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Monthly Archives: July 2010

All Rock ‘n’ Roll is homosexual

As another new Manic Street Preachers album looms on the horizon (Postcards From A Young Man is out in September) and I find myself yet again having to defend this once so vital and fiercely intelligent band to haters, I thought I might as well just get it out here once and for all. So [...]

I call it on-land-swimming

Amazing scenes from Angela Lansbury – Positive Moves! Remember – ‘Present yourself as a woman of loveliness’ and to ‘give yourself a break – there’s something to like in every body’!

Eh hey I’m like a beast

♫ Alexandra Burke – Start Without You (MP3) This summer bang-a-langa was brought to my attention recently by T-Bop of Unskinny Bop. I played it once, thought it sounded a bit like Annie and then listened again and again and again. I’m completely addicted – as I’m sure you will be too! ENJOY!

I’m afraid this kind of joy can’t last

Gene Pitney – Town Without Pity (swoon!)

Ending this won’t make you strong

Amazing scenes of surprise gayness in  Male Bonding – Year’s Not Long video.  Is this the year of alternative gay men? LETS HOPE SO!

Crystal eyes

♫ The Nightblooms – Crystal Eyes (MP3) Dreamy grungey lo-fi from the 90s which sounds like it could have been produced by femme-fronted-lofi-noise-makers of current days (bar a few 90s guitar extravagances early in the track). Actually, this sound is atypical of the rest of the Nightbloom’s music unfortunately – ‘why?’ is the question I [...]