tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post1810486471007053441..comments2023-12-30T11:04:22.503-05:00Comments on Art Decade: Emmetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887578369365842959noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-44298883054246539442012-11-23T01:22:00.112-05:002012-11-23T01:22:00.112-05:00Tom Ewing's Popular blog in which he's rev...Tom Ewing's Popular blog in which he's reviewing in order every UK #1 single from the inception of official charts in 1952 is here:<br /><br /><a href="http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/" rel="nofollow">http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/</a><br /><br />The index of his reviews and scores is <a href="http://freakytrigger.co.uk/populist/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. (I think I first ran across Tom's fantastic reviews of Dancing Queen and of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights - some of his rare 10/10 scorers.) Tom's up to 1994, but has run out of gas a bit lately (and has young kids); posts used to happen roughly weekly but for the last few months things have been barely monthly, which has cooled off the sense of community at his site. <br /><br />I should also mention that Tom used to write the Poptimist column for Pitchfork, e.g., <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/7933-poptimist-36/" rel="nofollow">this one</a> which I thought managed deeper thoughts about Facebook etc. <i>in passing</i> than The Social Network managed in an entire film.plaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079889317620618164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-90585948085935934512012-11-22T06:59:21.670-05:002012-11-22T06:59:21.670-05:00Hey Plague, great call, it does sound like Pocket ...Hey Plague, great call, it does sound like Pocket Calculator (a song I didn't know before). Thx for the insight.<br /><br />BTW, can you send a link to the "Popular" blog you mentioned?emmettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-54560744748061611802012-11-21T03:47:58.021-05:002012-11-21T03:47:58.021-05:00There's a bit of Kraftwerk's Pocket Calcul...There's a bit of Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator in the anti-social synth break and elsewhere in this track, and something else that kin of looks forward to 1987 House. Fun stuff in other words that nonetheless didn't stand a chance in 1985, when big big sounds from Hounds of Love to Everyone Wants to Rule the World to Papa Don't Preach were killing it. Thanks for posting.plaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079889317620618164noreply@blogger.com