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OK COMPUTER, surely
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OK COMPUTER, surely. Everybody from Q Magazine to Your Flesh gave it fifteen out of ten despite the fact that its a PISS-POOR LOAD OF OLD HORSESHIT. Let’s take as example the following ‘deathless’ lyrics:
Ahhhwarrhwarrrrrhwarrh
Ahhh[…]

AIN’T NOBODY KNOWS HIS TROUBLES WITH GOOD
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AIN’T NOBODY KNOWS HIS TROUBLES WITH GOOD
Never in the field of human artistic endeavour has anyone sold out quite so utterly and completely as Moby has. Cleverly, he has done this at the precise moment in the history of human artistic endeavou[…]

Oasis Noel quits tour
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Oasis Noel quits tour: how much longer can this tottering sham of a band continue?[…]

Too Many Wine Gums
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Too Many Wine Gums: “The prose is supposed to be ‘liquid dub poetics’ but, shit, all that means here is no upper casing, no full stops, and lines such as: ‘watching the buzzcocks / the powder fuse / pumping sizzle through the […]

Kelis: Kaleidoscope – PopMatters Music Review
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Kelis: Kaleidoscope – PopMatters Music Review: I kinda like PopMatters, but this review falls flat. Not because of what it’s saying (though as usual there’s a sense that deep-down the reviewer feels members of oppressed groups shoul[…]

And to return to NYLPM’s favourite topic:
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And to return to NYLPM’s favourite topic:
Oops, she’s doing it again!: from the new Salon (which is slow-to-load and now looks entirely undistinctive) an insightful look at the Britney phenomenon. The sub-editors take the predictable kid[…]

The Lars dance
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The Lars dance: Bjork’s Cannes winner is “a middlebrow film, for people with posters of Björk on their bedroom wall” – ouch. I have to say that I’m pretty much put off by the phrase “Bjork’s childlike perfor[…]

DUEL!
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DUEL!: And today, it’s Kid Rock vs The Cardigans. Not that I want to influence you unduly or anything, but Kid Rock (allegedly rubbish new single aside) is boss, whereas the Cardigans are as their name suggests a heap of neutered shite.[…]

CLEARLAKE – “Don’t Let The Cold In”
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CLEARLAKE – “Don’t Let The Cold In”(CD Single, Dusty Company)
Clearlake’s singer can’t, to get that out the way. But as everyone knows there are good non-singers and bad non-singers: Mr. Clearlake sounds like Billy[…]

Napster Bombs
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Napster Bombs: that said, who needs lots of links when you have one as good as this! Hilarious. Thanks to Chris.[…]

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