thought i'd try and start transcribing the I'll Sleep When You're Dead lyrics, both so that they're written down somewhere and so that i know them and so that other el-p fans can help me with the bits i can't pick out. anyway, these from the album opening track are certified because they were transcribed by El himself.

TASMANIAN PAIN COASTER

i saw this kid walkin down the street
i was like…
"wait"

bumped into this kid i knew, he often would walk strange,
so i ignored the blood on his laces so this cat could save face,
the dunks…

Oasis's Noel attacks Blair record

Oasis's Noel Gallagher - who famously chatted with Tony Blair in Downing Street in 1997 - has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister.

He said people had thought Mr Blair "was going to be John F Kennedy", but he was now "saddled" with the Iraq war.

Tory leader David Cameron, meanwhile, was "no different" from Mr Blair and was "like a songwriter who's eternally ripping off someone else's song". (BBC)

i don't really care… Joe'll probably be upset though. i seem t'remember they were quite the influence in our saigon high chair pirates days.

sorry to you if you, like Joe, are upset by the split of Le Tigre.

le tigre/germlin/gay against you

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In their March 2006 issue, HHC published their Top 100 list of the best albums released 1995 to 2005… since then i've meant to make the albums into a tag radio station. dunno why it's particularly taken me 9 months, but here anyway now. feel free to discuss their choices on this thread, listen to the radio station (at hhc 95-05 top 100), etc.

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In compiling and ordering a list of the most vital rap records of the last ten years, we made an early decision to do away with such criteria as a record's influence or…

anyone know which chino xl track has the line about eric clapton's son?

(as mentioned in Ego Trip's Big Book of Rap Lists…)

so farewell then
James Brown.
You were The Godfather of Soul
even if you did have
bull's testicles
implanted by
the CIA.

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when did this happen, anyone? how didn't i notice?

ah well. *goes off to find one*
converge

The Azusa Plane's Jason DiEmilio Passes Away

"Our hearts sank this afternoon upon reading an item posted on Philebrity.com today, which reports that Philadelphia psych icon Jason DiEmilio has passed away. Born in 1970, DiEmilio was an integral figure in Philly's celebrated Psychedelphia scene, releasing countless albums, singles, and cassettes under the Azusa Plane moniker on his own Doorstep Vinyl and Colorful Clouds for Acoustics labels. The Azusa Plane live band also included Mazarin's Quentin Stoltzfus on drums, and DiEmilio sometimes performed solo under the name the Spires of Oxford.

DiEmilio excelled at conjuring sprawling, hypnotic sounds from…

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"MAN-CHIS-TOH!" bellows the singer.
"MAN-CHIS-TOH!" adds the singing guitarist, in agreement.
"MAN-CHIS-TOH!" the singer clarifies.

Yep, whatever Young Offenders Institute may lack in charm or stage banter, they certainly make up for in being local.

Roses guitar jangle? Check. A bash at a bit of Mondays narco-groove? Why not. Excess thinly-veiled drug references, plaintive Noel Gallagher ‘soulful’ singing, accents honed to somewhere beyond caricature, anonymous rhythm section, permanent trying-not-to-shit-meself swaggers? Check check check check check. They’re not so much a band as a 24 Hour Party People deleted scene. Of course, they’ve been quick to dismiss such Mondays/Wilson references…

…goes to instrumental music that makes you feel.

"That Makes You Feel"? makes you feel what? bored, guilty, genocidal? They can't just mean "that makes you have emotions". that would surely include all instrumental music (leaving aside the fact that they're probably the same people who complain about the term "emo" because all music is supposed to be "emotional", a feat of missing the point so grand i always suspect it must be deliberate). (oh wait, apart from "except tradionally instrumental music like classical, for example". apparently that can not make you feel). Hold music on call centre switchboards…