PLAGIARISM!

The Clash - (white man) In Hammersmith Palais

I've been listening to the first Clash album a lot this week, it got swamped initially after I bought it the same week a load of amazon shit arrived. I prefer it to London Calling. Wouldn't call it 'better' but yeah, love it.

Yeah, but that's the whole problem.

thurs, 10:30

I'd go with the deflated Vin Diesel before the Schwimmer comparison. Do you have a better picture yet?

3 Doors Down, oh christ. I once had the pleasure of working in a store where the twat of a manager would play their CDs continuously for 8 hours a day. I mean, I can understand liking a band, but who the hell has such an unbelievably one dimensional and horrific musical taste that would allow them to play one fucking album for 8 hours with no regard for anyone else who was stood there for the same amount of time?

The trouble with reuniting the original FBI in WWE is that Vince would never think of having two small guys in a heel team. And if he did, he wouldn't dare put them over anyone. The majority of the fanbase isn't used to it either.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen

Again, US rap fans, check out Roots Manuva!

CW Anderson was pretty much the only guy having consistently good matches towards the end of ECW, I thought.

How do Killing Joke fare in the US? A lot of Butthole Surfers forum folks I talk to seem to like em. I guess they weren't really metal in the 80s, but that new CD er, really is.

Whilst they're playing it up now they have the spotlight, you can't deny the quality of pop songwriting there and only after seeing them live do you see how talented they actually are.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor Awesome pioneering Japanese electronica, very similar to the music from Sonic The Hedgehog I adore so much, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ryuichi Sakamoto did that actually. He rules. Devo (reissue) Duty Now for the Future and New Traditionalists. Bad idea to re-release two albums on one CD, they got a bit patchy after Are We Not Men?.

Again, I beg any US hip hop fans to check out a guy called Roots Manuva. He doesn't seem to release enough stuff, but he's probably the best British artist out there.

The best thing about the thrills as that they can't pronounce their own name.

His matches are ALWAYS over. In fact, he's probably one of the few to get over enough to warrant a main event push based solely on his wrestling performances.

What a crowning acheivement for anyone to aspire to.

I know it's not 'Ask Saturnmark' but I can't go without saying how much I despise Franz Ferdinand. Soon as we quietly forget about the sheer banal horror of Jet and The Thrills these twats slide in. One of them loves Sparks though, so he's not totally criminally useless.

'cept to they own brains...

What's your favourite Dead Milkmen song?

This week I dug out 'Lateralus' by Tool, 'Vauxhall and I' by Morrissey, all the soundgarden stuff and the 'Richard D James LP' by Aphex Twin having left them on the shelf for a while. Lovely stuff.

Have you heard of 'Crime and The City Solution'? Another Mick Harvey project. I'v been meaning to check them out, many say their album 'Shine' is an unacknowledged masterpiece. I was gonna get some of Barry Adamson's solo stuff as well, but I'd better wait till payday. Ebay has fucked me over this month.

If something isn't popular, and it's crap, I probably won't like that either. As I posted before, I like some pop music, and really, dismissing an entire genre is retarded. I don't like much nu metal. I don't like much country, but I love Frank Black's country stuff. I don't much care for reggae, but Jimmy Cliff is one of the best live acts I've seen, and the same applies to De La Soul and hip-hop. Nu Metal is one genre where I struggle to find a good example, but I always maintained I have nothing against slipknot, who weren't hugely talented and talked shite but at least seemed genuinely into their shows. I think the closest thing to nu metal I love is killing joke. They did a hell of a lot to invent many of the conventions in the 80s and the new album is the absolute essence of what every other nu metal band strives for. You might like it. It's tremendous production without the over-production that bands like LP suffer from.

Whilst his opinion of the Beatles is legendary in its awfulness, I think Sinatra is too high on his list. Nothing special. I would agree with you Agent that the one criticism you could make against Primus would be one of diversity, but then the one criticism you could make of Bungle would be one of focus. Course, I'm all for fucking shit up, as they say.

Sounds about right.