TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Mellow Yellow – DONOVAN
INT: A dark hippy party some time in the sixties. Neil Diamond is playing on the shitty dansette in the corner while dirty, grubby hippies pass around joints. A ginger haired girl called[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Orange Crush – R.E.M.
There was a time in the UK when you could turn on the radio and you would not instantly hear an R.E.M. song. If you were listening to the right radio station you would not hear any music a[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH XTRA: SIMPLY RED
Simply Gap-Toothed, Ginger Hair, White-Boy Soul Touting, Manchester United Supporting Shite more like.[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Red Red Wine – UB40
Let me count the ways I hate this record. At least two I think. Firstly it takes the name of booze in vain – a large enough crime in anyone’s books. It also completely spoils the[…]

HEY, MUSIC, LEAVE MY EYES ALONE
Colours eh? Or Colors as Ice-T would have it talking about the horrific habit of LA gangs to kill other youths merely for the bandana being worn. All terrible Mr T, but you would be a crazy fool to think writing a lous[…]

LIGHTNING BOLT
“Do you like Lightning Bolt?” asks a foolish correspondent. No I do not like Lightning Bolt, they are a band. Only half a band mind you in that there’s only a drummer and a bassist, but a band nevertheless. They play […]

ARSE-HOLE SUN
It has occured to me that in my spot-on skewering of the excrable Puddle Of Mudd on the sword of being Soundgarden copyists, that I haven’t really had an in depth discussion on why exactly Soundgarden were so so very very bad. I g[…]

SOUNDGARDEN
Weedy.[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH
So Solid Crew featuring Mr Shabz – Haters
“So many haters don’t like us rakeing papers”
(And that is their spelling of raking from the delightful So Solid Crew dot co dot uk.)
Is Mr Shabz a parkie? A street cle[…]

PUDDLE OF MUDD
cf Soundgarden.
To be confused with similar sized and shaped brown things. Like pieces of shit.[…]