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Jan
25

Disney borrow Joy Division album cover for Micky Mouse merch

I imagine this t-shirt was put forward as a joke, designed possibly by an intern working at, what I imagine, is one of those faceless corporate clothes designers; churning out, slightly different sweater designs for places like TK Maxxxxx (I never know how many xs there are) and Next (just the one x).

I hope so. I don’t know exactly how Disney’s merchandise works.

But, for a company who signed up to corporations against piracy, PIPA-supporting, petition, I find this pretty galling.

I don’t know whether The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy or Peter Saville and Chris Mathan, the designers of the original Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures album sleave, were asked their permission to copy their work, but my instinct is that it’s unlikely.

The words: pot, kettle, dirty rotten hypocrite, spring to mind, don’t they?

Also, they do know that Ian Curtis hung himself, right? And where the name Joy Division came from?

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Oct
19

Michael Winslow — Whole Lotta Love

i.e The sound effects guy from Police Academy has still got it. So much of it. Perhaps too much of it. He should certainly consider giving some of it away to more needy people. Seriously, this is fucking incredible.

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Aug
30

10 worst (best) metal covers ever

Putting this feature together it made me glad that we live in a world where there are so many genres. Not just for variety’s sake, but because without them, we wouldn’t have the opportunity for these taste-shreddingly awesome cross-over covers would we?

And I think anyone who watches even three of these covers would agree with me.

May
21

House Of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture

House Of Jealous Lovers

by The Rapture
album Echoes

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That band name finally paying off for you hey lads?

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May
13

The Tallest Man On Earth — Love Is All

This is actually better than the album version. Love Is All are also an awesome band as tenuous musical coincidences go. Not sure how I feel about the shirt, looks like it should be worn by an ageing barmaid who thinks that her fortnightly line dancing classes are an excuse to dress like a cowboy 24/7. Everyone thinks she’s pathetic, but she doesn’t give a fuck because she’s got her Daisy Dukes cut offs and a saggy old arse that hangs all the way out of them. You go girl.

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Zoo Kid — Out Getting Ribs

Okay, so he’s an, ahem, Brit Schooler, (boo hiss — you’re ruining all the music) but nevertheless this song is fucking awesome. If everyone the Brit-school produced was this interesting I don’t think anyone would mind. But they’re not, they’re like this and this and this and this and this… In other, more felicitous words, they’re shit.

Yes and I’m including Jessie J — I know she’s meant to be this year’s big thing, but I think she’s painfully contrived and musically vacuous.

Jan
15

This week’s band

Coachwhips — You Gonna Get It

Bah bah bah bah, mea mur mea.

This song is amazing and it makes me leap around like my feet are allergic to the floor. I know people prattle on about how amazing the British music scene is — but everything I listen to these days seems to be coming from the American west-coast. Coachwhips, Wavves, Health, No Age — it’s all so so good. If I hear another jangly British four piece or synthy mid-tempo song, or fucking chubby cock-er-ney girl wandering around the East End waving at people I might have to do things.

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