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Music blogs are waking up
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— 6 Jan 2003 Tom Comment

Music blogs are waking up from their Xmas/New Year slumbers. Current highlights…
– Simon Reynolds’ albums of the year including some rare affection for Britrap (!) and agreeable discussion of most other stuff.
– Marcello Carli[…]

TOM’S TOP TEN! January 2003
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— 6 Jan 2003 Tom 1 comment

TOM’S TOP TEN!
ABBA – Happy New Year
DIZZY RASCAL – I Luv U
PREFAB SPROUT – Nightingales
THE LIBERTINES – What A Waster
PAULINA RUBIO – Don’t Say Goodbye
AUTOBIANCHI – All Around (Everybody’s Kiss[…]

Watch This! (2002)
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— 5 Jan 2003 Tom Comment

Watch This! (2002): Pete’s Top 40 films of 2002 – and there’s also the third part in my own 2002 retrospective up here!.[…]

Somewhat against my better judgement
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— 5 Jan 2003 Tom Comment

Somewhat against my better judgement, this year I bowed to reader requests and ran an ILX Readers Poll. It turned out to be good fun, though I don’t agree with very many of the results. Here they are, anyway:
Records of the Year
Tracks Of The Y[…]

IT’S THE FREAKY TRIGGER CHRISTMAS JOKE!
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— 3 Jan 2003 Tom Comment

IT’S THE FREAKY TRIGGER CHRISTMAS JOKE!
Thanks to e-mail problems this could not appear before Christmas but at least we got it in before 12th Night eh? Based on a punchline by Pete Baran.
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It’s Christmas time, and U2 have lined up a ser[…]

30 Seconds Over Dayton
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— 2 Jan 2003 Stevie Nixed Comment

30 Seconds Over Dayton
Brainiac’s ‘NOTH1NG 3V3R CHAN935’ would have been Walter Benjamin’s wet dream. It never really sings about the bricks, dirt and whatever else you can’t find outside suburbia… but it sounds ev[…]

Marianne Faithful-Love in the afternoon
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— 31 Dec 2002 Anthony Easton Comment

Marianne Faithful-Love in the afternoon
There are songs that seduce by raw power. Fuck me now back against the wall yowlings. They are fun enough, but often not very good, and often I think easier to write.
Then they are songs like this, songs th[…]

Download This! (2002) – 80 to 61
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— 29 Dec 2002 Tom Comment

Download This! (2002) – 80 to 61: hooray, back at home so part two of my end-of-year round-up can go up. Must dash, more soon.[…]

Thomas Bangalter and DJ Falcon – “So Much Love To Give”
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— 28 Dec 2002 Ronan Comment

I know! I know I’ve made some massive claims for this record just about everywhere, not least on The Compass and ILM. But lets get less personal on this bitch and more musical. It strikes me now that So Much Love To Give actually sounds like wh[…]

Basement Jaxx – “Acid Love”
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— 28 Dec 2002 Ronan Comment

Lets hope that Basement Jaxx never bother releasing a “regular” single. I suppose you can dance regularly to Acid Love but it really begs for you to jump up and down like a 4 year old at a Christmas party. In fact a mate of mine deserves […]

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