THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
89. REEL 2 REEL feat THE MAD STUNTMAN – “I Like To Move It”
This had a previous life as “Jazz It Up” by the Erick Morillo Project, a funky disco-house number which no doubt kept many a party rollin&#[…]

PopNose MP3 of the Week
1. Pipkins – “Gimme Dat Ding”
Welcome one and all to the slight return of PopNose, an MP3 each week (at least initially) which will build over time into a De’Agostini style partwork celebrating the uniq[…]

Site News: All the old articles should now be back, and also all the pictures, including the Ultimate Future Shock.
Also! I cornered our lovely host in the pub last night and said “I wish we could do MP3s again”. “Wellllll…..&[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
89.5 Skeletal Family – “Promised Land”
The first of more than forty goth records in the top 100, this track was unanimously agreed upon by everyone at Freaky Trigger in some pub around Christmas. Two even sporte[…]

Songmeanings.net
May well keep you occupied for hours. For example, an insight into “Fake Plastic Trees”:
“He’s saying they’ve made the Earth sp wso worldly it wears the (w)hole Earth out, him. Circumcision though not sa[…]

The previous post, summarised[…]

DJing The Office Party: what I learned.
i) Even rockists like “Love Machine” (when they’ve drunk their way through a five-figure bar tab) (I should have trusted Pete on this)
ii) Whatever the shortcomings of the Chemical Brothers as[…]

This particular Gloria really came into its own a few years ago, when Atomic Kitten’s “The Tide Is High (Got The Feeling)” was number one. Not many people (apart from the quite a lot of people buying it) liked the Kittens’ tra[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
90. The Only Ones – “Another Girl Another Planet”
I cannot remember how, or why I had tickets to see The One, Peter Perrett’s mid-nineties bands playing on the fact that The Only Ones were no longer the on[…]

Fake Dancehall vs Real Dancehall: very interesting ILM thread started by Chuck Eddy. So interesting that I almost posted – but what’s the answer?
I think the difference is one of inclusivity – the ‘real’ stuff in these s[…]