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A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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“David Austin, the biggest star of 1984″
9 Jan 2012There are a number of things about this video that are excellent. Let’s go through them, together, like we used to. Like a family.
This video is taken from Cheggers Plays Pops. Never mind sodding Top Of The Pops, when are we going to get a complete re-run of all the tapes of that? Just think [...]
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- Tags: David Austin, George Michael, Wham!
The top five songs by Wham!
In: Music Video| Top Five
6 Jan 2012In a move that was as inevitable as it is unnecessary, I’ve decided that it’s about time I did a “blog post” featuring my five favourite songs by the popular beat combo that was Wham! and you can read it by running your eyeline across this sentence and all subsequent ones.
The thing about Wham! right, [...]
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- Tags: Wham!
Azealia Banks – 212
In: Music Video| New Music
5 Jan 2012In news that may well shock you, I was slightly off the pace when it came to Azealia Banks (I think I was listening to some Human League b-sides), but after hearing a heavily – and I mean heavily – edited version of 212 on the wireless yesterday it has infected my head.
She’s come third [...]
YES I KNOW I SHOULD HAVE PUT THIS UP IN 2011 but I had some very important Christmas dinner to be eating/wine to be drinking/merry making to be making merrily. And it’s here now so don’t go getting shirty with me – there are more rad jams in here than any one person can really [...]
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- Tags: Alice Gold, AlunaGeorge, Big Black Delta, British Sea Power, Foster The People, friendly fires, Joe Goddard, Kreayshawn, London Fields Radio, M83, Marina & The Diamonds, Metronomy, Pete & The Pirates, SBTRKT, Summer Camp, The Death Set, The Sound Of Arrows, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Valentina, Wilton Way Café
I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO SELENA GOMEZ
In: Music Video
31 Dec 2011It’s a bit of a shame that I didn’t discover this song until it appeared on every other bugger’s Best Of The Year list, but now I’ve found it’s all gone a bit mental as per my midi hifi. I can’t stop listening to the bloody thing.
CONGRATUWELLDONE, SEL
The top five music videos where they’re driving a car, for some reason
In: Uncategorized
10 Dec 2011Making a pop video! It’s a tricky old business. Not only have you got to look like you’re having a good time, or a thoroughly rotten time, or displaying some sort of emotion at any rate, but you also have to deal with “directors” and “producers” who seem to think that aside from miming your [...]
We Show Up On Radar is the work of your man Andrew Wright, who in addition to being a stand up type of gentleman is also an excellent musician. When he’s not having tremendous fun on his own, you can also find him making noise in the pop band Swimming of whom I’m rather fond.
I’ll [...]
Well it bears repeating, at any rate.
Frankly their album Voyage is one of the better ones of the year, containing as it does synth-driven pop jams, of which Wonders (the video you can and should watch above) is just one.
ALL VERY SATISFACTORY
Fred Falke – Aurora
In: New Music
14 Nov 2011If you’re the sort of person who likes the odd massive tune or two, Fred Falke is a chap that’s almost certainly on your radar. I featured his really rather outstanding remix of Teenage Bad Girl’s latest jam X Girl on the most recent edition of Bitter Fingers Radio, he’s done some top stuff under [...]
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Jessica 6 – Prisoner Of Love
In: Music Video| New Music
26 Oct 2011Now here’s a jam that’s been kicking about a while – when I was working on the very lovely Lauren Laverne show at 6 Music back in May we gave it away as a lovely free download. Fortunately it’s as lovely now as it was then.
Things start well with a particularly healthy donk, setting the [...]
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- Tags: Antony Hegarty, Jessica 6
Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.
- Peter: My favourite is M.A.G.I.C. by The Sound of Arrow. Makes feel like a child again. http://www.youtube. [...]
- Grace: What about Nick Drake?? [...]
- Gareth: In fact there's so much magic involved I got the title a bit wrong. [...]
- Gareth: It's a Kind of Magic is the best song about magic. [...]
- The Internet Garbage: I like this! It's really good - definitely a "Saturday morning jam" as you say. And the video is fun [...]
- “David Austin, the biggest star of 1984″
- The top five songs by Wham!
- Azealia Banks – 212
- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 18: Quite Good Songs Of The Year
- I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO SELENA GOMEZ
- The top five music videos where they’re driving a car, for some reason
- I rather like We Show Up On Radar and here’s a song of his
- I’ve mentioned that I quite like The Sound Of Arrows before right
- Fred Falke – Aurora
- Jessica 6 – Prisoner Of Love
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