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“In Bloom”
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“In Bloom”, surely, rather than “Come As You Are”? “And he’s the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means,” and so forth. […]

Who’s really ill?
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Who’s really ill?: “De La Soul are back and angry about hip-hop” claims the subheader, but really they’re not, just realistic and with the healthy cynicism of men who proved what they had to prove a while ago. Tom Cox (but of […]

The difference
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The difference, though Ned, is that while Belle And Sebastian are overtly playing to and trying to foster some kind of clannish, fannish community, Eminem is virulently against his fans – in fact he spends vast tranches of The Marshall Mathers […]

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