Apparently Lance Armstrong thinks the criticism around him is petty bullshit. Because it’s not like he ruined people’s lives. Creep. More cut-up genius here.
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Tune Of The Day: Creep – Matthijs Vlot (feat. Lance Armstrong)
Tagged with: 90s, cover version, indie, Lance Armstrong, radiohead, rock
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Posted in Music, Uncategorized
#shfl11: Radiohead – How To Disappear Completely
Whilst Kid A, the album that How To Disappear Completely is taken from, may have been named by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone & The Times as the best album of the noughties, I’d guess that for those of us who aren’t…
Pete Kuzma – High & Dry feat. Bilal (Radiohead Cover)
Many moons ago, when I’d not been blogging all that long, I wrote about a Radiohead cover I’d heard on Gilles Peterson’s show. It was a cover version of Just by some hip young New Yorker by the name of…
Tagged with: Bilal, cover version, gilles peterson, jazz, mark ronson, Pete Kuzma, radiohead, soul
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
20 Essential 90s Albums
In its ongoing bid to have more sub-brands than any other media owner, Absolute Radio recently launched a new niche-station, this time one tailor-made for those of us currently experiencing the dizzying pangs that come with realising nostalgia isn’t just…
Tagged with: 90s, baggy, blur, Coldcut, Daft Punk, DJ Shadow, Dr Dre, Happy Mondays, hip hop, house, indie, Lauryn Hill, list, Manic Street Preachers, Massive Attack, oasis, paul weller, Presence, Primal Scream, Public Enemy, radiohead, Reprazent, rock, Roni Size, The Sundays, Tricky, trip hop, Wu-Tang Clan
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Posted in Music
Best Albums Of The Noughties
On Friday Absolute Radio announced the result of its song of the decade vote: shockingly the top 10 doesn’t include the Arctic Monkeys, Strokes or White Stripes but does include two songs each by The Killers & Snow Patrol, a…
Tagged with: Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Common, Dizzee Rascal, Elbow, Estelle, Fleet Foxes, Gomez, hip hip, jamie lidell, Jazzanova, Jose James, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, list, Marc Mac, Nitin Sawhiney, Norah Jones, noughties, Ohmega Watts, Omar, paul weller, radiohead, rock, the streets, The Strokes, Tuomo, Ty, Visioneers, zero 7
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Posted in Music
Best Songs Of The Noughties
So, when Absolute Radio announced their quest to find the best songs of the decade, I said that I found it hard to pick any. Well, I’ve changed my mind, thanks to some inter-office discussions (ending in this playlist) and…
Tagged with: amerie, Amy Winehouse, Aqualung, Arctic Monkeys, ben westbeech, Coldplay, Common, Damon Albarn, Dizzee Rascal, garage, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, hip hop, indie, jamie cullum, jazz, Jose James, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, mark ronson, N.E.R.D., noughties, paul weller, pharrell williams, R&B, radiohead, rock, the streets, The Strokes, Travis, zero 7
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Primal Scream: The Best Ever Mercury Winner?
So last night the winner of this year’s Mercury Music Prize was announced as Speech Debelle’s debut Speech Therapy. I have to say that I was pretty underwhelmed by the decision: it’s not a bad album, but I wonder how…
Tagged with: blur, dance, hip hop, house, indie, M People, Mercury Music Prize, Music, oasis, Primal Scream, radiohead, Speech Debelle, The Verve
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Radiohead – Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
I am the only one that got through The others died where ever they fell It was an ambush They came up from all sides Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves I’ve…
Tagged with: Arctic Monkeys, British Legion, Charity, Harry Patch, indie, Oxfam, radiohead, rock
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Radiohead – No Surprises
I realised the other day that I had lost my copy of Radiohead’s OK Computer. You’ll be relieved to know that I have now rectified that situation. This is my favourite song off of the album, although I’ll probably have…
Jazzanova feat. Ben Westbeech – I Can See (Remix Competition)
As part of my ongoing nostalgia trip (I think it’s an end of year thing) & because I was on the subject of artists introduced to me by Gilles Peterson, I also checked out Ben Westbeech’s MySpace profile to see…
Tagged with: ben westbeech, brownswood, DJ Shadow, gilles peterson, Jazzanova, radiohead, remix
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Posted in Music
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