PROPER LONDON: Saint Etienne – “Foxbase Alpha”

Tom — 30 Apr 2000

April 2000, Piccadilly

The sun comes out over London and the Summer starts: everywhere you look you see people in love, snogging on the tubes and holding hands on the escalators so you can’t get past them. Baggy shorts and halter tops all ov[…]

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.[…]

The Usual Excuses

Tom — 2 Feb 2001

Bowery Electric’s “Freedom Fighter” is bewitching and worrying, and not just because it was made by a band I’d put down as America’s most useless. In fact the beat Bowery Electric use on “Freedom Fighter” sou[…]

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[…]

I Want To Know What Love Is – Eighties Revisionism

Tom — 2 Jan 2001

On Skykicking last week, Tim touched, popwise, on the continuing cultural battle over what the eighties were or are or mean or meant. The story of mainstream rock and politics in the 1990s was among other things the story of a similar battle, that ti[…]

Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? The Results, Decade By Decade.

Mike Atkinson — 17 Jun 2010

Finally, the moment of ABSOLUTE POP TRUTH is upon us! And my goodness, what a nail-biter of a contest this has been. Halfway through the voting, two decades broke decisively ahead of the pack, establishing a lead that proved impossible to catch up wi[…]

Call For Submissions: THE LONG EGG

Pete Baran — 18 Aug 2006

The man who invented the Gala Pie is a hero of mine. Not just because he took one of natures nicest foodstuff (namely the pork pie) and made it even better. He made it better by the addition of the hard boiled egg. But not just any old hard boiled eg[…]

Omargeddon #37: El Bien y Mal Nos Une

Bec — 17 Jul 2023

I am making a concerted effort to both seek and recognise joy, in whatever form it takes, as often as possible. As such, I am recognising the shit out of the sheer unmitigated joy experienced at the Mars Volta’s Troxy show and the ripples of yay th[…]

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[…]

Omargeddon #38: Killing Tingled Lifting Retreats

Bec — 11 Sep 2023

Every review I write is a quivering pile of jelly, andwith every ill-informed take, I sling another batch on an ooze mountainwhich is certain to eventually collapse, trapping me in its slimy prison,deafening in a crashing cacophony of colour.I can&#8[…]

The Ultimate Future Shock!!!!!!

Al_Ewing — 31 Oct 2004

 
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SAINT ETIENNE – “Popular”

Tom — 21 May 2012

Saint Etienne – Popular

Huge weepy thanks to Bob, Pete and Sarah for immortalising us in song. And thanks to commenters past and present for making it worth immortalising.[…]