Fred’s doing his singles too – I’d better get a move on![…]

A List Of Forty Movies of 2002 placed in some sort of order by Pete Baran
Any year end list should come with a disclaimer, and therefore I am going to start with the most obvious disclaimer that there is. This is a top forty of the films that were r[…]

BANDS WITH OVER TWENTY MEMBERS
Only idiots go into the pop music industry to make money. I mean obviously only idiots go into the pop industry, but to mark you out as an uber-idiot, or an idiot squared, the financial motivation will certainly qualify[…]

Another day, another poll – this one confirming what all wedding DJs know deep in their bones. There’s not a bad song in the Top 10. And courtesy of Team Groke here’s an exclusive chart of our very own – key acts of ’02 […]

That link was c/o Submeat, which is also running its own best singles of 2002 list. Singles are great! We like singles![…]

The Top 212 Singles of 2002, according to Popjustice at any rate. We thought of a joke for PJ’s advent calendar but it got so absurdly long that we’ll be running it as the Freaky Trigger Christmas Joke separately and meanwhile try and thi[…]

Another day another Sam Smith’s pub. The consistency of the Sam Smiths experience is one think which could be held against them, the other being the ridiculous notion that thei rrestricted range of drinks is in any way a bad thing. The Princess[…]

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL (Part 4)
Two years have now passed from the death of Ian Dury, and as promised in The Unbearable Shiteness of Ian it is time to calmly, critically and objectively rate his body of work. At least it might be time for other peopl[…]

NAS – “Made You Look”
One of Nas’ most famous tracks finds him rapping from a gun’s point of view; here that idea gets turned into music. A shot is fired – and the beat is a bullet trail, slowed down John Woo style[…]

Momus-My Sperm is not Your Enemy
There is debate that this album is not as political as his other work, which confuses me, because Momus is all about aesthetics and fashion and posturing- his Maoists are in the media and the permanent cultural revalu[…]