They rly don’t make ’em like this any more. Boy bands singing about unemployment? Mentions of governmental departments in choruses? Comedy rapping? OK, there’s still comedy rapping.
My “best of wham!”, which features the[…]

3. The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode
‘Ebeneezer Goode’ could theoretically have been about a man who was cheerful and who enjoyed the music of Vera Lynn…
I was eleven years old and even I knew it was entirely about drugs. So what? […]

At Poptimism on Saturday I bumped into Vic Fluro of this manor. Now when I bump into him, and he is not desperately trying to wangle a set on the decks, the talk invariably turns to comics. Though we both agreed that they are a pretty dull thing to t[…]

2. House of Pain – Jump Around
Is this the most ubiquitous student disco song ever recorded? (more…)[…]

BALLSY! That’s no the first word that springs to mind when I think of Will Young. And perhaps BALLSY is the wrong word to append to “Leave Right Now”, a sappy song of monumental wetness. But let me tell you why I have recently reali[…]

Wham bam, thank you mam, well quite. Having just looked up the lyrics (having sung them phonetically all these years), is this like bowie trying to be bolan or summat? The other thing is I seem to spend most of the time thinking about other songs w[…]

1. The Prodigy – Fire
The opening song of any compilation is vital to its success and coherence. It must draw in the casual listener that might not otherwise consider investing the mix (perhaps opting for one containing ‘Sesame’s Tr[…]

On my eleventh birthday I received a copy of a tape called “Rave ’92” through the post from my sister Grace, who was away at university. It was the second tape she had made for me whilst she was away, (the first being a random mix o[…]

Someone asks about Coca-Cola Orange
I dimly remember Ki-Ora doing an Orange and Cola flavour in my youth.
Try to confirm such via Wikipedia. Fail.
Do however discover lyrics to Ki-Ora song, and that it was based on a track by Swedish band Caramba.
Id[…]

The Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up And Sing is so named after a lyric in a recent song, itself derived from a death threat the band got. The Chicks, the biggest selling girl group in US history had pissed off the largely Republican country audience[…]