tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58752852011-04-21T12:06:59.272-07:00Simple PleasuresControlled explosions concerning pop musicNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comBlogger1011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1105653014884535432005-01-13T13:45:00.000-08:002005-01-13T13:50:14.883-08:00I've stuck a "new" song up as my big fat killer because it just gets stuck in my head and I like that. It's "Saturday Night" by Surfarosa (it's not a Whigfield cover), a band who got seemingly ignored by the presswho went with folks from a not dissimilar branch of the musical world, the Scissor Sisters. It seems a shame because Surfarosa's whole album, "Shanghai My Heart" is a rip-roaring smackerNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1103662433389634532004-12-21T13:52:00.000-08:002004-12-21T12:53:53.390-08:00 Now we all know their Pop World is great, probably the best music show on telly, at least terrestrial telly. Yet they stick it on at just gone 9am on a Sunday, and thus I may sleep over the start of it (I didn’t this morning but that took effort, oh boy it did). They do repeat it but that’s in the early hours on one night. Come on C4, Simon and Miquita deserve a bigger audience. They’re great. Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1103402961583872592004-12-18T13:48:00.000-08:002004-12-18T12:49:21.583-08:00 As there had to be, there was a John Peel night on BBC4 the other night. Whilst an admirable sentiment, it should have been on BBC1 or BBC2 because this was an incredibly important man who had done just about more for the BBC than anyone else and was the figurehead for so much. Anyway, he was a great man and I was lucky enough to watch it.
Featured in it was an hour and a half long show Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1102696223524006642004-12-10T08:28:00.000-08:002004-12-10T08:30:23.523-08:00 Never let it be said that I don’t suffer in the name of music. I have to do these stretch thingys to aid my back recovery and yesterday, being on my own in the house, I put on one of these musical video digital channels (I forget which one and anyway, we’ve only just got digital). I thought that the song names they flash in the bottom left hand corner were the upcoming ones they were Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1102361841949907882004-12-06T11:35:00.000-08:002004-12-06T11:37:21.950-08:00 Been on two monster long journeys the length of England this weekend just gone and among the things I thought about whilst on the train (and trust me, there were a lot of things) was once again the UK Music Hall Of Fame thing on Channel 4 recently. Robbie Williams was chosen for the 90s (my choice was a toss-up between Missy and Dr. Dre) but looking at the ten nominations something struck me. Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1102091418461563882004-12-03T08:22:00.000-08:002004-12-03T08:30:18.460-08:00Don't you love booty bass? It has to be the most self-describing genre in this beautiful world of music; there's a lot of bass and you shake you booty to the said bass. Very clever. And clever in that it's given another entry for a musical contradiction of sorts. I was listening to Disco D's "A Night At The Booty Bar" (very good by the way) and I can't remember which song it is (it's mix album soNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1101849221184464322004-11-30T13:12:00.000-08:002004-11-30T13:13:41.183-08:00 Well it came. This morning. Twattingly brilliant. Yes, for I now have the second album from the unbelievably awesome Girls Aloud and can I say that it is fulfillingly mind-blowing. I was somewhat wary of expecting too much and I will need probably thousands of further listens but it is spankingly superb (I am starting to run out of superlatives here aren’t I? Ah well, you get the idea.). I’ve Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1101669960851480052004-11-28T11:24:00.000-08:002004-11-28T11:26:00.850-08:00 Whilst some folks might view this as a very annoying characteristic of a song, I’m finding a great barometer of aceness is the ability of it to stick in your head and make you do silly dances to it even when it isn’t actually playing. The 5 6 7 8s “Woo-Hoo” definitely has it but this morning something which grabbed me as undoubtedly having it was Basement Jaxx’s “Do Your Thing”. There I was Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1100711341641434342004-11-17T09:07:00.000-08:002004-11-17T09:09:01.640-08:00 Right, today, in what will be the first in a series…. of one probably, I am looking at great contradictions and falsehoods in the pantheons of pop music (isn’t pantheons a great word? It makes me sound kind of clever).
