. Which is odder – these guys have eigh[…]

  1. Yeah but. It was of it’s time, we loved it at the time, and perhaps most key of all, they’ve…

  4. Thankfully one of the quite-a-few records of 20+ years ago that I have yet to hear on any of the…

People's Pop
  • Peoples Pop 2024: THE FINAL GROUP
    The results are in! We have a final group of 40 songs to vote on in the WORLD CUP OF 2024, and a handy GOOGLE FORM where you can do just that. The form has details on the scoring system, and it’s open until midnight on Sunday 26th January. So o[…]
  • THE WORLD CUP OF 2024
    In case you weren’t aware, the Pop Polls are back back BACK on Bluesky, and we’ve started off with the annual year-end poll, The World Cup Of 2024 (hashtag: #peoplespop24 if you want to play along there) Bluesky doesn’t have poll[…]
  • The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 7. BLACK POP HISTORY 1978-1981 – Polls
    This is the POLL POST for the Black Pop History round in the League Of Tracks. Want to actually hear the songs? (And you frankly should) Go to the Playlist Post. As usual the rules are simple. You can vote for UP TO FOUR of these eleven tracks[…]
  • The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 7. BLACK POP HISTORY 78-81 – Playlists
    The penultimate round of the League Of Tracks is a companion to the excellent poll we’ve just been going through on the main site, exploring the work of Black musicians between 1978 and 1981, from the zenith of disco through the birth of rap on[…]
  • The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 6. NOT THAT ONE! – Results
    Better late than never (well, I hope it is) – here are some results for the “Not That One!” round of the League, a high concept selection where the sole criteria was sharing a title with a more famous tune. So it’s indirect co[…]
  • The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 6. NOT THAT ONE! – Poll
    It’s Week 6 of our second season and the theme this week is “NOT THAT ONE!” – you know these titles, but not these songs… Well, probably not. Listen to the tracks over at the playlist post. Then vote below for UP TO F[…]