Today is King's Day in the Netherlands, and traditionally this means that you take the stuff you don't want anymore and offer it for...

During the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 Portugal was represented by Anabela with the song 'A cidade (até ser dia)', written by Pe...

Why would I buy another copy of 'Love is stronger than death' by The The? After all, I already owned that single . I bought it in Au...

Anyone who has ever seen Twin Peaks and the movie Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me will probably remember Julee Cruise, the singer who perfor...

Although I have been quite successful in collecting Pet Shop Boys singles (with only a few titles missing), somehow I missed this one. It...

Philippe Lafontaine (born 24 May 1955) spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music.His first succ...

In 1993, Heaven 17 released a series of singles featuring remixes of their Eighties hits. ' Temptation (Brothers in Rhythm remix) ' ...

I'm not a fan of bootleg singles, mainly because they're illegal and always released without the artist's consent. On the other ...

It's easy to dismiss music from the Nineties because it was so bad. At least, a lot of bad music was produced during that decade. This s...

You would almost forget if you listen to the cheesy ' Insieme: 1992 ' or the infernal racket of Italy's most recent winners Mane...

A lot of years have passed by since I originally bought the single ' Again ' by Janet Jackson. Back in 1994 I thought it was a brill...

The single ' Goodbye cruel word ' was actually released twice. I didn't know that before, but I bought this single and then disc...

You wouldn't think that the American singer with the deep, sultry voice Barry White and the Eurovision Song Contest have anything in com...

When I wrote my post about ' Hullu yö ' recently, I noticed that my post about another single by Kaija was missing from this blog. I...

Although Finland only ever won the Eurovision Song Contest once with Lordi's 'Hard Rock Hallelujah', there's another hard-ed...

The big mystery of Eurovision Song Contest is why sometimes crap songs win while really beautiful songs are less successful. Case in point: ...

Junior Giscombe had his biggest success with ' Mama used to say ' and ' Too late ' in 1982, but all the singles he released ...

This 'cover to cover' single features two versions of the song 'Go now': the original by the Moody Blues and a live cover ve...

It´s probably better to stay uninformed about the political standpoints of your favourite artists, because sometimes it gets in the way of y...

Truth be told, I don't really like the 12" single format. I have sold a lot of them through the years just to make space for other ...