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Advent Calendar Of Filth Day 7: SAINT ETIENNE & TIM BURGESS – “I Was Born On Christmas Day”
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— 15 Dec 2000 Tanya Headon 2 comments

You didn’t expect to see this amongst the hoary old chestnuts roasting on an open hell-fire below. If you didn’t then you obviously still do not understand this site, and you are also possibly deaf. The man with a lifejacket for lips and […]

Y2K Garage – Tim Finney Reviews The Year In UK Garage
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A little note: these are not what I consider to be “the best garage tracks this year”. For starters, I only heard a fraction of the goodness waiting out there to be discovered. Secondly, I decided not to write about tracks I’d alrea[…]

Eminem voted Christmas favourite
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— 15 Dec 2000 Tom Comment

Eminem voted Christmas favourite: note misuse of word “coveted” in first sentence. Note also 2% of UK population certifiably insane for voting for Craig Phillips.[…]

Melody Maker to merge with NME
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— 15 Dec 2000 Tom 9 comments

Melody Maker to merge with NME – and it’s all our fault. “The magazine’s publisher IPC said increasing competition from music sites on the internet had prompted the decision” – well, OK, maybe they’re not pre[…]

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