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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 22, Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart, and 21, Scooter – Ramp! (The Logical Song)
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— 1 Dec 2009 Alan 6 comments

There’s a song on the radio, a catchy ear-worm of a song, and it’s been on the radio a lot now that you mention it. It drags you in, “now listen to my words” it commands. How might you react?

Reaction A “No colour[…]

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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 23. Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
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— 24 Nov 2009 Pete Baran 7 comments

There are 15 cover versions of Wuthering Heights on Spotify. They are all here in this playlist. Since Tom has covered everything I could say about the original here, I thought I’d look at these versions instead to see if there is a secret abou[…]

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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 24: RACHEL STEVENS – Some Girls
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— 8 Oct 2009 Pete Baran 3 comments

When the Sugababes shed Keisha a few weeks ago, I was a bit worried for the catty one. Not cos she can’t look after herself, and not because she’ll be poor. But rather because the old idea that you have a successful career in a boy / girl[…]

The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 25: MADONNA – Into The Groove
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— 2 Oct 2009 Pete Baran 3 comments

What he said.[…]

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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 26: The Human League – Open Your Heart
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— 9 Jul 2009 Pete Baran Comment

We are all the Human League. WE WISH! If there was a band that, given a few early synths that we would want to be, it would be the League. How hard can it be, a few simple melodies and semi-portentous lyrics sung over the top? How hard is that. And […]

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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 27: Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
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— 6 May 2009 Pete Baran 4 comments

Chaka, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan
I love the cover of this single. Much experimentation with what was left of my childhood crayons convinced me it was a lot harder than it looked.
Chaka Khan let me rock you, let me rock you Chaka Khan
I knew […]

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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 28. The Jam – Going Underground
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— 1 May 2009 Pete Baran 4 comments

Mildred: What’re you rebelling against, Johnny?
Johnny: Whaddya got?
Going Underground is the aural equivalent of this quote from The Wild One. I’m not saying that Paul Weller is Marlon Brando, but Going Underground is cliched and as emp[…]

THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No. 29: PJ & Duncan AKA – Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble
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— 27 Mar 2009 katstevens 7 comments

“No jokes, no messin’, we’ll teach you a lesson, a state of confusion to keep you all guessin’!”
Wholesome family entertainers Ant (PJ) and Dec (Duncan) have come a long way since that terrible (but thankfully fictional)[…]

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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 30. White Town – “Your Woman”
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— 25 Mar 2009 Pete Baran 7 comments

I think this is the last track I made go to number one.

Sorry, I’ll clarify that before hubris catches up with me. Your Woman, by White Town (or officially the Abort, Retry, Fail?_ EP) is the last single I bought which, in the week I bought […]

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THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No. 31: Prince – “I Would Die 4 U”
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— 20 Mar 2009 Elisha Sessions 2 comments

Michael Jackson came in for some stick at the 1996 Brit Awards for dressing up like Jesus and surrounding himself with children, but he never pulled the groundbreakingly presumptuous move of speaking in the first person as Mr Christ himself. Somehow,[…]

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