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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 24: RACHEL STEVENS – Some Girls
When the Sugababes shed Keisha a few weeks ago, I was a bit worried for the catty one. Not cos she can’t look after herself, and not because she’ll be poor. But rather because the old idea that you...
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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 23: Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
There are 15 cover versions of Wuthering Heights on Spotify. They are all here in this playlist. Since Tom has covered everything I could say about the original here, I thought I’d look at these...
View ArticleThe FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 22, Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us...
There’s a song on the radio, a catchy ear-worm of a song, and it’s been on the radio a lot now that you mention it. It drags you in, “now listen to my words” it commands. How might you react? Reaction...
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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time #20: Chic – Good Times
What exactly are good times, according to Chic? The lyrics refer to jitterbugging being involved, but it’s hard to believe many people on the dancefloor actually jitterbug to it (past tense of...
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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time #19: Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
There really isn’t much to add about Billie Jean that wasn’t mentioned in Tom’s excellent piece for Popular, or indeed in this Freaky Trigger & The Lollards Of Pop episode where we heard Jackson’s...
View ArticleThe FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time #18: The AlkoholiKs Only When I’m Drunk
The AlkoholiKs Only When I’m Drunk, a review by Alix I liked this song in 2003 or sometime in the past when this list was compiled and I was mostly drunk. I do not look back on this period in my life...
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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 17: The Ronettes – Be My Baby
Be My Baby always existed. Clearly to me it always existed, it is ten years older than me. But there is something about Be My Baby which feels like it always existed, its has the primal chord, the...
View ArticleThe Freaky Trigger Top 100 Songs Of All Time No.16: EAST 17 –“House Of Love”
I’ll tell you what pop’s missing at the moment and that’s rivalries. Not feuds, we have plenty of feuds, there’s a feud a day on Twitter I think. Feuds are great but the emphasis is on the stars...
View ArticleThe Freaky Trigger Top 100 Songs Of All Time No.15: THE FUTUREHEADS – “The...
There are a number of songs on this list that, in the cold light of day* it has been hard to find someone who will champion enough to write about it. One even got booted off of the list for that...
View ArticleThe Freaky Trigger Top 100 Songs Of All Time No.14: SHIRLEY BASSEY “Goldfinger”
Goldfinger by Ash is a bit of a dirge, and amlost certainly one of those songs named because somewhere along the line it sounded to someone somewhere a bit like Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey. Its...
View ArticleFT Top 100 Songs Of All Time #13: Busted- Air Hostess
We’re big fans of Busted here at FreakyTrigger; speculative futurism, analysis of authority in the education system, asking people to dance at the disco and Thunderbirds are all highly relevant to our...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #11: MR OIZO –“Flat Beat”
Any 13-year-old from 1995 will tell you that the following are vital if you are to be in any way cool: - attitude of complete indifference to all events - inside-out knowledge of everything that...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #10: West Side Story OBC –“America”
Poor Rosalia, the only Puerto Rican in West Side Story who seems to actually like Puerto Rico. In contrast to Maria, who prances around the bridal shop pretending to be Miss America (despite the...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #9: Uptown Top Ranking – Althea & Donna
What to say about this reggae supersmash not already said by Tom, and the army of comment crew enthusiast over on Popular. Ever angle of this amazing one hit wonder has been touched up, a worthy ten...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #7: Little Fluffy Clouds – The Orb
“What were the skies like when you were young?” I think everyone hears a record in their youth which suddenly reveals a whole new world of possibilities. It could be a three minute punk song, where...
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THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No.6: Eartha Kitt’s “Just an Old Fashioned...
Some time in the mid-70s, I went on a school trip to the Ludlow Festival, to see (I think) Cymbeline: six kids crammed in the back of a teacher’s little van, five in their late teens actually studying...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #4: Madonna -”Like A Prayer”
Tom wrote about this on Popular here: so here is a project ending couple of thoughts. “Life is a mystery”. But Madonna doesn’t mean a mystery like the kind Sherlock solves three times a year, or even...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #3: Shaggy – Boombastic
Its usage in the pinnacle of BBC light entertainment aside – what a record this is! The drum intro is played on the side of a rusty water tank. The noisy brass squawks like Pingu angrily trying to shoo...
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The FT Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 26: The Human League – Open Your Heart
We are all the Human League. WE WISH! If there was a band that, given a few early synths that we would want to be, it would be the League. How hard can it be, a few simple melodies and semi-portentous...
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NARNIA WEEK / The FT Top 100 Songs: 12: MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
It is serendipitous (in the non Cusack / Beckinsale way) that U Can’t Touch This has turned up in the dying throes of Narnia week. Because MC Hammer’s most well known hit has a surprisingly large...
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The FT Top 100 Songs of All Time #8: Dexy’s Midnight Runners – There, There,...
It feels a bit wrong, me being the one to write about Dexy’s. I have friends who are much much bigger fans, I have already written about the other Dexy’s track on this list – Come On Eileen. And for a...
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The FT Top 100 Songs Of All Time #2: THE TRAMMPS –“Disco Inferno”
A disco track is second on this list because – Rock Hall of Fame shenanigans notwithstanding – disco is almost universally beloved. If you’re a wedding DJ in a tricky spot, the late 70s will not let...
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The FT Top 100 Songs Of All Time #1: PET SHOP BOYS –“Always On My Mind/In My...
The intro: 00’00 – 00’39 In December 1987 the Pet Shop Boys released “Always On My Mind”, a cover of the song made famous by Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson. It became the Christmas Number One that...
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