From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism: Popular Music and Australian Culture from the 1960s to 1990s (Australian Cultural Studies)

August 1, 2008 | By Doug In Pop Music |

After all the years, all the hits, all the success, Martina McBride still hadn’t done two things. She hadn’t written songs and she hadn’t headlined an outdoor summer tour. Both get addressed on the Waking Up Laughing tour. For that album, she co Read more..

My colleagues on the books pages concocted a little game of humiliation, which seems to be getting people extremely worked up by requiring them to confess what book they are embarrassed not to have read . It is all to do with a notion of a canon of Read more..

PWEI Product 1986-1994: The Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology
PWEI Product: 1986-1994 brings together the finest moments of the group–and there are many. From the fuzzy guitar-driven beginnings of “Sick Little Girl” and “Monogamy” to the stunning simplicity of “There Is No Love Between Us Anymore” and the infectious romps of “Wise Up Sucker” and “PWEI-zation”, there’s never a dull moment.

Pop Will Eat Itself, along with the Wonder Stuff, were the figureheads of the grebo movement that came straight out of Birmingham in the early 1990s with long hair, brightly coloured clothing and bouncy tunes. And while the Wonder Stuff got a fiddle player and went all serious, the Poppies got a sampler and became even more stupid, while unwittingly being streets ahead of their time.

They toured with Public Enemy and got bottled offstage, sampled and looped all the popular culture they could get their hands on (Blade Runner, football commentaries, Repo Man, Frank Sinatra…) and developed their own stunning graphics and cartoon characters while the Gorillaz were still either in Blur or designing sleeves for grebo also-rans the Senseless Things. –Helen Marquis
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Customer Review: A fine collection, however…
It has perhaps a little too much of the early days in relation to latter day material. That said for new comers it is an ssentil purchase, for fans? maybe. The songs are mostly excellent and as a collection of Pwei songs go it is the strongest to date. Never rub another mans rhubarb.
Customer Review: Essential
Poppies here in all their glory, surely the most underrated act this country has produced, and one that we should be proud of, pop music in its purest (dirtest), most meaningful, non-manufactured form Being a graphic designer I’d like to point out Amazons own reviewers glaring error in claiming the Poppies as the minds behind their fantastic sleeve work which was so a part of making the Poppies image so distinct, it was, to those who dared to care, those lairy northern masters The Designers Republic of Sheffield

Top of the Pops 1993
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Pop Jr Vol.2 [CD + DVD]
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Customer Review: Great fun CD and DVD, the younger kids love it!
I purchased Pop Jnr 2 for my nine year old, she had loved original Pop Jnr but I have found my 6 year old loves it more. Some of the tracks are more for the under 9s. There is a good variety, most of which you find yourself singing along to. The DVD is great to watch as the kids see all their favourites on the screen and sing and dance along with them. It really is one that all the kids will enjoy. When it goes on in my house even my 2 year old is hooked. Also great when they have their friends round.
Customer Review: pop jnr 2 good to share for various ages of children
what a strange mixture but, thankfully only have to sit through one cd instead of one each for my 2 children suitable tracks for both my 1 year old and my nine year old. sadly that stupid crazy frog is on here to drive us parents mad.some tracks are way to “kiddy” for 9 year olds and over