Tag: Taylor Swift
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RC 339: Tier Drops At Xmas aka XMash
With the rushed news of a rushed Tier 3 for Lockdown London (which I have just rebranded Lockdon as of two seconds ago), I decided to follow suit and rush out a podcast early for the second of the Xmas shows. I bet you were ‘havering‘ for it! *bad inside Lockdon joke* This is of…
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Working Down On Mashup Farm: Microserfs and the New Economy
Something is very much not right in the state of Denmark – well if Denmark was the state of mashups. Recent events have suggested that certain platforms will now welcome mashups, unofficial remixes, unlicensed DJ mixes, podcasts of commercial music and the like. Apple made waves two weeks ago with such an idea of licensing…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…
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Dose of Buckley on T-Swizzle
Good point about poor little Taylor Swift and her war on Spotify by A Dose of Buckley. Her work isn’t rare art, I would dispute it is art at all, apart from the pop-art sense. But certainly it’s not as special or wonderful as she thinks (I notice that Shake It Off makes his Top…
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Playlisted to death & Peel vs the Playlist
A few days ago there was a flurry on twitter as BBC Radio 1 live twittered this week’s Playlist meeting. What was said was very revealing and I think revealed a lot about where I think Radio 1 has gone wrong, especially as there really isn’t the same 80’s style monoculture anymore – the feeling…