My brother’s blanket

My brother’s blanket

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Well, there is my brother's blanket in all it's glory, being modelled so nicely by my brother himself, but what on Earth does it have to do with this Massive Attack track Unfinished Sympathy? So I was watching MTV one day (back in the days when MTV only played music all day rather than non-stop repeats of Pimp My Ride,…

Music reviews

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Wow yeah, I totally forgot I wrote these. Jem ~ Finally Woken If you lived in America, you'd have heard of Cardiff-born Jemma Griffiths, aka Jem. In a Dido-esque reversal of convention, the 29 year old British singer is already a huge star in the United States, yet a relative unknown in her native land. You may have heard the…

2009 Top 10: Invaders Must Die

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The long awaited new album from The Prodigy came out early in 2009, on the same day as Jane and I moved in with her Mum and Dad. This meant I didn't get it on release day, but a few days after once everything had settled down a bit. It helped a lot, diverting attention away from all these strange…

Are you a pirate?

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Do you pirate games? Do you illegally download music? Watch dodgy copies of films bought from suspect looking guys sitting on the high street? Do you regret doing any of this? Personally, I try not to pirate anything. Things like Spotify and last.fm are brilliant, I've got into quite a few artists that I probably wouldn't have otherwise and actually…

Sunday Service

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A lot of stuff happened this week that didn't deserve a post of their own. This very rarely happens, but, if I can remember enough random things from the week before then I'll try to do this every Sunday, like a weekly round-up of boring shit wrapped up in the façade of actually being interesting because it's more diverse than…
My favourite album of all time

My favourite album of all time

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There's loads that come close (I shall refrain from listing them all), but the one that I always come back to has to be Sunday 8pm by Faithless. I never tire of listening to it, there's such a mix of styles, and not something you'd expect if all you've ever heard of Faithless is their chart stuff (God is a…

Baby’s Got A Temper

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This little-known Prodigy track was released between The Fat of the Land and Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned and definitely has that unmistakable Prodigy vibe from the Firestarted/Breathe era, doesn't it? Thing is though, Liam felt it was too like the previous stuff, publicly disowned it, and went off in a totally different direction. Well, it sounds nothing like anything on…