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IHM LYRIC WATCH CHEESY DANCE SPECIAL
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SUNSCREEM – Love You More
‘You can make the sun turn purple, you can make the sea turn turtle
But you know you can never make me love you more.’
Don’t look for a rose in a cess-pit is an adage I’ve followed much of my li[…]

SUGABABES – “Round Round”
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SUGABABES – “Round Round”
Higgins. Cooper. Cowling. Powell. Coler. Buchanan. Buena. Range. Pflueger. Stecher. Hofmann. Spadavecchiaand. These are the twelve people who wrote “Round Round”. This is twice as many people as[…]

Steve Earle-John Walkers Blues
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Steve Earle-John Walkers Blues
It has had controversy, and then controversy about that controversy and then call outs about how the artist is doing this for the publicity, which makes Steve Earle’s John Walkers Blues an official meme.
I have […]

The Geezaesthetic Manifesto
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A Manifesto, by Various Geezers
Geezaesthetics was coined by ILE’s Jerry The Nipper as a one-word summary of our critical stance. What did he mean? Only he knows (printing this is at least partly a nudge at him to tell us!) – we took it as an[…]

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