This is neither the time nor place to have the “Baby One More Time” argument (though I disagree with Ned, whilst admitting that Paul Morley is far too bloated now to have quite that much enthusiasm for young Ms Spears). Two points though,[…]

About Morley’s being vexed concerning lack o’ Britney — wrong song, frankly, to be worried about. I have no idea what other singles of hers might have hit number one (maybe some, maybe none), but I stand by my belief that “&#8[…]

Inevitable – this would find itself here. So the Top 100 Number Singles in the UK list raises its ugly head. Its already drawn much criticism for its methodology on this very weblog, something that the articles and the television programme were[…]

Why I Am Doing Thousand: (I think an explanation is needed because it means basically none of my reviews here for a few weeks).
I’m doing Thousand (1,000 songs on my hard drive listened to in quasi-alphabetical order) as an experiment. A formal[…]

A Thousand Songs: it’s an experiment of sorts.[…]

Today I think we will link to In Review – we will do this because it is a sorely underrated music weblog and we will specifically do this because of Jimmy Mod’s sarkily entertaining track-by-tracker on a Kill Rock Stars comp.[…]

Fillums eh? Tom claims to know not much about them, but I think its merely because its a difficult critical beast to muster. Writing about films already has a number of critical paradigms, there are degrees in the stuff – wheras degrees in Musi[…]

(I’m not entirely happy with this Le Tigre reviewlet but pending articulation of whatever else is kicking around my head re. the band I’ll put it up anyway….)
LE TIGRE – “Deceptacon”
Do you want new wave or do you […]

More FT news: there’s a selection from our bulging mailbag here; there’s an article on Foreigner and the eighties’ legacy here which looking at it may be the best thing I’ve written in a while; and if you’ve not been rea[…]

Playlouder’s Top 50 Singles Of The Year: a good job thoroughly done, and little enough to quibble with. If the NME could still be arsed to cover singles properly, it could run this and keep the target market and the old bores alike fairly happy[…]