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Today’s pop quiz has had too much Baileys and is feeling sentimental

Today’s pop quiz is worried about foreigners coming over here stealing our pop songs

Swans a swimming?

Best book of the year by far was Alvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires. Cortez and Moctezuma bicker in the Aztec Emperor’s palace as the Aztec Empire falls. Brilliantly hallucinogenic, anti-Imperialist, and with a surprising appearance from T-Rex. Amazing. Read it, but maybe avoid taking as many drugs as the protagonists, who spend most of … Read more

Today’s quiz is feeling a having a sugar rush from too much Quality Street

Day One of Seven. Each day will feature 8 questions, a total of 56. I have tried to pick as wide a range of music as possible, from different eras and genres so that no-one is disadvantaged by having rubbish taste in music. Peace on earth and goodwill to everyone. Even goths. Today has a … Read more

It’s Chriiiistmas!!

Something is wrong with pop.  I realise that as a mid 50s white man I am not best placed to judge this, but even I can’t avoid spotting that pop music is not in great place. Every year I keep a playlist of my favourite songs, either in iTunes or Spotify.  I like to be … Read more