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Poptimism CD #8: Boshtimism
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— 31 Jul 2006 Tom 7 comments

This is the tracklisting for Saturday’s giveaway CD. If you didn’t get a copy – very likely as my computer overheated and I could only make 12 – I will be making more this week. This offer is really only open to people I am l[…]

Computer not very good at identifying album genre by cover art
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— 28 Jul 2006 Pete Baran 1 comment

I love the internet. Only on the internet will you discover a discarded university research project, (which probably got an averagish mark) still there to be discovered. Only on the internet would you be able to peruse the technical difficulties on a[…]

Keep Bond (Themes) Rubbish
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— 27 Jul 2006 Tom 2 comments

Ex-Soundgarden Bod To Record Bond Theme
Many of the songs from the early Bond movies have become classics, such as Bassey’s Goldfinger and Sinatra’s You Only Live Twice.
But recent efforts like Tina Turner’s Goldeneye and Sheryl Cr[…]

Marit Larsen
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— 23 Jul 2006 Martin Skidmore 9 comments

It’s been an unusual few months for me in music listening terms. I’m normally big on variety, skipping from soul to hip hop to pop to punk to reggae from one moment to the next. However, a kind friend gave me over 500 albums early in the […]

Dear The Internet, S Club were not a boyband
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— 23 Jul 2006 Alan 2 comments

Even MTV who are making Totally Boyband, and Digital Spy don’t seem to have noticed that the phrase “five former boyband members” seems to skate over Bradley S-Club. Poor Rachel, poor Jo, poor Hannah, poor… her, you know.. Tin[…]

You’re out of touch my baby
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— 18 Jul 2006 Tom 15 comments

Mercury Prize Shortlist day is always a time of much pontificating over the state of the musical nation, the uselessness of prizes, the evils of marketing, the injustice done to [yr favourite here]. It’s also a marvellous opportunity for some […]

Attention Ewing
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— 16 Jul 2006 Matt DC 4 comments

Every UK number one single ever is up for auction.
On multiple formats by the looks of things. Although auctioning off a digital download strikes me as somewhat silly.
Still, you don’t really need to buy a house, do you?[…]

LA PLAGE – “Coupe De Boule”
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— 14 Jul 2006 Tom 4 comments

Ages ago on the lamented MP3 blog POPNOSE I wrote about how soca’s greatness lay – partly – in how omnivorous it is, subject-wise. Like the calypso it sprang from, anything from arthritis to trade policies makes fine raw material fo[…]

down down to sukrat town
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— 12 Jul 2006 mark sinker 6 comments

why does the FT category up there still read “POP” eh? if this ANGERS you here is a community who will turn yr skin into lovely crackling in an instant help you vent yr human all too human RAGE in the form of EPIC PROG ROCK-ESQUE DEBATE
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Not Going To Bed
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— 12 Jul 2006 Sarah Comment

Andrew WK is back, Back, BACK!!
 Are we ready to go to sleep??
NO!!!
We’re not going to bed! We’re never gonna go to bed!
Horrifying images of rammed basements and crowdsurfing spring to mind, nose-bleeds from jumping about and that&#8[…]

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