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
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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[…]

SPACEMEN, SPIRITUALIZED, SPECTRUM
Let me start off by saying that Spacemen 3 made some good music: whether elemental, fuzzed-up and wasted, or minimal, pretty and wasted, their drugnoise tended towards the definitely cool. Except then they had to sin[…]

“And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain”.
As if anything could be more irrelevant than a gruesome two-some of love-birds from the University of Hull troubling us with their weedy acoustic sweet-nothings, surely the re-invented EB[…]

Bob Dylan sucks. Period. Anything else I write after this would be superfluous, but such is my hatred for him that I’ll continue.
Bob Dylan is a monstrous man. He has a face that gives nightmares to small children. That he continues to live is […]

LAURIE ANDERSON – “O Superman”
Certain cricket commentators will have you believe that bowling is all about line and length. They would be wrong of course, these particular gentlemen being of a brusque and Yorkshire bent, apparentl[…]

THE STARLAND VOCAL BAND – “Afternoon Delight”
When I was a kid, I didn’t need to be told that “Hotel California” was about something epically dreadful, even if I thought it the hotel was supposed to be haunted by a[…]

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
So why has it taken Kevin Shields so long to make a follow up to Loveless, eh? It’s not as if he doesn’t have the time, seeing as he’s gallivanting about the world lending a touch of gutted-whale noize cred to Bo[…]

THE HAPPY MONDAYS
Being a Mancunian and living the majority of my teen years during the height of “Madchester”, it would have been so easy to have actually liked The Happy Mondays. With Mark Goodier spinning a healthy diet of Madchester b[…]

TRICKY – Maxinquaye
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to champion eyeshadow wearing Original Gangsta’s from the suburbs of the Stapleton region of Bristol, especially when they are lauded for doing pretty much what Massive[…]