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’24 Candles
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— 21 Dec 2024 Tom 8 comments

Last year I wrote up some trends in the way British people listen to Christmas music now – as expressed via the medium of the streaming-era Christmas charts, which offer a fairly accurate barometer of passive festive listening.

So what happe[…]

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UncoolTwo50 V: That Sounds Like Something Out Of A Dream
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— 22 Nov 2024 Tom 3 comments

The UncoolTwo50 is over – well, the voting phase is – but the posting continues. These are the final 10 near-misses.

60. PUBLIC ENEMY – “By The Time I Get To Arizona” (1991)

I learned too late that this record is NOT[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XV: Then I Felt Just Like A Fiend
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— 13 Nov 2024 Tom 1 comment

23. MYLENE FARMER – “Libertine” (1985)

Events overtook me – they overtook everyone – and two weeks ago, when I posted this song to Bluesky, seems a very long time indeed. I’ll try to reconstruct this ancient era.

W[…]

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UncoolTwo50 IV: Through The Speaker Boxes, Loud’s My Diagnosis
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— 4 Nov 2024 Tom 1 comment

Re-rewind! Pausing midway through the main blurbs to go back and fill in another 10 of the nearly-made-its…

70. ORLANDO – “Just For A Second” (1996)

We’re now into the section of tracks which had a real, honest-to-goodne[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XIV: You’re All Fakes Run To Your Mansions
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— 2 Nov 2024 Tom 4 comments

27. THE WATERBOYS – “Church Not Made With Hands” (1984)

This feels, to me anyway, like my most idiosyncratic choice – a 1984 single that’s very very much in their “The Big Music” phase, which is neither an ethos or a so[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XIII: We Are Far Too Young And Clever
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— 29 Oct 2024 Tom Comment

31. ERIC B AND RAKIM – “Paid In Full” (1987)

It’s been heartening to see a lot of people picking this, though opinion has been fairly evenly split as to whether the original album cut or the Coldcut “7 Minutes Of Madness” rem[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XII: Run Around And Groove Like A Baggy
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— 25 Oct 2024 Tom 3 comments

35. HAPPY MONDAYS – “Kinky Afro” (1990)

At the suggestion of Bluesky’s own Jel I have been allotting each song in my UncoolTwo50 list a BAGGY RATING, indicating how they align with the most important (to me) micro-scene of my tee[…]

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UncoolTwo50 XI: That’s The Way It Goes, I Guess
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— 24 Oct 2024 Tom 2 comments

39. THE KLF – “Last Train To Trancentral” (1991)

I think the mystique of the KLF had probably gone about as far as it could – once you have a full length book treating the group as essentially a magical working you’re runni[…]

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UncoolTwo50 X: If Your Speaker’s Weak Then Please Turn It Off
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— 19 Oct 2024 Tom 1 comment

42. SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – “Cities In Dust” (1986)

One of the best singles artists of the early 80s – “Fireworks”, “Melt”, “Slowdive”, “Swimming Horses”, “Spellbound”. Like a lot of great sing[…]

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UncoolTwo50 IX: Crown The First Girl That I Meet
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— 16 Oct 2024 Tom Comment

45. PRINCE – “Alphabet St” (1988)

In the pop polls, Prince was nominated well over 30 times, something no other artist came near. He won one poll – LP closers, with “Purple Rain” – and came second in Soundtracks ([…]

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