DAVID BOWIE – Mr Mime Strikes Back
This may seem a funny thing for me to say, but there’s too much hate in the world. Prejudice, for example, disgusts me. Racial prejudice, prejudice against women, against the disabled, against mimes&#823[…]

A concept single whose concept pretty much traded on being the aural equivalent of one of the longest, most tedious films ever set to celluloid. Space Oddity – Space Odyssey – do you get it? Granted the song is shorter than the film, but […]

IHM LYRIC WATCH 2
“I put MCs on the ceiling like Michelangelo did the Sixteenth Chapel” – Jeru The Damaja, “Black Cowboys”
What about the other fifteen chapels, eh Jeru? Not to mention that, well, there aren’t any […]

THE BEATLES TREATISE ON REASON AND THE NATURE OF YESTERDAY
Paul McCartney believes in Yesterday – and in a lot of way he is right to. It has made him a staggering amount of money after all. But I think it might be educational to see exactly what Pa[…]

COMPILATION CONSTIPATION
“Now you’ve got the best of me, come on and get the rest of me” sweltered no-mark soulsters The Real Thing on their wedding-ready hit ‘You To Me Are Everything’. But were they talking about love?[…]

COLDPLAY (Revisited)
Someone has written in to suggest that I was being a bit dismissive in calling Coldplay a Muse knock-off (thus making themselves a Radiohead knock-off twice removed). Now in my defence, dismissive is pretty much what this site is[…]

SHAMELESS SITE PLUG
I don’t know whether Tom’s put it up yet on the main site, but a good friend of mine, trading under the frankly absurd name of Crispian DeSavary, has started a ‘companion’ weblog, I Hate Films, while he &#8[…]

CRAIG DAVID : The great lost Dickens novel
Very few people know that Craig David was the name of Charles Dickens’ first ever novel. Unsurprising since it was never published. This was due to a couple of problems: the first being that Dickens fe[…]

DEPECHE MODE: BITE TWO
If I had known then what I know now, I would not have needed to pen such a lengthy critique of Depeche Mode. Gentle (if bile-filled) reader, reflect on this one fact: When the Bloodhound Gang first formed, they were a Depeche M[…]

JAMES
They say : “Oh Sit Down.”
Tanya says: “Oh Shut Up”[…]