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My woman is shite
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At some point in the last week I worked out that Malcolm Middleton is singing ‘My loneliness shines’ on the song called, erm, ‘Loneliness Shines’ which has been all over 6Music, not as I had originally heard ‘my woman i[…]

Bootlegs not dead
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Be: DJ Lance Lockarm
Take: Ready for the World‘s Prince/fakeBritfop genius mid-eighties classic “Oh Sheila” — make sure it is the a capella version
Take: Black Strobe‘s ‘ve make you dance the industrial body pun[…]

mp3 blogging by torrent – an experiment
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To the more technically adept or adventurous I have an experiment for you to take part in. On my mac is a 140MB folder called “UK Number 1s 150-199”. I downloaded the new beta of BitTorrent that supports TRACKERLESS torrents and I have ma[…]

news from the caribbean
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my old friend p, just arrived in trinidad for a family funeral, txts me:
“it is a very small village, jungle-like really, and guess what? someone is playing COLDPLAY!”[…]

Fancy–Reba McIntyre/Bobby Gentry
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It is so strange. It refutes the nobility of poverty that is so
canonical in country. Though it features grinding poverty, welfare
taking the children away, and dying babies, it also has a mother selling
her child into white slavery. But the oddest t[…]

They Can’t Handle The Truth
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Perhaps its a symptom of being out of the country for a few weeks, but blanket posters for the new Oasis album are keeping me in fits of giggles. Don’t Believe The Truth is a desperate title for even the notable unselfconscious Gallagher brothe[…]

Poptimism #3 CD Details
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If you have a copy of Poptimism CD3 (with the girl drinking cola from the bottle on the cover) then here is what you might end up listening to:
1. COWBOY TROY – “I Played Chicken With The Train” – hoedown hip-hop from the huge[…]

The Flying Lizards – Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)
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The Flying Lizards – Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)”
The first time I heard this I thought it was terrible. It seemed to be an arch version which focussed on the inanity of “Sex Machine”‘s lyrics, i.e. staggeri[…]

Blame It On Ludwig
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Every now and then the Guardian’s real actual comments pages address a musical topic. Freed from the sensible confines of the arts section these are reliably bonkers provocative and are definitely the most entertaining musical coverage the pape[…]

Pefect 15 Seconds in Pop Music–Jessica Simpsons introduction to These Boots
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1) the girl with the golden voice– has all of these connections to money and class, to fame, pop desire that completely is against the idea of hazzards–radical reinvention of american pop culture. everyone knows golden voice means golden […]

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