- 3. Priceless Junk
(The third part of the 3-part piece about the 1000th Number 1, the charts, and 20 years of writing about them. Part 1. Part 2. See also the pieces on #999 and #1000 on Popular.)
Here’s the thing, though. I still really like pop music.
When I […]
- 2. All My Lazy Teenage Boasts Are Now High Precision Ghosts
(This is Part 2 of a 3 part piece around the 1000th No.1. Part 1 is here but you might also want to read about the 999th Number 1)
Dr Manhattan is on Mars, some time before he leaves our Universe at the end of Watchmen to become a meme. It is 1958[…]
- 1. No Bird Can Fly, No Fish Can Swim Until The King Is Born
(This is part 1 of a 3-part piece designed to fit around the 999th and 1000th Popular entries, which will go up on the Popular site.)
Almost my first memory of the charts is of the charts being broken. Broken hearted; collapsed by shock and grief […]
- Omargeddon #39: The Clouds Hill Tapes Parts I, II & III
Omar Rodríguez-López is famously prolific, so I knew at some point during this project that my to-review list would increase; my only surprise was that it wasn’t sooner. The Clouds Hill Tapes Parts I, II & III were released during Summer Lock[…]
- #FearOfMu21c #16 – 2021-2023
The #FearOfMu21c selection struggle reaches its end – two years once again dominated by the pop polls and then bang up to date with the sounds of 2023. These have also been years of gradual personal improvement after 2019-2020 were bin-fires fo[…]
- #FearOfMu21c #15 – 2019-2020
A bunch of things happened in 2020 but the most consequential (OK, the most consequential FOR ME) is that I started doing pop polls on Twitter. I think I can state at this point that there is nobody better at creating and running track-based Twitter […]