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Matthew Fluxington

11:50 / 15.09.03

The whole world would be better if everyone was riding Big Boi's "The Rooster"'s waves of funk. It's absolutely perfect, especially the hook towards the end "baby please, you make me want to scream / you're on my team, starting first-string, so why are we arg-u-ing?"

I have an mp3 of it right here. Go fetch.

Cat Chant

13:23 / 15.09.03

Hmm. There's actually quite a lot of songs that contain moments of emotional precision/crystallization so painfully right that I can't imagine how people manage to live their lives without having them as a resource. Songs that make me feel like it's all right to be me.

But after a particularly exalted bus-journey-with-Walkman last weekend I'm going to choose, arbitrarily enough, Talking Head's And She Was, because it contains the lyrics

and she was
joining the world of Missing Persons, and she was
missing enough to feel all right

which just makes the double meaning of "missing enough" into something comprehensible and comprehending.

pomegranate

13:42 / 15.09.03

"punk as fuck," american analog set.
cos it's not punk at all, which is oh so postmodern of them. but really, it's a great solid poppy happy song (but not in a cloying way), w/a little bit of jangle.
uh, yeah...

uncle retrospective

12:36 / 16.09.03

Music box by the Cooper Temple Clause.
It starts with an electro build that goes on till it sounds like it's about to go all Luke Slater. Then it changes into a Mogwai-esque guitar wig out and rocks out till the end.
Sweet.

Porn Star Justice

13:53 / 16.09.03

"25 Miles" by Edwin Starr.

Yeah, it's an old song. Maybe you've heard it at a Northern Soul DJ night. Check it out, it's got a driving beat and a theme we can all relate to, can't wait to get back to see your baby. And by baby, I mean the person you are fucking.

The urgency in the singers voice when he belts out "I've Got FIVE more miles to go" is almost palpable.

De Selby

03:48 / 18.09.03

Miles Davis - All Blues off of Kind Of Blue.

My favourite thing this week is to roll joints and smoke them listening to this album. By the time I get to All Blues (being the fourth track) I'm so bent and happy that I HAVE to recommend this track.

Everytime I hear All Blues, it evokes images of big cities, and the lifestyles of people living in cities.

Sublime.

Jack Fear

10:50 / 18.09.03

Ah, there's nothing like listening to drugs while on music. Plus, with jazz, you get to vicariously partake of the inherent coolness of oth black people and heroin addicts! Sublime indeed.

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