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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 32. Amii Stewart – Knock On Wood
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Putting the sin into sin drums…
Knock On Wood is one of those party staples which ended up representing a whole scene. You can understand why. Not just because it is a consummate disco record, with its infectious opening like a tube train whoos[…]

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THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No. 33: Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter
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The wrong kind of rock and the wrong kind of snow….
“They do not like all that about ending and failing,” said Merry. “I should not sing any more at present. Wait till we do get to the edge, and then we’ll turn and give[…]

THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No. 34: Shanice – I Love Your Smile
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It’s fourteen degrees centigrade in my room, much colder out, and at this point in January summer feels like a friend you’ve lost touch with and will never see again, but sometimes semi-recognise in the faces of strangers in the street; a[…]

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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 35. Matha & The Muffins – Echo Beach
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Some songs stand outside of time. Often they are one hit wonders, divorced from a bands career and existing with no backstory outside the song itself. So to me Echo Beach has always existed, as one of a clutch of holiday records which sound as great […]

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FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 36. KLF – Justified And Ancient
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Delightful nonsense — that’s the standard way to write off this song, and at FT we find nothing wrong with that. Indeed some would say there is no higher accolade. However as any illuminati or discordianista will tell you, the best place […]

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FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 37: T-REX – Metal Guru
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Marc Bolan was never one of the great dead pop stars when I was a kid. T-Rex were not on my pop radar, seemingly out of fashion from the late seventies until a Bolan track was used to sell jeans in the late eighties. I really don’t remember hearing[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Actual 38th Top Track Of All-Time As Chosen By You The Readers: BALTIMORA – Tarzan Boy
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Pop culture songs are tricky. Just look at that current Scouting For Girls song about James Bond. I am not cynical enough to say that Scouting For Girls have picked a release date just because Quantum Of Solace just came out. But some commentators mi[…]

The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 38. ?
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Avid readers of Freaky Trigger will be aware that our intermittent at best feature, running down the “Top 100 Songs of all time as voted for in a pub in 2004”. And hopefully haven’t been holding their breath, because they’d be[…]

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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 39. Awesome Toys – Do The Fury Boogie
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From the files of futurologist Al Ewing:

Originally released in March of 2014, ‘Do The Fury Boogie’ was the standout track on the Awesome Toys’ ‘difficult’ second album, How Dare You Say You Love Me When You’ve Ta[…]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 40: Led Zeppelin – “Immigrant Song”
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When Jeff Wayne was hunting for a musical way to express the horror and chaos of a Martian invasion, it was to Led Zeppelin he turned. The synthesiser riff on “Horsell Common And The Heat Ray”, so evocative of war-blasted Wokingham and Ch[…]

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