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We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to bring you this, which just landed in my inbox. Hmm.

Radiohead
Untied EP
[Capitol]
Rating: Infinity
I considered committing suicide after hearing this album. I realized that no earthly experience coul[…]

America’s Greatest 20th Century Music
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America’s Greatest 20th Century Music: 15-minute radio programmes exploring the genesis and importance of the “100 most important recordings of the century”. Yeah, yeah, but this looks like detailed, varied stuff, and they’re […]

N is for….”Neville Thumbcatch”
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N is for….”Neville Thumbcatch” by Peter Wyngarde, from his misogyny-chic ‘classic’ When Sex Rears Its Inquisitive Head. I don’t have that LP, just this song I dl’ed from Brian: listening to it I’m in tw[…]

An amusing translation
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An amusing translation of Basement Jaxx’ “Jump N Shout”, courtesy of this new music-centred weblog.[…]

Where the Hell Do You People Get This Stuff?
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Where the Hell Do You People Get This Stuff?: here’s an interesting piece on teenpop, written from an oppositional but clear-eyed point of view and focusing on the curious fact that everyone who despises it seems to know a great deal about it, […]

Josh tipped me off to this bizarre review of the Senor Coconut
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Josh tipped me off to this bizarre review of the Senor Coconut Latinized Kraftwerk album. Bizarre in that it rests on a premise that Kraftwerk were not only “empty” and “cheesy”, which is a limited but not ridiculous viewpoint[…]

Especially for Fred…
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Especially for Fred… (and other interested parties), it’s the Guardian’s amusing review of the new Madonna album.[…]

usounds
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usounds is back in operation. Look, kids, MP3s![…]

Radiohead: Kid A: Pitchfork Review
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Radiohead: Kid A: Pitchfork Review: You might like the album. But you won’t like this. Has Brent DiCrescenzo never heard an art-rock record before? Good to see it’s not just Freaky Trigger playing pre-release link slut, though.[…]

Spinning records
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Spinning records: frothy Salon piece on Bush and Gore’s use of pop music in their campaigns, included mostly because it’s the first substantial music article Salon have run all week, and it’s in the Politics section! Salon’s A[…]

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