ARCHIVES! EMAIL AWAY! STU TAKES US THROUGH HIS FANTASTIC CAREER CHOICES 'Hello, I'm stu - always taking the freeway to success, always following the speed limit. As you can see, I even wear a helmet whilst driving - that's for just a little bit more saftey, which is always the legal way. One of the happiest times of my life was when I joined the cult of Life Mechanics I soon got into gear and took a seat in the driving lane of life My friends were all pretty surportive Fame at last! It was something of an irony that the colapse of Life Mechanics forced me to live in my car Now that I was literally in the parking lot of life, I needed a new direction So I joined The Police And now I solve all your pop problems - the legal way!
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Monday, October 25
It's Been A Long Time... Hello! You know, we never did finish Extreme Madonna Appreciation Mania... So - let's review Music! Or, you know, not. Sigh, it's good to be back though. Friday, July 30
Standing To Attention: I lost my erection for a while back there - all of this Madonna appreciation has been a bit too extreme for my entirely vanilla tastes - but now that Fly Girl C and her pal, WOMP, have gotten Madonna's 'What was she thinking?'-era over and done with, we can get into the groove and start officially reviewing the holy trinity of Madonna albums... Ray Of Light - The Official Review: Ray Of Light, of course, isn't the holiest of the albums in the holy trinity in that it's not nearly as good as Music or American Life, but it is very holy, both in quality and in content. Everybody knows that the title track is amongst Madonna's greatest hits, but what most people don't know is that 'Drowned World/Substitute For Love' is actually better than 'Ray Of Light' - even if it is Madonna being worldly and angsty, she does it very well, and the middle eight where it all goes a bit spaztastic is incredible. 'Candy Perfume Girl' is, and has been for a while, my favourite song on the album - there's something delightfully perverse about Our Glorious Leader opening a song with, 'Young velvet porcelain boy/Debour me', and, again, the spaztastic middle eight - 'Did! I! Lie! To! You!' - is fantastic. It sags a bit in the middle, which is where it's flawed - with the exception of 'Nothing Really Matters' and the sheer shit show of 'Shanti Shinga' or whatever it's called, everything starts to sound a bit samey. But 'Frozen' and 'The Power Of Goodbye' are some of the most beautiful songs Madonna has ever produced, 'Little Star' is adorable, and 'Mer Girl' is, erm, certainly interesting. As an era Ray Of Light heralded a cringe-worthy, embarassing Madonna, noncing about in geisha outfits, pretending she was of an ethnic minority and generally making a bit of a dick of herself. But, to be fair, everybody was noncing about in geisha outfits, pretending to be of an ethnic minority and generally making dicks of themselves in 1998 - even Spice Girls gave 'Spice Up Your Life' a jaunty Asian vibe when they performed it in India for Top of the Pops - and, even when she's making a dick of herself, Madonna is dedicated. Thursday, July 29
HiT Me Baby One More Time Well...Ben Affleck was on the cover...strangely. And that's really all there was of note. Except for a funny Human Nature review, as well. Meanwhile, I've had a lot of responses to the ad...we'll have to sort through them and start interviewing candidates. Stu's Replacement Look, I've just placed an ad in the paper. It's probably the easist way. Hopefully we'll get some good applicants, and the interviewing process can begin. Stay tuned, because I think this is going to be a long one...
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THE LATEST CRAZE - MP3 BLOGS!: THANK ME FOR THE MUSIC BANG & BURN INTO THE GROOVE SUPERVIXXEN (Not just mp3s though that one...but digging the Spice vibe) There are many things that I would like to say to you... WHY NOT CHECK OUT CLAIRE'S FAVOURITE FILM: 'LOVE FOREVER'? It's all about Blur - and loving them forever! CFBGOESPOP Loves Blur, Hates Oasis. WE.HAVE.PROOF AUSCULTURE Gulity - of being tops! As is: THEIR BIG BROTHER BLOG They've discovered the correlation between Crystal's Love For A Contestant and Likelihood Of Being Voted Out Immediately ZBONZAK Kickin' it old school with a fly '98 tip JONNY'S SITE Possibly written by Ben Affleck. No, definitely. SEX KITTEN Let's stop this religious war guys! Give peace a chance. POPJUSTICE There are no laws at the seaside! I don't know who Sam & Mark are, but I do find that quite hilarious DIRRRTY POP Joining the congregation! SOAP-DISCO Thank you for taking a CA Approved Stance on Morrissey DAMON.COM Some days we're checking out this site, some days we've gone right off Blur again. MORE LINKS TO COME We're not too good for links you know, so please, if you have a site or if I've forgotten it please email the address and I will add it.
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