Why do Cliff’s Christmas records always sound so cheap? With his money and connections you’d think he wouldn’t have to resort to the same bell presets as the Fast Food Rockers. Anyway as you might expect this is bilge. Cliff bastes […]

Enthusiastic But Mediocre: Edward Oculicz’ new-ish blog which I’ve been meaning to link for ages, because of the great idea he had of going round Europe comparing what’s in each country’s pop chart. Of course now I do link to […]

Ultrabeat – Pretty Green Eye 3
If Crystal Gale sang it with Autoharp by June Carter Cash the words would be prefect.
As it is, it reminds me of A Night at the Roxbury, which makes it just pathetic.
S Club 8 — Sundown 8
The absolute roboti[…]

The Worst Songwriter Of All Time?: ancient but very readable Slate piece, may well be of interest to Popular fans.[…]

 The EasyCinema Experience
In the exploded cross section of a US business district that is Milton Keynes, it stands out. Merely by virtue of painting its utilitarian structure a thoroughly unsuitable colour. Everything else in the new town is utilit[…]

The Ninth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is part of this month’s FT update.[…]

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “Yeah (Stupid Edit)”
It’s oh so gauche (and lazy) to review a record simply by listing other records, but, unless you’ve been living in the same “bunker of stale 1979 air” (pace Tom) they&#8[…]

Even in this ever-shrinking world in which we live in non-Brits may not know about the Cheeky Girls phenomenon. They are two bony sisters from Transylvania who have finagled a comedy appearance on a reality pop show into becoming something close to a[…]

For any of you who missed the Freaky Trigger Christmas Party yesterday, not only did you miss a cracking good time but you missed my Nuclear War Set which (from memory) ran as follows. Note real actual Doomsday at end.
ELECTRIC SIX – “Nuc[…]

We’re trying to invite Mr Q onto NYLPM but the invites are snarling up. Meanwhile, here’s his review of…
SCORPIONS – ‘Drifting Sun’
track from Fly to the Rainbow, 1974
Krautrock was the most escape-obsessed genre e[…]