Tom, surely the Sugababes are post nu-bubblegum. Nu-bubblegum was killed by Atomic Kitten (or at least mercifully put to sleep). I rate Overload higher than 30, but mainly because I could not believe such a classy sounding track was by a band with su[…]

TRACKS OF THE YEAR: 2000
Starting today: thirty tracks, best of the year, counted down in order. I’m going to get Blogvoices put on so people can discuss the choices, I think. Other contributors – feel free to intersperse with additions a[…]

Response to Am I Cool Or Not? has been very poor this week. Do the readers of FT know nothing about women’s music tastes? I may have to start offering prizes.[…]

Chris Cunningham, Aphex video guy, interviewed and his work profiled. Nice. (via The Morning News)[…]

“Blogger ate my post” may be a “dog ate my homework” for the 21st century, but you know, sometimes the dog did actually eat the homework (um…). Anyway, I was going to link to DAA‘s piece on Rolling Stone‘s po[…]

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[…]