GONG!: So Neil Strauss wants you to believe that “the musical taste of the [United States] seems to have changed.” He supports this claim by listing all of the albums to have held the top position of the Billboard album charts in 2002. […]

Usually it takes me more then an hour to flee from the realtions banality into my own music, this year its exactly 34 minutes and I’m downstairs listening to the sex pistols. I blame it on a mix of popera and kenny g.[…]

UK Garage Highs’n’Lows of 2002 – from RWD magazine.[…]

Freaky Trigger’s 2002 Party finally kicks off with my vague ideas on the year in summary and my rather more specific list of my favourite 101 tracks this year – or the first 21, at least. Caution: this list is not definitive and does not […]

THIS IS NOT AN EXIT: Year-end rundowns are springing up everywhere you look – MORE MORE MORE say I (I’m partway through the Freaky Trigger one, if anyone cares) – check Blissblog and Church of Me on the sidebar for some high-fibre 2[…]

“You’re an old man at the end of your career.”: this is miles better than Blur vs Oasis.[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
WHAM! – “Last Christmas”
GIRLS ALOUD – “Sound Of The Underground”
SAINT ETIENNE – “I Was Born On Christmas Day”
FOX – “S-s-single Bed”
SLADE – “M[…]

Things I’ve learned by listening to AT40 with my wife:– Dirty songs sound better when you hear them on the way to church (“Girl Talk”, “Dirrty”).– Creed has no redeeming features whatsoever (this was more con[…]

Christina Aguileras New Video
I saw this on MTV this morning after a sleepless night, and i have a few thoughts about transformation and dirrty versus virtue, but it all went out the window when i saw the two cute blonde boys snogging, not only di[…]

Catastrophe! (I Am A Twat Department)
I have lost my laptop. I have either left it in the pub or on the tube. If the former, I’ve got a very good chance of getting it back. If the latter, who knows. This is bad from a personal point of view bec[…]