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I think it's just cos the things that signify "cool" have been pretty much consistent for about 4-5 years now, so everybody no matter how clueless has had a chance to pick up on it in their local department store - they've got the semi-long messy hair, the stubble and the pre-faded jeans...

Well I can't link to or quote sources, but I've definitely seen academic material which documents that nearly everyone has at least 5 or 6 different modes of speech or accents dependent on context. Most of the time we're not aware of it, and as pointed out above, this can be as simple as not...

It's quite shocking seeing that and seeing how 80s it all looks - like how high and tight everyone's trousers are, and all the silly hats and everything... Rams it home how long ago this all was!

Big compared to what? I dunno, I feel there's something kind of wrong with using jungle and 2step (or even broken beat) as a benchmark for grime's likely worldwide success. Those are all dance music forms (and fwiw, are dance music forms that as a percentage of the total dance market might...

Hah! Yes, the Space Merchants is excellent, and extremely grotesquely funny - especially the bits involving the huge ever-growing chicken. Another big omission is having any comics whatsoever e.g. Jodorowsky's "Incal"

's a frustrating book because sometimes he gets it really right, and says something new and interesting, but more often he gets things really fuckin wrong. Francis Ween also interestingly points out how John Gray has come through a 180 degree shift on most of his opinions in the course of his...

Well ardkore is alive and, well, kicking in the Netherlands, if not in London. And even chucking up new permutations all the time eg Newstyle and Jumpstyle...

More to the point - what happens when everybody has a robot army? Like, can you have a war where nobody dies? Wouldn't it just be easier for Bush and Kim Jong Il just to sit down and settle things with a game of Tekken?

The one that got me was a couple of years back hearing Menta's "Sound of the future" used as the background music on a Champion's League interstitial on BBC1....

mpc, is wang still going? That warms me cockles, that does...

Yeah when I'm foolin around at home I find that loads of my old speed garage records fit seamlessly into electrohouse or techno sets. And actually, the early choppy stuff that turned into 2step (e.g. Ramsey and Fen - "Style" or Grant Nelson dubs of US tracks) mixes really nicely with microhouse...

From the DJ Richard page: "Any big bassline DJ will also pride themselves on their collection of rare and obscure bassline tunes (snipers). Thousands of speed garage records were released during the initial speed garage boom of 1997-8. As the supply of new speed garage records dried up DJ's...

Is this like the 4x4 stuff they like in Essex? Essentially scratchy garage beats like Grant Nelson c1997 with a big jungle bassline and some diva warbles on it? RWD had a feature on it a while back...

Yeh, but that's plainly a category mistake of confusing "indie" the genre with "independent music". Aftershock is an independent label, Kompakt is an independent label, and both of those cleave to a "modernist agenda". And if the point is "the mainstream media support unchallenging music"...

Apparently baseball players think you can do it by sleeping with someone unattractive...

Well, this is hardly a new phenomenon. Nor is it one that is restricted to Snow Patrol listeners. That "music to put on in the background while doing the dishes" slot has been filled, variously, by bands such as Massive Attack, Pulp, Portishead, Chemical Brothers and Black Eyed Peas depending...

The 60s certainly seems to have been a golden age for south east asian pop. Most of the more recent stuff I've heard from Thailand, Vietnam or Malaysia is pretty dreadful, but there's a lightness of touch and fun sensibility to the 60s records that make them really delightful...

Well quite honestly I think you need to detach your (in some ways reasonable) dislike for the "target audience" of this film from the actual film itself. Yes, middle-class educated people are going to enjoy this film, no that doesn't IN ITSELF make it bad. I also think the adjective "sneering"...

It sucks playing croquet on me own...

Does the serenade need it's own thread or is it a general Britten thread? I have to say that hearing "War Requiem" and "Peter Grimes" performed were two of the most intense live music experiences of my life.