Niall McMurray – Page 4 – Into the Popvoid

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.

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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.

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.