The FreakyTrigger 25 Best (London) Pubs of the 00’s : Intro

Pete Baran — 10 Nov 2009

Lists, lists, lists. Its what we do around here, and the end of a decade gives us ample opportunity to look back with fondness over a decade. Music, films, television were all thrown in the mix, and may pop up. But most important to us is the social.[…]

My Own Private Record Club*

Tom — 10 Mar 2015

This is a post listing the records I’m listening to for my YEAR OF ROCKISM**, as outlined here (cut and pasted from Tumblr):
I’m going to listen to one album on a once-a-day basis for a week, a different one each week. Not in order to write a[…]

The Ultimate Future Shock!!!!!!

Al_Ewing — 31 Oct 2004

 
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Selling In The Name Of

Tom — 15 Dec 2009

One of the things that’s fascinating about the UK Top 40 is that a device designed to be a pure expression of popularity also works as a reflection of so many other things. People buy songs: if enough people buy a song it gets into the charts, […]

Resisting Entropy – Mars Planets and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Food Science Day 2007 Experiment #1)

Tim — 3 Sep 2007

Mars Planets: the atomisation of the Mars Bar. An entropic dis-integration, the tendency of all things to become more chaotic, in confectionery form. I’m trying to resist the impulse to tie this stuff up to no-such-thing-as-Society atomisation[…]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: No. 57 ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – “Oliver’s Army”

mark sinker — 20 Jul 2007

I semi-remember just two lines from the NME’s (Charlie Shaar Murray’s?) review of “Armed Forces” (secret unused title “Emotional Fascism”). One was that one of the other songs resembled ELP “jamming in the bo[…]

stick with the beasts we got plz #1 – The Centaur

mark sinker — 3 Mar 2005

centaurs are classically portrayed as noble and amazing (if occasionally super-horny): but i have always found em ANNOYING!!i. look at them they are top-heavy at the front = when they gallop they will fall on their facesii. they have TOO MANY LIMBS =[…]

Pika! Pika! Chu! Chu!

Tom — 10 Jul 2000

The Pokemon Phenomenon 
This piece was going to be an unabashed paean to Pokemania, explaining what a cracking game it was and how the mass tweener hysteria which greets every fresh Pokegame, cardset, pillow-case, or doily was a good thing inasm[…]

HIDDEN LANDSCAPES: THE PODCAST

mark sinker — 8 May 2018

Eight episodes are now up: Hazel Southwell and Mark Sinker talking through the story of the UK music press from two very different angles (bcz I am old and she is not), to help start the conversation around my upcoming book.
pod 1: the pilot!
pod 2: […]

I WAS A GOBLIN: Encyclopaedia Goblinica

Tom — 25 Jul 2006

Or: Games I Have Known. For the sake of my patience and yours, I have mostly restricted this to games I either owned or played – ones where I read a friends’ rulebooks and only dimly remember have been ignored, with a couple of notable e[…]

The Friday Fun Canon Discussion And Monster Poll

Tom — 12 Mar 2010

People in the Popular comments boxes are talking about “the canon”. I’m always quite curious as to which bits of the canon have ‘taken’ with a broadly pop-positive audience such as we have here. So here’s a poll, v[…]

A User’s Guide To The Culture Industry

byebyepride — 1 Jan 2003

This article was the author’s working notes for his since published book “Adorno: A guide for the perplexed”, available from Waterstones, reputable booksellers, and Amazon

Introduction, by Alex Thomson
In many ways Adorno exemplif[…]