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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 49: Spice Girls – “Who Do You Think You Are?”
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Well our slack timing has done us a favour here. Because all things Spice are knocking around again, and we aren’t completely succumb by nostalgia to justify its position. And has history been kind to the Spice Girls, and to Who Do You Think Yo[…]

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FACE SCIENCE DAY: fungus dept
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“an inch of hair that represents infinite evil”:
vanity fair’s rich cohen attempts to reclaim the “toothbrush”[…]

Putting the Pong into Ping-Pong
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“I do talk a lot of shit sometimes.” Enrique Iglesias is sitting on the arm of a sofa, chatting with Clive and Anita. Clive is from London, Anita is from Poland, and they are engaged to be married. Clive admits he’s ‘a little […]

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geezesthetix ii: fvck da hataz
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apologies for talkin abt chocolate bars on a FOOD BLOG but here is an IMPORTANT WARNING
if like me you are in a small turkish cornershop of a morning queuing for ANADIN EXTRA cz you hf 1 x HORRIBLE PRESSURE HEADACHE, and you spot the woman behind the[…]

BURIAL – Untrue
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I have never actually heard anything by Burial before and he turns out to be one of those musicians whose stuff sounds exactly like everyone says it does. In the case of Burial that’s a good thing as everyone has been turning cartwheels over hi[…]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 50
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GWEN STEFANI – “What You Waiting For”
Tick tock tick tock – generally with any top 100 list there are some very recent records that slip into the rundown thanks to the immediate enthusiasm of the participants and stick out a b[…]

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Vegetable Stewie
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Unlike the current trailer for the Iron Man film, which could not resist using the Black Sabbath track, Ratatouille avoids the use of “Rat In The Kitchen” throughout. Indeed like most Pixar films it eschews the sentimental song in favour of a sur[…]

Kogan on Frere-Jones
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I know a few weeks is an eternity in blogging time, but it’s worth drawing some attention to Frank Kogan’s intervention in the Sasha Frere-Jones/Carl Wilson ‘problem with indie’ debate that was raging a fortnight or so ago. He[…]

If / Then
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Rewards and Fairies was Rudyard Kipling’s follow-up to his extremely successful Puck Of Pook’s Hill, though it’s best-known now for containing Britain’s Best-Loved Poem, aka “If-“. My last encounter with that poem […]

Poptimism – Lesson Forty Seven
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Because I’m Awesome – The Dollyrots
Breakin’ Up – Rilo Kiley
Whats It Gonna Be – H20 ft Platnum
Cubique – Human Resource Vs 808 State (Soulwax remix)
Weed Bag – Wayne Marshall
Mystical (State Of Grace) &#8211[…]

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