Recent content by Flyboy

Well, as someone who lives in London (etc), I think that the offensiveness of, say, rhyming about your music being like bombs, is not dependant on where the bombs are going off. Obviously violence is going to seem more real when it affects the places and people you know. But my point is that I...

What, more offensive than using the events of the last few days to score points in an argument about a pop star? No, actually, you're right: I threw my old Public Enemy CDs in the bin at the weekend - just couldn't face listening to music produced by people who called themselves "the Bomb...

"All the evidence" - I'd love to see this evidence... A/ The idea that Le Tigre's music has been well-received through a "quasi-feminist sympathy vote" = patronising bullshit of the highest order. Leaving aside the incoherence of your point - are the "allowances" being made because there are...

Personally I'm just glad that as of Reynolds' comment on Byron Bitchlaces' blog, and the first post in this thread, the real issue at the heart of a lot of the negative reaction to M.I.A. has been explicitly stated. Basically, the idea here is that if you want to write books or blogs as a...

Say the name, Mr M, say the name. Barbelith nearly drove me to actively dislike Grant Morrison, but his recent work has been something of a return to form in my opinion - by forcing himself to write short, (relatively) self-contained works, each with one artist whose strengths fit the story...

Agreed - surely describing what kind of music you like (unless you have quite narrow tastes) is difficult no matter WHO is asking the question? I've no problem with people expressing the trickiness of that, but do me a favour and leave out the tendency towards "the mundane herd of humatons don't...

I mean, if you don't think GA produce an emotional reaction then you haven't read some of the write-ups from G-A-Y on Saturday night...

It's the fact that people who think Girls Aloud are shallow also think Franz Ferdinand are shallow that make me put FF in a different, less damned category from most of the 'indie' discussed in this thread. That, and the tunes are better than Keane etc, of course...

I think that of the current crop of mainstreamy-indie guitar bands these days, you can do worse than the Libertines: Muse, Keane, Kasabian, Razorlight, Athlete, the list goes on. But that's not saying much as all those bands truly are godawful abominations.

Yeah, the whole "you don't really like the music, you're just following what the press tells you" line is soooo over-familiar and lazy - on the level with claims that people "pretend" to like any music because it's "trendy". Minus points also for the "you are bloggers/journalists therefore your...

I don't think setting up a dichotomy between Lady Sovereign and "juvenile testosterone wank" does her any favours either. If she DOES becomes an artist who's liked by people who don't like any other grime (and maybe it's happening already), it won't necessarily detract from the quality of her...

Okay, let me see if I’ve got this straight. So far, what are the criticisms of Lady Sovereign that are being put forward, other than a basic “don’t like the way her stuff sounds”? - She’s okay as (mere) “entertainment” but doesn’t have the (serious, artistic) “talent” of another (coincidentally...

I find it frankly astonishing that anyone could think the vast majority of David Aaronovitch’s output has any merit. Much like Julie Burchill, he is often hailed for being ‘brave’ enough to disrupt a supposed liberal or left consensus, when in fact he is merely too stupid to have even grasped...

Fuck a backlash. I think M.I.A. is great, and that Piracy Funds Terrorism is full of really great songs - 'Fire Fire', 'Lady Killer', 'Bucky Done Gun Song', 'You're Good', 'URAQT', 'Amazon', to name a few. There are certainly some interesting things to be said about the way in which her music is...

In the last 24 hours... Last night, was listening to the Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat , in particular the sequence 'Paw Paw Tree' > 'My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found' > 'Mason City'. Today I've been listening to some Wu-Tang (in preparation for when I get hold of their new live album): a...