Right, we were supposed to start this on Monday, but never mind.
Starting next Tuesday, the Singles Jukebox will roll out its year-end extravaganza, which we’re still keeping slightly under wraps. What we can say is that it’s only gonna involve singles we’ve reviewed this year, cos having a song we’ve not reviewed as single of the year would just be stoopid.
However – the Jukebox Selection Committee is well aware that it’s missed out on some stuff this year. That whole “I’m In Miami Bitch” thing. The 73rd, 82nd and 94th singles off the Beyonce album. The Twang. Tons of stuff.
And so we asked our writers to put forward songs we hadn’t reviewed from earlier in the year, with the intention of getting them all reviewed in the week before the year-end thing so that they’d be eligible for inclusion in the year-end voting. Today, we begin the process of reviewing those songs, in a series that we were gonna call Amnesty Week but which I’ve now changed to TUNES RECOVERY PROJECT because I just came up with it and I think it’s quite a good pun. So there.
Over the next three days, then, it’s nothing but stuff from earlier in the year that we missed out on covering through ignorance, lateness or sheer bloody stupidity. We start in a couple of hours with the follow-up to one of the UK’s biggest breakout singles of the year. Do please join us.