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It Only Works Because You’re Here – More MJ Hibbettage
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— 14 Jul 2008 Alan 1 comment

WATCH THIS VIDEO. It’s a LOVE STORY. It’s like REMAINS OF THE DAY 2.0. The greatest love story ever blogged. erm, set against an epic backdrop of the deep south and the american civil war CSS standards compliancy and web-browser wars.[…]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 40: Led Zeppelin – “Immigrant Song”
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— 14 Jul 2008 Tom 4 comments

When Jeff Wayne was hunting for a musical way to express the horror and chaos of a Martian invasion, it was to Led Zeppelin he turned. The synthesiser riff on “Horsell Common And The Heat Ray”, so evocative of war-blasted Wokingham and Ch[…]

Blog ’92: LET’S GO!
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— 11 Jul 2008 katstevens 9 comments

15. The Prodigy – Everybody In The Place
I really don’t like rollercoasters. My childhood dreams of being an astronaut were utterly quashed after having a go on an Orbitron and instantly developing not only severe motion sickness but a fi[…]

Let’s have some music!
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— 9 Jul 2008 Tom 3 comments

Waylaid by some toddler-borne bacillus I’m not up to writing anything critical today so in lieu of content let’s have SOUNDS:

What have we here then? (more…)[…]

Europop 2008: The Muxtape
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— 2 Jul 2008 Tom 1 comment

Enjoy the top sounds of Europop 2008 – without spanking our bandwidth! FIPA’s technical committee has completed its report, and so the Poptimism Muxtape returns with the cream of the Europop tournament – two tracks from winners Swi[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 42. Abba – The Winner Takes It All
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— 1 Jul 2008 Pete Baran 12 comments

Oh its all Abba all the time round here these days. What with Popular knee deep in the 1970’s. Well Winner Takes It All is 1980’s Abba, and a significantly more jaded, wistful Abba it is too. So rather than talk to much about the track it[…]

Europop 2008: BARAN SENDS SWISS CUCKOO
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— 1 Jul 2008 Tom 7 comments

The final sampled whistle has been blown and the record crowd is streaming out of the stadium digesting this extraordinary result: Switzerland have won Europop 2008. The game was an incident packed one, thanks in part to 15 extra Italian votes floodi[…]

Return Of The Ella
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— 1 Jul 2008 Pete Baran Comment

Last years big summer smash (and meterological phenomenon) had in its arsenal a particular vocal tick. Rihanna’s Ella-Ella plagued us like the rain she was cowering from. And this year it seems that Flo Rida is stealing this schtick wholesale, […]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 43. Stina Nordenstam – Little Star
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— 26 Jun 2008 Alan 4 comments

If you haven’t heard this song just go and listen to it. (You may recognise it — it was used in the sproutface DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet). That’s all I should say.

However, to make the your perhaps-momentous discovery more possib[…]

Europop 2008: THE FINAL
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— 26 Jun 2008 Tom 15 comments

Here we are at the 31st and last match of Europop 2008 – Switzerland v Italy. As ever, track details and analyses can be found below the cut!

How to vote: Just pick the track you like best. Please don’t download if you’re not inten[…]

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