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wasn't all of this called adult contemporary or something? sounds like rnb and grunge smudged into the mainstream. acoustic guitars as a signifier of authenticity and the real. late 90s was all about a faux authenticity come to think of it.

all the rap snares on everything by the late 90s. shawn mullins is a cheesy character - the hobo emotionally in touch acoustic guitarist. basically the end point of the kerouac lineage. so much of US 90s pop culture was about breaking out of the grid. standing outside of the everyday office...

speaking of bleak. that sort of rock/grunge-influenced pop thing of the late 90s qualifies as cheese i think. i mean natalie imbruglia was in neighbours. and the vocal production and strings are on the cheesy end. 'bleeding is breathing', a song about child abuse (from the perspective of a...

one of the bleakest tunes to be played on the radio. the social mores and sexual politics of (probably a subset of, idk) black america jutting into the UK. it's an awkward fit sometimes.

obviously one thing that's going on is that there's a lot less money about, especially for selling music, so no label is paying for a full photoshoot and so on. always mad reading about how considered that was in the 90s for example. in fact there's much less attention paid to the visual...

there’s some weird similarities between French and American attitudes to food. one of them is the regional food thing. if you go to the alps you’ve got to eat the local cheese. if you go to Chicago you’ve got to have the local pizza. you can only make good bagels in New York because of the...

throwing this in as something to potentially talk about

'oh i'm mates with the UN' 'oh i can just not worry about $50 million payments' 'oh i'm being persecuted'

god stop showing off sufi you always do this

@version did the album art for untrue, he's loaded

I must admit I was wondering why you guys were so keen on the northern dissensus pub meet

finally, @woops and @luka do glastonbury. you'd make a killing to be fair

he's talking shit these parts of town are fucking packed there's people everywhere. it is true though that people have stopped visiting. but that's mostly coz word has got round about how much more expensive it is than europe now i think, people can't afford it

feels to me like nyc is in a period of comparative stasis. probably won't last long. but the contours of the city feel frozen

same kind of thing. but with snow patrol there's a middle class perspective. you can hear the bed of comfort. the temporary nature of it, that everything was going to be more or less alright in the end. all these bands audiences divided along class lines i think as well despite being ostensibly...

quintessential tune for what i'm talking about, artwork included

kaiser chiefs were massive and now forgotten. but bleak to their core. a lot of resentment. wrapped up in something quite upbeat. a lot of this era has this sense of this is shit but we're going to make the best of it. which is a pretty appropriate UK sentiment. a load of the early arctic...

no idea. it sounds like the same kind of thing though. loading the drums up on Cubase or whatever and fiddling around with them until they sound unnatural. jerky

UK guitar music is pretty shit in the 00s. but in contrast to the listless depression in US guitar music at the same time the UK stuff is all about desperation. partly coz of the different circumstances in the two countries but also frankly the class composition of the audiences. the US stuff...

i have no respect for your parameters william kent. i am an anti-fascist