101 Songs

Aah, the big two. Titans of terrible, behemoths of banal. Or are they? Oh, yeah, pretty much, maybe, not really. People ask has th...

Right, I've got an aphorism. Here's my aphorism. I've had a little search and haven't found it elsewhere, so I'm claimin...

Two great songs. I’ve heard both described several times as The Greatest Pop Song Ever. Both were written by the same three people, El...

I was going to write about Madonna anyway, funnily enough, though now everyone’s writing about her because it’s her 60 th birthday. I...

This is called 'Broadstairs and Chapel Down: July 2018'. It's quite long. It's about how the high quality of English wine ...

These comparisons won’t always involve great expertise or indeed superfandom. Neither is hip-hop my natural milieu nor am I completely fam...

And for my next trick … Sometimes, I’ll pit two entities against each other which both have strong arguments and weigh those up, but h...

On my sport blog, I recently did a few “Who/what’s better – A or B” posts. It was fun – it’s obviously reductive and far more subjective w...

Here are my 100 favourite Nick Cave songs, in order. They're by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds unless otherwise stated. People Ain’t ...

Wrote this a while back. Doesn't stop being relevant. This guy ... the king of nothing matters ... UNDIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY This wi...

There's a commonly expressed theory that pop artists, even the most renowned of them, really only have a maximum of ten truly great song...