POP-EYE 12/11/00
Oh, I pity poor Tom & Tanya last week. It truly was a seething cess-pit of horror that particular chart. Admittedly the run-down I get to cut my Pop-Eye teeth is one constituted of much of last weeks dross, but at least this wee[…]

Is no musical sacred? Now playing on the Philadelphia Top 40 station: a song that has lifted the melody for its chorus (“Let’s make love and dance the night away”) wholesale from “Hernando’s Hideaway,” which, a Goo[…]

Britney To Write A Book. I’m sure it will be excellent. I’m off on an unintended vacation from NYLPM (to do with not having a phone line in my new house), but one of the things we’ll do when I get back is rock books, I think. Meanwh[…]

Westlife: Better than The Beatles?: Hooray for BBC Talking Point, that weathervane for the crucial issues of the day! Hooray for Beatles fans, happy to rise to any bait! Hooray for pop music in all its shabby glory! Westlife can, of course, piss off,[…]

Are Novelty Afro Wigs Racist? Are At The Drive-In fools? And other questions. A bad gig experience, via Us Vs Them. Hey though, if Jeffrey wants to wear his afro and 70s shirt with pride, he should head for a 70s nite in Clapham (which has the added […]

Excellent ruminations on Pete Wylie and Bill Drummond, from Sink. What evil bookshop goblin erases the memory of 45 from my mind every time I go into one, I wonder?
Incidentally, come on Team NYLPM. I’m moving house, dammit, I can’t conce[…]

Let me let you into a secret – Tom will kill me but he’s at least one hundred miles away now and there is no chance he can catch me with that kind of head start. One of the problems with a team blog is that the other members of the blog c[…]

Oh yeah, I’m the boy who doesn’t do ‘guilty pleasures’, that’s right. All the nostalgia stuff, I despise it: you either like a song or you don’t, damn it, and the songs you like you come right out about, you don&#8[…]

POP-EYE 5/11/00 (in collaboration with I HATE MUSIC)
“Tanya?”
“Yes, Tom?”
“I’m moving house on Monday, and I’d like you to fill in for me on NYLPM.”
…..
“Tanya?”
“Now, Tom. Haven[…]

POP-EYE U.S. – 11/02/00
finally, some movement in the top five on billboard’s hot 100 charts. it seems music fans countrywide have come to their senses as christina aguilera’s “come on over baby” falls from its perch, re[…]