Tag: Pop music
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Hard Ton Cover useless Man
Minty – the infamous Leigh Bowery with Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman, and Matthew Glammore seem to sadly have become a footnote in pop’s history. Well I say pop, but Useless Man is a great if rather rude very radio-unfriendly track, but definitely a part of queer history. It’s a mutated freak Pepsi commercial, one from…
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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John Peel Is Not Enough
It’s 15 years since the sad death of John Peel – I think music is still reeling from that one, I know radio and support for independent music definitely is. And also 15 years since the idea for this podcast and blog started, since his death inspired me to start it in desperation about who…
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RC 301: Evil Twin (Brexit Edition)
A Dastardly Duet in this Mirror Dimension, a Terrible Tango between RC 300 and 301. Nearly every track refers to the other but this is the Evil Twin to the upbeat Mirror Universe. Lightweight subjects from the mosque shootings to Brexit and paedophilia (Look What You’ve Done!) to music critical of this Brexitverse and that…
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Hit Me Shakespeare One More Time (A Celebration)
I don’t usually post TED Talks, but I’ll make an exception for this talk on repetition and music by Colin Morris who is a data scientist and educator based in Toronto with a Master’s in Computational Linguistics. I love how he uses quite disparate techniques to prove that yes, pop music is getting simpler and…