THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
98. Deee-Lite – “Groove Is In The Heart”
A song that makes me feel slightly old, as it has become a standard in my listening lifetime. And a real, top-ranking standard, too, up there with “Celebration&#822[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
99. Madonna – “Papa Don’t Preach”
Pete says
On the day this list was made I was kindly given Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, which means that I finally own a copy of “Papa Don’t Prea[…]

Popjustice on LastFM
If you are signed up to LastFM (and it’s not difficult) then you can listen to RADIO POPJUSTICE (top right hand corner). Just been listening and heard: New Order – Perfect Kiss, Magnetic Fields – Let’s Pre[…]

“Always a wonderfully dangerous choice”
Reef to win Best British Live Act then…[…]

Oh no.
One of the side effects of the first Band Aid single was that every tragedy had an associated charity single. There are two rationales for any charity single – raise awareness and raise money. In general it’s hard to get too upset […]

An OLD MAN and a WISE MAN are sitting on a bench.
WISE MAN: Tell me, Old Man, if you had one piece of advice to give young students, what would it be?
OLD MAN: I would tell them to be neither too proud or too ashamed of their music taste. The music y[…]

Judge for yourself as long as the link works. My immediate thought was “This reminds me of nothing so much as Siouxsie’s “Face to Face” song from the second Batman run through a squelchifier” crossed with Disco Tex&#821[…]

THE FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 100 SONGS OF ALL TIME
A Note on Methodology
You may be familiar with how these lists are compiled. You may not be. The theory is that people’s truest aesthetic preferences come out under the influence of some substance or[…]

A Low-Key Return For The INDIE AMNESTY
Here are the latest batch of INDIE AMNESTY items to be offered on eBay. A quick reminder of the premise of the indie amnesty – people give their shameful indie CDs to me to be put beyond use (i.e. sold on […]

Skinnyman, not to be confused with Skinner (Mike), who also produced a UK rap concept album this year. Council Estate Of Mind is a huge worthy polemic on the opportunities available to youths on inner city council estates which comes bundled with a […]