Pop – Rocknerd

Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (1984).

10 May, 202411 May, 2024 Dance, Pop, Record 0

It was never going to be easy to live up to that earthshattering series of singles, but I should not be thinking “yes, yes, get on with it.”

Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Flaunt It. The most mid album of 1986.

14 September, 20235 November, 2023 Pop, Record 0

These were not very bright guys, and things kept failing to get out of hand.

Notes and Reflections: Lana Del Rey

16 May, 202316 May, 2023 Opinion, Pop, Record 0

There were eight whole records to listen to. Eight!

Spray: The Big Idea will rock and change the world. Ricardo Autobahn interviewed.

11 May, 202314 May, 2023 Interview, Pop, Record 0

“If there’s one thing Spray are excellent at, it’s our drum fills. If there’s one thing we should be remembered for, I’d like it to be the drum fills.”

It’s gonna play all the records in the hit parade, and they’re all Morgan Wallen.

18 March, 202317 April, 2023 Country, Opinion, Pop, Record 0

I hadn’t expected listening to the hit parade to feed me an album review.

Braddock Station Garrison: American Radio (2019).

4 March, 20234 March, 2023 Pop, Record, Rock 0

It made friends with me within the first three chords of “Blockbuster.”

B.E.F.: Music For Stowaways (1981).

7 February, 20237 February, 2023 Pop, Record 0

A fun listen if you know who Marsh and Ware are, and it gives you a good idea of how they were thinking.

Farewell: Panic! at the Disco, 2004-2023

27 January, 202323 July, 2023 Opinion, Pop 0

Nineteen years isn’t a bad run, for a baby band that blew up and then fell apart several times along the way.

Sometimes I just want to listen to R.E.M.

25 January, 202323 July, 2023 Opinion, Pop, Rock 0

I like to put an R.E.M. mix on while I’m baking. But only the ones that include Man on the Moon.

Video: Fall Out Boy: Love from the Other Side (2022).

20 January, 202320 January, 2023 Pop, Record 0

Fall Out Boy have once again regenerated. I’m not going to say they’re back, because they didn’t leave.

Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.

14 January, 202314 January, 2023 Industry, Pop 3

You’ve never heard of current pop stars because they aren’t actually popular in mainstream culture.

Mixtape: Songs for 2022

3 January, 20233 January, 2023 Country, Indie, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Some of these are old. Some of them are new(ish). They are all songs I listened to, with varying levels of obsessiveness, at various times during 2022.

RM: Indigo (2022).

29 December, 202230 December, 2022 Pop, Record 0

Indigo is RM’s first full solo record, released as BTS starts a brief compulsory-military-service induced break.

Records: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).

2 November, 20214 November, 2021 Industrial, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Old industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.

21 Faces: Red Hearts (1985).

3 September, 20217 September, 2021 Indie, Pop, Record 1

Well, this is an obscurity I never expected to hear online.

Records: Slow Down Molasses (2021), Shriekback (1989).

8 July, 202112 July, 2021 Dance, Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Also: the Terminator comedy dick puppet remix technique.

The Hummingbirds: loveBUZZ (1989).

1 May, 202112 July, 2021 Indie, Pop, Record 3

loveBUZZ is classic indie pop, and few are disappointed. But the story behind rooArt is a great saga.

Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.

19 September, 202025 September, 2020 Industry, Pop 0

The black hit of space.

Tears for Fears, Rule The World: Greatest Hits (2017)

9 September, 20199 September, 2019 Pop, Record 0

This eighteen-month late review of Tears for Fears latest compilation, released in November 2017, absolutely has to be done, for reasons of aesthetic duty if nothing else.

The Cure, Disintegration 30 Years Anniversary, Sydney Opera House, May 2019

9 September, 20199 September, 2019 Live, Pop, Post-Punk 0

Disintegration’s popularity is absolutely deserving of a 30th anniversary and real credit is given to the band for having the courage and principle to have the entire show live-streamed and added to YouTube.