Search results for: “Sex Pistols”
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Unofficial Anthems 1: Good Morning Britain
The Muse Olympic theme tune has been released and ho-hum, it’s the bastard lovechild of Mr Blue Sky, John Miles (!) and Flash-era Queen guitar squiggles meeting unironic Triumph-of-Will-style Laibach vocals. So usual Muse then. *boom tish*. No it really reminds me of Laibach, in a rather unhealthy way…except I guess Leni would use a…
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Dub Save The Queen
It’s surprising how little kickback/KLF or Sex Pistols style piggybacking there is about HMQ’s Diamond Jubilee – I mean in Olympics year with Chillax King Cameron on the real throne it’s ripe for a little fun. Instead you get the likes of Lily Cole and Bono (yes fucking Bono) turning up to celebrate the old…
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Don’t Tase Me Bro! The return of DEVO
Really digging the DEVO album ‘Something for Everybody’ the first proper DEVO album (The Wipeouters and Jerry Jihad don’t really count, but are good too). They’ve not lost their acerbic wit on songs such as Sumthin’, Fresh, What We Do, and Watch Us Work It – and of course they sound achingly current, because De-Evolution…
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They only did it cos of fame – Who? (Couldn’t happen to a nicer company)
You need Guy Hands to hold a company you don’t care for You need Guy Hands to show that he’s insincere When you feel nobody wants to know you You need Guy Hands to brush away the tears easily disposable assets under the carpet as quickly as possible EMI worth £2bn less than what Terra…
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Song of the decade: When Xtina met Julian
Guardian has a great article today about Freelance Hellraiser and his incredibly influential Stroke of Genius with namechecks to the dearly missed Boomselection blog, The Remix, and GHP amongst others (and Girl Talk and totally nails that he’s a ‘dead end’ of ADD hyper referentiality in the mashup phenomenon). Much has been said about Stroke…