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  • 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.[…]
  • 24th Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl (#FTABCANYPC24): The Tower Bridge Cat On Stairs
    Sunday, 29th December 2024I marks the 25th anniversary of the first Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and so we are heading to Southwark to sample some pubs with fascinating architecture, maybe have a drink (alcohol optional) and then a[…]
  • ’24 Candles
    Last year I wrote up some trends in the way British people listen to Christmas music now – as expressed via the medium of the streaming-era Christmas charts, which offer a fairly accurate barometer of passive festive listening. So what happe[…]

  1. It’s always tough when a go-to site shuts down, especially one like MP3sFinder, which was a reliable and fast resource…

  4. Thanks for the deep dive into all of this lunacy. I started reading Cerebus in high school, when it was…

Popular
  • 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[…]
  • NELLY ft TIM McGRAW – “Over And Over”
    There are meetings between genres where creative sparks fly and new hybrid forms can be glimpsed, like undreamed-of particles in a supercollider. There are also meetings between genres which feel more like high level EU summits – whatever happe[…]
  • JENNIFER LOPEZ – “Get Right”
    There is a 2005 single, a huge hit, and many will tell you it’s producer Rich Harrison’s masterpiece. On that record, cut-ups of funk breaks are rearranged at oblique angles in a 21st century update of James Brown’s rhythmic modernism, buil[…]
  • U2 – “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own”
    While I’ve been writing about 2004 and 2005’s pop music I’ve also been helping my wife sort out her mother’s memorial service, so a song about a parent dying is – unfortunately – Relevant To My Interests right now. Not that I real[…]

  1. Oh, I bloody love Dakota. And yes, I am one of those “it’s their only good single” people. But my…

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[…]