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absolutely, it's just noise these days, it all sounds the same, you can't tell the groups apart, can't tell if it's a man or a woman, not like in my day, dickie valentine had proper tunes, etc.

The major two problems with the current Doctor Who series: (a) in terms of structure, as Bassnation pointed out, it is turning into Quantum Leap. (b) I cannot stand David Tennant.

All we need now is to find that Russell T Davies figure who will triumphantly resuscitate the programme and make everybody want to watch it. Any volunteers?

"embarrassing Olivia Newton-John tracks"? The boy's a fool!

A sad example of what happens to a perfectly decent programme when idiots decide to fuck with the formula. If TOTP had stayed with its original remit - to show what was selling in the charts that particular week, irrespective of genre or "coolness" - it would have remained a strong and...

Robbie Williams' biography is apparently the third greatest music book ever written. Val Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life is conspicuous by its absence. I think that tells us all we need to know about this latest sponsored exercise in deliberate idiocy.

I feel that way about some bands - for instance, it would please me perfectly if Boards of Canada kept putting out the same record, for those same "drifting/slight" reasons. With Sonic Youth, however, I just feel that it's cluttering up my shelves. That having been said, I have never actually...

It comes to something when RATM get rated above '90s SY! I remember wincing when I heard "Youth Against Fascism." Even Bryan Ferry would have made a better fist of that!

They turned into a parody of themselves after Daydream Nation. Some of the later albums have "interesting" moments (doesn't the word "interesting" make you want to go to sleep more often than not?) but it's not as if anyone rushes to pull Washing Machine or A Thousand Leaves off the shelves.

It does strike me that the record virtually demands a critical/aesthetic perspective/reaction which is uniquely British, and 2006 British at that (even though the tracks were recorded over a five-year period). It's a remarkable and frequently astonishing record - the negative image of SAW II...

Looks like they want to replicate the Dr Who remake/remodel, even down to getting the same lead actor. Should this be dreaded or anticipated?

Nice try but I'm still not buying it (the album, that is).

In response to the original question: rearrange the following words to make a well-known phrase: "HANDS," "COLD," "DEAD," "MY."

Personally I think that if a writer hasn't got anything to write about, then they shouldn't write. I interviewed Mike Skinner at the time of the last album's release and he said that the next one would involve his taking a look at the wider world with maybe not so much of "him" in it. I'm...

They talked a good game but I'm not sure they played one. I've still got One Thousand Years Of Trouble but "Learn To Pray" is the only track on it which I review regularly. Much of the rest of it conjures to immediate mind unsavoury 1987-type words such as "News On Sunday," "Channel 4 youth...

Another writer wise enough to hang onto the day job, eh? ;)

very nice dave! i'll give it a listen. i haven't done anything on resonance in ages. unfortunately i cannot think of any decent programme "ideas" short of just coming in, playing things I like at the moment and making endless philosophical digressions, and just coming in and playing things...

If you've heard the Russell Watson/Shaun Ryder version of "Barcelona," you may come to the conclusion that such enterprises read better than they might actually turn out. I'd definitely invest in Aphex Twin - The Musical though (Vicar There's An Analogue In My Bubblebath? Does anyone have the...

wot even mark stewart?

didn't herbert produce the new album?