I think we all know the Queen song “Don’t Stop Me Now”. Ah, I used to love Queen. They were my favourite band when I was about 9, albeit some time after they lost Freddy Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1100639300927409832004-11-16T13:07:00.000-08:002004-11-16T13:08:20.926-08:00 It seems that it is not a good time to be loved by me and famous, because they’re dropping like flies. First it was Brian Clough (who’s Nottingham Forest I saw in his last season as manager when they got relegated), then Bill Nicholson, president of my beloved Tottenham and their legendary double-winning manager of ’61, and then a few weeks ago the well-chronicalled departure of the much-loved Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1100207254689954012004-11-11T13:05:00.000-08:002004-11-11T13:07:34.690-08:00Momentous scenes today as the Daily Telegraph (unfortunately that’s the newspaper I have to put up with every day because my Dad won’t read anything else) continued in their weekly “download the ten best songs of an artist for £5” (or we could just do it for free, but shock horror “illegally”). Last week was Bob Dylan and generally the artists picked have been in his sort of vein in appealing to Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1100116927839086882004-11-10T13:00:00.000-08:002004-11-10T12:02:07.840-08:00 Have I ever been as excited about a forthcoming album before? ILM has been musing on the point of Girls Aloud releasing albums but come the 29th of November I reckon I shall be most pleased they do. I’ve just been listening to the first album and, having the house to myself I’ve been sitting here doing degree-level maths revision whilst at the same time dancing and miming all the words. They’re Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1100033802303382992004-11-09T13:54:00.000-08:002004-11-09T12:56:42.303-08:00A new big fat killer on the side bar today, as I realise just how good Britney’s "Shadow" is (and yes I do realise the slight sexual implications of that comment but who cares?). I picked up the "new" Britney album (I say new but it has 2003 on the copyright bollocks) the other day for a measly £7 and it’s as damn good as I expected, "Shadow" standing out. This surprised me a little because if Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1099952524605140422004-11-08T14:20:00.000-08:002004-11-08T14:22:04.606-08:00Well, it seems Channel 4 have finished their announcements of the nominees for the UK music hall of fame. They’ve decided that Elvis, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Madonna and extremely bizarrely U2 are automatic entries (exactly how do U2 rank above Michael Jackson in the musical hierarchy of anyone except their parents?) but now we’ve had all the 50 nominees from the last five decades and time for Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1099516517239788332004-11-03T13:13:00.000-08:002004-11-03T13:15:17.240-08:00And in breaking news today, Nick might have found his favourite album of the year. Well, one of them anyway, until the Girls Aloud album finally gets released. (Kanye West’s "The College Dropout" was the holder.) Anyway, today I listened to "Meltdown" by Ash and it really does grab me. These fellas came out of the Brit-pop scene whilst still teenagers and they’re still around, albeit with an Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1099430094073658092004-11-02T13:13:00.000-08:002004-11-02T13:14:54.073-08:00Right, today, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk about Andrew WK. You remember, he exploded out of Detroit I think two or three years ago and the NME bigged him up a bit but not much happened after that. Not much, that is, except I bought his stuff and loved it. No-one else seemed to though. Bugger. Weird really when you consider that other NME ‘names’ of recent years have struck a chord, as itNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1098988955125430342004-10-28T11:40:00.000-07:002004-10-28T11:42:35.126-07:00Right, here we go again. I told you I’d write some more stuff, and here I am to write about something you probably know about and hopefully like too, but due to lack of download capabilities I’m not hearing anything new really. So today, ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to discuss Brassy.
I’ve got them on at the moment with what I think is their debut album called "Got It Made". It was released inNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1098727963215599192004-10-25T11:09:00.000-07:002004-10-25T11:12:43.216-07:00Right, that was another rather long silence wasn’t it? Hmm, well I do have a fairly good excuse; following my near-death accident I’m living with my parents until the end of January and they, not being the huge internet obsessives that I am, haven’t got broadband and have instead got incredibly slow dial-up internet which I can’t download anything on. I also don’t have a part-time job (ring me Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1091123923479628372004-07-29T10:53:00.000-07:002004-07-29T10:58:43.480-07:00Well, after a long sojourn (I think that's spelt right) I am back and endevouring to write about music. I went to a house party just before my final Uni exams, got drunk and fell 15 feet off a wall, breaking my sternum (vertical bone which would divided my breasts if I had any), two vertebrae in my back and my skull. Not great. Six weeks in hospital and I'm now back home and fairly in the mood toNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1080387239318703852004-03-27T03:33:00.001-08:002004-03-27T03:37:30.716-08:00Well, I'm writing about Top Of The Pops Saturday this week, because I felt shit last night. Or should that be, I felt unwell?
Yes, possibly because of Janet's Boobgate, although I am open to the possibility that's it's not because of that, all the rude words are being cut out of a Saturday morning kids show. Imagine!
Firstly, they played the video to Busted's Ait Hostess, which was pretty Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1080387238325609622004-03-27T03:33:00.000-08:002004-03-27T03:37:29.716-08:00Well, I'm writing about Top Of The Pops Saturday this week, because I felt shit last night. Or should that be, I felt unwell?
Yes, possibly because of Janet's Boobgate, although I am open to the possibility that's it's not because of that, all the rude words are being cut out of a Saturday morning kids show. Imagine!
Firstly, they played the video to Busted's Ait Hostess, which was pretty Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1080247705061897882004-03-25T12:48:00.000-08:002004-03-25T12:51:54.106-08:00New thing I like about music: the way Jon Snow says hip hop.
There was an article on Channel 4 news tonight about Dangermouse's The Grey Album and the way veteran, and rather good news anchor Jon Snow introduced it was K-lassic.
Now, what do you get when you cross the Beatles with Jay-Z, one of the biggest rappers in hip hop?
The way he said hip hop was brilliant, inverting the hop rather thanNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1080175733803851512004-03-24T16:48:00.000-08:002004-03-24T16:52:21.513-08:00New sidebar song; Disco D feat Princess Superstar - Fuck Me On The Dancefloor
Now I wuv Detroit booty bass. It's inherently daft enough to not just overlook the mysogny, but revel in it. However, Princess Superstar tears shit up 4 da ladeez. The beat is about 37459567bpm but she keeps up with it in her cool timbre talking about stuff which is frankly unhygenic.
