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MY ROCKIST SHAME!!!
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— 3 May 2003 Tom Comment

MY ROCKIST SHAME!!! So I’m tidying up and “Carnival” by Archigram comes on and as you do I find myself bopping around the room, and then it suddenly dawns on me that I’m not just dancing, oh no, in fact I am playing air guitar[…]

Factological amendment
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— 3 May 2003 Tom Comment

Factological amendment to Simon R’s Rough Trade bit: it depends on the RT shop, dunnit? Yes none of them stock garage but in general the Ladbroke Grove one is the one that goes for nu-skool breaks et al. The Covent Garden one is much better: mi[…]

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS – “Wishing (I Had A Photograph Of You) (Extended Mix)”
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— 3 May 2003 Tom Comment

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS – “Wishing (I Had A Photograph Of You) (Extended Mix)”
What really gets me about nostalgia clipshows is their desire to get everyone remembering the same 80s. It’s the same objection I have to Top 100 polls[…]

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