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THE SQUARE TABLE 4 / BIG AND RICH – “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)”
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— 19 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

THE SQUARE TABLE 4 / BIG AND RICH – “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)”
Pop Factor: 784 Controversy Score: 256
You’ll love it first time if you’re going to love it at all, I reckon. The froth of messageboard talk raised my […]

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The Square Table 3/ Usher – “Burn”
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— 16 Jul 2004 Tom 1 comment

The Square Table 3/ Usher – “Burn”
Pop Factor: 442 Controversy Score: 240
The plot of “Burn” is simple. It’s not working, is it? – Damn, it was working. Having ‘been there’, it’s hard not […]

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The Square Table: 2/ The Ordinary Boys – “Talk Talk Talk”
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— 12 Jul 2004 Tom 1 comment

The Square Table: 2/ The Ordinary Boys – “Talk Talk Talk”
Pop Rating: 407 Controversy Score: 204 Length:
Yelling the words “grey and boring” in your chorus is tempting fate, and sure enough fate rears up and grabs the[…]

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The Square Table: 1 / Rachel Stevens – “Some Girls”
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— 9 Jul 2004 Tom 1 comment

The Square Table: 1 / Rachel Stevens – “Some Girls”
Pop Rating: 723 Controversy Score: 205 Length: 213
He almost botches it. This is Richard X’s big shot at writing a Pop Classic and when Rachel’s vocals glide dispassion[…]

THE SQUARE TABLE – What Is The Square Table?
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— 1 Jul 2004 admin Comment

It’s a rotating panel of Interweb pop pundits – they get sent an MP3 by me (that is, Tom) about once every three days and they comment on each one, giving it a mark out of ten. The collated comments and overall mark then appear on NYLPM.
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