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Quite right too. We'll have no sexualism on Dissensus, young man, thank you very much!

Only as a donor to the deserving, not as a recipient.

I'm not into all that macho guard bloke nonsense. My sun doesn't rise in the West.

The only musicians on whose backs I would be interested in jumping are Girls Aloud.

They would definitely have to be forcefed some lumpy gravy.

But Zappa doesn't "matter." Lousy guitarist. Hank Marvin. Now there's a guitarist. Did you ever hear Zappa play The Theme From The Deer Hunter? No. And you know why not? Because he couldn't. All he ever did was write paedophile wankfests about high school girls and tried to kid us on...

Keane wouldn't get permission. Less Thai Beat, more Tiger Feet, I say. Now Mud! There stood a group!

I wouldn't have bloody given Zappa permission! Overrated poltroon...someone should have shoved hot rats up his arse to stop him from inflicting his pseudo-anti-Kapital guitar wankery on an innocent public!

we'd give them permission innit

...hang on a minute, in the album charts Athlete are straight in at number one and Feeder are straight in at number two... Let The People Be Gagged! Tyranny Is The New Hoxton!!

Certainly not. We spend money on music, we pay musicians' wages and we're the sods who have to listen to it/them. Let The Public Have Their Say!

You shouldn't assume so much. Why is it ridiculous? There's more than enough music out there. Why do we need more musicians, more mediocrity? Anyone who has anything to say will get through anyway; it doesn't matter if you're John Lydon or Dizzee Rascal. Why should we continue this absurd...

The problem is that most musicians overestimate their salt. A steering committee must be formed and every potential musician should be made to stand afore it and explain why they should be allowed to make music before they are permitted access to instruments or equipment. This idea is not new...

The standard pro/con argument with punk went: the good thing about punk was that everyone could make a record. The bad thing about punk was that everyone did make a record. No, we need quality control. There are far too many musicians who would be more gainfully employed as, say, landscape...

My advice: Examine yourself thoroughly and ask yourself what, honestly, you have to offer the world of music in terms of difference and distinction. What new and original ideas and thoughts do you have to bring to music? What are you doing that 10,000 other musicians aren't doing already...

That LCD Soundsystem album's pretty rub, isn't it, albeit with a great singles compilation attached.

Oh yes, and the whole Free Folk thing (at least its Scottish contingent) derives fairly directly from improv-originated procedurals, via mediators like Bill Wells and Richard Youngs.

I think it's correct to say that the dub/hiphop template was more urgent and key than the skronk template as far as the Wild Bunch et al were concerned, but I was thinking more in terms of an attitudinal template deriving from the idea of "world music" as exemplified by the Cherry family (as...

In one of my annual spring cleans about ten years ago I offloaded a (1990?) CD reissue of Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson on the grounds that it was a pretty poor transfer and the sound quality on the CD was decidedly suboptimal (as though it had been taped at half volume). It has yet to...