Pop-Eye, 28th April 2002
Truly dreadful No.1 hits are rarer than you’d think – leaving out charity singles and Westlife’s perennially useless stool-pop, I can’t think of a really ghastly, what-has-gone-wrong-with-our-species t[…]

102 Beats That: the last twelve pieces, wrapping up the first leg of this feature. Enjoy them, and come back in June for the second stage. (Oh yeah, also link this feature you bastards! I think it’s good and deserves a wider audience.)[…]

CRAZY, SEXY, COOL
1. In Finland, two songs followed us up and down the country — Simply Red’s ‘Fairground’ and TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’. I didn’t listen to much soul music then but the contrast was obvious &#[…]

102 Beats That – part 5 of 6. Final entries up on Saturday morning.[…]

DUEL 2002! Round 2 Match 3

Duel! 2002 – Round 2 Match 3

Which of these two bands is worse?

Travis

Badly Drawn Boy

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Pete says:’Travis are the other four men in a police line-up. […]

THE MECHANICS OF DESTRUCTION: Herbert’s new – expressly political – album, available for download.[…]

I agree with everything Christian Hoard has to say about the new Wilco album, but his first paragraph is so glib, bitter, ungenerous, and (I think, in places) scared that it spoils the rest somehow. And, yes, part of me wonders and worries if this is[…]

102 Beats That – part 4 of 6, another 12 entries now up.[…]

Cult of Personality: somewhat embarrassing to be blogging this, but anyway, here’s an interview. With me. If you like you can compare it to the OHJ’s interviews with Ryan Pitchfork and George Splendid for terrible insights into the mental[…]

UK acts disappear from US charts: this is the kind of thing that gets the papers here terribly excited. Does it really mean anything? Not much – there’s been a gap between British and American public tastes for ages, and the stuff selling[…]