Month: December 2016
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(Yes I’d like to) Wipe 2016
The Philomena Cunk joke about holes with Brian Cox was laugh out loud funny, saved a really quite sobering 2016 Wipe…not Brooker & co.’s fault, it’s just been a really shit and depressing year. The Cassetteboy bits were good though. Personally I can’t wait for 2016 to fuck right off, and no amount of boring…
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OH FFS 2016. RIP George Michael
Bowie, Prince and now George Michael. Really 2016 is the shitty year that keeps on giving. 🙁 Queer icon, and great songwriter, what can I say? Well you’re out of time I’m letting go You’ll be fine (or maybe you won’t) You’re out of time I’m letting go Wham was fun but his solo stuff…
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RIP Rick Parfitt
RIP Rick Parfitt, who was good enough for John Peel so good enough for me…snobs can get lost! Quo are ace, as this Cuban Boys remix proves. But you knew that right?
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Music theory of mashups
Via SpareElbowSkin, this is a fascinating video – I had heard of Quodlibet, it’s all over the Wikipedia Mashup page like a Radio 3 rash – but the idea of stacking mashups til basically madness is fun. The thing is, I never studied any of this stuff – sometimes it shows, LOL – but I…
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Cabbage
Coming over like an amped up Fat White via Dead Kennedies and a few others, I quite like Cabbage’s irreverent take on psych/psychobilly/garage/punk…and their politics are very on point for this fucked up year. And 6Music are playing them a lot in almost permanent rotation, despite the very silly name… I mean they sing about how…