2026-09-18 18:48 UTC
"The facts of life" - Black Box Recorder
Good song on Good Friday shocker!
Sara Nixey is on vocals, with Luke Haines from The Auteurs, and John Moore from The Jesus & Mary Chain on guitars. Luke's always made unsettling music: sweet sounds coupled to perverse or violent lyrics.
Here, a cut-glass voice trills over an Air-esque backing track, and sing-speaks about adolescent sexual awakenings. It's like an anglophone version of Serge Gainsbourg.
Loved by Mark Radcliffe, and a bit of a lost classic.
#TOTP #BlackBoxRecorder
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@daweaver@mas.to 2026-09-18 18:57
"Toca's miracle" - Fragma Following in the footsteps of Cliff Richard, this is one song to the tune of another. The vocal track is from "I need a miracle", a number 39 "smash" for Coco in autumn '97. The backing tune's from "Toca me", a number 11 hit for Fragma in autumn '99. DJ Vimto, a club star in Nottingham, merged the two together, and multiplied the sales. 200,000 copies flew off the shelves this week. #TOTP #Fragma