Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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Oh My! – Dirty Dancer
In: Music Video| New Music
24 Oct 2011GOOD GRIEF.
I don’t even know where to start with this one, because it has everything I’ve ever wanted in a pop record in three minutes and forty seconds of RIDICUAMAZING action.
It’s not just the wonderfully bored sounding spoken word vocals, or the fact that it’s fast enough to entice someone with as little natural grace [...]
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Swimming – Neutron Wireless Crystal
In: Music Video| New Music
20 Oct 2011If I had to be pinned down to my favourite band named after a recreational/sports-based activity – and I’d like to stress that I’m in no way happy about this situation – then I’d probably have to go for the Bitter Fingers favourites Swimming. There’s pretty much no getting them off this blog, in fact [...]
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The top five songs about identifying that woman
In: Music Video| Top Five
15 Oct 2011You know what no-one has ever asked me? Well I’ll tell you. It’s “Mark what are the top five songs about identifying women that have enchanted the protagonist of the aforementioned song in such a way that they feel inclined to sing about it”. Literally no-one has ever asked me that question. But it’s one [...]
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- Tags: David Guetta, Eurythmics, Madonna, Rihanna, robyn, yelle
Alex Winston – Velvet Elvis
In: Music Video| New Music
14 Oct 2011Much earlier this year I threw my not-inconsiderable weight behind Alex Winston due to her having some quite good songs. I am pleased to report that some eight months later the situation is very similar, as pertains to quite good songs at any rate.
Velvet Elvis is out on Monday 17th October, so this seemed as [...]
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I’ve only been back up to the Wilton Way Café to record another triumph of a show for London Fields Radio. And now, dear reader, you can shove it in your ears. It was a lovely day in Hackney, and despite messing up the recording so it was in mono it all went rather well. [...]
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden
In: New Music
5 Oct 2011YES I KNOW IT’S BEEN BLAAHDY AGES but I’ve been on holiday and doing “other stuff” so that’s that. And this is this! “What is this” I hear you cry, and with good reason because thus far this paragraph hasn’t made a tremendous amount of sense. Don’t expect that to change any carriage return soon.
Despite [...]
Boss In Drama – I Don’t Want Money Tonight
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Aug 2011Here’s a thing that’s good – despite looking a bit like a robot butler, Boss In Drama is capable of delivering a rather enjoyable disco-pop jam. I haven’t got anything against robot butlers you understand – it’s just they’re not typically known for their funk-infused melodies and toe-tapping beats. First time for everything, I suppose.
If [...]
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VHS or Beta – Breaking Bones
In: Music Video| New Music
27 Aug 2011It takes a certain amount of gall to put together an indie-dance track that sounds a bit like both Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D and Show Me Love by Robin S, but VHS or Beta have done just that. And good on them for trying.
I mean, it’s not quite as good as [...]
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Who’s released the best song called Magic?
In: Music Video
23 Aug 2011Is it Pilot?
Or is it Ladyhawke?
Well I think we can determine that if you call your song Magic chances are it’s going to be amazing.
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- Tags: Ladyhawke, Pilot
The new Marina and the Diamonds: it’s good news for people who like a donk on it
In: Music Video| New Music
22 Aug 2011It was only a few short weeks ago that I received an email regarding some new material from Marina & The Diamonds. Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I am a bit of a fan of Marina so this was an excellent email for me to get. The track contained inside was [...]
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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