BRIAN ENO – Thursday Afternoon
It’s possible – nay, likely – that, had you bought Thursday Afternoon back in 1982, you’d have taken it back to the shop. “Hold on,” you might have said, “I expected the i[…]

JAMIE WEDNESDAY – “We Three Kings Of Orient Aren’t”
This ill-advised week of wank ™ comes to its hinterland now as we enter the not oft sung about days of the week Wednesday and Thursday. This could well be because many […]

THE ROLLING STONES – “Ruby Tuesday”
And “Manic Monday” is just the start – the names-of-days/pop music connection is deep and baleful. Take this self-pitying bloater of a track, for instance. It’s fairly stup[…]

THE BANGLES – Manic Monday
Now this one also goes out to Prince who had the temerity to write this shocker. I’m not saying the all girl group are completely blameless, they threw themselves so wholeheartedly into the pretense of being off[…]

ACRONYM TROUBLE
I Hate Music is no stranger to dodgy acronyms. The lousiness of DMX’s soubriquet has already been given short shrift. All that said – yet another rapper has wandered into the insult padock, with not one but two acronym rel[…]

GRADE A
I am not going to make a habit of linking to other weblogs. However, this act of heroic civil disobedience deserves all the hits it can get. Jerwin Maximo, I salute you.
“I returned Kid A this morning before coming to work. When I hande[…]

THE REAL REASON LED ZEP WERE RUBBISH
The Zep war flaring twixt Tom and Fred is of course ridiculous to an extreme. Of course ver Zep were excrable, that was pretty much their raison d’etre. By way of proof I need merely offer one salient fact. […]

HOW TO WRITE A LED ZEPPELIN SONG
1: Steal an old Robert Johnson blues track. Preferably one about being lonely, or flood defence mechanisms.
2. If the lyrics make too much sense, change them. Nip down the library and get out a copy of Tolkein’s[…]

KNIVES OUT
Right.
Some of you readers may have noticed that Radiohead have got a new record coming out. Goodness knows how, there’s barely been a mention of it on the web or in the music press after all. Oh, wait, excuse me while I utter a weak[…]

Another request. An avid reader has asked what I think of this band called the Flying Luttenbachers and directed my attention towards a website put together by the band. Well, at the very least it should go without saying that the band’s leader[…]