Archives – 2001 – December – 21  

EAST 17 – “Stay Another Day”
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The Christmas song has always been an odd part of pop – music and songs designed to represent, to evoke a specific season, a time, a place. Even if – especially if – that season is itself a social fiction. Pop after all shares moder[…]

Compare and Contrast
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Compare and Contrast: Blogging is hip-hop (November 2001) and Blogging is hip-hop (July 2000, entry #96). And for some proof – bloggers at war![…]

Pitchfork’s Top 20 Of 2001
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Pitchfork’s Top 20 Of 2001 is more interesting than you think it is. Still rather too scared of having a good time (unless that good time is validated by 900 different samples) but the site’s vision has gradually widened and the poll refl[…]

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  1. Count me as one of the people oddly affected by issue 300. Although... The thing I most remember about this…

  2. Oh. Oh no. OH DAVE SIM NO. I withdraw everything I wrote about Hebrew. The fact that "bull/cow" and "fruit"…