Howdy! Firstly before we start a quick Happy Easter to you all. Secondly - time for this week's Pop Essays, as we revisit another lost gem of a track from the mists of pop time. This week: one of the greatest songs you've probably never heard by the greatest pop production team of the 00s... … Continue reading Pop Essays #13: Frank, ‘Never Left A Girl’
ARTIST: Capulets SONG: Community Centre SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Now, usually how it works in pop is this: person joins band, band release a few records, maybe they play live a bit, do some other amazing stuff and become fairly brilliant, band ends or takes a break, person from … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Capulets – ‘Community Centre’
ARTIST: Paige Cavell SONG: Predators and Monsters SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's not unfair to say that opinion has been sharply divided in the pop debating chamber in recent months. Chiefly, have pop production titans Xenomania still got it? Case for the prosecution lies with Brian Higgins and co's … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Paige Cavell – ‘Predators and Monsters’
ARTIST: Nadine Coyle SONG: Girls on Fire SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Next month will be five years since Girls Aloud - but let's be honest, mainly Cheryl, Kimberley and Nicola - finished their 10th anniversary tour, and then promptly split up one of British pop's greatest acts of a … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Nadine Coyle – ‘Girls on Fire’
ARTIST: Pet Shop Boys SONG: The Loving Kind (Monitor Mix) SO, ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? I hear you loud and clearly, those that are reading the title of this week's song and thinking 'Hang on a minute - haven't we been here before?' Because you're...well. You're sort of right. I … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Pet Shop Boys – ‘The Loving Kind (Monitor Mix)’