My favourite bit is when she saysNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1080175265098598122004-03-24T16:41:00.000-08:002004-03-24T16:44:32.920-08:00God, I've been so sporadic (good word - I shall endevour to use it more) with the bloggin'. Maybe I'm getting the pop-apathy Mr PJ is talking about. Actually, nah, I'm not, just obsessed with Uni projects (seriously, how much can write about rectangles?).
I've worked out why the kiddie-voices in the Kanye song work (hold on, this is quite revalatory for me); Kanye's trademark is pitched-up vocalNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1079624904953917762004-03-18T07:48:00.000-08:002004-03-18T07:51:44.106-08:00Isn't this like describing a baseball bat as the antidote to aspirin?Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1079358410035962032004-03-15T05:46:00.000-08:002004-03-15T05:50:04.780-08:00Kanye West - We Don't Care
It may have taken about three weeks to arrive because of rubbishy Amazon.co.uk, but the Kanye West album is great. The hip hop posse (actually, isn't the correct phrase "unit" or "crew" now? I don't know, I can't keep up) on ILM have been dissing it a bit saying it's not the meisterwork it could be, but for someone who does like a lot of hip hop but not to an obsessiveNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1079357735983197882004-03-15T05:35:00.000-08:002004-03-15T05:38:50.873-08:00Well, OK, that picture thing did work. Bugger. Ah well, maybe one day I will find a way to host pictures but until that day, this page will remain the preserve of only text and other pics you can find on better websites.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1078760163812614152004-03-08T07:36:00.000-08:002004-03-08T07:39:09.246-08:00Cool, it didn't. That may well mean I can post my own pics too now, as well as ones off this interweb thingy.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1078760098329247862004-03-08T07:34:00.000-08:002004-03-08T07:38:03.780-08:00This is a test which may well fuck up;
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1078756505183765842004-03-08T06:35:00.000-08:002004-03-08T06:38:10.606-08:00I'll try and stick a new sidebar track up when I get home tonight too.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1078756482126592842004-03-08T06:34:00.000-08:002004-03-08T06:37:47.530-08:00God, it's been awhile hasn't it? I was going to post something about Peter Andre last week but he's been made to look rather irrelevant by this rather wonderful news.
Yes, the Britney is number for the first time since Oops, I Did It Again. Rah for her, and boo for me, who though she'd get beaten by Peter Andre and Casper The Unfriendly DJ. This is also the first really good number one since at Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077912632916571872004-02-27T12:10:00.000-08:002004-02-27T12:13:25.216-08:00 Hi! Tim Kash here, you're host of the All New Top Of The Pops. You know, the other day, while relaxing in Andi Peters' spa bath (I like the bubbles), we hit upon a revelation. Andi said 'You know what Tim, we've been going the wrong way about this pop music TV show lark. What viewers want to see isn't music on a music show, it's fringe Hollywood stars "co-hosting" and fluffing their lines!'
'ByNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077813749887685782004-02-26T08:42:00.000-08:002004-02-26T08:45:20.186-08:00So a quick scan for Surferosa's website revealed their album is released in the UK on the 12th of April. They also do hella cool T-shirts (below), which are unfortunately only available at gigs. So tour Nottingham soon!
I well want that black one.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077812914164596792004-02-26T08:28:00.000-08:002004-02-26T08:31:24.640-08:00Ooh shit, I forgot to link to Edward's new column for Stylus, where he condenses his mind-boggling Soulseek Europop-finding skills down to a few hundred words.
Also at Stylus you'll find William Swygart's weekly chart rundown, which is worthwhile reading to say the least.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077812637009061702004-02-26T08:23:00.000-08:002004-02-26T08:26:47.543-08:00Surferosa - Saturday Night
I feel it is my civic duty to report that Edward is my new and only god. Out of the goodness of his heart he posts an MP3 of JC Chasez's Shake It on his blog for me, and also goes on to include this absolute gem, which I've had on repeat for the last 4 days or so. It's just killer in every sense of the word; buzzsaw guitar, drums firing on nitro and audible bass Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077810888211711122004-02-26T07:54:00.000-08:002004-02-26T07:57:38.293-08:00New Music In Public Places, Part 1
Fantasic! The bowling alley at last has new videos. I mean, they're not that good (the Beyonce single, Stacey Orrico, Boogie Pimps (OK, Boogie Pimps is quite good)) but at least they're new. I got sooooooo sick of the same fucking ones week after week. It reached a nadir about halfway through the third game when 2 Anastasia videos would come on in a row. God, INickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077549977552394272004-02-23T07:26:00.000-08:002004-02-23T07:29:03.873-08:00New sidebar feature alert!
