Get dressed! You’re about to be blessed with the best of the rest…in a vest…etc… Most Controversial Review JLS – ‘The Club Is Alive’ Y’know, I still don’t really get what all the fuss was about with liking this song. It’s clearly...
The ChartBlog Awards – Part 1
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As promised, here’s a brief stone-skip over some of the better moments of ChartBlog’s four years of glory. Some of these have been nominated by ChartBlog readers on Twitter. Feel free to nominate your own in the usual place. ================================ Most Ridiculous Froth-On The Ting Tings – ‘That’s Not My Name’ The best song to have been released in ChartBlog’s lifetime. Yes it is. Yes it is. Key Quote: “Stop all the clocks. Everybody put your guitars, synths, drum machines and microphones down. There’s no need to put any more music out in 2008, the race to have the Most...
End of a ChartBlog
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Hello, I have some news. Over the last four years, it has been my privilege to write daft stuff about songs; songs which have been in the charts, songs which should have been in the charts, and songs which happily fell short of going into the charts. It has been the most fun job I’ve...
Everything Everything – ‘Photoshop Handsome’
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Look, let’s not mess about. The choice is very clear. Do we want pop music to be thrilling and odd and devious and brainy and joyful and brilliant, or do we want it to be familiar and acceptable and formulaic and stupid and ignorable and…just…THERE as a kind of aural emulsion? Cos I think we all want the former, and if that’s the case, there’s a few things we need to get sorted. First, when astonishing pop songs come along, we need to make sure they are treated as the precious things they really are, shown a lot of love, bought, taken to the top table of the charts, and handed the keys to the executive...
Adele Rolling In The...
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For someone who is straightforwardly, transparently, a massive talent, Adele’s records aren’t half troublesome at times. Her earliest successes seemed to come coated in a thick layer of brushed-on egg-yolk production (or, more accurately in the case of ‘Chasing...