Recent content by throughsilver

My great, great auntie doesn't know who I am anymore. It's horrible, and I'm not sure certain patronising straight edgers decrying rock and roll really understand the potential negativity of senescence. It can be peaceful and dignified. Conversely, it can also be a living hell. It seems to me...

Agreed. In fact, the maligned Guardian blogger wasn't all that far off in his comparisons, as I hear a fair bit of 1996 Tricky and even (a less smooth) 1998 Massive Attack in some Dubstep I hear. It's that dubby influence, claustrophobic atmosphere and dense mix that does it. People are too...

Wow, had no idea about this site. Ta muchly, this is pretty damn good.

I don't even remember that cover, but late-period Face was weird like that. The Face is a magazine that, while I liked to diss it back in the day ('the day' for me being about 2000), I really do miss it now it's gone. In its last few years it was pretty much the best Smash Hits possible, and I...

Can and do, brother. I was taken aback by the difference between my burned RTX download and the real deal.

Because most music buyers in this country accept James Blunt and the Kaiser Chiefs.

Agreed. Many's the time I've told someone about a CD I'm going to buy, only for them to reply 'just download it!', as though they are shedding some light. The main reason I buy CDs is one I'll mention after this next quotation. Yep. I see some offishull download systems, and balk at the prices...

I apologise but I'm just not following this. Sure, the fiver is a fiver the artist isn't getting, but if someone does not donate to slsk, then the artist still isn't getting that cash, most likely. Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick, but it's not like I have a music quota, wherein I have...

OK, avoiding the harder stuff, I'd recommend the following: Mary J Blige - 'Steal Away' Vanessa Marquez - 'Good Girl' Kelis - 'Digital World' No Doubt - 'Hella Good' Snoop Dogg - 'Signs' N.O.R.E. - 'Consider This' N.E.R.D. - 'Things Are Getting Better' N.E.R.D. - 'Run To The Sun' Jay Z - 'I...

Nonsense; I'm not sure you've seen much Seinfeld at all. Do you know how many characters have died in Seinfeld? An entire season was spent building up George's engagement, only for his wife to die - because of him. He also fell down a flight of stairs and had to re-learn how to walk. They had an...

Comedy's a big interest of mine, so I spend a lot of time watching it. I also tend to write about it in the blog (blatant shill, sorry!). Anyway, my all-time top 10 would look a lot like this: 01. Seinfeld The greatest sitcom ever, and my favourite TV show ever, by a mile. From season 4 til...

I like her sense of rhythm, to be honest. Little things like the way she drags out that 'no-no-no' sound, just slightly behind the beat. It's only a small thing (and potentially damning with faint praise), but in this world of careers based around pseudo-individualisation, the Devil is in the...

I was leafing through The Guide today, and saw The Automatic described as 'nu-rock'. What's new about them? Or is 'nu' actually code for 'crap', like nu-metal pretty much being a crap version of normal metal.

Totally. I spent from when I got in last night til when I went to bed (11-3, then) reading old Simon Reynolds writings from the archive. Man, he really puts pretty much every other modern music writer to shame. I found myself disagreeing with a decent portion of what he wrote (he seems a tad...

I've not read the article yet but, removed from context, that is an insane line. Like, completely deranged. I'm assuming he's talking about UK guitar music, because I remember being completely buzzing about Soundgarden, Nirvana, Metallica, Jane's Addiction... then later, Slint, Fugazi, Earth...