Kurt Vile's b'lieve i'm goin down reminds you that, however hard things get, you're not on this journey alone and all you can do is suck it up and smile.
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Six of the Best British non-Britpop albums of the Britpop era
I can feel the cultural story of the mid-90s contracting to the point where great British albums of that time are being airbrushed out of musical history.
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Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People – Album Review
Furman's new album Perpetual Motion People is another gem, and I hope it makes him a huge star, but in these days of Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran selling out stadiums the problem might well be that he’s nowhere near bland enough.
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Five more cover versions that are much better than the original songs
“Okay” said Noel ‘not a fan of cover versions’ Gallagher, “Six! Six covers versions! Is that all you’ve got?'
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Films I watched at my Grandparents’ house in the 80s
I grew up in the relatively quaint surroundings of the north Shropshire countryside. And by ‘relatively quaint’ I mean ‘boring as fuck’. My maternal Grandparents by contrast lived in Halewood, Liverpool, one of the roughest parts in one of Britain’s most deprived cities. As a kid I fucking loved visiting it.
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Six cover versions that are better than the original songs
Noel Gallagher recently said that a cover version by its very essence is only a watered-down version of the original song. He's wrong.