Paul McGee

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

He's good in Play Dirty which I think some people may have swerved because of Mark Wahlberg, but which is also decent, despite getting very silly toward the end.

I bet "other people" are (or have been) hers, though.

I'm embarrassed that I once thought she had leadership potential.

Doing that thing where you're going through Stevie songs trying to find a suitable one to dedicate to the missus for Valentine's Day, and seeing how long it takes before you start filling up like a soppy sod. I landed on You And I, and had to tap out before Stevie had even opened his mouth.

Civilisational narratives are useless groyper echo chamber bullshit that should be treated as an indicator of how strategically deluded much of the current US government is

I am given to understand that they sold out their royalty stream for a big chunk of £££ several years ago now, so all the PRS income generated by these uses is probably going into the back pocket of some hedge-fund shitehawk.

Fucking state of Delap there.

During the making of D'Angelo's "Voodoo", there were plans for a Dilla-produced duet between D'Angelo & Lauryn Hill.

Lauryn reportedly no showed and nothing ever materialized, but Questlove played a portion of this beat in a 2013 RBMA lecture, one of the four originally made for the collaboration.

My youngest nephew listens to everything from post-hardcore, prog-rockers like Dream Theater, music-school noodlers like Vulfpeck and 90s underground hip-hop like Big L. The old 80s ideas of subcultural "tribes" who define themselves by their (rigid) taste in music wouldn't last five minutes now.

Yeah, the decline of TOTP played a part as well. Afterwards there was less of a focus on what was broadly popular, and pop became much more atomised as a result. The Friday night TOTP re-runs on BBC4 are a fantastic snapshot of how not just tastes in pop but pop itself has changed across the decades

I absolutely love that. Doom was the fringiest of the fringe for years until this peculiar cult began to emerge around him - I see it with other rappers too - and he ended up becoming an entry point to the music for an entirely new audience.

The Young People Nowadays take a much more pluralist approach to music. When I was a teen, there was a weekly music press that functioned as tastemaker-gatekeeper, but the young 'uns neither need nor give a shit about that. They can just listen to a thing and decide right away if they like it or not

I'd say there's plenty you can do with a guitar, but rock music (in the broad sense) is just a very conservative form that doesn't really reward the adventurous. Most of the people who like it seem to prefer it at its most orthodox, which is fine but it doesn't make for too many startling moments.

Right wing grifters lying about shit to create fear & gain power, go fuck yourself you dishonest shitbags.
"Londoners are less likely (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop.) to be a victim of violent crime than across the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences per 1000 pop.)." Office for National Statistics

*pitches "New Directions in Kaiju Cinema" piece to Sight And Sound*

Holy Mother of God...

Today in Anti-Vaxxers Belong In Prison.

(OK, maybe a Scotch egg, but that's it)

Everything this young woman said is 🎯, and I would only add that if dude ever went to Scotland and described anything apart from whisky as "scotch", he'd be lucky not to get stabbed.

As OOPS goes, this is the Exactly Like We Fucking Planned-est.

Funny how he was saying this the same day that Nick Fuentes, on the other side of the Atlantic, was calling for all women to be imprisoned in "breeding gulags", with only the "good ones" (whatever that means) being considered for liberation and the "bad ones" made to toil in the mines forever.

Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay Tax exile has already proven himself a terrible club owner; now his ill-informed diatribe about immigration has poured fuel on wider flames

Fuck that shithouse Jim Ratface, fuck everyone who agrees with him and respect due to every decent Yanited fan who's repudiated him & denounced him as an embarrassment to their club. I rarely raise my glass to youse lot, but when you're right you're right. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK

The problem with these Palantir deals is not primarily data security.

It's the fact we are creating single points of failure in the NHS, armed forces, and police. Palantir has massive leverage over essential information and logistics systems. A bad idea....

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is an excellent piece.

‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.

That's another year of the Corporation simpering and rubbing his dick while trying desperately to ignore each fresh abomination he unleashes on the world, is it?

Hans Kim is part of the Austin transplant comedy scene Joe Rogan built which counts racism as a big part of their appeal so that clip looking to divert anti-ICE sentiment into anti-Black racism isn’t too surprising, but in case you were wondering how they’d pivot with xenophobia losing appeal, yeah.

I believe this is what the youngsters refer to as "a read".

According to his Wiki, it's NWOBHM'ers Marseille - significantly different from The Alarm.

I shall now go and stand in the corner and think about what I've done.