Hey Brits!
Anyone watch this last night? Or have you all been torrenting. Only thing I'd add to the other comments is that I thought Duck had screwed up his big chance even before Don's no-contract coup. His first speech on getting the presidency (which he had demanded and NOT earned) and he says "television is the…

Yes the pushups one is straightforward, sure. It's more critical of me on the ones where you have to stand on the board and keep the dot in the circle while you exercise, and marks me down for my wildly oscillating balance efforts. And yes you're right that I obviously am better at some exercises than others - this is…

Do you tend to trip over your feet when you're walking?
No I fucking don't! I got the hang of walking when I was less than 4 and just because I'm 38 now doesn't mean I'm one trip away from throwing myself onto the pavement.

That's not "Storytelling"
…which is a not particularly great upbeat pop number sung by Isobel Campbell. What you have there is "The State I Am In" from "Tigermilk" reprised on "Dog on Wheels". Most of the Storytelling soundtrack was not used, as you say - but there are some good bits on there like "Fuck this Shit" and…

Jonathan Fire*Eater
I'm a little out of touch so I listened to the Walkmen clip and thought, that sounds a lot like Jonathan Fire*Eater, so I went to last.fm and listened to some more Walkmen and thought, that sounds a lot like Jonathan Fire*Eater, so I went back to Popless and read a long screed on the Walkmen, and…

There's an article in the Guardian today about not-being-able-to-finish-books and it says that it's perfectly OKto stop reading a book if it gets boring. I quote: "Lots of books drop off halfway through. For me, that includes Brideshead Revisited and Wuthering Heights".

Well All Music agrees with me too. Well with that and Tonight's the Night that's two of my early 90s cassettes upgraded to CDs. 16 more to Amazon. Thanks AV Club!

Mudhoney
You can't have Mudhoney without having In'N'Out Of Grace. That's just all of it.

The Eighties Suck
There's a common thread building through Popless, and you can feel it in the Primers too. It's that sometime around 1985 (or maybe slightly earlier) pop music went shit. Or rather the slickest production style became so dominant and plastic that all the bands basically began to sound the same -…

That's me, two weeks ago. I got lucky, you may not. Don't do drugs kids!

hard drive
Dear god please tell me you're backing up your hard drive. It's the one part of your computer that has a moving part and it is also the one part liable to die a horrible death. I had an entertaining fuck up last week where I absent mindedly cut the power on my computer just before it shut down, rather than…

Sorry I hadn't looked at the videos before I commented. If you didn't like the NFADs anyway then a tinny live video of a daytime festival performance isn't going to convince you of anything. The Curve sound is made for YouTube where the sonic wash that is shoegazing can keep you feeling that you've got, well the…

How dare you sir!
I'll grant you that the New Fast Automatic Daffodils leave a footprint as big as, well, Neds Atomic Dustbin I suppose, but to dismiss them as also rans in the same breath as the appalling Cud is a foul calumny!

I know it's a cliche about the early fall, but Hex Enduction Hour is a really intense, errr… hour.

NME
IPC Subeditors Dictate Our Youth is about the NME. Yeah I know that's not a surprise to anyone but, well there you go. It is. I'd like to be the third to say that the only Clinic I've heard is Internal Wrangler, and the second to say that it's pretty fantastic. You've put me off seeking out more. NME though. It…

If it really follows the same path as Foucault's Pendulum I'll certainly look out for it. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed that book.

Have you not noticed the montage advertising this page. That's pure Gilliam.

Hey! I'm from Maidstone so I support Liverpool. Obviously. Though I think that's more a growing-up-in-the-seventies-when-Liverpool-ruled thing. Hence criticism of non-local Man U fan success bandwagon jumpers is a little hypocritical. Sorry.

Manchester United
I like to think the AV Club is pretty clued in so I trust that you realise that saying a Londoner would be most interested in Manchester United is fine local UK satire. Of course to get it absolutely right you should know that the typical Man U fan lives in Singapore.

…bit early maybe