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I Don't Like Them As Much As I'm Supposed To: Arctic Monkeys
Just about everyone loves the Arctic Monkeys don’t they? I don’t get it. I don’t know what it is but they just leave me cold. I like the fact that there’s a buncha kids running around this town making...
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I Don't Like Them As Much As I'm Supposed To: Joy Division
Yeah. I geddit. Joy Division are really influential. I know. Stop going on about it. Just about every two-bit schmindie band around at the moment seems to be parping on about their love for Joy...
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Sigur Ros: I Don't Like Them As Much As I'm Supposed To
Sing yowly hosannahs! Sigur Ros’s new album will contain a song sung in English. Big woop. For me, it’s too little too late. With the much-worshipped Icelandic squeakers having spent years gurgling...
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Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo to tour the UK: can they cure my N*E*R*D-ish...
News has been announced today that R&B/soul/funk/rock/alternative/whatever supergroup N*E*R*D are due to hit the motorway in August, with three dates in the UK announced so far. The question on my...
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How many records do you think Enya has sold?
Older types may recall Enya’s “Orinoco Flow”, from back in the mists of the 1980s. God, it was huge. Massive. It was all plinky-plonky but also ethereal and tackled big issues like, uh, rivers flowing....
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The View's Kyle Falconer is too drunk to perform, and yet people seem upset
I’ve never really understood the fuss made about The View. Singer Kyle Falconer has one of the least pleasant voices I think I’ve ever heard. Even when he’s in tune he sounds like he’s not, which in a...
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Van Morrison's Astral Weeks: I Don't Like It As Much As I'm Supposed To
You know how there are some cultural artifacts – books, films, albums and whatnot – which you feel quite guilty about never having experienced? I actually have a long-standing dread about the fact that...
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Beach House's "Used To Be" video fools people into thinking it's interesting
Things other folk have said about Beach House’s new video for “Used To Be”: - “The saturated desert hues and retro motel settings of this video (shot during a recent West Coast tour in the desert...
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Passion Pit: I don't like them as much as I'm supposed to
A new Passion Pit tune, “Moth’s Wings”, hit the internet the other day. If I was a delusional paranoid maniac I’d swear it exists purely to piss me off; my flat’s currently infested with moths eating...
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Radio argh-argh: Radio 1 makes me want to listen to Radio 2/drive off a cliff
Time for a lick of guest-blogging, don’t you think? This despairing little despatch is from Nik Johnson, who writes angryfunny things on the reglear at his site Shouting at Cows, and every darn day on...
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