I swear I spend more time on that sidebar than actually writing stuff. I guess it teaches me HTML, for whatever reason I might need it in the future (that's what I tell myself anyway). Anyway, the new feature is the Friends & Enemies list. The first two friends are Simon Amstell (the real saviour of Radio 1, when they finally wake up) and Max Martin (who was five yearsNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077496064580854992004-02-22T16:27:00.000-08:002004-02-22T16:30:30.140-08:00I've just had a horrible thought - I've been thinking for the last week that Britney is going to have an easy walk to the number one spot in two weeks' time with Toxic, but might it be that Peter Andre is coming out (steady headline writers!) that day too? I hope to god not, although knowing the sense of the not-so-great British singles-buying public, they'll probably leave on the top spot for Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077495140191727772004-02-22T16:12:00.000-08:002004-02-22T16:15:05.890-08:00Teaching The Indie Kids To Dance Again is a new MP3 blog, doing mainly the DFA NYC P'n'F (punk'n'funk) thang. Anyway, he's got this thing where he lists the first twenty tracks which come up on his MP3 player when he puts it on shuffle. So I thought I'd do it too, the little plagarist that I am;
1. Heartbreak High theme (ahem)
2. The Rentals - Friends Of P
3. Morgan Geist - Machine Vibes
4. Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077297381643987682004-02-20T09:16:00.000-08:002004-02-20T09:19:04.090-08:00
There's this guy in one of my lectures who is the spitting image of officially the worlds' greatest pop star (it woz proovd on World Idol sukkaz!) Kurt Nilsen, pictured above. The poor guy doesn't even look like he's having nearly as much fun as Kurt either. He has even worse hair too and judging by his t-shirts likes really shitty (and I mean shitter than your average indie band) indie bands.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077207511200241682004-02-19T08:18:00.000-08:002004-02-19T08:21:12.186-08:00Basement Jaxx' Mere Pass appears as a B-side to Good Luck, I have just been informed.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077147800273845082004-02-18T15:43:00.000-08:002004-02-18T15:45:59.950-08:00New Killer Tune on da sidebar: Found this Jaxx track in someone's Soulseek folder, and have no idea where it's from. Anyway, it's ace. It has this the sort of warped string intro you seem get in grime (que multitudes of grime experts telling me I'm talking bollocks) and then slides into the sort of funked-up propulsiveness you expect from the winners of the Brit award that had the worst shortlistNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077147084338911932004-02-18T15:31:00.000-08:002004-02-18T15:34:04.250-08:00Here's a rather rare piece about The Greatest Band Evah (that's the A*Teens, U PHUULZ) by *gasp* a serious music writer who wuvs them too! All is right with the world.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1077099028851415642004-02-18T02:10:00.000-08:002004-02-18T02:13:08.233-08:00It's The Brit Awards!
My thoughts:
1. Has Wes Butters become the voiceover of choice for youth media? Who actually thinks he's any good? He sounds like someone waaaay too overexcited by the fact his voice is beamed across the nation.
2. Why did they play a drum track over all the nominee clips? It fucked up the rhythm of them no end. And all that clipping to segment them in a DJ stylee, what Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1076881641287065432004-02-15T13:47:00.000-08:002004-02-15T13:49:56.873-08:00New sidebar song: I was going to pick Janet Jackson's almost unfairly ace Love Me For A Little While, but all the pop blogs have been bigging that up, and rightly so, so instead I'll recommend The Weekend's 80s Rockstar, which was on Fluxblog awhile back but has now no doubt gone. Anyway, get it off Soulseek 'cos it roolz. They're from London, but, and here's the twist, it's London, Ontario. Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1076881101822560202004-02-15T13:38:00.000-08:002004-02-15T13:40:57.513-08:00Apparently it was Tim Kash's birthday on Friday - Peter Andre presented him with a cake on Top Of The Pops (let's be honest, it's what everyone wants for their birthday) - so can I be the first to say
WHO IN THE HELL GIVES A SHIT?Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1076341570335197762004-02-09T07:46:00.000-08:002004-02-09T07:48:37.263-08:00Oh yeah, I've added my Soulseek username to the sidebar. Feel free to gorge yourselves on my erratic collection of unsorted gems.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1076341384692131602004-02-09T07:43:00.000-08:002004-02-09T07:45:31.653-08:00I've changed my tune of choice on the sidebar to Kelis' Trick Me. I really like the whole of Tasty, perhaps because she has broadened out from the Neptunes' sound. I hear her on a Neps beat and unless it's something mentally out-there like Milkshake, I end up comparing it to Kaleidoscope which is one of my favourite records ever, so new stuff will invariably come up short.
Trick Me is a Dallas Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1076340755874331932004-02-09T07:32:00.000-08:002004-02-09T07:35:02.936-08:00There's a great article about Timbaland and The Neptunes here by Sasha Frere-Jones, who apparently is really ace at this music writing lark, according to those in the know. It's pretty mammoth but dead interesting, when loads of talk about how producers make kick-arse records could be dead boring. It certainly beats hearing about how a guitarist got a certain sound from their geetarr.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1076011188895209442004-02-05T11:59:00.000-08:002004-02-05T12:03:47.513-08:00Possibly the most embarassing thing evah
A bloke's mobile started ringing in one of my lectures today - quite embarassing in itself, but the worse is still to come.
His ringtone was Clocks by Coldplay. Oh the shame! I'm ashamed just to be sharing a course with the guy.
Note for my stalkers: my ringtone is the Can-Can, because my phone is shit, and proud of it.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1075899907930495282004-02-04T05:05:00.000-08:002004-02-04T05:07:28.233-08:00Edward O writes of Kevin Lyttle's newie;
It's not as good, but really, how many songs really are better than Turn Me On. The song you're listening to on the radio right now almost certainly isn't.
