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Wisdom Goof
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Wisdom Goof: shock! A music weblog full of tiny personal essays (Good Thing) by somebody who isn’t part of our jaded macro-clique i.e. no links to the usual suspects. Explore at leisure.
(Update: I’ve been doing just that and it really is[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Mellow Yellow – DONOVAN
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TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Mellow Yellow – DONOVAN
INT: A dark hippy party some time in the sixties. Neil Diamond is playing on the shitty dansette in the corner while dirty, grubby hippies pass around joints. A ginger haired girl called[…]

The Moon Under Water
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The Moon Under Water – Look ma, they’re talkin’ ’bout us. The ILE Massive get back on the subject of pubs. See how this one unravels, though already there has been a big up mention of The Ring which Tim has been promising to w[…]

Football chiefs after Ant & Dec for World Cup Song:
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Football chiefs after Ant & Dec for World Cup Song: Hmm, football chiefs might be on to a slightly better bet that Bubble and Dean anyway. Ant & Dec (who knows, maybe they will resurrect their PJ & Duncan identities) of course were nom[…]

Pass It On
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The Gossip, The Point Oxford, sometime in August
There I am running rivers of sweat down my neck, down my chest, down my belly and through my shirt, and I’m dancing harder than I’ve ever danced to a rock band. (more…)[…]

Bubble and Dean write World Cup song
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Bubble and Dean write World Cup song: misty-eyed foreigners who yearn for UK pop scene please note.[…]

Blacked Up Female Jackson 5
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Blacked Up Female Jackson 5 in racist shockah![…]

SPECIAL MOTH – SQUAREPUSHER STOLE MY BARBEQUE
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SPECIAL MOTH – SQUAREPUSHER STOLE MY BARBEQUE
It’s probably wrong to have a music obsessed boyfriend and ask him what he thinks of your record collection. But IF LUVVIN YOU IS WRONG, I DON’T WANNA BE RIGHT or in other words, I went […]

C90 Go: Number 1
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The Origin Of The Species
The tape itself is some fifteen years old, from a time when buying new blank tapes seemed as big a thing as buying shoes, so the same four or five were recorded over again, and again, matted with sound and fuzz. This one pro[…]

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