Archives – 1999 – December – 09  

10. LL COOL J – “Mama Said Knock You Out”
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— 9 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Everyone likes the idea of music being economical or minimal or haunting, or groundbreaking or sensitive or profound, but when you come down to it I don’t think there’s a single music lover on […]

POW! WHAM! SOCK! OOF! – Some Thoughts On Fight Club
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— 9 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

I’m in a central London cinema watching Fight Club: on the screen, Brad Pitt has forced a Korean shopkeeper to kneel in a puddle and is holding a gun to the man’s head. Pitt tells the man he is going to die, then asks him what he most wan[…]

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