16.   Prince – Gold Quite grand and pompous, but it’s completely mesmerizing, a soft-rock renewal awash with pristine pop shimmers.  ...

  21. Vitamin C - Sex Has Come Between Us / Last Night 10 years too old.  Poor Colleen, she made the best pop princess album of the ...

26. New Order - Regret Neon-lit rueful depression: “have a conversation on the telephone”. It does get like that sometimes. Aching g...

31.  Christina Aguilera - Little Dreamer / Dirrty   The melancholic disco lullaby  Little Dreamer is packed in the same pop no...

The next batch of posts (counting down to number one) originally stemmed from participating in an Ultimate Pop Star countdown on the P...

Deadbeat-chic anthems such as  Boys Better , the top twenty single Not If You Were The last Junkie On Earth , and the exhilarating and ri...

Drenched in decadence and atmospheric eloquence, The Opiates debut album Hollywood Under The Knife marks the legendary singer Billie Ra...

Bitchy, talentless, insincere, superficial, deeply vapid and deeply penetrated, the debut album from Paris Hilton  benefits all such truth...

For me recently on a 4am girls and guitars bender:  Cyndi Lauper  (the fizzy acceleration of Money Changes Everything that doesn't touch...