THE PUB OF MUSIC
(The Blue Posts, Kingly Street, Soho. One Round)
Kingly Street is busy – gradually Saturday afternoon has turned into Saturday evening and we are now hurtling headlong towards Saturday night, and we don’t even have a spec[…]

POP-EYE 3/12/00
Well, it appears we have an honest-to-god chart battle on our hands. It may have taken until December, and we may have had to endure tiresome run-offs involving bloody Spiller (or, worse, the Spice Girls/Westlife battle, which was in […]

Top Five Pieces You Yourself Wrote – from Rockcritics, a fantastic idea for a list, if it elicits confessions like this, from Mark Sinker (an excellent writer). “Written to convince myself of the uselessness of being in love with [xXx], a[…]

To correct an annoying error of mine after the fact — I’m not speaking of the song as a whole as something I ‘never noticed or particularly cared for,’ but its lyrics. Thank you, drive through.[…]

First off, I would like to say that I had this comment all written out, I needed to adjust the window to get to the rest of the post, and then my entire comment disappeared as a result. This is reason 324315 why I generally hate blogging and Blogger[…]

1. Lyric: Eric B & Rakim – “Paid In Full”
To beat the lyrics to “Bring The Noise” to the top spot would surely take something a bit special? Yes, and so it’s obviously got to be something obscure so that I can[…]

2. Lyric: Public Enemy – “Bring The Noise”
Is “Bring The Noise” one of Public Enemy’s best tracks? Yes. Is it one of Chuck D’s best raps? Oh yes. Every time I rediscover “It Takes A Nation Of Millions T[…]

3. Album: Snoop Dogg – “Tha Last Meal”
The most talked-about unreleased album in hip hop is set to be released next week. Too late for the Christmas market, too late for the end-of-year polls, too early for the post-Christmas lull, […]

4. Song: The Souls Of Mischief – “’93 Till Infinity”
Like almost all the best music, this song defies adequate description short of demanding that anyone with the slightest interest in hip hop must have a listen. The Souls Of […]

5. Genre: Bounce
With the exception of K Gee’s minor success with his single “I Don’t Really Care”, bounce is generally unheard of in the UK. K Gee will also probably be aware that the success of his single had very little to […]