MORRISSEY – “Bengali In Platforms” (from the album Viva Hate)
A link to my piece on Morrissey was published on a big Moz website, and it garnered much praise but also caused a bit of controversy. This ‘review’ is my repl[…]

English suburbs and small towns have a hard time of it in pop: their main contribution is as places to leave, bleak regions which the likes of Siouxsie or Brett Anderson must break free of in order to fulfil their pop destiny. English pop shows its A[…]

CHEAP TRICK – “I Want You To Want Me” (from the LP In Color)
ORANGE JUICE – “Consolation Prize” (from the LP You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever)
Cheap Trick’s crunchy, brainy stadium-powerpop and Orange J[…]

Meet Sen. Kerrey, MP3 Pirate?: from Wired.[…]

BOBBY – “Dogeared” (MP3)
Too good to be true, really. Somebody comes to Freaky Trigger via doing an AltaVista search on “clever music”. They chat to me via HumanClick. Not so promising since I only like Dumb Music, hur h[…]

The sound of violence: also from The Guardian. The problem here is that I don’t buy this idea of violent images ‘subverting’ pop, because it assumes that the visuals dominate the music, when I’d say the relationship, especiall[…]

Spirit of ’69: Guardian pop critic Tom Cox has an absolute right to like boring music, but why does he have to be so defensive about it?[…]

Oi! GERI!. No! One thing and one thing only makes this the worst design idea I’ve ever seen on a music site. Click on the ‘natural look’ Geri picture and you too will learn the true meaning of Pop.[…]

Hope They Die Before I Get Old: veteran rock critics no longer good shocker. Entirely true, though would be more convincing if not written by the reliably plodding Jim DeRogatis.[…]

Epinions has revised its user agreements: I truly doubt this applies to any FT writers, but we have more than 5 contributors, (even excluding the ones who don’t really exist!) so please don’t submit reviews you’ve previously epinion[…]