Okay, if we can have Moments In Love and/or Martin’s Great Moments then can we have the opposite. Moments in songs that you hate with a passion. You might hate the song completely due to that moment, or, as in this case just get your teeth set […]

OMD – Romance of the Telescope
With Kelly O currently ripping Visage’s Fade to Grey* in another fun/clumsy (ymmv) stab at the corpse of electro-pop, it was pure chance that I was reminded this week of another of my electro-pop heroes: Orc[…]

If you haven’t already noticed, here’s the write-up of the second half of the 2CD ‘political pop’ compilation, in our essays section. From the first CD, though, here’s
Smiley Culture – Westland Helicopter
which fea[…]

British Political Pop 1990-2005
This is the second of a pair of compilation CDs giving one potential outline of how British pop acts tackled politics. This CD looks at the post-Thatcher era, from 1990 onwards. This coincides with my own life as a vot[…]

McCarthy – Get A Knife Between Your Teeth
Listening to political records this week made me think about this curio, one of McCarthy’s last singles and not included on their best-of compilation. It’s actually my favourite record by th[…]

OK tonight is the second ever POPTIMISM and here’s what you need to know (some of this you already know)
– It’s at the Polar Bear on Lisle Street Soho between 7 and 2 tonight. Cheap drinks all night.
– It’s an election s[…]

Read all about it. Copies of this will be given away free for the first few paying Poptimism customers tomorrow.[…]

Politics And British Pop, 1979-1990: A CD
Even After Closing Time…

This is the first of two CDs following the threads of British political pop from 1979, the date of Thatcher?s first election victory, to 2005. It is flawed and incomplete, due […]

Rob Shearman, the writer of the FANtastic (YMMV) “Dalek” episode of Who gave an online interview to fans shortly after the show went out. He had this to say on the subject of writing speeches for Christopher E
“Well, it was a worry […]

Stylus Singles Jukebox, this week with even more me. This time I feature as a lone voice crying out in a wilderness of horror, or a lone horror crying out in a wilderness of good sense, depending very much on your opinion of “Mr. Lonely” […]