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So much to tell you
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So much to tell you: there’s a Godspeed You Black Emperor! review up; there’s a Mazarin review which touches on pretty much everything else under the sun; and A Loafer’s Discourse is talking about jukeboxes. And that’s just th[…]

ROBERT FORSTER – “Baby Stones”
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ROBERT FORSTER – “Baby Stones”
A friend of mine had just got dumped, and they were trying to write to their ex and say some stuff, they didn’t know exactly what because they didn’t know exactly what they felt: you can sy[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?
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Am I Cool Or Not?: two weeks off and I can only come up with this??[…]

Ah, Shep Pettibone
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Ah, Shep Pettibone. That reminds me of a joke about John Noakes, Crufts and someone coming first. I’ll leave that to another date. Anyway Tim brings up an excellent subject in talking about Shep Pettibone. The proliferation of dog names for rec[…]

Oh come on Peter, everyone
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Oh come on Peter, everyone knows that the producer of “Justify My Love” was, of course, Shep Pettibone. To get the same answer to a different question, one might ask “With which producer did Madonna create the best music of her care[…]

THOMAS DOLBY – “She Blinded Me With Science”
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THOMAS DOLBY – “She Blinded Me With Science”
Time has been harsh to Mr Dolby. Not only has he been usurped by THX in all but the most flea-bitten of cinema’s but now rock history sees him as the poor mans Howard Jones. And con[…]

Problems inherent in running radio competitions.
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Problems inherent in running radio competitions. Perhaps Radio One went too fan in their “win tickets to Madonna’s gig” competition when the wanted real Madonna obsessives to ring up. The questions were certainly harder than the ave[…]

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