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Dec 19
CHRISTINA AGUILERA – “Beautiful” (12 comments)
My experience of this was always filtered through reading an interview with Perry talking about Xtina's album, Stripped, just before…
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7
Dec 19
RICKY MARTIN – “Livin’ La Vida Loca” (50 comments)
A different side of Ricky: rallying the people of Puerto Rico out on to the streets this summer to…
5
Dec 19
PET SHOP BOYS – “Hey Headmaster” (11 comments)
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Dec 19
KENNY ROGERS – “Lucille” (70 comments)
nobody comes out well in this dreary passive-aggressive narrative - least of all Kenny Rogers or the UK singles buying…
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Dec 19
ROD STEWART – “I Don’t Want To Talk About It”/”The First Cut Is The Deepest” (41 comments)
both of these performances suffer from a surfeit of good taste - top session men and the best arrangers provide…
DENIECE WILLIAMS – “Free” (52 comments)
the full version is as ICG says at #51 "lovely hot bubble bath of a record" - the edited…
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Nov 19
CORNERSHOP – “Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)” (82 comments)
Different brains interpret things differently. If you've got a Sick P1g brain you interpret it as you like women with…
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Nov 19
GIRLS ALOUD – “Sound Of The Underground” (34 comments)
julie "prostitutes should be shot" burchill is not even remotely insightful, brave, wise or well considered in her arguments and…
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Nov 19
BOB THE BUILDER – “Can We Fix It?” (25 comments)
[stork-boy] Well, technically, this was the UK chart-topper when I was born, the Irish chart-topper that week was Eminem…
MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” (147 comments)
Whenever I re-read this particular piece, one phrase leaps out at me: "that long 'home' in the intro". I think…
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Nov 19
Kingsmill Bread Is Rubbish (32 comments)
Where I live the Warbrton deleivery is after midday, it is 50% more than nay other bread, I found…
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Nov 19
MANHATTAN TRANSFER – “Chanson D’Amour” (53 comments)
Youtube has clips of the group performing this on the Old Grey Whistle Test AND on a US variety show…
LEO SAYER – “When I Need You” (28 comments)
I find the arrangement on this performance a little too clinical and precise - Leo gives little hints of emotion…
THE LOVE AFFAIR – “Everlasting Love” (93 comments)
Great video and song I think the Chaplin girl was Austrian but I don’t know who the other lady was…
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Nov 19
THE FLYING PICKETS – “Only You” (47 comments)
This entry is my personal candidate for "most dissonance between tone of the review and final mark". This so doesn't…
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Nov 19
DAVID SOUL – “Don’t Give Up On Us” (45 comments)
as a fan of Starsky and Hutch I was disappointed with how soppy this sounded - it definitely sounds like…
JOHNNY MATHIS – “When A Child Is Born (Soleado)” (47 comments)
not a fan of Christmas schmaltz - give me bleakness or jollity
PUSSYCAT – “Mississippi” (120 comments)
I had no memory of this from the time and would have most likely found it irritating but now quite…
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Nov 19
ELTON JOHN AND KIKI DEE – “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (90 comments)
I tend to enjoy EJ's faster paced songs better than his more 'meaningful' works so I'm more favourably disposed towards…
My Thoughts Big I Just Can’t Define (THE VERVE – “Bitter Sweet Symphony”) (14 comments)
Great piece, Tom - love the different sense of engagement coming from you writing about a culturally dominant #2 rather…