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PINBACK – “Tripoli”
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— 27 Mar 2000 Tom Comment

PINBACK – “Tripoli” (MP3)
The real-life Pinback may be roisterous types, but when I hear “Tripoli” I think of saucer-eyed boys in basements making quiet sounds for themselves. With its mumbling vocals, with its humming-t[…]

PINK – “There You Go”
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— 27 Mar 2000 Tom Comment

PINK – “There You Go” (MP3)
In the middle-eight the voice spirals nervily upwards and pushes the song towards greatness: otherwise it’s generic, Shek’spere-produced jitter-hop with chamber strings and a flinty scrub-bash[…]

A Salon article on
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— 27 Mar 2000 Tom Comment

A Salon article on Luaka Bop – sensible enough, though I’m really not sure about the Cornershop link (they came out of the hypey UK version of Riot Grrrl rather than out of any worldbeat thing). It reminds me that I owe Magnus a piece on […]

“I can’t find the Minutemen on Napster! Sob!”
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— 27 Mar 2000 Tom Comment

“I can’t find the Minutemen on Napster! Sob!”: as a non-Napster user (down to tech limitations, not ethics, alas) this is interesting mostly for what it says about the hip-hop hegemony.[…]

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