Thursday, October 02, 2003
Two young Hercules have combined their efforts to tame the twin pythons of pop music in the U.S. and U.K.
Michael Daddino of Land of a Thousand Dances has begun a project of writing about every single number one song in America since January 1, 1950.
Sunday, September 28, 2003
Eileen Barton, "If I Knew You Were Comin' (I'd've Baked a Cake)"
"Sometimes I think I know how Adorno must've felt when he was exiled in America."
x x x x x x
Meantime, across the pond, not a spontaneous invention but a creative agreement to share in this Herculean effort, Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger promises to review "The UK's 950+ Number One Hits ... in order, irregularly, for as long as I can bear to keep doing it. A history of pop in the shape of a chart." (Beginning with November of 1952, when number one position were first based on record sales rather than sheet music sales.)
(wave of the tip sheet to scott at rockcritics daily)
¶ 10/02/2003 08:15:00 AM
Michael Daddino of Land of a Thousand Dances has begun a project of writing about every single number one song in America since January 1, 1950.
Sunday, September 28, 2003
Eileen Barton, "If I Knew You Were Comin' (I'd've Baked a Cake)"
"Sometimes I think I know how Adorno must've felt when he was exiled in America."
x x x x x x
Meantime, across the pond, not a spontaneous invention but a creative agreement to share in this Herculean effort, Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger promises to review "The UK's 950+ Number One Hits ... in order, irregularly, for as long as I can bear to keep doing it. A history of pop in the shape of a chart." (Beginning with November of 1952, when number one position were first based on record sales rather than sheet music sales.)
(wave of the tip sheet to scott at rockcritics daily)
¶ 10/02/2003 08:15:00 AM
