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While one must wholeheartedly agree with K-Punks comments in regard to Dylan's " tuneless voice, frankly hideous harmonica dirges and pisspoor lyrics", it is important not to overlook Dylan's greatest crime. He must be held responsible, along with Lennon/McCartney, in making it obligatory for...

Evan Lurie also does the music for Oswald the Octopus. Well worth listening to.

Pere Ubu are playing in Dublin next week and I am tempted to go. Does anyone know if the current line up are worth seeing?

Powell's autobiography - A Life in Movies - is also well worth a read. There was a follow up - Million Dollar Movie - which is not as good.

Radical Philosopy - Ben Watson Review Review of Rip It Up and Start Again from Radical Philosopy. I don't think he likes it.

Joe Strummer's finest moment was the sountrack to Alex Cox's Walker. I don't know if the film was ever even released in the uk as I have never managed to see it at the pictures or on video, but the album is great. Music/songs are tex/mex country style. Also some great concerts at the time as...

I thought the significance of the IRA was to represent a power away and above anything that the Bob Hoskins character could ever achieve. As in classical tradgedy ( I think) his Hubris is punished by the gods - in this case the powers over which he does not and never will be able to control.

the love that dare not speak its name I think this hits the nail on the head in regard to the greatness of Yes. There is something heroic about a lorry driver from Accrington writing huge concept albums based on Indian Scripture. Anybody with the slightest amount of common sense would realise...

The problem with the meeting in the middle may be more to do with the lazy anti-intellectualism of the populist writers than the avoidance of debate by those interested in a more theoretical argument. Hari's piece on Derrida's death was blatantly based on a complete refusal to debate with...

Who'd have thought it? Anyway - some good covers: Alabama 3 - Sound of the speed of lonliness Associates - Heart of Glass Johnny Cash - I see a darkness Miles Davis - Time after Time Dexys Midnight Runners - Marguarita Time The Fall - White Lightning Lambchop - This Corrosion Aaron Neville -...

I presume WASP spiritual discipline is another version of Weber's Protestant Work Ethic. Whether this is something to be celebrated is another question. In Saturday's Guardian there was an interesting aside by Simon hoggart on the influence of Ulster Scots emigration to the US in determining the...

Come on lads - don't get too excited. Joss Stone will be but a distant memory in a caouple of years. I can remember when Alison Moyet was being hailed as a great soul voice. Even Paul Young was being hailed as a great singer at the time.They have gone now and so shall she.

The various comments by infinite thought and JohnEffay above seem to demand a commitment far above any that the vast majority of people are willing or able to give. I would have thought that the vast majority of self proclaimed athiests would fail IT's test and that the vast majority of...