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TELETUBBIES – "Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!"
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Popular: #778, 13th December 1997
— 7 April 2014 Tom 68 comments

My main point last entry was that “Perfect Day” saw the BBC applying its gift for pop spectacle to the demands of a more curatorial time. This would become – on broadcast TV particularly – an era of tighter demographics and multiplying ni[…]

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VARIOUS ARTISTS – "Perfect Day"
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Popular: #777, 29th November 1997
— 4 April 2014 Tom 95 comments

Charity covers as multi-artist jigsaw puzzles were a whiskery idea by this point, so it’s remarkable how startling and beguiling “Perfect Day” sounds. It’s a successful reinvention of the Band Aid concept that also more or less finishes it of[…]

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AQUA – "Barbie Girl"
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Popular: #776, 1st November 1997
— 1 April 2014 Tom 76 comments

Branding, unsurprisingly, started with cows. When it moved from livestock to consumer goods, it expanded from a mark of ownership to a mark of consistency, but also of quality. As Andy Warhol put it in 1965, “All the Cokes are the same and all the […]

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