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It's a tricky question, this, and one I've given a fair bit of thought to. I mean, there's been hip-house records for as long as there's been hip-hop, but the big arpeggiated synth/trance stylings have only been a factor in the last few years. I recall there was a DJ Hell/Puffy team-up circa...

Oh, and to add to my list of clichés: if anyone refers to the thing they're reviewing as a 'product', you are entitled to disregard everything they say. 'Product' should only be used in a mathematical or chemical context. (Or maybe with reference to, I dunno, bleach or something.) A DVD, book...

Cheers for your thoughts, Crackerjack/Bruno. Crackerjack - I suppose the 'recycled press release' line was going a bit far, you're right, but I do find most reviews (particularly of films) spend 80% of their time detailing the cast, plot, director, etc, and then finish with "...and it's...

Right, I said in the 'Is Dissensus dead? thread that new threads were in order, so let's have it. I like reading reviews of things. Music, films, books, theatre, videogames, restaurants, whatever - I lap them up. (I seem to recall devouring issues of Which? magazine whilst awaiting dentistry.)...

I deliberately avoided the football all day so I could watch the highlights without knowing the scores. I've just finished doing so. Bloody great. What a night for Ferguson to relinquish his ongoing 'fuck the BBC' stance, they couldn't have timed it better even if they'd wanted to, in terms of...

Heard this on 1xtra earlier this week, and the appearance of a Hall & Oates thread today reminded me of it: I suppose the 80's revival was going to reach dancehall eventually. (That is, the revival of mainstream 80's sounds, as opposed to 80's dancehall a la Wayne Smith/King Jammy.) For all...

I've been playing chess against the computer this week whilst having lunch, and keep getting trounced. I used to be quite good when I was younger, and I still think my middle-game and endings are decent - y'know, forks, pins, skewers, sacrifices for position, all that good stuff. I know to check...

I Can't Go For That. (Wo-oh-woh, no can do.) I love this song, the little piano trills and the walking bassline. And the vocals. Dammit, I love all of it. Out Of Touch is good, too, though I'm aware I'm stating the obvious choices. I don't know much of their repertoire beyond the hits.

Sandalwood. Mmmmm. And Vicks' Vaporub (though not at the same time, obv). I really like any sort of menthol/decongestant (Olbas Oil is nice too), but maybe's that's because I associate pleasant soothing effects with the smell, rather than solely enjoying the scent on its own. Ooh, and coffee...

"Looks dead - but it isn't, it just wishes it was." Isn't it just the summer slowdown which affects all things - people are out in the sun or on holiday or whatever? Pretty sure that, when people are stuck inside in the cold come November, they'll be more vociferous. The only way to...

I've been tying myself in knots trying to give a brief and succinct response to this, because I've spent a lot of my life worrying about whether I should profess likings for things that my peers deem to be shit, but ultimately: no, don't feel ashamed. Thing is, if your tastes generally fall...

Whoops, crossed wires then. I suppose he has got a rapey face, now I look at it.

Strike the prose, there's nothing to it - Vogue (Vogue, Vogue, Vogue).

Not necessarily - it's the first thing they teach you when you work in a call centre, which is one of the least grown-up jobs of all. Learning it independently, though - yes. It doesn't always make things clearer, anyway - one caller had mumbled his name, I wasn't sure if it was "Mr M Smith"...

The questionable (actually, no - extremely unpleasant) lyrical content doesn't appear to have hurt his progress one bit, though. Either people don't care or don't even register, and as I've been singing his praises, it appears I fall somewhere between these camps. I've got some violently...

I liked this, kind of like if Orbital made funky. (Allow the irritating anti-piracy vocal bits on the Youtube, at least they're in time.)

It doesn't? Balls. I couldn't place it and was just being presumptuous from the title. You're right, though, it would fit perfectly. Need to dig out some Cocteaus, haven't listened to them for years. Hmm... I do agree about the guitars being a bit too prominent, on reflection. It's probably...

Aw. Love you too, Leo. :)

Right, I'm well aware that this next track won't be up everyone's street, and yes, it is quite euro in places (though more house than trance), which usually prompts the use of (inverted commas) 'r&b', and it is distinctly silly, but this made me both laugh and revel after too much rum the other...

I didn't explicitly call him bad, it was more annoyance at the way famous relation automatically equals profile (hence the 'sordid'), but, er...(thinks)...fuck it, yes. I scorn him. I'm sure his music probably isn't the abomination that (for instance) Paris Hilton's was - like you, I've not yet...