Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
Archive for the ‘30 Days of Music’ Category
08 A Song That You Know All The Words To
7 Apr 201030 Days of Music: 08 A Song That You Know All The Words To
Beastie Boys – Intergalactic (Youtube, audio only)
When I was fifteen, I had a bit of an obsession with the Beastie Boys, caused entirely by this song. Maybe it’s the robot voice repeating the same two words over and over, a tactic used [...]
30 Days of Music: 07 A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event
Hard-Fi – Tied Up Too Tight (Youtube)
In 2005, I worked part-time for a building society.
In July 2005, I was doing some extra shifts while university was broken up.
On 7th July 2005, I was working on the counter.
I had one link to the [...]
06 A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere
5 Apr 201030 Days of Music: 06 A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere
Magnetic Fields – Too Drunk To Dream (Youtube, audio only)
I suppose a bus technically is a somewhere.
Between October 2007 and February 2008, I was living in Bristol but working in Bath, which meant an hour bus ride back and forth every day in the [...]
30 Days of Music: The First Five
4 Apr 2010It’s music meme time! Of course it is. I’ve been doing this on my Twitter but realised my blog was probably a better place. I’ve already done the first five, so I’ll collate them here and then we’ll start in earnest with the rest.
Essentially it’s a posting thirty songs for thirty different moods, feelings, memories. [...]
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.
- Owen Duff: As a musician I totally understand her desire to keep within the concept of the album, and to be fai [...]
- anmari: I remember Cheggers Plays Pop, and 1984 - can't remember the 'biggest star of 1984' though? [...]
- Gabi: Gosh, I loved this post. I t really made me LOL. Brilliant!!! (from a Wham!/GM fan!). [...]
- 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?? [...]
- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 19: Fresh Jams
- The thing about Marina and the Diamonds, right
- In a rare non-George Michael related post, here’s Amanda Mair
- Hey so this new Kavinsky track is pretty choice
- “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
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