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Song Of The Day – Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
From the album ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’ (1988) RIP Shane MacGowan. Merry Christmas everyone.
Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2023
Another year in the books already, can’t be many left to go now. Even so music still has the capacity to surprise even those with jaded palates. Did anyone expect new releases from Bob Dylan, The Stones, plus a new … Continue reading
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Thankfully Blue Eye Samurai overcomes all the limitations of cultural projection and appropriation
Need an escape from the grim coverage of Israel victimising Gaza, or, on the benign end of the grim spectrum, that sad melter on your street covering their house with Christmas tat and lights in early November? Well Blue Eye … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 ½, Amazon Prime, Americanization, Anime, Blue Eye Samurai, Chernobyl, Christmas tat, Christopher Nolan, Disney, Dubbing is a no, Edo, Fellini, Gaza, Guardian columnist, HBO, I cannot translate Japanese to English or English to Japanese, Incel twat, Israel, Japan, Kill Bill, Kurosawa, Masi’s verbal diarrhoea, Miyasaki, Netflix, Seven Samurai, Tenet, Western influence
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Song Of The Day – Strong Out Deeper Than The Night by Les Rallizes Denudes
From the album “Club Citta February 17 1993” (2023)
Song Of The Day – Automatic North by Richard Youngs
From the single “Automatic North” (2022)
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Tagged Automatic North, Bandcamp, Bleepy, Cambridge, Electro, Richard Youngs, Song Of The Day, Squeeky
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