Remarkable discovery: we’re DJing my work company party in a couple of weeks and being paid for the privilege. Should be a good night, expecially as I have just discovered that one of our new Group Client Directors (i.e. bigwigs) used
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THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
94. Al Green – “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?”
Martin Skidmore, who nominated this song, has written exhaustively and excellently on it for us here. I don’t have anything to add except a heartfelt cry o[…]

Music in Sams Pubs, RIP
It was the best of times…
Pop into The Blue Posts, Newman Street for a quick one then go for a wander round the record shops. Return to the Blue Posts just in time to find “Yoo Doo Right” by Can beginning, an[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
95. Gladys Knight – “License To Kill”
Vic Fluro says:
There are stalker songs and there are stalker songs, but when Licence to Kill sweeps into its heavy, pounding intro – like the incidental music for som[…]

COMICS: AN INTRODUCTION
(If you already read comics, you know all of this anyway. Let this serve as a warning to the curious.)
I’ve been reading Marvel and DC comics – ‘mainstream comics’, if you like – again for a few m[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
96. Belle And Sebastian – “Sleep The Clock Around”
Dave Boyle says:
I wasn’t one of the participants in drawing up this list, so if you don’t like this song’s presence in it, i) don’t bla[…]

Please please please please please let a bunch of teenagers and a strangely human-like dog have been instrumental in solving this mystery! What’s Polish for “meddling kids”?[…]

Crisis upon crisis: Arsenal running out of shirts.[…]

Maths Vs Music!: computer program predicts hits by number science and comes up with Norah Jones and Maroon Five OH NO! The article gets a bit muddled over what the mathematics of HSS can actually do (I doubt for example it can recommend ‘mathem[…]

1000 Number Ones
What a let-down, eh readers? No Rock And Roll Fun explains why it’s a bad thing, and Mike Troubled-Diva is running a poll to find the best of the 1000 No.1s – through ILM I think, rather than his website, but his website […]