Brandy Clark – Big Day in a Small Town
Stewart, in addition to being an awful lot pop, is also a little bit country. Here he is on one of the genre's finest, Brandy Clark.
Jagwar Ma – O B 1
Stewart writes about embracing the new, as long as it sounds a bit old.
Diana Ross – Tenderness
Stewart on the Revenge Release: artist left your label for pastures new? Just plunder their back catalogue.
Pet Shop Boys with Kylie Minogue – In Denial
1999: Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue finally get together, create stunningly beautiful song, world shrugs. That's the brutality of pop for you.
Fruits of Passion – Kiss Me Now
In the scramble for limited chart spaces someone always gets left behind - so while their contemporaries raced ahead, Fruits of Passion never really got off the starting blocks. Which is, as we shall see, a massive shame.
Talk Talk – My Foolish Friend
They may have been label-mates with Duran Duran, but while Le Bon and co. jetted off to tropical climes for their videos, Talk Talk got a Super Saver to Halifax. Amazing.
Simple Minds – Love Song
1981 and 1982 - are they the MOST EXCITING years in pop? Spoiler: yes, yes they are.
Cathy Dennis – That is Why You Love Me
Quite how we've got this far without covering one of pop's most successful guiding lights is beyond me, but here she is, finally: the irresistible Cathy Dennis!
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
Australia: REALLY good at pop. We shall be spending more time there...
E’Voke – I Believe
The 90s dance cover version is often enough to make the blood run cold, but this one gets Stewart's pumpin'...
Japan – The Art of Parties
1981. There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?
The Boomtown Rats – Never in a Million Years
No more champagne and the fireworks are through - the holiday season may be over, but Stewart can still spare a thought for a song that was lost in the Christmas rush 34 years ago.
Tom Baxter – My Declaration
Coshed by a Blunt instrument, Tom Baxter's "My Declaration" could find a second life as a winner's song...
La Roux – Let Me Down Gently
Pop abhors a vacuum, so it's a brave person who takes five years to follow up their debut album. Stewart on the bulletproof (but not time-proof) La Roux.
Horse – God’s Home Movie
Stewart on the rather brilliant Horse, regional bias and the inexplicable popularity of Scooter.
Phixx – Relentless
If Into the Popvoid ever creates it’s very own ‘Hall of Fame’ – please Niall, can we have a ‘Hall of Fame’ – my first nomination would go to Roseann […]
John Grant – Glacier
Six months in and it has become fairly clear that here at Into the Popvoid we don’t seem to spend a lot of time talking about boys. Or male pop […]
Claire Hamill – Ultraviolet Light
We’ve already discussed, on numerous occasions, the sad demise of physical singles and bemoaned the loss of their many secondary pleasures. No more ruinously creased ‘giant’ posters folded countless times to […]
Betty Who – Somebody Loves You
This week, a good friend pointed out that I may just be the only person in the UK who even knows that Glee is currently playing out its final few episodes […]
Liberty X – Fresh
The legendary music industry figure Simon Napier-Bell probably knows more about creating popstars than Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Simon Fuller combined. His career as an artist manager started in […]
Tracie – (I Love You) When You Sleep
Building the perfect pop star from scratch has never been easy. Whether it’s some shady Svengali-type exploiting a precocious singing talent they’ve stumbled upon at a holiday camp karaoke competition […]
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