Ultrabeat – Pretty Green Eye 3
If Crystal Gale sang it with Autoharp by June Carter Cash the words would be prefect.
As it is, it reminds me of A Night at the Roxbury, which makes it just pathetic.
S Club 8 — Sundown 8
The absolute roboti[…]

The Worst Songwriter Of All Time?: ancient but very readable Slate piece, may well be of interest to Popular fans.[…]

The Ninth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group is part of this month’s FT update.[…]

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “Yeah (Stupid Edit)”
It’s oh so gauche (and lazy) to review a record simply by listing other records, but, unless you’ve been living in the same “bunker of stale 1979 air” (pace Tom) they&#8[…]

Even in this ever-shrinking world in which we live in non-Brits may not know about the Cheeky Girls phenomenon. They are two bony sisters from Transylvania who have finagled a comedy appearance on a reality pop show into becoming something close to a[…]

For any of you who missed the Freaky Trigger Christmas Party yesterday, not only did you miss a cracking good time but you missed my Nuclear War Set which (from memory) ran as follows. Note real actual Doomsday at end.
ELECTRIC SIX – “Nuc[…]

We’re trying to invite Mr Q onto NYLPM but the invites are snarling up. Meanwhile, here’s his review of…
SCORPIONS – ‘Drifting Sun’
track from Fly to the Rainbow, 1974
Krautrock was the most escape-obsessed genre e[…]

Christmas songs are a good thing, no? Well, if you like Christmas they are. If you don’t then no doubt somewhere on the web there is an MP3 of Will Oldham playing ‘We Three Kings’ on a zither that you can adopt as your ‘favour[…]

B3TA’s worst record ever poll
Makes for depressing reading really – if you like B3TA. I had no idea most B3TA readers were such fun-haters. A lot of hate for R&B a lot of casually worded violence for anything (eek) pop, and then just ran[…]

JOSS STONE – Fell in Love With A Boy
Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit. Harsh? But fair.[…]