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THE HOT AND
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Le Mec:
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- Having to select albums for the Year By
Year section has put me through encounters with many albums I hadn't
listened to for a while. It's normally a very pleasant experience and it's comforting in
the way that if somehow no more music could ever be made, there's plenty of great albums
already out there to last a lifetime...
- Try this:
You need to position yourself in front of your stereo relatively late at night with the
sound turned up. Make sure there are no distractions between you and the
"altar". Then put on a song filled with emotion and melancholy and let yourself
be swept away. Doing this really works as some kind of soul recharging for me and I really
should do it more often. The last time I did it the song was "Streets Of
Philadelphia" with Bruce Springsteen. Shivers ran down my spine...Woah!!
- A strange
phenomenon is occuring here at headquarters: having turned 30 I should be
getting older and my taste in music should be turning slightly towards the more mature
tones...instead part of me is driving the exact opposite way since I find myself being
sucked in by parts of the ever forgettable and disposable pop and dance music filling up
the charts. I mean, normally someone like Alice Deejay shouldn't be able to penetrate my
mature hide, but somehow her best songs have gone right through. The conclusion to it all,
however, is that the phrase "age is a state of mind" holds true more than ever -
and that I, if this tendency continues, will soon find myself back in the teenage
discos...
Notlist
- The new album from Mansun, "Little Kix", seems rather ordinary to
me. The band have never really reached the marvelous heights of their debut "Attack Of The Grey Lantern" and their third album only sees
them reduced even more to a rather ordinary band among all the other Brits. The potential
is definitely there but they've chosen not to make any use of it. What a shame...
- Everybody's known it for some time, but
I think the time has come to make it official: Oasis
have finally become a parody of themselves. They can't write good songs anymore and on
stage they manage to make the good songs they have pretty boring (they've never really
been that good on stage anyway). For someone, the times are really a-changin'...
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