Looking at the German top 10 singles just now I was very surprised to see the song 1001 Arabian Nights by Ch!pz – a song I posted on Into The Groove in May last year and had on my mp3 player for quite a while before that. Surely it doesn’t take 15 months for a… Continue reading The Ch!pz Are Down
Everyone wants it their way
After Richard Ashcroft and Westlife, yet another terrible musical act are plagiarising the Backstreet Boys. It wasn’t even me who noticed it first this time. Edit: Having now bravely listened to the song, it doesn’t really sound like IWITW at all. Phew!
Smash Hits TV must be feeling the strain of their traumatic week
Because earlier today they broadcast a programme called Top 20 Bad Boybands, and they broke the trade descriptions act by including Phixx, Triple 8, V, Ultra, Point Break, O-Town, 911, O-Zone – in fact the only actually bad boybands included were Blazin’ Squad and the Noise Next Door. It was the best programme I’ve seen… Continue reading Smash Hits TV must be feeling the strain of their traumatic week
New Pop On The Block
The Like – June Gloom (Video)I loved their last single, What I Say and What I Mean, a fabulous fusion of pop and rock, but this new one is as gloomy as it’s title suggests. If What I Say… had been their one off rocky single, they’d be an amazing band, yet it seems it… Continue reading New Pop On The Block
Time for some more “questionable readings of Nietzsche”
I don’t know why anyone was surprised at my last post claiming that Nietzsche was condoning the love of pop music in Beyond Good & Evil. Since I wrote that I have discovered that I am far from the first person to link pop and philosophy. In the comments to my Nietzsche post, Tim (who… Continue reading Time for some more “questionable readings of Nietzsche”
Everything Changes But Me
In mourning of Smash Hits I went rifling in my cupboard for SH related things and found the Smash Hist yearbook of 2002. The book was actually about 2001 and everything that happened in it. Only a few months later I stopped buying Smash Hits altogether, but not without good reason (it was around the… Continue reading Everything Changes But Me
And the winner is…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a tricky pop quiz and invited readers to e-mail in their answers. Everyone who responded did excellently well – here are the scores in ascending order: Susan – 27Hanzan & Abbie – both 28Barney – 33 Well done everyone and especially Barney who only got 1 question wrong!… Continue reading And the winner is…
It’s sad, so sad…
The saddest thing about Smash Hits’ closure for me is that I will never fulfil my dream of writing for it. Even if, some time in the future, I’d had only one small article published in the magazine, it would have made my life. Now more than ever we have to carry on its legacy,… Continue reading It’s sad, so sad…
Top of the Poptastic!
Today, as you’ve probably noticed, is the 1st of February, so it’s time to count down my top 20 favourite songs of January: 1. Protocol – Where’s The Pleasure2. Morningwood – Nth Degree3. Christian Falk feat. Robyn & Ola Salo – Dream On4. Pay TV – Miss Capitalist5. Will Young – All Time Love6. Delays… Continue reading Top of the Poptastic!
A Decade Of Poptastic No.1s!
Madonna – Hung Up 19th November 2005 At last we reach the end of the top 25 no.1 songs of the decade, and funnily enough the final song was also my favourite song of 2005. It’s also quite amusing that the only no.1 single I liked last year was my favourite song of the year,… Continue reading A Decade Of Poptastic No.1s!