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CRAZY FROG – “Axel F”
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Popular: #1012, 4th June 2005
— 25 April 2025 Tom 23 comments

In 2004 I took on the worst project of my professional life; worst in the sense that it was miserable and time-consuming and also in the sense that I did it very badly. A certain mobile phone company wanted to know what their rivals were doing online[…]

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OASIS – “Lyla”
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Popular: #1011, 28th May 2005
— 14 April 2025 Tom 24 comments

The long twilight of Oasis is reaching its end, at least in Popular terms. The 00s took them from the kings of English rock to a drab fixture and finally a running joke, bigmouths promising a return to form which never comes. This is almost the last […]

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AKON – “Lonely”
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Popular: #1010, 14th May 2005
— 4 April 2025 Tom 14 comments

This is going to be one of those annoying reviews which takes the billion-view signature hit of a highly successful artist and picks away at production choices which – objectively! – have been extremely successful. “Lonely” is not a o[…]

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

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