To be fair, if you're listening to UK radio, the song you're listening to on the radio right now almost certainly IS Turn Me On, which is fine by me.
Also, has the Blazin' Squad movie already been Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1075494991049657892004-01-30T12:36:00.000-08:002004-01-30T12:38:44.483-08:00Top Of The Pops was as ritually rubbish as usual. Surely Tim Kash read the part of the Hutton Report describing him as a "worthless charisma vortex with one eye on presenting the lottery". I think the only honourable thing he can do is resign.
Stereophonics, despite fierce competition, were never really challenged for worst act on tonight. It's amazing how their current stuff makes Local Boy In Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1075393469015416362004-01-29T08:24:00.000-08:002004-01-29T08:26:40.983-08:00Oh yeah, if anyone wants to pikeyly sponge MP3s off me, my Soulseek username is Nick H. How wacky and zany I am.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1075393408245616652004-01-29T08:23:00.000-08:002004-01-29T08:25:40.233-08:00I'm loving more and more these blogs which are a-postin' and a-hostin' MP3s (Enthusiastic But Mediocre, Fluxblog, PopNose and Said The Gramophone seem to be the biggest), but unfortunately I lack the basic intelligence and fortitude required to do this here, so I present to you the next best thing (actually it's several rungs down the ladder but there you go), a new bit of the side bar called "Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1074961229618692652004-01-24T08:20:00.000-08:002004-01-24T08:22:34.780-08:00It said the number of illegal files on file-swapping networks such as Grokster and Kazaa had decreased from 1bn last April to 900m this month, a fall of 20%.
And so to the latest from the music industry's war on it's own paymasters (ie. us), as they unlease news of their latest weapons on downloaders: yes, as if lawsuits weren't deterent enough, the IFPI are now redefining the laws of Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1074621762738101572004-01-20T10:02:00.000-08:002004-01-20T10:04:42.746-08:00Having not bought any CDs yet this year (and let me this say this is a sad state of affairs), I went a bit ker-rayzee-mental this afternoon, but still ended up with 6 CDs for £28;
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (Special Edition)
Method Man - Tical
Mis-teeq - Eye Candy (Limited Edition)
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
X-Press 2 - Muzikizum
Good Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1074513483790710992004-01-19T03:58:00.000-08:002004-01-19T04:00:01.296-08:00Just has a disaster of an exam. I might scrape 30% which would be a soft fail, altogether less intimidating than the rather frighteningly-named HARD FAIL. What made the experience all the more depressing was the fact that I had Michelle's All This Time stuck in my head for two and a half fecking hours, although it is mildly better than one exam in the first year when I had Patrick Swayze's She's Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1074430768732568502004-01-18T04:59:00.000-08:002004-01-18T05:01:25.746-08:00For those non-ILMers who might frequent this blog, I've put a link to the great Stevem's index of ILM's Rough Guide To.... threads. For the unintiated, it's basically a list of compilations that you can make up as a guide to basically any genre you can think of. Well, OK, it doesn't take in every genre, but let's see if you could do better.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1074285066707255452004-01-16T12:31:00.000-08:002004-01-16T12:33:00.996-08:00FANTASTIC NEWS!!!
Yes, for the first time, like, ever, you can now email me (see sidebar). For some reason I was never able to work out how to put my address there before but I am now some kind of low-level tech whizz-kid. So send me some adulation, or something.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1073858185220193152004-01-11T13:56:00.000-08:002004-01-11T13:56:45.466-08:00A lot has been written about the various popstars of yesteryear and their creative contributions to the Girls Aloud album. Betty Boo, Lene Nystrom (who shouldn't be a popstar of yesteryear) and Bryan McFadden (who should) all have had their writing credits acknowledge by us slavouring GA obsessives.
But as yet no-one has seen to mention the credit of one Edele Lynch to the writing of Some Kind Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1073747363035240102004-01-10T07:09:00.000-08:002004-01-10T07:09:39.540-08:00The Escargot Cafe is an ace blog I've found which is all the more acer due to the fact that it agrees with me on the best song of 2003 AND it says why in a much better way too. Read and enjoy.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1073727381533071662004-01-10T01:36:00.000-08:002004-01-10T01:36:41.140-08:00Darts For Pleasure
Oh god, how I hope this is true and not a wind-up. Embarrassing it's sure to be but funny at the same time. Words cannot express how much I want them to cover Snap!'s The Power with Phil filling in for Turbo B.
*adopts Essex accent*
I will attack, AND YOU DON'T WANT THAT!Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1073576898206291832004-01-08T07:48:00.000-08:002004-01-08T07:48:37.880-08:00The inner rockist in me propels me to name my albums of 2003. So here's a top 5;
5. Zongamin - Zongamin
4. Jay-Z - The Black Album
3. Electric Six - Fire
2. Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground
1. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
There will be no explanation of this list; what do you think I am, a music writer?!Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1073576551693077532004-01-08T07:42:00.000-08:002004-01-08T07:42:51.446-08:00To procrastinate from revision, I decided to count the number of CDs I bought in 2003, and I think it was 55. Taking an average of £7 (that's a cracking bargain), that's £385 I've spent, which when added to the 50 odd quid I've spent going to gigs comes in at nearly £450 I pumped into an industry that if it had it's way would like to sue me for copyright infringement. This makes my revision make Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1073572686974933132004-01-08T06:38:00.000-08:002004-01-08T06:38:26.760-08:00Well I'm very sorry for the lack of action of the blog front recently. Unfortunately I have 4 days until my final year exams start so my time is rather taken at the moment. I finish a week this Tuesday so I'll try and think of lots of lovely stuff to write about for then.
