What I listened to five years ago. This soundtrack of a day thing is very dangerous, read me, very dangerous. In the process of doing one of my very tedious jobs that I bounced around in five years ago I did much the same thing. However, as it was a […]

what i listened to yesterday:
didn’t listen to anything till i got home from work. then:
sunny day real estate — “seven”: wanted to see if it was as hair-metal as i remembered. it was.
smashing pumpkins — siamese drea[…]

And of course having said that here’s a link to Dickon Edwards talking about Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit, in terms of his being a great lyricist. Which he probably is.[…]

I’m moving house, starting tomorrow: this means few or no posts here from me, maybe for several days. If the rest of the team want to take up the slack, that would be great and we’ll all have something new to read. Otherwise you might wan[…]

The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is back up, as part of the continued restoration of freakytrigger.com. Now with actual links on the contributors’ page! And I’ll take this as an opportunity to remind people that the deadline for b[…]

rockcritics.com has a new look and new features including a guestbook and LISTS LISTS LISTS. You should go there every week, I think.
And speaking of lists, I don’t soundtrack my life – at least not consciously. But on red letter days (or[…]

What I Listened To today; where. Abridged. In order:
1. DR DRE – “Lil Ghetto Boy”; on the bus there.
2. SPICE GIRLS – “Holler”; in HMV.
3. BLACK STAR/TALIB KWELI – ?; in a shop (note: this could have been any[…]

What I Listened To when I left my job. In order:
1. BLUR – “To The End”
2. THIEVES – “Unworthy” (“Don’t tell me I should try and GET SOME SLEEP….”)
3. MADONNA – “Like A Prayer&#8[…]

Our Lady of Sorrows: long piece on Billie Holiday. Looks interesting.[…]

My mind’s elsewhere today but for the sake of content (c’mon team) here are Guardian reviews of the Spice Girls (bad) and Fatboy Slim (worse). I can’t imagine the critics are too far wrong in either case.[…]