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I guess partly inspired by the whole Danish debacle but also relevant to politics/society in general one question keeps nagging and I wondered what people think... When (in age terms) does the phrase "Sticks and Stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me" fail to apply? Or did...

With people up in arms all over the shop about nasty retro-viruses in pop (off the top of my head: arctic monkeys, king of leon... - actually, don't mind either of them that much; good music for buying groceries) and the internet in a constant, breathless scramble for a genuine new scene/sound...

Kevin Ayers had a go and then slipped away. Julian Cope had a number of cracks and then retired unhurt. Is there any other eccentric Brit who's prepared to attempt Pop(ularity), or are those days long gone?

Recently become obsessed with a version of Tainted Love that I heard only once (long story- won't go into it here) and from that came a general fascination with the way in which every so often my memory plays back tracks that I've only just glimpsed, maybe heard half of, one time, from around a...

Anyone else think that The Wire magazine's lcurrent cover story about cover versions is suspiciuously like a thread I started here a month or so back about covers that change DNA (can't remember the exact title and can't be arsed to go look for it)? The contributors to that thread (who all came...

On the way to work John Cale's version of 'Heartbreak Hotel' came on and it struck me that there are very few cover versions that attempt to really reconfigure the original; very few that end up like an evil twin. Cale's version looks like it's been interpreted by a hostage victim or Searle's...

been reading a fair amount about Nina Gordon's cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton in the blogs recently, most of which seems to fall into three camps: 1) it's full of fun n frolics or 2) pastiche/irony/postmodernism is dead... 3) Nina's use of the word nigger is racist bile. it's the 3rd...

a discussion at work eventually came round to this: is it possible to actually like poetry or do people only like individual poems? i've tried hard and i must have a hundred collections but even the 'big boys' - Hughes, Heaney, Larkin, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire,Rimbaud, Shakespeare - seem to have...

Anyone see this yet? I moaned about it incessantly at An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming and i still can't quite get it out of my system...somehow the whole thing seemed like a gigantic cosmic wheeze, a series of filmic punchlines left floating...it seems like it's engineered to annoy ( a la...