Swing Out Sister – Notgonnachange
Welcome to the club, Swing Out Sister.
Des’ree – Stand On My Own Ground
This is what happens to a pop career when Life gets in the way...
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.
Ingrid Chavez – Heaven Must Be Near
Derek Crook on the poetic pop of Prince protégée Ingrid Chavez. She co-wrote Justify My Love, fact fans.
Thomas Dolby – Silk Pyjamas
You know when you really, really want to like a pop star but you can’t quite get your head around what they’re doing? This was the situation I found myself […]
Suzanne Vega – In Liverpool
In the late summer of 1992 I had just entered my third year at Glasgow University studying English Literature and Medieval History – boy have those come in handy – and […]
Golden – Anglo American
I think one thing I’ve established over the last couple of months is my love for classic English girl voices, and specifically girls who sound like they’ve been plucked from the […]
Cicero with Sylvia Mason-James – Live for Today
In America there is something called the Mason-Dixon line, which essentially marks the cultural border between the North and the South. In Britain – in pop terms – we have […]
Betsy Cook – Love is the Groove
Sometimes, even when you make a really great album, have a bit of a marketing budget, get a modicum of radio play and have a label willing to put out […]
Betty Boo – Hangover
It’s fair to say that in 1993 there weren’t many people clamouring for a Betty Boo country single. Less charitable folk would say there weren’t many people clamouring for […]
Into the Popvoid 