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CV of CV
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— 20 Jun 2000 Tom Comment

CV of CV: dry but informative Caetano Veloso biography, from the altogether more colourful Caravan Music, a one-stop shop for Brazilian music.[…]

All Music Sucks
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— 20 Jun 2000 Tanya Headon 49 comments

Face it, every single note of music ever committed to paper, vinyl, CD, zeroes and ones sucks harder than Linda Lovelace in a sucking competition with a black hole. There is absolutely nothing going for music. It just plain sucks.
“Wait a minut[…]

Wrong About Thong Song
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— 20 Jun 2000 Tanya Headon Comment

OH FOR GOD’S SAKE…
You go away for one weekend and this awaits you when you get back. No, no and a million times no, Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is NOT the best song of the year, you wretched bunch of perverts. He’s a rep[…]

Belle & Sebastian or The True Story Behind Braveheart
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— 20 Jun 2000 Tanya Headon Comment

Many people have mentioned to me over the last couple of weeks that some of my reasons for disliking particular strands of popular music are tenuous at best. I will accept this criticism on the chin, something Belle & Sebastian could never do. Wh[…]

So, why haven’t you been updating all day, Tom?
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— 20 Jun 2000 Tom Comment

So, why haven’t you been updating all day, Tom? Well, O Reader, that’s because I’ve been editing the The Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group, June 2000, the definitive overview of the first six months of Y2K in pop. It rules &#8211[…]

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