THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 3
JULIAN COPE – “Reynard The Fox” (from the album Fried)
Simply put, “Reynard The Fox” is a foxhunting protest song which turns into a Christ allegory, then into a vision of rural middle En[…]

Momus is planning to compile and curate the ‘electro-epic’ NY scene, in the same way apparently as Brian Eno did with No New York, which thanks to the magic of MP3 I finally got to hear (review to follow: it’s, well, it’s&#823[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 2
THE FALL – “Leave The Capital”(from the mini-album Slates)
Everything The Fall recorded in those days stank of England, an England unmasked, the country as it would look if you threw paint-stripper o[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 1
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION – “Real Great Britain” (from the album Community Music)
And no, they can’t take a joke. Racist fucksticks at Rolling Stone reducing Asians to curry waiter stereotypes just […]

RADIOHEAD – “Airbag” (oh look, you know where it’s from)
And so to Josh. Yes, that is a Radiohead song in my Top Ten. Yes, I do like it, certainly much more than anything else on OK Computer. The reasons I enjoy it, I think, m[…]

Let’s try again: blogger just ate a massive post where I discussed Fred‘s excellent commentary on the English Tape. In summary:
1. Tape not a summation of what it is to be English, but of how pop has approached the qn.
2. Side 1 is the Q-[…]

Title For Your Purity Test: “a new culture that seems to have exploded in the recent years” – lazy semi-literate tat, jealous of youth, same old jokes since 1992, etc. I’m just annoyed because I only got 13% or so, which isn&#[…]

Giorgio Moroder 1978 interview: Part 1 “Are we really the robo-men-machines of Kraftwerk’s ‘The Robots’ (and, if so, then why aren’t we purchasing their product?) or do we just want to dance?” – fascinating i[…]

Hip Hop Article Directory: Says it all, really. I’ve not got time to look through it but this looks like a really fascinating resource. It’s interesting that a genre comparatively neglected on the web (count the sales of hip-hop albums an[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 1 TRACK 12
BLUR – ‘This Is A Low’ (from the album Parklife)
You might hear something broader and deeper, but I hear in Blur’s best ballad a song about drinking and sadness, late nights alone with a coupl[…]