Every track on Popular gets a mark out of 10 – this is your opportunity to tick any and all tracks in a calendar year you’d have given 6 or higher to (and to comment on the year in general in the comments box).
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TPL on The Joshua Tree.
TPL on Now 9.
The shortest TPL post yet.
Aw! Keep Your Distance is a pretty good album I reckon; it’s a shame it takes that particular wooden spoon. None more wine bar.
I’d never noticed how weirdly shoegazey the sleeve is. Fix the slanting text, blur the logo and give them different haircuts, and the aesthetic is pure Creation/4AD circa 1991.
Vaughan Oliver Jeffers
TPL on that least 1987 of things, a live double album.
Introducing the softline, according to TPL.
The last Hits compilation TPL will be doing.
TPL on Def Leppard.
TPL update: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/bruce-springsteen-tunnel-of-love.html
TPL update.
Yet another TPL update.
TPL on George Michael, on his own and sounding it.
Another day, another popular music figure leaves us – this time in very sad circumstances. It’s farewell to Colin Vearncombe, better known as Black, who has died from injuries suffered in a car crash in Co. Cork a couple of weeks ago. He had two major hits in 1987: ‘Sweetest Smile’ (which just missed the top spot but is rarely heard now) and the sublime ‘Wonderful Life’, which remains a staple of oldies radio. RIP.