Archives – 2000 – October – 16  

future bible heroes —
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— 16 Oct 2000 Sundar 1 comment

future bible heroes — i’m lonely (and i love it):
“surely you’ve gone too far now,” i told myself. “sure, 69 love songs was great but it wasn’t that long ago that you put down that huge import price for th[…]

eBay UK item 469441722
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— 16 Oct 2000 Tom Comment

eBay UK item 469441722: people would pay how much for that????.[…]

BACKSTREET BOYS – “Shape Of My Heart”
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— 16 Oct 2000 Tom Comment

BACKSTREET BOYS – “Shape Of My Heart”
Teenpop on its knees: the Backstreets swap their usual robotix for Abbafied mid-tempo slickness, and the lyrics have a sinister, intriguing edge. “Save me from the man I’ve become&#8[…]

COLOR FILTER – Satellite Of Love TURBONEGRO – Suffragette City
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— 16 Oct 2000 Tom Comment

COLOR FILTER – Satellite Of Love
TURBONEGRO – Suffragette City
The cover version: two approaches. Color Filter take the shy-shuffly-beats route so familiar to all indiepop listeners – think Stars’ “This Charming Man&#822[…]

POP-EYE 15/10/00
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— 16 Oct 2000 Tom Comment

POP-EYE 15/10/00
I have a wretched headache, for once not drink-induced. Oh, alright, when it started yesterday evening it was probably drink-induced, but it’s gone on far too long now and is almost certainly a brain tumour. In my stricken stat[…]

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