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PRS for Music Heritage awards is what they spend the money they accrue from charging small shops and offices for listening to the radio. Radio that serves as advertising for music sales. Radio that pays to play that music. Radio that we've already paid for in TV licence fees (BBC) or via the prices of products that allow companies to pay the radio commercial stations for adverts.

I'm surprised if Dave (in particular, considering his stance on DRM etc) would be prepared to have anything to do with any ceremony run by the PRS.

http://www.fsb.org.uk/discuss/forum_posts.asp?TID=599&PN=4
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=700900

The cover looks like a Smiths- or Belle & Sebastian-style photo, turned into a cover for a Stone Roses single.

I need more Saint Etienne in my life. Currently gorging on Sound of Water. But that, Good Humor & Smash the System are not enough.

tells a very different story to your take on The Prodigy.

And ^This to those who can't get to grips with the last paragraph.

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In Utero is my favourite 'proper album'.

But Incesticide was my personal favourite - looser, more relaxed, more...fun.

Love all their stuff though. Doesn't tend to get much of an airing these days cos I played 'em so much first time around. This'll spur me on to make amends and revisit an immense back catalogue.

are valid benchmarks for "Proper Pop".

The current single from this album is an inane and insidious song that's been horribly put together.

And the copious amount of advertising for it on TV just reeks of desperation in the vein of "we've invested alot in polishing this up, and we need you to buy this product".

Awful, name too.

The whole package comes across as a cold exercise in box ticking.

I'd say Frankmusik embody everything that's wrong with the major labels at the mo.

Awful, awful album cover.

any cop?

= Quoted For Truth.

Entschuldigung. Ich denke deinem Englisch ist viel viel besser als mein Deutsch. :-)

Assuming you are Deutsch.

Making sense of the nonsense on DiS must be a nightmare. It's hard enough when it's your first language.

for spelling accuracy. ;-P

QFT

That is all.

Vertigo ---> "a place called Bir-ming-ham".
Get On Your Boots ---> "Liv-er-pool...".
I'll give a crispy £5 note to the person who identifies the northern city that will pop up in their next single?

U who? Not bothered, mate. Less relevant in today's musical landscape than even the Stones.

:-) Nice soundbite.

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Dear Tiscali,

I came across your "gritty" music survey on downloading via Drowned In Sound.

Whilst it may have been well-intentioned, I found the wording of the questions to be 'loaded' and presumtious - you could often guess what the answer was "supposed" to be. Sometimes there appeared to be a thinly beiled motive behind the question, but the question was poorly thought out or clunkily worded, thus introducing ambiguity. And it was often the case that there was no appropriate answer, but you were still forced to choose one. Other questions limited you to one answer with 'radio buttons' where 'check boxes' would have been appropriate.

Should I come across an article mentioning any findings based on this survey, I shall not hesitate to point out it's flaws.

As someone has commented on the DiS thread, "There's something horribly depressing about the survey asking how you listen to music and "on my stereo" not even being an option." To that I would add "on the radio".

If you're only bothered about how to sell mp3s, basically, what folk would go for is a legit model based heavily on allofmp3.com - and you know it. Amazon is nearly there, but it's prices are *way way* off when you look at their CD prices (including "used&new" and excluding headline mp3 prices) when you consider the relative production costs. And it's all due to moneygrabbing from any party who has the slightest input in the sale of supposedly legit mp3s.

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Dear Tiscali,

I came across your "gritty" music survey on downloading via Drowned In Sound.

Whilst it may have been well-intentioned, I found the wording of the questions to be 'loaded' and presumtious - you could often guess what the answer was "supposed" to be. Sometimes there appeared to be a thinly beiled motive behind the question, but the question was poorly thought out or clunkily worded, thus introducing ambiguity. And it was often the case that there was no appropriate answer, but you were still forced to choose one. Other questions limited you to one answer with 'radio buttons' where 'check boxes' would have been appropriate.

Should I come across an article mentioning any findings based on this survey, I shall not hesitate to point out it's flaws.

As someone has commented on the DiS thread, "There's something horribly depressing about the survey asking how you listen to music and "on my stereo" not even being an option." To that I would add "on the radio".

If you're only bothered about how to sell mp3s, basically, what folk would go for is a legit model based heavily on allofmp3.com - and you know it. Amazon is nearly there, but it's prices are *way way* off when you look at their CD prices (including "used&new" and excluding headline mp3 prices) when you consider the relative production costs. And it's all due to moneygrabbing from any party who has the slightest input in the sale of supposedly legit mp3s.

Regards,

xxxxxx xxxxxx

it was gonna be any good. ;-)

...have to get in line behind Grunge and the full-on Britpop revival. That and a Trip-hop and/or Big-beat renaissance.

horses *for* courses

Seriously.

I can understand folk not taking to Jesus Jones. Their loss, but it's horses or courses.

But The KLF are/were a cut above. The White Room is an astounding album.

internet gremlins moved my posts. Basically I'm after some Tom Vek, Sebadoh, a full Tricky/PJ Harvey album, the Prodigy album not to be naff, a Roni Size comeback (or Breakbeat Era), McLusky, Jesus Jones & The KLF to reform.

And supermarket indie needs to finally wither and die.

What actually will happen: full blown Grunge Revival.

Tom Vek and this also, please.

Yes please.

in Manchester and Glasgow (and Sheffield, too). That has a bearing on the state of play re: Music in those cities. Not entirely defining on it's own, granted. But but it sets the tone and colurs the attitudes. Birmingham, on the other hand, has an entirely different thing going on.

Source: Having lived in each of the four cities.

Also, what was said about Oasis. Although as time passes, it's becoming apparent that Oasis' high points weren't actually that high, and, in any case, seem to get much much fewer and farther between.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w_F3PWGr2jg

The phrase originated as a running joke on sci-fi series Red Dwarf in reference to the ship's emergency siren. It was, for some time popularized by fans of Red Dwarf and was later used by Red Dwarf star Craig Charles on his 1993 game show Cyberzone. Craig used the phrase in much the same context as on Red Dwarf (when the game show sirens were sounded) and it became a 'catch phrase' of sorts for Craig on the game show, but was also a reference to the Red Dwarf joke.

John Fashnu picked up the catch phrase after appearing on Craig's show 'Cyberzone' as a guest, and subsequently copied it for himself on Gladiators. This caused much upset amongst fans of both Red Dwarf and Craig Charles, not only because he had copied the phrase, but used it incorrectly as a personal 'catch phrase' of his own.

Sources:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php?title=Cyberzone
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awooga#Controversy

Laaaaahnd'n.

presumably? Seeing as we've paid for all this content via the license fee, no?

I'll be angling for all the Breezeblock DJ sets.

& Th Faith Healers' Peel Sessions.