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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.
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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” →
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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. →