Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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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!
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
The top five eponymous songs
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21 Mar 2011Earlier today I was listening to the very-good-at-being-a-DJ type Andrew Collins on 6 Music, who played my joint Talk Talk by Talk Talk. It then led me to think I should totally make a list of the top five eponymous songs, which I posited on Twitter.
As no-one has as yet been able to burst into [...]
The top five most cruelly overlooked popstrels
In: Music Video| Top Five
10 Feb 2011As is my wont, I have been watching music videos on the YouTube. There’s quite a lot on there, and many of them contain outstanding pop songs by young women (the titular popstrels) who in recent years have been somewhat overlooked despite their catchy tunes and pop sensibilities.
I aim to put that right (sort of) [...]
The top five uses of “hey” in popular song
In: Music Video| Top Five
24 Jan 2011Earlier tonight I tweeted the above missive, in a bid to collate the best uses of “hey” in popular song.
I asked this because when you hear a “hey” in a song, it is an indicator that you are about to hear an excellent song – record producers know this, and that is why you do [...]
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- Tags: Art of Noise, Hey, Pixies, Popular song, Rachel Stevens, Swirl 360, The Fall
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.
- 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?? [...]
- Gareth: In fact there's so much magic involved I got the title a bit wrong. [...]
- 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
- 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
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