Time may unfortunately be the answer. The only reasonable solution lies in the eventual emergence f a secular state for both Jewish and Arab citizens. That’s not going too happen any time soon, but if the […]

Yes, it does make me wonder if the Israeli government didn’t perhaps know something was coming and allowed it to happen, so as to provide a rationale for a ‘final solution’ of the Palestinian question.

For the most part, these partners seem to be eminently sensible.

OK, what about if someone keeps on saying ‘early doors’ instead of just ‘early on’? You might think that this is just the cricketing community, but they might be coming to get you nonetheless.

Oh what about Changeling then, from their finale?

Metal Machine Music?

Iggy had quite a few good ones: Search & Destroy, Kill City, Lust for Life …

so bad it’s almost thrilling!

Actually, am I allowed to say that I find many of his political views to be more palatable than most of his songs?

Which lack all conviction, while the worst …

Actually Bang is a pretty good album. I would have cut a few tracks on the basis that less is sometimes more. I would have retained the Neocon song though.

What I’m wondering is whether Charlie will be on most or all tracks, or whether there will be various drummers. I hope it’s the former.

I feel similarly, but I would substitute the term ‘avant-garde’ for ‘jazz’ though.

Ask Col. Tom Parker.

And the line about mountains falling in the sea was already there in Ben E King’s Stand by Me.

I thought it was “freak flag”.

But there’s a fine line between your selling out and the one that says “as soon as you sign a record deal with the hope of having a hit you have already sold out.” This is really a problem tat goes back to the […]

I think there is a debate to be had about this question of good and bad music on, the one hand, and genre on the other. For example when one hears something like “I Can only listen to classical; everything else […]

Now, now

But which period of NME? I stopped reading it around 1980* wen I lost interest. Before that it used to be great fun. And what more would a young person want from a pop mag? *The dreaded 80s curse.