Well there’s this, which is absolutely marvellous (and probably very well known, but sometimes the better known tracks need to be posted). Probably more R&B than plain old hip-hop, but worthy of a place here nonetheless:

“British Standards” reminds me of doing an Engineering degree. Part of the first year course was technical drawing which was great fun, but it was all assessed by a tutor who was a stickler for the British […]

Manics are a bit marmitey on here – but the Holy Bible is a hell of a third album.

Just in case, I’ll put this here…

“Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville, and I’m exposing myself to Coronavirus…”

Em-purr-or Rosko?

The male/female thing is the other way round this year, but next year they should make T “Thorgerson”

Take it you’ve seen the rehearsal footage too?

One of the places I’ve heard quite a few records without the vocal (although I suspect they’re just mixes of the instrumental parts of each song rather than a complete recorded version) is on the goal packages on […]

Pop fact – Shirley Bassey sang the theme to Moonraker, but it was originally offered to Johnny Mathis (and was written with Frank Sinatra in mind). As terrific a voice as the WACIBHM has (and certainly had) I’m […]

I think the difference is you can cook a Fray Bentos pie from when the oven is cold. For a Frey Bentos you have to wait till the Heat is On.

How about a discussion of the best detective dramas – a plodcast? Or the works of the great Derek Griffiths- a Bodcast?

A podcast on podcasts would be excellent – there are so many out there (I listen to 4 or 5 regularly and that’s about all I can manage!) that it can be overwhelming.

I’ve just started listening to one of the AW […]

Is it a new phenomenon though? The cover below popped up on a 1988 TOTP I watched the other day, and it’s as limp and uninspiring as any of the stuff JL use on their Christmas adverts. Bomb the Bass have done […]

That’s the second thing I’ve seen in as many days that can be sung to the music from “Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles”. There’s a Twitter feed that sends these out from Wikipedia…

As an avid Popmaster listener, there are a few on here that often come either between rounds or afterwards – at a music quiz I took part in recently, there was actually a round of “Records that Ken Bruce plays […]

Ted Nugent probably divides opinion a bit, but High Enough is an absolute joy – great shout. Some years back there was an infomercial on one of the cable channels for Time Life’s “Ultimate Rock Ballads” presented […]

dinnerladies

Bren: Remain
Tony: Remain
Jean: Remain (to wind up Dolly)
Dolly: Leave (it was in the Daily Mail…)
Anita: Remain
Twinkle: Couldn’t be arsed to vote
Stan: Leave
Philippa: Remain
Bread Man: Remain – […]

Sticking with Christmas adverts, I’ve listened to REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight this Feeling” a couple of times since seeing the new JL advert – it’s a mighty decent chunk of AOR (or is it MOR – never sure of the […]

This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us.

Yes it is, it’s Crawley, and there must be 100,000 other people here.