In the meantime, if you go here you will find some cool bootleggy MP3s by a bloke called Happy Larry. I'd advise downloading Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1072283404480034432003-12-24T08:30:00.000-08:002003-12-24T08:33:03.076-08:00Well blow me tight, it's The Simple Peasures Top 10 Songs Of 2003!
Much effort has gone into ploughing (much like a plough through snow - ah the gift of the seasonal metaphor) through all the songs I've heard this year to finalise this year. A lot of quality missed out here, which I'm sure they'll get over eventually, but let me console them with the fact that 2003 was ace for music in my Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1072271286799422592003-12-24T05:08:00.000-08:002003-12-24T05:08:22.856-08:00Fantastic. My mum complained at the dinner table last night about how when she's at the gym and MTV's on, how all the videos are all so sexually-based, and that Christina Aguilera looks really slapperish.
She really should get a job as a talking head on one of those Channel 4 list shows.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1072122117851965432003-12-22T11:41:00.000-08:002003-12-22T11:42:13.156-08:00This is terrible. I'm stuck back at home with my parents' shitty dial-up connection and I feel lost in the desert when the tranquil ocean of pop is a great distance away (god, I could write songs with this metaphorin' (or was that a similie?)). I can't use Soulseek really, Popworld is on ridiculously early (how are fully grown adults supposed to get up at 9am when they are on holiday?), and my Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1071507595690029642003-12-15T08:59:00.000-08:002003-12-15T09:00:08.710-08:00Jay-Z - December 4th
Shawn was a very shy child. He was into sports, and a funny story is when he was 4 he taught himself how to ride a bike, a two-wheeler at that. Isn't that special?
Er, no. I learnt how to ride a bike when I was 4 too, doesn't mean I'm going to be a multi-platinum bajillionnaire rapper (although it doesn't mean I'm not). You're too easily impressed Mrs Carter.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1071230667847305202003-12-12T04:04:00.000-08:002003-12-12T04:04:40.786-08:00The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
I'm not a really big fan the Darkness (or the Draknees as I always mis-type them). The whole is-it-ironic-oh-it-doesn't-matter-because-the-tunes-are-good schtick has been done with far more vim and vigour (good phrase, I shall endevour to use it more) by the mighty Andrew WK (you can buy his opus I Get Wet for £3 in Fopp at the moment).
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070898434136357822003-12-08T07:45:00.000-08:002003-12-08T07:47:25.663-08:00Fantastic. It worked. Now I can post a better pic of Simon Amstell, the man who should be presenting the All-New Top Of The Pops;
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070898305036713012003-12-08T07:41:00.000-08:002003-12-08T07:45:16.590-08:00Because I'm bored, I'm going to test posting pics on here. Here's a picture of Tim Kash, presenter of the All-New Top Of The Pops;
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070890493009631372003-12-08T05:29:00.000-08:002003-12-08T05:35:04.483-08:00Yay! Simple Pleasures is back and baaaaaad. Well, back anyway. Not quite sure what happened these past few days but I'm going to blame Blogger because I'm feeling evil today.
Another Perfect Pop Moment this morning; getting a lift to Uni in my friend's car, So Solid Crew's 21 Seconds is on the radio. She hates that kind of thing so she whacks on a Wham! tape. Wham! song finishes and I decide to Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070556760463961722003-12-04T08:52:00.000-08:002003-12-04T08:52:50.710-08:00Missy Elliot - This Is Not A Test!
Wow, didn't think much of this on the first listen, but a second listen has changed my mind. I don't think Missy will ever do an album of just floor-filling club-stomping bonkersathons, because she seems to like singing ballads too much, but this seems to spread them out nicely and keep a fairly consistent theme of post-Grindin' booming beats, which Missy aces Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070228955668671072003-11-30T13:49:00.000-08:002003-11-30T16:09:48.110-08:00OK, maybe I was a bit harsh on the state of pop earlier. Will is number 1 so all is good.
