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Popular '73
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I give each song on Popular a mark out of 10. In this poll, you should pick any YOU would have given 6 or more to from the 1973 number ones. As many as you like!

Which of these Number One[…]

SLADE – "Merry Xmas Everybody"
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I had thought I might have to write about it in that tiny sliver of summer we had this year, but turns out I come to it at the end of September – a proper September, as Robin Carmody put it on his blog: crispness in the air, conkers on the ground a[…]

GARY GLITTER – "I Love You Love Me Love"
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Glitter halves the pace for what by his standards is a ballad. Surprisingly it’s still effective, less rabble-rousing but more anthemic – assuming you can turn off your hindsight detectors long enough to get past “So here we are a[…]

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  1. Yeah but. It was of it’s time, we loved it at the time, and perhaps most key of all, they’ve…

  2. Thankfully one of the quite-a-few records of 20+ years ago that I have yet to hear on any of the…

  3. I doubt Noel was stockpiling the "best" songs for his solo career, the last two albums had a record low…