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  1. The Streets, Revisited

    After the shock that was A Grand Don't Come For Free, I mentally added The Streets' first album, 'Original Pirate Material' to my 'should buy that at some point' list of CDs.

    It's in good company, I think, alongside such delights as Pulp's 'Different Class', and Interpol's 'Turn On The Bright Lights'. We all have lists like this, I'm sure - albums we always mean to listen to, films we always mean to see, books we always mean to read, celebrities we always mean to seduce - we just never quite get around to it.

  2. Magazines

    Prompted by the folding of style magazine The Face, Simon Collison at collylogic.com writes an article entitled "The Monthly Style Magazine - R.I.P

  3. Miss Kittin

    This is a difficult one for me to comment on, what with my musical taste generally revolving around arse-ugly Indie bands and 60s wannabees --- what can I possibly say about European electronica?

  4. The Who

    I've always been in two minds about 'Greatest Hits' compilations. On the one hand, you have all of the artist's most popular hits – ones that you might even know more than the chorus too – in one handy collection. It's the artist at their best. No padding, no filler. No b-sides or remixes. Simply their greatest hits. An precursor, perhaps, to launching a fully-fledged collection of their back catalogue. All well and good.

  5. Pixies

    So, I went to see the Pixies on Wednesday. They were pretty good. I wasn't an enormous fan, had heard their music, liked some of it, nothing particularly life-changing, but the hype surrounding their return was enough to make me want to be a part of it, because then I can tell people I saw the Pixies live, and they can envy me. And they do.

  6. The Streets

    My first experience of The Streets was on a chat show, where they performed 'Fit And You Know It' from their latest album. I thought it was awful. Just a bunch of lads who couldn't sing. What were people thinking? They'd been on the cover of NME, and gotten Single of The Week. I didn't get it.

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