Tag: beats

  • Songs For The Apocalypse: 2 + 2 = 5

    Songs For The Apocalypse: 2 + 2 = 5

    Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I’ll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I’ll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April’s showers And two and two always makes a five It’s the devil’s way now There is no way out You can…

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  • Beastie Boys Still Ill

    Beastie Boys Still Ill

    25 years. Way to make us all feel old, Beastie Boys. Still Ill celebrates the milestone of the release of Ill Communication, an album that broke the mold and blurred the lines of hip-hop, punk and hardcore and avoided a myriad of pigeonholes in the process.

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  • Guilty Pleasures: After Laughter (Comes Tears)

    Guilty Pleasures: After Laughter (Comes Tears)

     Holding the fort in a train station sushi restaurant, keeping an eye on six bike boxes and associated luggage while my travelling companions sourced food for our next leg from Brussels, I was amusing myself by playing wasabi suicide when I heard something drift across from the laptop on the next table. Straining to…

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  • Radiohead Deliver A Long Awaited Promise

    Radiohead Deliver A Long Awaited Promise

    Recorded as part of the OK Computer sessions some 20 years ago, Radiohead make the wait we didn’t know we were having worthwhile. I Promise may have been laying dormant all that time, but it’s like a cryogenically frozen and thawed body of work that sounds as fresh as the day it was laid to…

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  • Something About Tommeke

    Something About Tommeke

      Now, my Flemish is pretty well non-existent, but apparently Ziet Den Tom translates to See Tom Go, something the cycling world will sadly be doing for the final time after Paris-Roubaix in April. Hopefully he’ll be holding a big cobble above his head for the fifth time that day.In the meantime we can revel in…

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  • Vocals From The Beyond

    Vocals From The Beyond

    In the age of Autotune, it’s sobering that some of the great songs of the last 30 years possess some of the greatest vocal performances unfettered by overdone effects, tone correction and just plain bad singing. Three of the best examples floating around the web are from three long deceased icons of contemporary music. First…

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  • The Tom Waits Map

    The Tom Waits Map

    If you’ve ever wondered about all those place-name references in Tom Waits’ songs––and who hasn’t––then the Tom Waits Map is here to help you impress your friends with your intimate knowledge of just why Tom ate fire and drank from the Ganges, or spent all his money in a Mexican whorehouse baby, across the street from a Catholic church.

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  • Best Of 2016: Musically Speaking

    Best Of 2016: Musically Speaking

    Depending on who you choose to listen to, 2016 was the worst year on record, or at least a mediocre one in the pantheons of shitty years. Personally, there were a lot of great moments punctuated by some pretty average ones. But moments are just that, and when you think the bottom of the barrel…

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