Peach – On My Own
Hooked on classics: charting pop music's use of Symphony No.5 by Jean Sibelius. Wait, come back!
The Blue Nile – Headlights on the Parade
Niall on the 'Nile. It had to happen eventually.
Liza Minnelli – So Sorry, I Said
It's 1989 and Liza Minnelli issues an apology.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No More
Pop stars: leading more interesting lives than you and I since, well, forever.
Five Star – There’s a Brand New World
1988, and Five Star become a Leather Proposition.
Karen Ramirez – Troubled Girl
I have a terrible track record when it comes to predicting the Next Big Thing. Karen Ramirez was my pick for 1998, and it didn't turn out very well.
Birdie – Folk Singer
Summer is coming.
Billy Joel – Code of Silence
Billy Joel ropes in Cyndi Lauper for a bit of help on this anthem for the emotionally repressed. AMAZING.
Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra – Deep in Vogue
An extravaganza.
Jakie Quartz – À la vie à l’amour
We now return to the bottomless well that is Atmospheric French Pop.
Des’ree – Stand On My Own Ground
This is what happens to a pop career when Life gets in the way...
Dame Shirley Bassey – After the Rain
Very few people would make you wait fifty years for their best record. But that's exactly what Dame Shirley Bassey did.
Alphaville – Forever Young
First there was the Power Ballad. And then, thanks to Alphaville, came the NUCLEAR POWER BALLAD.
Mint Juleps – Docklands
Girl Power, a decade early: it's the brilliant Mint Juleps.
2015 Into the Popvoid Year End Top 40
It's the ITP countdown of the year. Hooray!
St. Lucia – Dancing on Glass
Behold! Into the Popvoid's Single of the Year for 2015: the very wonderful St. Lucia and the amazing "Dancing on Glass".
The Divine Comedy – Our Mutual Friend
We've all woken up in a stranger's bed with a sense of deep shame. Only The Divine Comedy would dare set that to an orchestra.
Kermit the Frog – One More Sleep ’til Christmas
I briefly considered adding a category of "Frog Solo" for this post, but it's a fairly small genre to be honest. Here's Kermit with one of the best Christmas songs EVER.
Mew – She Came Home For Christmas
Disturbing talk of blindfolds! Family trauma! CHIME-Y BITS! It's a Mew Christmas... *books flight to Denmark*
Miss Lily Banquette – My Secret Love
Gosh, "You Don't Own Me" is everywhere right now isn't it? Therefore it's the perfect time for Into the Popvoid to salute Lesley Gore, writer of this fabulous, heartbreaking and revealing melodramatic masterpiece.
Low – Just Like Christmas
Christmas time is here -and there's no better way to kick it off than with a faintly depressing song about snowfall not amounting to very much. The gorgeous, timeless and plain brilliant Just Like Christmas by Low.
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