Also I should probably big up the great Mr Edward O since he's being nice about me on his blog and he's letting me leech loads of lovely Europop off him on Soulseek. He's in the unenviable position of being obsessed with European pop but living 12,000 miles away.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070210377807142402003-11-30T08:39:00.000-08:002003-11-30T08:39:47.220-08:00What a terrible week for pop. Is it because this year has generally been so good that my expectations are sky high? The answer to this question is a resounding no. That's no. Let's consider the evidence;
1. Westlife beat Girls Aloud to number 1 last Sunday.
2. The televisual abortion which was the All-Poo, ahem, All-New Top Of The Pops occured. Let us never speak of it again.
3. The British Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1070025686806409022003-11-28T05:21:00.000-08:002003-11-28T05:21:35.930-08:00I know I've written about Daft Punk's Discovery before, but I was listening to it again on the walk to Uni this morning and got to the traffic lights just as the breakdown in Crescendolls came in, and then the little green man appeared as the hook kicked back and I started walking and a big grin grew across my face. It was just one of those perfect moments, I was with the song. It's made my Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1069939250368126222003-11-27T05:14:00.000-08:002003-11-27T05:20:59.223-08:00A new reason why being blind would be better than being deaf: A*Teens - Upside Down
This song has made me deliriously happy for the last 12 hours or so. It's just so, um, well, happy. Happiness distilled in digital musical form. I heard it being bigged-up on ILM and was a little intruiged, but BLAOW, this sledgehammered me into a new happy world the moment I heard it.
I've worked out what I Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1069686444974379472003-11-24T07:07:00.000-08:002003-11-24T07:07:33.210-08:00What is it with supa-ace Girls Aloud songs being kept off number 1 by songs by criminals? First it was alleged paedophile R Kelly with an admittedly semi-ace song, now it's arch crimes-against-pies-ers Westlife with their 13th (unlucky for just about everyone) number 1. This isn't right. Cheryl and Nadine make lesbian eyes at each other in the GA video and they re-enact the "Wannabe" video but inNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1069333759880946232003-11-20T05:09:00.000-08:002003-11-20T05:09:27.003-08:00First point, and one that's been bothering me for some time; Krazy from Blazin' Squad looks alarmingly like Hollywood movie star Owen Wilson. I knew he looked like someone, then it came to me in a divine flash of inspiration, probably not disimilar to that which strauck Isaac Newton when the apple landed on his head. So there you go - Krazy from Blazin' Squad and Owen Wilson. Haven't I made your Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1068816077100682972003-11-14T05:21:00.000-08:002003-11-14T05:21:22.553-08:00Yet another weird pop star dream last night. Not quite quite as good as golf with Nichola and Nadine, but still....
I was decorating my room, and bizarrely a microwave oven, with all of Liberty X. Tony and Michelle were very helpful, the rest less so. The microwave presented us with all manner of difficulties.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1068125020841716152003-11-06T05:23:00.000-08:002003-11-06T05:23:44.366-08:00Daft Punk - Homework
Well, finally got round to buying this last week, albeit £4 second-hand. Obviously, it's top, but you knew that.
I do seem to be banging on a lot recently about the maths computer room and its music-listening-to potential. At the moment I'm in there, but then I'm not. Daft Punk have transported me to a new world, full of haaaaaaaaaaaard bass and plinky-plonky synths, my Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1067987106895475662003-11-04T15:05:00.000-08:002003-11-04T15:05:10.163-08:00After thrilling you all with yesterday's news that I know someone who knows someone on the new Basement Jaxx album, I bring you more tenuous connections to pop stars.
I know someone who has the credit card number of Foo Fighter Dave Grohl via him coming into a shop where she worked. This could be used to absolutely cripple the man, preventing him from ever making a record again, although Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1067868249530660552003-11-03T06:04:00.000-08:002003-11-03T06:04:26.250-08:00A new feature: Blog Karaoke
Today: Jump (For My Love) by Girls Aloud;
JUMP doodahdoodahdoodah........ for mah love.......JUMP IN doodahdoodahdoodah......... feel mah touchNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1067868043041320872003-11-03T06:00:00.000-08:002003-11-03T06:00:46.016-08:00Again, due to lift to and from Uni at short notice (what? I'm lazy OK?), I forgot to pick up any CDs so the maths-drone of the Uni computer room is once again in full effect.
Interesting news over the weekend; I found out my friend's friend appears on the new Basement Jaxx album (which appears under the dictionary entry for "ace"). Unfortunately I'm not indirectly friends with Dizzee Rascal, Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1067433629405993672003-10-29T05:16:00.000-08:002003-10-29T05:20:30.860-08:00I have realised I have made a major blunder today. I walk to Uni and back every day and it takes me about half an hour each way, adding up to an hour, approximately the time it takes to listen to a decent length album on me discman.
I'm currently stuck at Uni in a computer room for 2 hours having made the whole way through The Human League's Dare which scandalously is only about 40 minutes long.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1067429765088117372003-10-29T04:05:00.000-08:002003-10-29T04:16:06.516-08:00I wuv Dizzee Rascal a lot. He is great. Boy In Da Corner is a little, um, bleak shall we say? So what a joy it is to hear him spitting his filthy vocal chords all over
Basement Jaxx feat Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star
Because it's a Jaxx song, there's a stupid amount going on in this track - Egyptian hooks, accoustic human beatbox breakdowns, yodelling cowboys, but in the middle of it all you see Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1067012035239854072003-10-24T09:13:00.000-07:002003-10-24T09:13:55.426-07:00No comment from me on Toilet-attendent-gate so instead let's talk about;
Busted - Crashed The Wedding
Actually, let's just talk about the intro. It's patently obvious to even the slightly sane that the song itself is awesomer than awesome.
