Month: January 2005

The real music band who, despite being 4 boys in a band, singing poppy-rock and appearing at the height of Busted’s success, are neither a boyband nor cashing in on Busted’s success. However, they are actually quite good, so let’s listen to their album! 1. Joy Ride Quite poppy, but I do think Come get… Continue reading Dirrrty Pop Review: Rooster – Rooster

I was just reading the great Tom Ewing‘s latest Very Intelligent Essay about The Indie Boom and it has led me to wonder; how on Earth do you dance to indie music? Disco-y bands like the Killers and Franz Ferdinand might be do-able but what can you do to Oasis except injure them sway a… Continue reading Trendy Discotheque, We’re Dancing At The Trendy Discotheque

Oh look out you rock’n’rollers! Dougie McFly was once a sweet little boy: Zac from Hanson has become quite the buff hottie: At least Ollie from Point Break and now Freefaller’s hairstyle has improved if not his music: Another vaguely related thing I feel compelled to point out is that Freefaller are more like a… Continue reading Ch-ch-ch-ch- changes

If all their other predictions about the Year 3000 fail, Busted have made sure that at least one will be true. They may have left the pop scene but we’re still in no shortage of boybands. This Monday happens to be a rather excellent day for boybands releasing singles, so lets take a look at… Continue reading Boybands, and another one, and another one, and another one

It’s a bonza video bonanza this weekend! Kaiser Chiefs – Oh My God This song sounds like so many I hate, it’s quite a miracle that I like it at all, let alone love it like I do. Even better news is that the lead singer turns out to be not quite as old and… Continue reading Video Killed The Radio Star

Daniel Bedingfield – Wrap My Words Around You I should probably take note of the lyrics to this song because he sings “It’s not fair to write a song for a woman, no, because a woman takes a song into her heart” and Daniel has written a song for me. It is a bonus demo… Continue reading Video Killed The Radio Star

Last night’s discovery of Party Fox inspired me to dig out the first pop music cassette I ever bought, a compilation aptly named The No.1 Dance Party Album which also happens to be the best compilation I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing (closely rivalled by TOTP V1 of 1998). On first look, it appears… Continue reading The Best Compilation Of All Time!

1. Fragma – Toca’s Miracle 2. Bobby Brown – 2 Can Play That Game 3. Army Of Lovers – Let The Sunshine In 4. Alex Party – Don’t Give Me Your Life 5. Uniting Nations – Out Of Touch 6. D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better 7. Baby D – Let Me Be Your… Continue reading Top 10 Songs Played On Party Fox Last Night

Adam Green – Emily I had only heard one Adam Green song prior to this – unsurprisingly the one that shares my name, and despite annoyance that the Jessica referred to was of the Simpson variety and not me, I liked it very much. It’s a very catchy song with something old-fashioned about it, yet… Continue reading Video Killed The Radio Star

The first word James Blunt sings on his album is “beautiful” and it is a very good description of the album as a whole. He released (on October 18th, a week after the album came out on Oct 11th) and made a video for the first track, High so presumably that’s his big selling-point song… Continue reading Dirrrty Pop Review: James Blunt – Back To Bedlam