Watch This! (2002): Pete’s Top 40 films of 2002 – and there’s also the third part in my own 2002 retrospective up here!.[…]

Somewhat against my better judgement, this year I bowed to reader requests and ran an ILX Readers Poll. It turned out to be good fun, though I don’t agree with very many of the results. Here they are, anyway:
Records of the Year
Tracks Of The Y[…]

IT’S THE FREAKY TRIGGER CHRISTMAS JOKE!
Thanks to e-mail problems this could not appear before Christmas but at least we got it in before 12th Night eh? Based on a punchline by Pete Baran.
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It’s Christmas time, and U2 have lined up a ser[…]

101. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – ‘My Elastic Eye’: ‘It sounds exactly like an elastic eye!’ said Fred S. I scoffed, but you know what? – it does! Though maybe more a clockwork one – but the wobbly fuzz-bass still sounds like[…]

Interzone 2002
In 2002, nothing much happened. Again. Those fans and writers who like to plot pop history in eleven- or thirteen- or eight-year cycles were once more left looking like cultists, forever trudging up hills in search of an end of the wor[…]

Download This! (2002) – 80 to 61: hooray, back at home so part two of my end-of-year round-up can go up. Must dash, more soon.[…]

UK Garage Highs’n’Lows of 2002 – from RWD magazine.[…]

Freaky Trigger’s 2002 Party finally kicks off with my vague ideas on the year in summary and my rather more specific list of my favourite 101 tracks this year – or the first 21, at least. Caution: this list is not definitive and does not […]

THIS IS NOT AN EXIT: Year-end rundowns are springing up everywhere you look – MORE MORE MORE say I (I’m partway through the Freaky Trigger one, if anyone cares) – check Blissblog and Church of Me on the sidebar for some high-fibre 2[…]

“You’re an old man at the end of your career.”: this is miles better than Blur vs Oasis.[…]