It starts with that song organists play at weddings (is it Here Comes The Bride? It's over 20 years since my last wedding) slightly sped up and then, no Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1066645455648162772003-10-20T03:24:00.000-07:002003-10-20T03:24:15.540-07:00Another strange pop dream last night; I was playing golf with Nadine and Nicola from Girls Aloud . I was absolutely whipping them, although Nadine was quite good. Nicola was rubbish.
What can this mean?Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1066393998609422952003-10-17T05:33:00.000-07:002003-10-17T05:33:18.316-07:00A very strange musical dream I had last night; I was at some sort of celebrity Top Of The Pops special where all the audience were (semi) famous and they all got to perform. I seemed to be the only non-famous person there, so during The Darkness' performance of I Believe In A Thing Called Love, Justin from The Darkness picked me out of the crowd and started swinging me around by my feet, Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1066327640275362612003-10-16T11:07:00.000-07:002003-10-16T11:07:20.300-07:00Yipes, nearly a week without posting - slacker than slack, eh? To be fair, work is starting to pile up - why can't I just crap on the internet for a living? Also, anyone who knows anything about combinatorial group theory, email me and I'll make it worth your while, if you know worrimean.
Anyway, to make up, here's that rare beast, a concert review by me;
Super Furry Animals @ Stoke Keele Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065881731835659032003-10-11T07:15:00.000-07:002003-10-11T07:16:11.216-07:00Crikey, 3 days without posting. That is slack, and I have punished myself in an appropriate manner. Apologies.
25 Reasons why Betty Boo is the greatest pop star evah
1. Like a lot of great pop stars, she's got a cartoon personality.
2. Unlike a lot of pop stars, she's actually named after a cartoon character (sort of).
3. She didn't bother with crappy ballads.
4. She instead bothered a lot Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065615861593378752003-10-08T05:12:00.000-07:002003-10-08T05:24:21.730-07:00Obie Trice - Got Some Teeth
I like this a lot. So much in fact that I've almost forgotten what that Holly Valance song sounds like. Actually I haven't forgotten because I know it sounds mental and ace. But anyway, Obie Trice....
I believe this track is produced by Eminem, which will no doubt be a selling point to some because, like, he's the world's biggest rapper and all. I guess he's quite a Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065482903365350432003-10-06T16:28:00.000-07:002003-10-06T16:28:23.290-07:00Band T-shirts
I've come to the conclusions that:
a) Students have shit music taste.
b) They seem strangely proud of it.
There is no other way to explain someone wearing a Jet T-shirt. Jet were the greatest band in tha werld evah a few months back because they'd listened to no music since 1976 and didn't like DJs. So say the NME anyhoos. I haven't heard any of their music but I am nye on Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065362004322466432003-10-05T06:53:00.000-07:002003-10-05T06:53:24.556-07:00Holly Valance - State Of Mind
Frrrrrrmmmmmpppphhhh, I had my provisional end-of-year singles list all sorted in my head and then Flick Scully comes along and spazzs it all up. I guess it was inevitable she would, after the Scullys are undoubtedly the best family Ramsey Street has ever seen and they caused all kinds of madness when they came in. Also, the "Kiss Kiss" video proved that the sun (orNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065286730855692552003-10-04T09:58:00.000-07:002003-10-04T09:58:50.246-07:00Missy Elliot - Pass That Dutch
Man, what a song to be undecided about. First let's pretend it's 3 years ago and Missy's last album was "Da Real World". Then this would be possibly the greatest thing since the initial inception of things.
However, currently it leaves me a little meh. If it came on in a club I'd still contort my body in a way I like to call dancing, yelling all the words and Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065107502088026212003-10-02T08:06:00.000-07:002003-10-02T08:11:42.133-07:00Justin Timberlake - "Senorita"
This song has altered the way I speak the English language. I now can't actually say the word "Justin" without saying "JUSTIN!" like Pharrell does at the start of this song. It makes me sound very camp but it's just goddamn unavoidable. Curse you Williams.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1065039504904150962003-10-01T13:04:00.000-07:002003-10-01T13:18:24.800-07:00I'm sat here trying to work out why some bloke is only letting me download some tracks off "As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 1" and not others, my mind casts back to last Saturday, and an incident I seem to have only just remembered.
Picture the scene; I'm in Selectadisc, perusing the Trojan section when the sister rings. After yelling at her "bog off, I'm record shopping", I step back into the Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1064929382474650152003-09-30T06:37:00.000-07:002003-09-30T06:43:02.070-07:00Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverence
Obviously Bubba Sparxxx has an excellent name. He's all fat and cuddly and it's like he tries to kiss you at the end of his name. Oooh, he's so cute.
However, Bubba's gettin' serious on yo' respective asses. I don't really listen to rap lyrics but I get the impression he's painting a vivid picture of a man's epic struggle against restrictive forces, or sommat.
Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875285.post-1064874695371069842003-09-29T15:31:00.000-07:002003-09-29T15:39:09.640-07:00Sugababes - "Hole In The Head"
What I love about this;
the insanely catchy bridge and chorus hooks. I had a walk of about 45 minutes yesterday and my discman's batteries died about 5 minutes in, and these bits were in my head for the rest of the journey. This was a very good thing. Especially as they played it at the pub when I got there.
Also, the little popping drums which sort of ricochet Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854552589387261333noreply@blogger.com