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LOU REED – Metal Machine Music
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LOU REED – Metal Machine Music
made me less sad last night.
You’re a joke.[…]

I think
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I think Boehlert’s implicit argument is that as record promotion becomes increasingly expensive, labels will be forced by economic necessity to be more cautious in what they choose to promote. This fear of risk would translate into an increasin[…]

I have no idea about the Oxford Blue
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I have no idea about the Oxford Blue – however I have been drinking at “The Oxford Pub” or to give it its full and rather more revealing title The Oxford Pub: It’s A Scream. It’s A Crime, more like, etc. This used of cou[…]

The London Pub, London
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The London Pub, London Picking up briefly on Pete’s comment on the inn in Hendon called The Hendon, I agree that any pub named after the town where it is located is bound to be trouble. However, I have no facts to back this up – as I hav[…]

Pay To Play
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Pay To Play: expose of radio plugging practises which generally manages to exchange nostril-flared outrage for dry factuality and is the better for it. Except for that odd little intro: “Does radio seem bad these days? Do all the hits sound the[…]

Welcome aboard, Nanette!
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Welcome aboard, Nanette! I notice though that you do not mention the video, which has Destiny’s Child prowling about an island in shipwrecked-cavewoman gear. It’s very artistic. Oh yes.
Judging from what I heard watching the video on CD:U[…]

“I’m a survivor…”
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“I’m a survivor…” I figured I needed to talk about something big for my first post here at NYLPM. I toyed with the idea of writing about how terrifying the band Crazy Town is, and how they became all the more terrifying after […]

Reorganisation creep…
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Reorganisation creep…gone is the top ten (look to your right), though it will return in a fairer and more democratic form. What replaces it? Well, often at Freaky Trigger we get messages along the lines of, hey, you are nasty to so much music, […]

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