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The Busted! album actually isn’t that good…
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— 9 Jul 2003 Pete Baran Comment

Okay, for all my bigging them up – the Busted! album actually isn’t that good. Its perfectly serviceable in a pop way but very few of the songs ever quite reach the dizzying heights of silliness that Year 3000 or What I Go To School For d[…]

The lock-in is in danger.
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— 9 Jul 2003 Pete Baran Comment

The lock-in is in danger. The licencing White Paper, with its attendent all night drinking will relegate the after hours boozer to the dumper of regulation and bouncers. I say this because of late I have become acquainted with a few lock-in pubs and […]

BUBBA SPARXXX — ‘Deliverance’
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— 9 Jul 2003 Jess 1 comment

Guilty thought: I’d like this song much more as an instrumental or even as a ‘song’, not a rap. Everything just clicks: the processed guitar strum that’s like Shek’spere with dirt under his nails, the string swells, the[…]

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