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Blackstar: Fuck You, Fake Music Lovers
In January this year David Bowie released one of the finest albums of his career. I listened to it once in the far background as I completed my tax return, occasionally stopping to marvel at some ingenious tangent or digression. In this piecemeal read-through, the use of acoustic instruments seemed startling. The welding of jazz clatter to a chorus ( Read more... ) -
U2
Twain and I have decided to change up the format at bit. Instead of him trashing US bands and me trashing UK bands we'll now feel free to trash any band we like ( Read more... ) -
Green Day
When my esteemed colleague Bart and I decided to regenerate Bad Music, I made several new rules for myself. Rule number one was that I would no longer denigrate the work of artists in a knee-jerk fashion. I would begin by listening and learning. I would smother myself in as much back catalogue as my tolerance would allow. I would dig deep into back ( Read more... ) -
Choose My Weapon
TODAY Bad Music woke from its slumber, launched Spotify and saw that the world is STILL full of shit music ( Read more... ) -
Queen
Given that this weekend is Montpellier Gay Pride it seems fitting to write my little nasty essay about Queen - since they are a bunch of fucking faggots ( Read more... ) -
Coldplay
The paradox of the execrable Coldplay is that, on paper, they should be brilliant. This is a band who declare a shared lineage with Radiohead and Jeff Buckley. They cite Echo and the Bunnymen and Kate Bush as inspiration. And yet, they are the musical equivalent of that last bit of turd that cannot be removed from one's sphincter. You know what I ( Read more... ) -
Hall & Oates - The American Attack
Hello all you fellow music freaks, haters, snarkers and friends. A special greeting is in order for all of the anonymous people who have taken the time over the months to tell twain and I what a bunch of dickweasles we are ( Read more... ) -
Sir Paul McCartney
Once again, sorry for the delay. I hate it when paying gigs get in the way of taking a dump on the musical taste of Her Satanic Majesty's Subjects ( Read more... ) -
Worse Than Madge
By hitting Madonna, twain had put me in a conundrum. There are so many, many egomaniacal pieces of pop trash that came over from the British Isles that it's impossible for me to pick one ( Read more... ) -
Madonna
Oh, this is not good. My heart's so not in it.
I have two feature articles to turn in by Monday, 5,000 words of novel to have in a publishable state by Friday and a tax return to finish. And, I think I'm starting with flu.
But, fuck all that really. My heart's not in it because I wanted to do Elvis. I even voted twice when the poll was neck and ( Read more... )