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Gawd Bless Yer Ma’am!
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— 14 Mar 2011 Tom 1 comment

As found in the Queen Mum’s record collection.[…]

Born In The UK
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— 30 Dec 2010 Tom 26 comments

Sometime last night the beer-sodden shell of a thing then inhabiting my mortal frame posted a question on Twitter, and the question was this: what is the UK equivalent of “Born In The USA”? I dimly remember having a conversation about how[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers Poll 2010
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— 15 Dec 2010 Tom 17 comments

We are having our first ever Readers Poll this year! It’s only going to be a little poll, with just one category – the best tracks of the last year. If you’re reading this, and especially if you’re a regular reader or commente[…]

X-Factor Crystal Ball
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— 13 Dec 2010 Tom 24 comments

MIGHT CONCEIVABLY MAKE A GOOD RECORD BUT PROBABLY WON’T: One Direction.
MIGHT CONCEIVABLY MAKE A GREAT RECORD AS LONG AS WILL I AM KEEPS HIS GRUBBY PAWS OFF: Cher Lloyd
WILL MAKE A DISAPPOINTING BUT COMPETENT RECORD: Rebecca Ferguson
WILL MAKE […]

At The End Of The 1980s
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— 14 Oct 2010 Tom 44 comments

On New Years’ Eve 1989, I didn’t go to a party. I didn’t wish anyone a happy new decade. I don’t think I drank any champagne. I stayed at home and watched TV instead, and it was wonderful.
What I stayed home to watch was a spe[…]

Untitled #2 (Instrumentals Question)
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— 17 Sep 2010 Tom 8 comments

Today’s Guardian column is about song titles, and specifically how the titles on the new Gold Panda album work. Actually it was originally going to be more about the titles and less about the Panda, but in the end the specifics took the piece o[…]

The Friday Last FM Quiz – THE RESULTS!
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— 13 Aug 2010 Tom 8 comments

A couple of Fridays ago I set a simple quiz for FT readers – name the most-played Last.FM tracks of these 20 acts. 13 people replied, and here are the answers!
MGMT: The answer is “Kids”. 9 out of 13 people got this, the rest said &[…]

Guardian Columns Archive
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— 6 Aug 2010 Tom 4 comments

Since January I’ve been doing a column in the Guardian every fortnight. These are written for a slightly different audience than my loveable pop-crazy readers here, and it’s also the first time I’ve written regularly for print (web […]

What Can You Learn From Last.FM? (Part II)
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— 2 Aug 2010 Tom 5 comments

In part 1 of this series looking at artist metrics on Last.FM, I talked about PPL (Plays Per Listener) and also the relative popularity of each act’s top track.
In this part we dig a little bit deeper into an artist’s catalogue, with two […]

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What Can You Learn From Last.FM? (Part I)
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— 23 Jul 2010 Tom 3 comments

Last week a question occurred to me: what interesting things can you find out by playing around with Last.FM listening data? Last.FM themselves offer a fair bit of extra analysis to users in their “Playground” section, but it’s all […]

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